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
