Wisconsin Recap: Thanks to Obama, American Left Lies in Smoldering Wreckage

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64. You're right. I arched and shouldn't have. I apologize. SMW is Stock Market Watch on DU,

and here is a link which I hoped would tell someone about an effort to promote cooperatives where the employees own the assets. Have their own corporation, let the phone answering machine talk to the greedy bastards. Not easy, but might be better for the human spirit.

Glad to be able to tell someone about SMW, though. Very smart people, put it out every market day, an effort which another poster praised "Our own Economy Group has the BEST images". If the economy is circling the drain, you will hear it there, and why, first. Seriously, good news is sometimes met with skepticism, perhaps because it often remains just news.

There is a lot of instructive history out there, and it will be applied in a lot of different ways. The United Steelworkers just signed an agreement to explore employee ownership through cooperatives with Mondragon, maybe work on opening some of the factories themselves. In that scenario the union they knew is gone, (well, for them) and they become owners/workers/managers, their union is with each other and other cooperatives. The enemy becomes the competition outside the cooperative. That you own.

Maybe that's a good evolution for some part of the union.