Session materials from "Reinvest in a Just Transition: How Your School Can Support Cooperative Economic Development," presented by Lauren Ressler and Ian Trupin at NASCO Institute 2015.
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Universities are known as institutions meant to serve the public good, however, since their founding most have benefited from the exploitation of land, labor, and resources of people around the globe. In response to this long history of profiteering, students and allies are collaborating to move university wealth back into community hands through revolutionary projects that build community ownership. Through the newly established Reinvestment Network, it is now becoming possible to invest university money into worker-owned cooperatives being built in places like Black Mesa, Arizona and Detroit, Michigan and and central Appalachia, which have long been sites of extraction. Join us to learn more about how you can organize to build a just transition.
