tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post2518032277474327470..comments2024-03-22T10:49:51.766-05:00Comments on Horizons: Dr. King's populist message: We are tied together in the single garment of destinyNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-16945017468986814232014-01-18T13:31:14.032-06:002014-01-18T13:31:14.032-06:00Womderful! Bad economies are great for cooperative...Womderful! Bad economies are great for cooperative ventures. wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10234314999465951053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-39506736709574524822014-01-16T14:55:45.936-06:002014-01-16T14:55:45.936-06:00The issue about Elizabeth Warren is that she is lo...The issue about Elizabeth Warren is that she is looking to do what is needed to prevent economic collapse, NOT to break up the banks without thought. She does not pander to the 'perp walk' mentality any more than her mentor, President Obama. Who brought her from obscurity and gave her wings? She flies with his blessing and his policies. The harnessing of finance for Main Street is incredibly complex - if we want our localism to succeed, it cannot if we don't have way to sustain the capital needed. So she is being as careful as PBO in HOW we do this so that credit unions, crowd funding, and other alternatives may flourish, too.<br /><br />One way to unite white working people with people of color is through mutuality of cooperative ownership. The White House has given support to the formation of employee owned and managed businesses a la the USW-Mondragon Cooperative Corporation initiative. Across the Rust Belt businesses are being created that will be entirely owned by the people who work there. From the New Era Window plant - the one shuttered by Bank of America - to laundries, railcar repair facilities, hothouses and food prep, housecleaning services, and home healthcare work - businesses are converting to cooperatives. These lie outside the capacity of global capital to kill easily. They can sustain themselves and their worker owners on far lower profit demands and offer quality goods and services at lower prices to the public. This all is supported by this president. <br /><br />If we liberals do not stop demanding theater over substance, if WE are the ones who perpetuate divisions between races, classes, ethnicities, and genders, we will not succeed. Time to get engaged in building new ways of tackling inequality and to build sustainable self sufficiency wherever we can.<br /><br />Churchlady320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-64362452270379237812014-01-16T14:45:52.735-06:002014-01-16T14:45:52.735-06:00Never have I known this kind of love for a POTUS. ...Never have I known this kind of love for a POTUS. He is exactly the medicine this country needs. <br /><br />The same knee-jerk tear-it-down fantasy was used for the ACA, as if everyone in the insurance industry being unemployed would be a good thing. The far left is too busy reifying their pet peeves and not nearly busy enough thinking about people who have to work for a living, and their families, and what horrors there are for people who can't keep their heads above water in this country. <br /><br />The idea that "revolution" means tearing up the whole fabric of our society and is a good thing is primarily the dream of white men who are not responsible for anyone but themselves. Whether or not they actually believe that the U.S. would magically become bucolic after destroying the economy, the fact is that failed states are very bad places for everyone but the single male who wants to get his power struggle on. It's ludicrous for women to support such an outlook, and I'm guessing that those who do have a trust fund or some other means to protect them so much from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that they don't have to consider them to be real, much less formidable to the degree a person's life can be made a living hell. <br /><br />A lot can be done, and is being done, to bring balance--- and most of that work is incremental but effective, nevertheless. Any relief, any help is good for people who struggle to get by, especially those who are losing. When congresspersons refuse to extend unemployment benefits, it hurts the unemployed, but it's also on record and should be remembered by people who were denied. The democratic solution is to get informed, communicate with our representatives (which includes thank yous and praise when due), and voting for people who want a strong middle class and know how to get there. wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10234314999465951053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-61807893512091170832014-01-16T14:05:22.283-06:002014-01-16T14:05:22.283-06:00His finest speech. I remember watching this live o...His finest speech. I remember watching this live on MSNBC & they showed a shocked Hillary in the audience with her jaw dropped.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com