Democracy Collaborative

@DemocracyCollab

A research and development lab for the democratic economy.

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  1. 29 sty

    Essential medicines to treat COVID-19 like remdesivir have been facing life threatening shortages. The new administration has the legal ability and the imperative to use its government patent use power to manufacture patented medicines immediately

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  2. 27 sty

    TDC's Will Flagle writes on the need to increase opportunities for people to participate in democracy in daily life: "Without a say in the institutions that structure their lives, many feel powerless." Employee ownership, participatory budgeting, cohousing are among the solutions

    At a time when support for is declining in the U.S., communities need more ways to "flex their democratic muscles." Read this new article from Will Flagle at , where he explores solutions for making everyone's voice heard:
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  3. 26 sty

    Like Helena, The New Systems Reader also explores a local based future system based on the idea of subsidiarity—envisioning a world where local communities everywhere thrive through the power to make economic and political decisions for themselves

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  4. 26 sty

    See the Deck of Strategies here:

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  5. 26 sty

    Helena Norberg-Hodge highlights that local options for food, banking, etc can help us rebuild our future. Helena points to the Next System Project's deck of local, clean, renewable energy strategies to help us recover from COVID and grow back stronger.

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  6. 25 sty

    Will the era lead us towards community? Or chaos? Critical discussion with and on .

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  7. 22 sty

    Listening to speak on build back better--in the job recovery of COVID-19 we have an immense opportunity to broadly implement employee ownership options insuring rebuilding leads to lasting, democratic, high wage, quality jobs

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  8. 20 sty

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  9. 15 sty

    Accepting the political nature of the Fed means we can have bold and smart discussions about the polity that the Fed should be serving—all of us, especially those of us marginalized by a historically racist and rigged economy.

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  10. 15 sty

    Critics say that engaging the Fed in issues of racial equity would drag it "further into politics." Ignoring the impact of race as it dedicates itself to serving a nearly all-White and systemically racist banking elite is already deeply political.

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  11. 15 sty

    The Fed has traditionally seen its constituency as Wall Street and the banking sector, not Main Street workers and residents—which is why its governors often privately, and sometimes publicly, chafe under the Fed "dual mandate."

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  12. 15 sty

    Given that context, it is stunning, but not surprising, that—as the article notes—in 2015 "race was mentioned just twice in over a thousand pages of transcripts documenting meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed’s inner sanctum."

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  13. 15 sty

    In 1978, the year what's formally known as the "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act" was signed, the White unemployment rate hovered between 5% and 5.5%. The Black unemployment rate ranged between 12% and 14%.

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  14. 15 sty

    The "Hawkins" in the name is Augustus F. Hawkins, a California congressman and a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus. The legislation was a direct response to Fed actions that had a disproportionately negative impact on Black unemployment.

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  15. 15 sty

    A bit of history about the and race: The reason the Fed has a "dual mandate" on keeping both inflation and unemployment low is because of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act.

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  16. 14 sty

    ICYMI and call for "digital public infrastructure" to counter the profit-driven polarization of social media platforms. (Go deeper by reading the data and platforms report at .)

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  17. 11 sty

    This book is even more relevant now in the search for solutions to recreating a more equitable and sustainable post-COVID-19 economy. Check out reviews and videos:

    Finally getting into & Ted Howard’s book ‘The Making of a Democratic Economy.’ Very curious to see how their research legitimately offers a path beyond our hegemonic neoliberalism.
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  18. 8 sty

    Join our co-founder in this conference that tackles essential questions about the new politics we need now to rebuild from the ravages of Trumpism.

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    Register now for next week's conference, jointly organised by and the University of Wisconsin's Havens Wright Center, at
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  19. 6 sty

    This invasion of the US Capitol instigated by and his congressional enablers is beyond shameful. We demand real democracy and stand against mob insurrection.

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  20. 6 sty

    ICYMI: Read report on how cooperatives like are succeeding where extractive capitalists fail in protecting workers and businesses during the pandemic.

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