The Heart of Economic Democracy

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.Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/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 Gandhihttp://www.riverasun.com/the-frontier-gandhi-khan-abdul-ghaffar-khan/Links:Transpacific-Partnership Agreementhttp://www.flushthetpp.org/Economic Democracyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_democracyParticipatory Budgetinghttp://www.participatorybudgeting.org/Public Banking Institutehttp://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/Progressive Utilization Theory, PROUTpriven.org Professor Richard Wolff, Economic Update Podcasthttp://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-rainAbout 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/timelineRivera 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/