Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Mondragon Alliance: The Goal Is to Create Jobs By Putting People First

from Solidarity Economy. 
In the midst of economic devastation and oppression, the people who originally formed and supported the Mondragon cooperatives did so out of necessity to feed and provide for their families.  They started their own schools, created their own jobs, provided their own health care and met their own banking and financing needs.  Theirs is a story about self-reliance and pragmatism, not just idealism.