One question (from a non-NY person).
If you are talking anti-Capitalist Entrepreneurs, maybe you should try and get someone from the co-op movement? If you are going to run a left business, you do want to avoid replicating the boss-worker relationship of capitalism to the extent that it is practical. (And practicality does set very definite limits.)
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> Liza
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> Thursday, October 17
> 7:30 pm
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> FORUM
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> Anti-Capitalist Entrepreneurs
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> Radicalism in the Marketplace
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> Jeff Ballinger, Colin Robinson & Others TBA
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> Radicals are right to be skeptical about the notion of =B3corporate
> responsibility=B2 - after all, union-busters from Ben & Jerry's to Wal-Mart
> have claimed to be =B3doing well by doing good.=B2 But does that mean leftists
> should avoid business enterprise altogether?
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> Some say no. "Socialist Entrepreneurship," a term borrowed from Kevin
> Danaher of Global Exchange, reflects a belief that radical projects should
> be self-sustaining, and even profitable. After all, how do most progressive
> organizations survive? Some rely on the goodwill of generous (rich)
> individuals. Others get cozy with foundations, often compromising their
> radical ideals to accommodate ruling class notions of =B3social change.=B2
> =B3Socialist Entrepreneurship=B2 rejects these dysfunctional relationships,
> instead asserting that by engaging the marketplace, we can change it. Is
> that possible? Can we fight capitalism by becoming capitalists?
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> Speakers will include Colin Robinson, longtime publisher of profitable
> anti-capitalist books (first at Verso and now the New Press), and Jeff
> Ballinger, a leading anti-sweatshop activist and co-founder of No Sweat
> Apparel, which will sell clothing made by workers in independent unions
> around the world. The discussion will be moderated by Doug Henwood, editor
> of the Left Business Observer and author of Wall Street: How it Works and
> for Whom?=20
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> Socialist/Capitalist Sliding Scale: $6/$75/$150
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> =A0 122 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 - info at brechtforum.org