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Reimagine: Table of Contents

Editor2 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:59:32 -0600

By B. Jesse Clarke

To have any hope of solving the twin crises of accelerating environmental degradation and growing economic inequality, we have to reimagine some fundamental assumptions in both the domestic and economic spheres: What is work? What is leisure? What is labor performed in our homes? How, as a society, do we organize our domestic and work lives so that we can meet our fundamental material and cultural needs? Cooperative work places have long experience in organizing democratic governance for the means of production, but we need to move beyond industrial-era understandings of social relations. Democratizing the means of reproduction—the social sphere in which we meet the needs for education, health care, and domestic work—is an urgent task that can make another world possible. Read More...

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Right to Equity in a 21st Century City

admin — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:13:20 -0500

By Diana Pei Wu

Oakland City Council Joins Fight Against Toxic Interest Rate Swaps

admin — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:59:34 -0500

By Darwin Bond Graham

In 1997, the city of Oakland, California entered into an interest rate swap agreement with Goldman Sachs. The bank promised that the swap would provide savings and allow Oakland to better fund crucial services. But the swap became a toxic liability in 2008 when Wall Street’s greed crashed the economy and neither the bank nor the federal government helped the city unwind the deal.

Uma Viswanathan

admin — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:08:37 -0500

Catherine-Mercedes Judge

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Josy Staff

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Editor2 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:12:42 -0600

Reimagine | Vol. 19, No. 2 – 2013 | Credits

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