On the Line
On the Line Funding Worker Coops Buenos Aires "These are people that have been completely marginalized from the system, who have never had bank accounts, yet they make their loan payments every...
...Sainz is part of the Working World team, a new nonprofit organization in Argentina that provides credit to democratically run worker cooperatives...
...The recycling cooperative in question, whose members make a living by collecting bottles and cans on the streets of Buenos Aires, used a loan to purchase equipment and rent a larger warehouse...
...It turns out that "Under worker control" can be a brand concept just as appealing, or more so, than "Just do it...
...The Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of Modern Art in New York display his art, as do community centers...
...Many of these cooperatives have risen out of the ashes of the economic collapse of 2002...
...he worked in factories...
...Joseph Huff-Hannon For more information, go to www.theworkingworld.org...
...I take a peek...
...Police arrested forty people for staging a sit-in in the lobby of the Hilton...
...For more information, contact the Houston Global Awareness Collective at www.houstonglobalawareness.org...
...Carlos Cortez Remembered Poet, artist, and peace activist Carlos Cortez died at his Chicago home earlier this year...
...Heat on Halliburton Houston Anti-war activists marched outside of Halliburton's shareholders meeting on May 1. The demonstrators accused the company of war profiteering...
...For more information, go to www.rebelgraphics.org/carloscortez.html...
...A cooperative produced the shoes, and a loan from Working World is helping it conduct a guerrilla marketing campaign in Buenos Aires...
...An offhand remark from a callous IMF staffer...
...In addition to his graphic artistry, Cortez wrote three books of poetry and was board president of Charles H. Kerr publishers for twenty years...
...It is a tool to give more independence to these cooperatives, which are doing amazing things, for example-my shoes...
...They are stylish, indeed...
...He did not survive on his art...
...According to the Chicago Tribune, Cortez "bequeathed more than 100 wood and linoleum blocks used to produce his prints to Chicago's Mexican Fine Arts museum, stipulating that if the price of his art went up, the blocks should be used to produce more and drive it down...
...Not exactly...
...For more information, contact UNITE HERE Local 2 at www.unitehere2.org...
...Born and raised in Milwaukee, Cortez was imprisoned for eighteen months as a conscientious objector during World War II...
...Local 2 of UNITE HERE and fourteen hotels have been negotiating since last summer...
...The union is calling for a boycott of them...
...Houston police arrested more than a dozen people...
...During the 1970s, he was part of Chicago's Chicano muralist movement, and in 1975, he helped found Movimiento Art?stico Chicano (MARCH...
...In 1947, he joined the Industrial Workers of the World and later became a columnist and editor of its paper, The Industrial Worker...
...The fund is a common property," says Lalo Paret, one of the organizers involved in the project...
...Hotel Boycott San Francisco On May 3, hotel workers marched from Union Square to the Hilton Hotel to protest stalled contract negotiations...
...Best known for his linoleum-cut and wood-cut graphics, he captured the dignity of oppressed people...
...Sales are already surpassing expectations...
...On the Line Funding Worker Coops Buenos Aires "These are people that have been completely marginalized from the system, who have never had bank accounts, yet they make their loan payments every month like English gentlemen," says Cecilia Sainz, referring to members of the Tren Blanco recycling cooperative...
...This growth has enabled the group to hire new members from its community-a huge feat in a neighborhood where the unemployment rate is almost 90 percent...
Vol. 69 • July 2005 • No. 7
