On AlterNet: cooperatives

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Can There Ever Be Good Corporations?

Marjorie Kelly, YES! Magazine. April 18, 2012.

When the employees own the company, it changes absolutely everything.

3 Ways To Have Economic Success Without Greedy Corporations and Huge Wealth Disparities

Jeffrey Hollender, AlterNet. August 11, 2011.

Some business communities have achieved significant impact and scale, broadly distributing wealth rather than concentrating it.

Worker-Run Factories in Argentina Continue to Thrive, Boosting the Economy and Influencing Workers in Other Countries

Marcela Valente, IPS News. November 12, 2010.

"The state should strengthen these businesses because they are productive units that are growing sources of genuine jobs, which are neither precarious nor informal."

The Economic Revolution Is Already Happening -- It's Just Not on Wall St.

Maria Armoudian, AlterNet. October 7, 2009.

Thousands of alternatives to the punishing corporate model have sprouted up across the US, building up an alternative economy as Wall St. crumbles.