Issue 266: July/August 2006

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features

• Special Section on the Solidarity Economy

  A collaboration with Grassroots Economic Organizing

  
  

  • Other Economies are Possible!

    Organizing toward an economy of cooperation and solidarity

    Ethan Miller

  • Co-ops in the U.S. Solidarity Economy

    COLORS Restaurant

    Anti-Displacement Project

    Solidarity Harvest

    Federation of Southern Cooperatives

    New Orleans Food Co-op

  • Venezuela's Cooperative Revolution

    An economic experiment is the hidden story behind Ch�vez's 'Bolivarian Revolution.'

    Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

  • A Map of the Solidarity Economy

  • African-American Economic Solidarity

    Co-ops can be central to the rebuilding of New Orleans

    Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

• Minding the Timor Gap

  Faisal Chaudhry

  Australia continues to bully East Timor out of its undersea energy resources

• Framing Economic Justice

  Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein

  Two new books offer alternative ways to promote progressive economic policies.

  Buy these books

the regulars

• the short run
• up against the wall street journalGlobalization: Good for what ails you?
• making sense Medicare and Medicaid cuts: (Almost) everyone pays
• comment"Academic Bill of Rights" and economics education
• economy in numbersMilitary spending and the cost of the wars