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.
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 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. We at ECWD and in the worker cooperative movement know that the time is now to seize this
historic moment! As the past few months have shown, there is a new mandate for “
an economy worth occupying.” 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?
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.
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$10 will provide several of pages of bilingual material translations
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$100 will purchase interpretation for 2 workshops at our next conference
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$500 will make childcare possible for all of our next conference
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$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 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
