This is big news. Some of these folks will be at the LAWCHA conference that starts tomorrow at the Center for Worker Education.
CUNY Law Community Economic Development Clinic Partners with Mondragon Corporation on Union Coops – CUNY School of Law
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Done Right, Eliminating Food Deserts Result in Community Oases -- Rooflines
Nice short piece on communty economic development and food system: example from Pittsburgh particularly intriguing: brought in a grocery store that hires local people and the land is owned by a nonprofit which works in the community!
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Scaling Up The Cooperative Economy | Community-Wealth.org
Great piece! We need more faculty and students to study these models and universities to participate in them. Hello CUNY!?
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
A Sheik’s Vision Could Trump Plan for a Queens Park - NYTimes.com
great piece on the breaks developers' get and the way in which these types of project rob residents of everdya amenities.
"As it stands, Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan would pay $1 per year on his city lease, and no sales or property taxes. By contrast, the owner of a Flushing Meadows taco van could pay as much as $30,000, and pay sales taxes."
A Sheik’s Vision Could Trump Plan for a Queens Park - NYTimes.com
"As it stands, Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan would pay $1 per year on his city lease, and no sales or property taxes. By contrast, the owner of a Flushing Meadows taco van could pay as much as $30,000, and pay sales taxes."
A Sheik’s Vision Could Trump Plan for a Queens Park - NYTimes.com
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