Comments on: Paul Soglin for Mayor of Madison http://www.cooperativeconsult.com/blog/?p=616 A Discussion of Workers Cooperatives and Building the New Economy Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The Madison Conference « The Workers' Paradise http://www.cooperativeconsult.com/blog/?p=616&cpage=1#comment-1534 The Madison Conference « The Workers' Paradise Mon, 21 May 2012 14:40:41 +0000 http://www.cooperativeconsult.com/blog/?p=616#comment-1534 [...] repeated. One candidate engaged in the call-and-response which is why I urged co-op members to vote for Paul Soglin. Paul won by just 363 votes or about 182 voters (less than the total number of worker co-op members [...]

]]> By: Bernard Marszalek http://www.cooperativeconsult.com/blog/?p=616&cpage=1#comment-1153 Bernard Marszalek Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:51:58 +0000 http://www.cooperativeconsult.com/blog/?p=616#comment-1153 Hey I wish I could become a resident of Madison and vote for Paul. But I an stuck here in Berkeley where the co-ops are thriving but with no help from the local Democrat Party Machine which is a lapdog to the land speculators and developers (sic).

But neither you nor I need to look to Italy for a model when we have Cleveland and Richmond, CA. What? Richmond?

Yes, the mayor of that city just north of Berkeley visited Mondragon last September and came back enthusiastic about co-operative development in her city. Several meetings of local residents and SF area worker co-op members and developers have already occurred and projects are on the way. Richmond is approximately the same size as Madison, but a much poorer community, and so if they can pull together with limited resources imagine what Madison can do.

One last point, the last time I was in Madison I got a royal tour of the “Beer Community,” and so I know that for some people the model for immediate development might be Austin TX and the Black Star Co-op. Check out their amazing co-op Brew Pub: http://www.blackstar.coop/

Bernard Marszalek, Editor of “The Right to be Lazy: Essays by Paul Lafargue”
http://righttobelazy.com/

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