Archive for December, 2006

Why Access Matters

December 31st, 2006

Having access to the Internet is important. The war for the Internet is not over. It is not yet completely in the hands of corporations but there is no law of technology that says access and communication through this medium will always remain even as free and open as it is now.
Although […]

Workers Cooperatives: Limited in Size?

December 31st, 2006

The Worker’s Paradise reports that in 2006 at least two workers cooperatives converted to capitalist businesses Good Vibrations and Burley Bicycles. He implies that this conversion was due in part to the growth of these two companies.
He quotes Melissa Hoover of the US Federation of Worker Co-operatives:

“For those of us who believe that worker-owned […]

Funding Sources

December 30th, 2006

Most things in life are spoiled by the need for money.
Having graduated college, I have a few ideas of what I want to do with the next part of my life. None of them involve working under someone else, and hopefully none of them involve others working for me. My primary goal is […]

Life After Hierarchy

December 30th, 2006

For both my personal life and society in general I oppose hierarchy when it is unjustified. It turns out that in almost all cases in the world where we find hierarchal authority of one entity over another it is unjustified. For example, the corporate control over the world’s resources or the state’s control […]