[URPE] Worker Co-op Conference

[Mary Hoyer]

To all--

Registration for the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy 2009-- 
the premier worker cooperative conference in the eastern region of  
the U. S.--is open!   The conference will take place Friday to  
Sunday, July 31st to August 2nd, at Duquesne University in  
Pittsburgh.  This year's theme is Democracy Works: Worker  
Cooperatives, Labor Solidarity, and Sustainability.

The deadline for early bird registration and payment, which saves you  
$25, is Friday, June 26th.  You can register online or by mail.
Link to the ECWD website:  http://www.east.usworker.coop/
Link to the conference brochure and on-line registration: http:// 
www.east.usworker.coop/registration.html
Link to mailable registration form: http://www.east.usworker.coop/ 
2009/ecwd_registrationform_2009.pdf
Link to the scholarship form: http://www.east.usworker.coop/2009/ 
ecwd_scholarshipapp_2009.pdf

We look forward to seeing you there!

Mary Hoyer, Lead Organizer
413-256-0726

5th Biennial Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy

with Small Planet Institute, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, and

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Pittsburgh



Democracy Works: Worker Cooperatives,

Labor Solidarity, and Sustainability



Friday to Sunday, July 31st - August 2nd, 2009

Duquesne University • Pittsburgh, PA

www.east.usworker.coop



Join worker co-ops, majority worker-owned firms, and support  
organizations committed to workplace democracy as we move towards  
sharing our knowledge, strengthening our businesses and the economic  
democracy movement, and organizing for workplace democracy in the  
eastern region of the U. S.



Conference workshops will focus on what worker cooperatives are, how  
to create them, and improving business skills, as well as encouraging  
democratic ESOPs and building the economic democracy and labor  
solidarity movements.

Keynote speaker Frances Moore Lappé: Historian Howard Zinn says, “A  
small number of people in every generation are forerunners in  
thought, action, and spirit, swerving past barriers to hold a torch  
high for the rest of us.  Lappé is one of those.”  Ms. Lappé is the  
author of sixteen books and has received seventeen honorary  
doctorates.  In her books such as Getting a Grip: Clarity,  
Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Democracy’s Edge:  
Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, You Have  
the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear, and Casting New  
Molds: First Steps Toward Worker Control in a Mozambique Steel  
Factory, Ms. Lappé has been addressing the urgent need for working  
people to take control of their economies and societies from toxic  
oligarchies and elites, drawing attention to a powerful though  
frequently invisible citizens’ revolution.  In America, this  
represents the emergence of a new historical stage of democracy in  
which people are rising up to change the ground rules, tackling  
problems that stymie the experts.   Plenary panelists Hazel Corcoran  
(Canadian Federation of Worker Co-ops), John Curl (author), John  
Logue (Ohio Employee Ownership Center), Melissa Hoover (U.S.  
Federation of Worker Co-ops), and Charles McCollester (Indiana  
University of Pennsylvania; invited) will speak on Economic  
Discovery: Moving Toward Democratic Control covering the following  
issues: Worker Ownership: Lessons Learned; Historic and Current  
Crises; and Recovery: What do Worker Co-ops Have to Offer?



Supporters to Date

Patrons: Equal Exchange, Red Sun Press, U.S. Federation of Worker  
Cooperatives  Sponsors: Carey Center for Democratic Capitalism,  
Chroma Technology, Collective Copies, Cooperative Development  
Institute, Cooperative Fund of New England, Cooperative Home Care  
Associates, East End Food Co-op, Gaia Host Collective, Grassroots  
Economic Organizing Collective, National Cooperative Business  
Association, Ownership Associates, Southern New Hampshire University  
School of Community Economic Development  Contributors: City  
University of New York Graduate Center for Worker Education,  
Community Builders Co-op, Cooperative Development Foundation,  
Democracy Collaborative at University of Maryland, Dollars and Sense  
Magazine, Praxis Consulting, Ronin Tech Collective, South Mountain  
Company, Steel Valley Authority, Vermont Employee Ownership Center



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