This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Alex Jackimovicz, an activist and small businessman, speaks with us about economic democracy, worker cooperatives, public banks, participatory budgeting . . . and how transnational trade deals, like the TPP and TTIP threaten everyone.
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About Our Guest:
Alex Jackimovicz is an activist, spiritualist, and small businessman living in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Alex has been active as a organizer with a variety of social and economic justice campaigns in Maine and nationally and has worked with a network volunteers on issues of Economic Democracy as a means toward a more stable and just society.
Know Your Nonviolent History: Badshah Khan, the Frontier Gandhi
http://www.riverasun.com/the-frontier-gandhi-khan-abdul-ghaffar-khan/
Links:
Transpacific-Partnership Agreement
http://www.flushthetpp.org/
Economic Democracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_democracy
Participatory Budgeting
http://www.participatorybudgeting.org/
Public Banking Institute
http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/
Progressive Utilization Theory, PROUT
priven.org
Professor Richard Wolff, Economic Update Podcast
http://rdwolff.com/
Music by:
"Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org
"Spanish Rain" by Alex Jackimovicz https://soundcloud.com/alex-jackimovicz/spanish-rain
About Your Co-hosts:
Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline
Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/
