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DESCRIPTION:THE FESTIVAL OF GRASSROOTS ECONOMICS\nSaturday, September 26 from 10-4pm 
 \nHumanist Hall, 390 27th St, Oakland, CA\nFree to the public\n\nCome join 
 us at the first Festival of Grassroots Economics where together we will be 
 celebrating and creating together a new economy for the people and the 
 planet. Over 40 groups will be participating.\n\nWorker cooperatives 
 helping to support new cooperatives, tenants organizing to own housing 
 collectively, people working to grow food in the city together,  bicycle 
 mechanics teaching neighborhoods kids, organizations doing renewable energy 
 and greywater installations, people organizing to share resources through 
 timebanks, and many more projects will be there.  It is a kind of bottom-up 
 trade fair to show what people working together can do to collectively meet 
 each others' needs at the local level.\n\nPanels will be discussing how to 
 start a worker cooperative, financial and other support resources for the 
 grassroots economy, urban food security, and building the alternative by 
 creating synergies between the different aspects of the grassroots economy 
 and environmental and social justice organizations.\n\nIt’s free to the 
 public so bring your friends and family. Se habla espanol. Wheelchair 
 accessible. For more info go to www.jasecon.org or contact 
 heather@sfbace.org.\n\nCo-op 101: An introduction to worker cooperatives. A 
 brief survey of the organizational, legal and financial aspects. A must for 
 those who are thinking of joining or forming a cooperative.\nKasper Koczab 
 and Dave Karoly - Network of the Bay Area Worker Cooperatives\n\nResources 
 for the Grassroots Economy: Financial and development resources to meet 
 community economic needs. Panel of experts will discuss the means by which 
 community projects can make use of resources.\nErin Kilmer-Neel One 
 California Foundation\nJenny Kassan - Katovich Law\nIan Winter - North 
 California Land Trust\nRhea Serna - Mission Asset Fund\nModerator - Janelle 
 Orsi – Attorney and author of “The Sharing Solution”\n\nUrban Food 
 Security: Communities must take food back from global capital. How are we 
 building just, sustainable, locally-based food systems that meet our 
 communities’ needs and provide meaningful work?\n\nBuilding the 
 Alternative: The grassroots economy is a solution to the economic crisis 
 and holds a vision of the world we want to create. How can we nurture a 
 local economy that gives working folks power and control over the economy 
 and their work lives, leveraging available resources?  How can social and 
 environmental justice work support the development of a new economic 
 paradigm? How we can create more synergy and interdependence between 
 grassroots economic projects? How can we build a just, sustainable economic 
 alternative to scale?\nModerator/Facilitator: Gopal Dayenini -GAIA and 
 Movement Generation\nPanelists:\nAli Ar Rasheed - West Oakland 
 Environmental Indicators Project\nRhea Serna - Mission Asset Fund\nTom 
 Wetzel – SF Community Land Trust\nHeather Young – Bay Area Community 
 Exchange\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/08/18621302.php
SUMMARY:THE FESTIVAL OF GRASSROOTS ECONOMICS
LOCATION:Humanist Hall, 390 27th St, Oakland, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/08/18621302.php
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