Systemic problems require systemic solutions | a project of @DemocracyCollab | co-chaired by @GarAlperovitz and James Gustave Speth
May 20, 2019 • 35 tweets • 11 min read
Do we need to just change who is running the system, or (also) change the system itself?
Let's look at the key indicators in the US that are declining or stagnant regardless of who has been in office so we understand the full scope of the problem.
Here come lots of 📉s! 1/
Let's start with the economy.
Since 1973, the poverty rate has remained relatively constant around 13% despite being named as a priority by most politicians from both major political parties. 2/
May 14, 2019 • 16 tweets • 11 min read
As organizing momentum for a democratic economy builds, so does the need for concise, accessible intros to the concrete *elements* that would make up this kind of equitable, just, & sustainable system. That's why we're making these easy to share, quick to read onesheets...1/
A limited equity housing cooperative is a residential development owned and managed by a democratically governed, nonprofit cooperative corporation, such as a tenants’ union:
