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National Day of Action
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On Saturday, September 27, join other BALLE
networks, Green for All, 1 Sky, the We
Campaign, and
tens of thousands of Americans for Green
Jobs Now: A Day to Build the New
Economy.
People of all backgrounds are organizing
events across the country to show
Washington, the US presidential candidates,
and the rest of the world that we're ready to
build an inclusive green economy - strong
enough to lift people out of poverty and
solve the climate crisis. BALLE is a partner
in the Green Jobs Now coalition.
Your network can be a part of Green Jobs Now
by hosting
an event in your community. It can be as
small as a photo opportunity or as large as
you can make it. BALLE is a big part of the
green jobs solution, and one type of event
proposed by Green Jobs Now is a Solutions
Fair. Check out their
ideas and let us know what you decide!
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Dear Dan,
BALLE is excited to announce its new
Economic Justice Initiative, created
by the BALLE board and staff to further
address the issue
of economic justice in our local communities,
and ultimately in North America and the
global economy.
BALLE has an ongoing commitment to creating
new models of economic development through
which communities left out of ownership
opportunities in the old industrial economy
gain ownership positions in the emerging
local living economies.
We are focusing the energies of our community
on this commitment by forming
five task forces of people committed to economic
justice with experience in business
development and network development, as well
as specific experience in the building
blocks of local living economies, such as
food, fiber, and energy.
Our intentions are:
- To help BALLE networks assist
entrepreneurs from African-American, Latino,
Native American, and other historically
disadvantaged communities in starting,
expanding, and strengthening businesses that
build a local living economy, and
- To strengthen BALLE by further
diversifying our networks, conferences,
board, and committees.
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The task forces are:
- Business education - to develop
business
education programs for BALLE networks serving
historically disadvantaged communities
- New network development - to support
community leaders in creating and
running new BALLE networks in historically
disadvantaged communities, with an initial
focus on Newark, NJ
- Enterprise development - to help
start and
strengthen businesses needed to build local
self-reliance in historically disadvantaged
communities where BALLE networks are located
- Network diversification - to support
existing BALLE networks in reaching out
to leaders from disadvantaged
communities for
steering committee positions and other
leadership roles
- Conference diversification - to
advise the
conference committee
If you would like to learn more about this
work, and perhaps contribute to a task force,
please reply to this e-mail. We'll also be
posting updates on this
page (under BALLE Bold) on the BALLE website.
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In addition to our own work, we want to
support the work of our partners. As a
partner in the national Green Jobs Coalition,
we encourage BALLE networks to hold or
promote events as part of the National
Day of Action (see the box to the
left).
We look forward to working
together in moving BALLE and the Living
Economies movement toward greater inclusion
in building a just economy.
Locally yours,
The BALLE team
email:
ann@livingeconomies.org
web:
http://www.livingeconomies.org
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