---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joe Rinehart, Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy < [email protected]> Date: Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:34 PM Subject: Our Movement for Economic Democracy To: Michael <[email protected]> ** Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser<http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=1aa73ac3f7&e=eece81a9b7>. Dear Michael, With gratitude, the 6th Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy held the best conference we’ve had to date. With over 200 participants, we far exceeded our previous attendance record, offered bilingual interpretation and childcare for the first time, and drew from a greater number of cooperatives and organizations than ever before. You can read all of our media coverage and a conference summary here<http://usworker.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=c7f8afbb68&e=eece81a9b7> . *Most importantly, we engaged folks on a national level who see themselves as part of a movement to transform the economy: an economy of democracy and cooperation. * Collaboration and movement-building has brought us to the place we are today. The Occupy Wall St movement has allowed us to engage hundreds, even thousands of people about workplace democracy - people who are eager to learn about the democratic alternatives that exist to the mainstream corporate hierarchy. We are thrilled to be co-organizing a Worker Cooperatives Training and Roundtable<http://usworker.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=87a8f7150e&e=eece81a9b7>on January 8th in NYC for the growing cooperatives that are emerging from the Occupy Wall St. Movement. If you can’t make it, don’t worry: we’ll be creating both a video and a workshop template and materials to help worker owned cooperatives do outreach in their own communities. If you consider yourself a part of this exciting movement, *you can help*<http://usworker.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=034c918fd2&e=eece81a9b7>. We at ECWD and in the worker cooperative movement know that the time is now to seize this historic moment<http://usworker.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=b01bc4cd97&e=eece81a9b7>! As the past few months have shown, there is a new mandate for “an economy worth occupying<http://usworker.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=b32554cfe4&e=eece81a9b7>.” We all believe that the worker-owned cooperative movement is an essential part of creating an economy we can get behind! *Will you join us by donating today?<http://usworker.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=ca6e1b8581&e=eece81a9b7> * The worker co-op movement is growing, *but it must be stronger.* The ECWD can help make worker cooperativism available and accessible to those who need it most. Over the next two years, and at our conference in 2013, the ECWD would like to: Build on *worker cooperative education and outreach*; *increase the accessability of our conferences and tranings*; and *create more equitable compensation for staff*. Donations of any amount will greatly aid us in moving forward with our goals. <http://usworker.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=6afa7eb0ae&e=eece81a9b7> ·*$10 will provide several of pages* of bilingual material translations ·*$100 will purchase interpretation* for 2 workshops at our next conference ·*$500 will make childcare possible* for all of our next conference ·*$1,000 will allow us to offer worker cooperative assistance* to an area where its needed most, such as to our worker co-op friends at Occupy Wall Street. You can donate online<http://usworker.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=662cc63bbb&e=eece81a9b7>at our website via pay-pal, or send checks to: Jessica Gordon Nembhard EDINA/ECWD 1436 Holly Street NW Washington, DC 20012 Thanks again for your participation in the ECWD and for your ongoing support. *Together, we are building a movement for economic democracy*! Sincerely, The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy Friend on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/JoeAsheville> Follow on Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/ECWD1/> Forward to a Friend<http://us4.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=1aa73ac3f7&e=eece81a9b7> “I'm going away feeling very empowered, recharged and not alone in the big fight. Thanks, I will be back!” “One of the best conferences, in terms of organization and content, that I have attended in 35 years of involvement with workers' co-ops” . -Participants in this year’s Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy <http://usworker.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=25cd2469ff&e=eece81a9b7> follow on Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/ECWD1/> | friend on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/JoeAsheville> | forward to a friend<http://us4.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=1aa73ac3f7&e=eece81a9b7> *Copyright © 2011 Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you have attended or supported an ECWD conference in the past. *Our mailing address is:* Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy 1436 Holly Street NW Washington, DC 20012 Add us to your address book<http://usworker.us4.list-manage2.com/vcard?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=e93be8daf5> [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp]<http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?aid=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&afl=1> unsubscribe from this list<http://usworker.us4.list-manage2.com/unsubscribe?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=e93be8daf5&e=eece81a9b7&c=1aa73ac3f7>| update subscription preferences<http://usworker.us4.list-manage1.com/profile?u=fda959e36be722faffe0d59ab&id=e93be8daf5&e=eece81a9b7> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens