Tierra Lucero's Blog

by Michael H. Shuman & Merrian Fuller (from The Nation magazine)
Now that the religious right dominates all three branches of the federal government, one of the few avenues still open for creative progressive initiative is business.
To get an inkling of what’s possible, drop by the Used Book Cafe in the SoHo district of New York [...]

“Gandhi understood that the key to freeing India was to transform his fellow citizens into economically productive agents by spinning their own cloth and taking their own salt from the sea. Martin Luther King Jr. implored African-Americans to form their own credit unions and community development corporations. The secret to being as radical as we [...]