[Southern California Permaculture] FYI/Tuesday, April 22 7-9:pm FILM & DISCUSSION: 'The Cleveland Model'...What can Santa Barbara Learn?

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

What Can Santa Barbara Learn From Cleveland?
 
"The Cleveland Model”
Community Democracy: A Way Forward Together
 
Film and facilitated dialogue

Tuesday, April 22 7:00-9:00pm
 
Trinity Episcopal Church, Parish Hall
Entry by the Labyrinth
 
1500 State St, Santa Barbara
corner of Micheltorena
 
 
Cleveland, Ohio was once a proud industrial powerhouse. Then it lost more than half its population in one generation to the economic collapse of its industrial base. But it is coming back. Out of the ashes they have created the Evergreen Cooperatives, a network of community enterprises of, by, and for their community. The Evergreen Cooperatives are made up of diverse community stakeholders, are supported by their community, and operate for the benefit of their community. They are committed to local, worker-owned job creation; sustainable, green, and democratic workplaces; and community economic development.
 
Together we will learn about the Cleveland Model and then imagine
how its principles might be applied to our different challenges in Santa Barbara
 
The inspiration behind the Cleveland Model, Gar Alperovitz,
will be speaking in Santa Barbara the following week on May 1.

About Gar Alperovitz  

Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is cofounder of the Democracy Collaborative. He is a former fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard and of King's College at Cambridge University, where he received his PhD in political economy.
See this Democracy Now interview re: Gar's NY Times article "Worker-Owners of America, Unite!" 

View Gar's keynote address at the 2013 Democracy Convention 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO-n_cdrwYQ&list=PLC90D5EF559A4485D

Click here for information about Gar's most recent books 
http://www.garalperovitz.com/books/

Dr. Alperovitz has served as a legislative director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a special assistant in the Department of State. Earlier he was president of the Center for Community Economic Development, Codirector of The Cambridge Institute, and president of the Center for the Study of Public Policy.

His numerous articles have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times and The Washington Post to The Journal of Economic Issues, Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History, and other academic and popular journals. His most recent books are What then Must We Do? (2013) and America Beyond Capitalism (2011). Dr. Alperovitz is also the author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, published in 1995, the 2002 book, Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era (with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio), and the 2008 book Unjust Deserts (with Lew Daly).

For more biographical information, visit Gar's website
http://www.garalperovitz.com/
 
see http://www.democracysb.org/
 
Presented by Interplay and
the Sama Group
 
Donations accepted to compensate the church for use of their space

-- 
Brad Smith
Interplay: "Working together for the Common Good"
805-705-5844 (voice, no texts, please)

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
-- John Anster, but commonly attributed to Goethe

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change 
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” 
--Buckminster Fuller

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens 
can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." 
--Margaret Mead
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