Jim Hightower - Alternate Models of Business Ownership

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/28/Jim_Hightower_Swim_Against_the_Current

Populist author and activist Jim Hightower advocates worker-owned co-ops as alternative models of business ownership, using two stories as examples.

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Jim Hightower talks about Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.

America's most irascible curmudgeon turns a benevolent eye toward the hardworking souls who have found ways to break free from corporate tentacles and redefine success in business, politics, and life in general. Hightower is a national radio commentator and the author of Thieves in High Places - Book Passage

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator and the author of Thieves in High Places. He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations, on the web, on Armed Forces Radio, and on Radio for Peace International.

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[urielstud]

Love the Book Passage

[saxonkirwan]

Capitalism has failed........

[shellylefty]

Thank you

[ComradeSephiroth]

Co-ops combine the justice of worker ownership with the efficiency of the marketplace. If they are given a legal business framework they would probably be far more common in our economy today.

Who knows? Co-ops may be the next great economic revolution in this country and around the world.

[Rickdeckard2020]

Very good video