I think one of the most important skills of a local organizer of a local economy is an ability to put on a terrific street party..

The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations wit….

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, gove….

Money is a mechanism for control..

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people….

There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to….

Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence….

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth..

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth..

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding….

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy..

As corporations gain in autonomous institutional power and be-come more detached from people and place, the human interest and the corporate interest….

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system..

To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that ….

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both..

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally th….

I am in favor of increased communication and cooperation between countries, but it is more important that each country becomes responsible for its ow….

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because th….

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy..

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these finan….

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights ….