With a New Fund, Evergreen Cooperatives Looks to Spread the ‘Cleveland Model’
Since their inception ten years ago, the Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland, Ohio have served as a promising model of economic development in a post-industrial city. The three worker cooperatives—an industrial laundry company, a green energy services contractor, and a hydroponic greenhouse (pictured above)—collectively employ over 200 individuals, many of whom have become worker-owners. In a city where median household income hovers around $18,500, these companies pay their workers a living wage and share with them the profits they produce.
Now, the Evergreen Cooperatives network is taking matters into its own hands with a new fund that will acquire existing companies from retiring business owners and sell them back to the employees. The Fund for Employee Ownership, as the Evergreen fund is called, is the latest and perhaps most potent initiative aimed at expanding employee ownership and the principles of democratic governance.
random-with-garlic How about this:I don’t care if I die in the process but 70% of all humans should be randomly incinerated at once.
How about this: Whether you know it or not, comments like yours are paving the way for a real mass murder. I know that sounds intense, but hear me out.
The people that are actually dying from climate change and will die in much larger numbers soon if we don’t take action are people in post-colonized countries, people of color and the poor.
The powerful have a strong investment in making us not care about that because saving the lives of the victims of climate change requires uncomfortable things like redistributing property and opening borders.
To avoid that, they’re feeding a culture of apathy and either completely deny that it is happening or pretend that it is beyond our control.
And every ‘humanity as a whole must suffer for destroying the earth’ and ‘hey I would support random death even if it kills me’ take is BAD because while that theoretical random killing will never happen it helps create acceptance of a very real mass dying of millions, maybe billions, of actual people in the near future, a mass murder whose conditions are in the making as we write this.
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