M a r k D i l l e y

~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~

My first book plug, as highly recommended by steve:

For progressives today, times are clearly not easy. However, as Gar Alperovitz demonstrates in his new work, AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (John Wiley & Sons, $24.95), AmericaBeyondCapitalism.com, just below the surface of public attention, present-day difficulties are also causing a steady build-up of system-changing developments which offer hope for the future, including the development of thousands of worker-owned firms-11,000 to date- neighborhood corporations, municipal enterprises, state investment strategies, public pension funds, and other innovations that are transferring wealth to the vast majority rather than the 1% at the top

"Long before the civil rights movement, there were many years of hard, quiet, dangerous work by those who came before. Long before the feminist explosion there were those who labored to establish new principles in earlier decades," Alperovitz writes. "It is within the possibilities of our time in history that-working together and openly charting an explicitly new course-this generation can establish the necessary foundations for an extraordinary future and for the release of new energies. It may even be that far-reaching change will come much earlier and much faster than many now imagine."