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Will Work For Free
This film covers technological unemployment and the implications of a jobless UK economy. Filed under: labor, movies Tagged: job, labor organizing, unemployment
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New Orleans Housing Survey
If interested in having a say about possible changes to NOLA housing landscape (as an owner or renter), please take the survey. Deadline is May 30.Filed under: New Orleans Tagged: housing
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Hybrid Economy Passage
The capitalist era is passing . . . not quickly, but inevitably. A new economic paradigm—the Collaborative Commons—is rising in its wake that will transform our way of life. We are already witnessing...
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Getting Used to It
Author Gwendolyn Knapp on creativity, work and New Orleans in an interview on NOLA Defender: “It’s easier to live here and survive,” she said. “Rents are going up, but it’s probably easier to live here...
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At Gawker Media, New Economy Workers Strive to Form a New Kind of Union
“None of this was because we were incredibly unhappy or incredibly put upon at Gawker,” Ms. Merlan said. “Everyone agrees that the company is really working well right now. It was more like, ‘Let’s...
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Every Single County in America Is Facing an Affordable Housing Crisis
When people overreact about airbnb, I think I’ll bring the story up that is linked at the end of the post. Affordable housing has been in a crisis for some time, long before that site was created. The...
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Universal Basic Income—The Foundation of a Technically Advanced Society
Universal Basic Income Allows Freedom So now, at 18, you get $30K a year, for the rest of your life. The government has no say in how you spend it, or what you do with it. However, $30K will not get...
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The Postal Service Wants You to Bank at Your Post Office
This means that in one fell swoop, expanding financial services offerings at post offices could both solve USPS’s chronic budget deficit and prevent millions of Americans from being overcharged for...
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Does Cleveland Know the Secret to Building Wealth Without Gentrification?
The following is an excerpt from City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis, a collection of essays on American cities, written by the people who live in them. City by City is edited by...
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Uber and the lawlessness of ‘sharing economy’ corporates | Technology | The...
Well said. No doubt that the corporations that are doing their best to stifle and own creative sharing need to be called out and dismantled before the movement is reduced to the size of their corporate...
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Michael Karem Artist, French Quarter 09/20/05
There is a place called Jackson Square which there’s no place like it in the whole of the United States, except in Europe. Actually there is a place where like, as an artist, you don’t have to be in a...
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New Orleans 2015: Affordable Housing Q&A
Written by Robert McClendon, NOLA.com At the city’s request, I moderated a forum discussion on affordable housing Wednesday (Aug. 26) as part of a series of public policy forums the city is holding in...
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The Man With The Beautiful Eyes-Bukowski
they had been afraid of the man with the beautiful eyes. and we were afraid then that all throughout our lives things like that would happen, that nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like...
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FairCoop
The Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC) is a self-managed initiative centered on building a new society from below through self-organization and assembly-based action. Since May 2010, the CIC been...
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Making It in the Quarter: A Conversation with New Orleans Service Workers
Our city thrives on the French Quarter, yet the people who make it run day to day–the bartenders, hotel staff, tour guides–are often overlooked. Join us for a panel discussion on what it takes to make...
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The six-hour working day
At Toyota service centres in Gothenburg, working hours have been shorter for more than a decade. Employees moved to a six-hour day 13 years ago and have never looked back. Customers were unhappy with...
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French Quarter character Spaceman will be your handyman, if you can find him
At all times, he’s got a leather punch, pliers, wire, a small bolt cutter, a dremel and a collection of knickknacks that he has picked up along the way. The other day, he found aluminum rods that he...
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Time to Stop Worshipping Economic Growth
In 2009, the Stockholm Resilience Center introduced the concept of planetary boundaries to help the public envision the nature of the challenges posed by limits to growth and physical/biological...
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Sidewalk poet Erin & Jackson Square Reader Angela
http://ia601506.us.archive.org/4/items/131ErinLierlAngelaTheSpiritualCounselor/131--Erin_Lierl--Angela_the_spiritual_counselor.mp3Filed under: job, New Orleans Tagged: gig
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