[P2P-F] Fwd: The Guardian's Deep Dive Into Our "New Left Economics"

Wed Jun 26 11:04:51 CEST 2019

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From: The Next System Project <nextsystem at democracycollaborative.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:00 PM
Subject: The Guardian's Deep Dive Into Our "New Left Economics"
To: <michel at p2pfoundation.net>

The New York Times and The New Republic also feature our economic ideas; a
new book includes work by Thomas Hanna and Carla Santos Skandier
The latest from The Next System Project
*The Guardian Examines 'New Left Economics'*
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The transatlantic work of the Democracy Collaborative and our allies took
center stage in this "long read" article in *The Guardian* by Andy Beckett.
"The new leftwing economics wants to see the redistribution of economic
power, so that it is held by everyone—just as political power is held by
everyone in a healthy democracy," Beckett writes. One concrete example
highlighted in the article is the Democracy Collaborative's community
wealth building work in Cleveland, Ohio and how it inspired a similar
approach in the city of Preston in the United Kingdom.
Read The Guardian article...
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*Candidate Calls For Fossil Fuel Shutdown*
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Presidential candidate Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, this week
proposed a set of climate crisis policies that include "the buying out and
decommissioning of fossil fuel assets," with a goal of "phasing out fossil
fuel production nationwide, with a special focus on a just transition for
workers and the protection of communities that are reliant upon fossil fuel
extraction." The Inslee "Freedom from Fossil Fuels" proposal broadly
mirrors the agenda laid out in the "Taking climate action to the next level"
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report The
Next System Project published last year. Our YouGov poll earlier this year
shows there is a sizable public mandate for strong action to phase out the
fossil fuel industry and support a green transition for workers.
Read our take...
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*The New York Times, The New Republic Feature Next System Project Work*
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A June 22 *New York Times* article on how communities in the United Kingdom
have responded to spending cuts imposed by the central government
highlights the transformation of the UK town of Preston under the
leadership of Preston councilor and Democracy Collaborative fellow Matthew
Brown. The *Times* article calls the success of what has become known as
"the Preston model" of community wealth building "an irony of austerity’s
consequences. Championed as a spur to rugged individualism, it has prompted
communities like Preston to intensify government’s role in economic life."
Read the Times article...
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*The New Republic*, meanwhile, published "The Road Not Taken," a look at
the struggles of Lordstown, Ohio in the wake of a decision by General
Motors to close its auto plant there. The "road not taken," the article
reveals, is the path of employee ownership, which The Next System Project
director Joe Guinan and researcher Peter Gowan discuss in the article. “The
workers should get a chance to come up with ideas for how they could keep
their jobs, and give them the right to take over that plant if it’s being
sold or closed,” says Gowan, author of the Right to Own report
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that outlined the proposal.
Read The New Republic article...
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*New Book On How Public Finance Can Fuel Change*
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"The public does not have to rely on the private sector" to finance
solutions to our problems, says a statement introducing a new book
published by The Transnational Institute, *Public Finance for the Future We
Want*. The book includes chapters written by Next System Project Research
Director Thomas M. Hanna on "community wealth building and resilient local
economies" and by energy and climate researcher Carla Santos Skandier on "a
public buyout to keep carbon in the ground and dissolve climate
opposition." The Democracy Collaborative is one of several co-publishers of
the book, which is being offered free as a PDF download.

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