Richard Wolff is well worth hearing.
Carl Jarvis
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From: "Richard D. Wolff" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:17:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Reflections and appreciations on Economic Update’s 10th Anniversary
To: Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx>
<https://democracyatwork.nationbuilder.com/donate>
Dear Carl --
Reading through the comments so many of you sent in to us was, I
admit, a revelation. It was more than I had dared to hope for. Hearing
that Democracy at Work’s output has become so meaningful and valuable
to you provides the best imaginable support and encouragement.
When I first started Economic Update
<https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate> as a radio show for
WBAI in New York back in March, 2011, I indulged in a fantasy of
slowly building up an audience interested in economics from a
progressive, left perspective. It seemed a daring fantasy back then,
before Occupy Wall Street took off.
Yet here we are 10 years later with YouTube, radio, TV, Facebook,
Twitter, and Instagram audiences totaling hundreds of thousands. I can
still not quite wrap my head around it all. And besides boosting my
confidence that real change is coming, our remarkable, ongoing growth
also really serves those audiences. You have told us that. We hear it
with awe, pleasure, and pride. And it makes us that much stronger and
more determined to build on the genuine social movement now underway
and carrying us all.
Democracyatwork.info <https://www.democracyatwork.info/> is a small
team: our two full-time Directors of Communications (Liz) and Media
(Maria), our part-time outreach person (Julieta), and our two contract
associates (audio-engineer Bryan and video-engineer Shane) work
closely together to produce and distribute our content. Our content
can be broken down into two parts. The first is a comprehensive
critique of capitalism as the root problem of our time. The second is
advocacy for a democratic transformation of workplaces from their
hierarchical capitalist forms to the worker-cooperative form as key to
moving beyond capitalism.
Our chief goal in producing Economic Update and the rest of Democracy
at Work’s content is to expand our reach, enlarge our audiences, and
engage with more people. Your comments help to prove that our efforts
to grow are working, and we are changing the world alongside all the
rest of you. That is, in the end, what brought us together.
Throughout our 10th anniversary, and in the years beyond, we wish to
do more, do it better, and reach more people. For those willing and
able, we ask your financial support alongside your supportive
engagement with our work. <https://www.democracyatwork.info/donate> It
is, in the end, a partnership that defines and inspires us, each side
strengthening the other in a movement to change the world.
Thank you again for sharing what Economic Update means to you. Your
enthusiastic response to our content – like that of our audiences in
general – keeps us going and growing. Our gratitude to you is more
than our words can convey.
In solidarity,
<https://democracyatwork.nationbuilder.com/donate>
Richard D. Wolff
Founder, Board Member
<https://democracyatwork.nationbuilder.com/donate>
<https://democracyatwork.nationbuilder.com/donate>
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