[P2P-F] Fwd: Advancing a democratic economy, from healthcare anchors to energy utilities

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: The Democracy Collaborative <press at democracycollaborative.org>
Date: Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:05 PM
Subject: Advancing a democratic economy, from healthcare anchors to energy
utilities
To: <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>


News and Updates from The Democracy Collaborative

Dear Colleague,

Earlier this month, *The New York Times *
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an article
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about the work of The Democracy Collaborative’s Healthcare Anchor Network
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=4ef0319fa6&e=4937bbce51>
(HAN), highlighting how this growing collaboration of 45 health systems is
shifting the healthcare field to invest in addressing one of the root
causes of poor health: economic insecurity. The article features quotes
from myself and Director of Healthcare Engagement David Zuckerman, as well
as leading voices in the field and local residents at the heart of these
anchor strategies. The work of HAN was also recently featured by Grantmakers
in Health
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and in an op-ed in *OtherWords*
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=50bd6ceac8&e=4937bbce51>.
Later this winter, HAN will be collaborating on *Modern Healthcare’s *Social
Determinants of Health Symposium
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which brings together many of those working on drawing the connections
between systemic inequity and health outcomes. The symposium will take
place on December 3rd in Detroit, Michigan. Learn more about the
symposium agenda
and speakers
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and register here
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I am pleased to announce two new TDC fellows: Dominic T. Moulden
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joins as a Senior Fellow for Community Organizing & the Democratic Economy
in the African and Latinx Diaspora
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=798996f1d6&e=4937bbce51>.
Dominic, who brings a deep history of community organizing in Washington,
DC, will help to map the existing landscape of community organizing groups
and enterprise developers who are advancing the movement for a democratic
economy. This information will help to inform us on how best to support the
growth of a democratic economy from the perspective of the grassroots. Dr.
Obery Hendricks joins as a Senior Fellow for Faith, Power, and the
Democratic Economy
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=2094325d88&e=4937bbce51>,
and will advance our work around engaging faith leaders, and outlining the
role that religion, faith, and theology can play in shifting the public’s
moral imagination about the political economy.

In September, The Democracy Collaborative co-sponsored this year’s The
World Transformed festival, which occurs alongside the UK Labour Party’s
annual conference. Among the panels TDC helped support were several on
community wealth building as well as a panel on municipalism featuring Kali
Akuno, Debbie Bookchin, Frans Bieckmann, Elif Sarican, and Osman Baydemir.
We also co-hosted an event with local Councillors and others interested in
community wealth building, which included Shadow Secretary of State for
Local Government and Communities Andrew Gwynne, North of Tyne Mayor Jamie
Driscoll, Islington Cabinet Member Asima Shaikh, Preston City Council
Leader Matthew Brown, and Sarah McKinley, TDC’s Director of European
Programs.

During their conference, the Labour Party announced a number of exciting
new policies, many related to TDC’s work on democratizing ownership and
control. Read a piece from Research Director Thomas Hanna and Policy
Associate Peter Gowan on Labour’s backing the concept of Universal Basic
Services in *Tribune Magazine*
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=4d425f5f05&e=4937bbce51>*.
*On this side of the Atlantic, Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie
Sanders recently released a plan for “Corporate Accountability and
Democracy” which includes a proposal for Democratic Employee Ownership
Funds. Read more below and in *The Washington Post*
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**Vox*
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**The Guardian*
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**CNN*
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**the New Republic*
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**the Huffington Post*
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*and *Jacobin*
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*

The recent power outage crisis in California⁠—due in part to PG&E’s failure
to maintain adequate and safe infrastructure⁠—has highlighted the many
shortcomings of profit-driven, investor-owned utilities. Co-Manager of
Climate & Energy Programs Johanna Bozuwa recently published a piece in *The
Nation*
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=2c1f8be07e&e=4937bbce51>
outlining the need for a new energy model based on public and community
ownership, a resilient grid, and renewable energy. Read more about the
opportunity for public ownership in response to energy crises like the PG&E
shutoff in *Vice*
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=f32beb5cb1&e=4937bbce51>
and *In These Times
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Sincerely,
Ted Howard
President and Co-Founder,
The Democracy Collaborative
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TDC & CWB in the News

   - The Fifty by Fifty blog published two new articles, one exploring the
   business lifecycle
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   and the different times to think about converting to employee ownership,
   and the next on barriers in the existing SBA loan requirements
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   that can hinder the development of worker cooperatives.


   - President and Co-Founder Ted Howard was recently quoted in *The
   Guardian*
   <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=786dda6933&e=4937bbce51>,
   noting the opportunity that universities have as they open new locations or
   redevelop their campuses. “[The university],” he shares, “has got to take
   account of the kind of neighbour it is, and how it uses its economic
   strength to creatively help solve problems in the community where it’s
   going to be based.”


   - California recently passed legislation to enable the establishment of
   public banks, making it the second state to do so. Read more coverage in
   the *Los Angeles Times*
   <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=9b5f6b51ee&e=4937bbce51>
   and learn more about public banking in the Elements of the Democratic
   Economy series
   <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=42e19470c5&e=4937bbce51>
   and on The Next System Podcast
   <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=c691a28eb2&e=4937bbce51>
   .


   - Last month, The Democracy Collaborative released a paper with UK-based
   groups Just Treatment and Global Justice Now on the opportunity for
   democratic public ownership in the pharmaceutical sector
   <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=5ef4fd5143&e=4937bbce51>.
   Subsequently, the Labour Party announced that it was moving forward on its
   version of this proposal, with Jeremy Corbyn calling for "a new,
   publicly-owned generic drugs manufacturer to supply cheaper medicines to
   our NHS." Read more in *The Guardian *
   <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=c1730cd922&e=4937bbce51>and
   *Jacobin*
   <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=b7f5075df5&e=4937bbce51>*.
   *


   - The Next System Project’s recent proposal around the creation of a US
   Green Infrastructure Bank, which would provide the finance needed to
   catalyze a just transition, was featured in *openDemocracy*
   <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=de51792c44&e=4937bbce51>
   *.* Learn more about the proposal in our recommended reads section below.

New from The Democracy Collaborative
*Infographic: Democratic Employee Ownership Funds*
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Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently released a plan
for Corporate Accountability and Democracy which includes a proposal for
Democratic Employee Ownership Funds. Such funds would require large
companies to issue shares into worker-controlled funds – an idea proposed
by The Next System Project’s Peter Gowan and Common Wealth’s Mathew
Lawrence in this report.
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=9f70cc6ed8&e=4937bbce51>
This new infographic provides further information on how such a fund,
referred to as Inclusive Ownership Funds in the UK, could work.
Learn More
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=11a2e50029&e=4937bbce51>
*Survey: Are you involved in a re-municipalization campaign?*
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Over the next few years, The Democracy Collaborative will serve as a US hub
for a global project on re-municipalization. The project, hosted at the
University of Glasgow in Scotland, aims to explore the potential of, and
growing movement for, returning services and utilities that have been
privatized to public ownership. An important element of the project is a
survey to better understand past and present efforts around
re-municipalization. If you have been involved in such a campaign, we
invite you to take the survey, which is available in multiple languages.
Learn More
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Featured Video & Audio
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*Democratizing power in rural America through electric co-ops*
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=d814ed2ef0&e=4937bbce51>

This episode of the Next System Podcast features Johanna Bozuwa in
conversation with Nikita Perumal from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and
Chris Woolery from the Mountain Association for Community Economic
Development about the New Economy Coalition’s toolkit on rural electric
cooperatives
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=8d7fe1a192&e=4937bbce51>.
Listen here
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.
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*How to Make a Democratic Economy*
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Democracy Collaborative President and Co-Founder Ted Howard and Executive
Vice President Marjorie Kelly join the Laura Flanders Show to discuss their
new book, *The Making of a Democratic Economy. *Watch here
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=90b306305a&e=4937bbce51>
or
listen to the podcast episode here
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=5a2fe2e370&e=4937bbce51>
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Recommended Reads
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*New Report: A Green Investment Bank*
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=403c32dd2b&e=4937bbce51>

Democratized finance will be key to executing a green and just transition
away from fossil fuels. This new report from The Next System Project
proposes the creation of a green infrastructure bank that can catalyze a
Green New Deal and the transition to a more ecologically sustainable future
that would otherwise be impossible under the short-term, high-return regime
of private finance. The proposal explains how the bank would be structured
to meet triple bottom line goals of facilitating the green and just
transition, financial sustainability, and democratic decision-making. Read
more here
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.
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*Racially Exclusionary Housing in the Bay Area*
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This report from the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC
Berkeley discusses the historic roots of racialized housing inequality in
the San Francisco Bay Area. The report outlines how state policy from the
1850s to the present codifies segregation and displacement, from violent
dispossession to exclusionary real estate practices. The report makes the
case that the current housing crisis is not natural, but the result of
purposeful policy and tactics, and calls on readers to reimagine the role
that local jurisdictions can play in reversing these trends. Read more here
<https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=e796ba8d7f&e=4937bbce51>.

Featured Website
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*Greater Boston Anti-Displacement Toolkit*
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Funded by the Surdna Foundation and a project of GreenRoots, the Everett
Community Health Partnership (ECHP), Research Action Design (RAD), and MIT
CoLab, this set of multimedia toolkits provides resources that organizers
and residents can use to fight displacement in their communities. While
geared towards Boston residents, the toolkit’s activities, how-to guides,
facilitation plans, and other resources can be adapted to other
geographies. Learn more here
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