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"And it’s easy to see why. Employee-owned companies tear down the walls that have traditionally pitted management against labor, which typically results in a very collaborative and transparent culture where everyone is pulling for the same goals.Which begs the obvious question: Why aren’t more companies employee-owned?
That’s one of the questions I will keep returning to over the next few months as I pivot the topic of my blog to cover the subject of employee-owned companies.
I also hope to speak with skeptics of employee-ownership and to share stories where ESOPs haven’t worked out.
In short, I hope that this blog will help spark new conversations and raise awareness out there in the working world about the potential power of employee-owned companies to truly change lives."
Continuing on with the theme of employee owned companies.
"But the history of employee ownership in the U.S. suggests the founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, could be the biggest winner of all in the transaction. Why? Because employee-owned companies – even those with workers holding only a minority stake – tend to out-perform the competition.
Employee ownership, endorsed by both political parties in the country, makes industry more competitive and more robust. It is helping to solve the retirement savings crisis in the U.S. by out-performing other types of retirement plans. In short, it’s the best of capitalism, played as a team sport. That’s the significance behind Hamdi Ulukaya’s bold move at Chobani."
Well Moderates, Independents, 3rd party supporters and the Movement Formerly Known as the Sanderistas, I suppose by now most have an idea of what they're going to do next week.
I just want to re-iterate, especially for the Formerly Sanderistas, you guys were incredible and whether you guys choose to work inside the establishment or outside, please don't melt away into the pot of nothingness.
Hindsight is often 20/20 but who knows how things could have played out if Frederick Douglas and others supported movements.
Anyways hope you guys enjoy this vid, on this anxious weekend.
Once again there was a Sanders 2016 campaign but that is now done and over, but the Movement that grew out of that can and will still continue to develop.
Again a movement and not just a single man or campaign.
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““No – no, no. It’s not Bernie,” the senator said, waving his finger in protest. “I appreciate your love and it’s mutual … but if there’s any message I have today it is not Bernie, it is all of us today.”
“I think that the president-elect has got to understand that many of the things that he said during the campaign, the ideas that he brought forth are terribly offensive, and frightening to millions and millions of people,” Sanders said on Fox News Radio on Thursday.
With Thanksgiving around the corner, its appropriate to keep in mind we are approaching the 525th year since 1492 & what that might mean not only for the people of Aboriginal descent of Hawaii, Alaska & the continental US of A ('bout as big as Asian Americans) but also this was the start of the persecution of Gypsies from Hellas (again they did not mysteriously appear out of thin air, they ran to Greek envoys & ambassadors among the Brits when they caught flack from the locals) and the categorizing of (not exclusively, but particularly) tawny & swart Euro peasants into the "counterfeit" class.
Can't change the past but its unwise to forget it when moving forward.
The strongman of physical anthropology, C. Loring Brace, noted phenetic affinity of Pacific Islanders (like Aboriginal Hawaiians & related peoples like the Samoans), the Ainu of Japan, & continental US Aboriginals with the Jomon of ancient Japan. Now all this means is that there seems to be a shared common ancestry, who knows how far back this goes (they can go back as far as 100 thousand years) and anyway nothing cultural or political has anything to do with it.
Still there seems to be an Ainu cultural renaissance (and possibly environmentalism) going on in Japan.
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The island, known for its severe snowy winters (it's a popular ski destination), is the site of breathtaking mountain ranges, volcanoes, lush forests and crystal lakes, and unique flora and fauna. It's easy to understand the Ainu reverence for nature and the animistic belief in spirits.
He created the work in 2008, after the Ainu won official indigenous status from the Japanese government. That followed the U.N. General Assembly's passage in 2007 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and came just before a 2008 Group of Eight wealthy nations summit in Hokkaido.
A major impetus for the cultural revival was the Law for the Promotion of Ainu Culture, enacted in 1997 (a major turnaround from laws of the mid-1800s that cemented bans on the language and customs.)
Illustrator and manga artist Sayo Ogasawara's solution lies in online picture books. Written in Japanese and Ainu, her "digital books" are part of a series of illustrated Ainu folk tales for children available on the Ainu Culture Center Web site. Kids can click onto tales like "The Girl Who Became a Woodpecker" that teach about Ainu history. (In the best fable tradition, they also carry morals. The woodpecker story's: Take care of your elders...or else!)
Perhaps now is a good time for the Aboriginal nations to develop diplomatic ties & trade deals with Japan.
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Leaves of marijuana plants to extract the hemp fiber that is often used in traditional Japanese clothes and accessories, are seen at Japan's largest legal marijuana farm in Kanuma, Tochigi prefecture, Japan July 5, 2016.
Now I wasn't around centuries ago but I thinks its quite probable that if one lived in the Arctic like the Inuits & Aleuts; or in the southwestern desert like the Pueblos (who have a far more legitimate claim to those lands that's often ignored in political debates); or Pacific Islands like the Aboriginal Hawaiians & American Samoans then one has to understand some basics of environmental conservation & resource management if one does not want to starve to death.
So there are definitely communities that are concerned about environmental conservation & preservation even if they are the last thing that comes to mind when most Americans think of environmentalist.
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The perceived arrogance of "big conservation" is a confounding factor; so too is the understandable tendency of some indigenous people to conflate conservation with imperialism.
From the middle of the 19th century until 1914, when Yosemite became a national park, a concerted and at times violent effort was made to rid Yosemite of its natives, a small band of Miwok Native Americans who had settled in the valley about 4,000 years ago.
During the same period, most of the major parks created in America - notably Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Mount Rainier, Zion, Glacier, Everglades and Olympic - repeated the Yosemite example by expelling thousands of tribal people from their homes and hunting grounds so that the new parks could remain in a "state of nature". This practice of conservation was exported worldwide, becoming known as "the Yosemite model".
I found, mostly in the field, a new generation of conservationists who realise that the very landscapes they seek to protect owe their high biodiversity to the practices of the people who have lived there, in some cases for thousands of years.
For it is far better to have good stewards living on land than to have that same land cleared of residents and surrounded by hostile evictees. Enlightened conservationists are beginning to accept the axiom that only by preserving cultural diversity can biological diversity be protected, and vice versa.
Given that Nina Turner as part of the Movement Formerly Known as the Sanderistas is based in the region of the Midwestern states of Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Illnois, Michigan, Ohio (this cultural zone grades through Pennsylvania towards upstate NY) & the people of Aborginal descent from Hawaii, Alaska & the continental U.S. was such a big part of the movement, I hope environmental education like reforestation & wildlife protection for western U.S. flora & fauna will continue on for the up and coming generations.
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Tim Stanley, the farm's director, who helped teach the girls about Native American farming techniques, asked several of them to dig up a row of soil with some hand tools, and he asked a second group to pick out all the weeds that turned up in the row.
Therefore for the Australian Aborigines; Maori of New Zealand; Aboriginal nations of Alaska, Hawaii (who are related to the American Samona), & the mainland U.S.; the Ainu & other descendants of the Jomon of Japan; the Gypsies of the E.U. (Roma speaking or otherwise); the Canuck Aboriginals; as well as the Urifiyi (rule by local customs & traditions that all members of the community follow whether Muslimin, Yehudi, Nazereni, or Magian; see William Plumer's Memorandun of Proceedings in the United States 1803-1807 pgs. 349 & 366 AND James Madison Secretary of State v.4 p. 307 for the Kuloughi Tunisi ambassador's statement on religion) Bedawin & Ghauriyah (many of whom are of Misri Fellah & other Nilotic & local origins; Narrative, p. 336 & Biblical Researches in Palestine and the adjacent regions:v. 1, p. 332) should reconsider the 4th world movement.
The 4th World movement to address issues that aboriginals deal with in what is usually termed 1st World nations yet they live in conditions that border on 3rd World, and as well as issues of concern to minority groups in 1st World nations more broadly.
REACTIVATE.
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Suggestions for inclusion of indigenous governing institutions include granting them a special observer status or the creation of an entirely new status. Such a new status must be capable of recognizing the political and legal nature of Indigenous Peoples, extending beyond their consultative function as NGO’s. Others advised that indigenous representatives should have the right to introduce legal instruments (such as treaties and other protocols) about issues that affect them. Another suggested that indigenous nation delegations may speak or intervene at any level concerning any topic deemed relevant to the interests or rights of each nation consistent with the right of free, prior and informed consent.
Including indigenous representatives into the U.N. system means expanding the way the U.N. currently functions relative to Indigenous Peoples
Therefore for the Australian Aborigines;Maori of New Zealand; Aboriginal nations of Alaska, Hawaii (who are related to the American Samona), & the mainland U.S.; the Ainu & other descendants of the Jomon of Japan;the Gypsies of the E.U. (Roma speaking or otherwise); the Canuck Aboriginals; as well as the Urifiyi (rule by local customs & traditions that all members of the community follow whether Muslimin, Yehudi, Nazereni, or Magian; see William Plumer's Memorandun of Proceedings in the United States 1803-1807 pgs. 349 & 366 AND James Madison Secretary of State v.4 p. 307 for the Kuloughi Tunisi ambassador's statement on religion) Bedawin & Ghauriyah (many of whom are of Misri Fellah & other Nilotic & local origins; Narrative, p. 336 & Biblical Researches in Palestine and the adjacent regions:v. 1, p. 332) should reconsider the 4th world movement.
I forgot to recommend the Khoisan of South Africa (I believe they along with their Coloured non-Khoisan speaking kinsmen are experiencing a cultural revival) since they are the Aboriginal people of Southern African region from Zambezi River to Kalahari & down to the Mid land Sea like coast. Thus they experienced similar trauma in the expansion of the globalist plantation system & in the name of "progress & civilization".
As for the Ghauriyah, well the Sumran are the Bedawin tribes from the Euphrates & the Tell/Jabal region of Shams extending into the Negev & Sinai. Jabarti said many of the Misri Fellaheen fled to the Shariq at the end of the 18th century and this continued especially during the reign of the dynastic lineage of Muhammad Ali during the 19th.
The Misri Fellaheen became nafhiz (forgive my memory & spelling) meaning they became attached to the Bedawin tribes. The Ghor extends from Aqaba thru Jordan River Valley thru Beth She'an Valley thru to Hula. The Ghor can be also extended to describe coastal lowlands. The Misri Fellaheen would provide fodder & hadari services to the Bedawin. During the 1st great war at least a million to a million & a half fellaheen went with Allenby to fight the Nazis & assist the allies in the Awsat el Shariq. Thus it makes sense why in the 2006 report of the strong man of physical anthropology, C. Loring Brace, the Israeli Arabic speaking Fellaheen grouped with the Naqada samples.
Ibn Khaldun wrote that the Bedouin enjoy hunting but they are also conservative disliking luxury & lavishness thus potential preservationists. The Fellaheen are excellent at tree cropping, creating & maintaining oases for the natural/wild fauna & flora.
And that is what the 4th world movement is about, Aboriginal peoples who have been under attack for going on 525 years, finally taking on environmental issues & other issues. So again the U.N. helps but the 4th world is also a movement.
I realize this probably is very confusing especially with all the globalist plantation propaganda & identity politics.
Given that we are now in the 525th anniversary of 1492 & what it means for Aboriginal peoples like those of the 4th World movement its important to realize that the theory of 'oids which is the ideological foundation not only for plantation nation states but also global gubbermint grew directly out of polygenists which grew out of the events that went down in the Americas with the Aboriginals (one can argue that what went down in the Canaries in the early 15th century was the birth of the plantation Atlantic system; Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London, Volume 1, p. 353)
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Conference on Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, which gave birth to a consciousness on, an international level, the conditions of indigenous peoples. The event served as an awakening to Native people all over the world, demonstrating that paradigm-shifting, through dignity and organization, is possible.
In Tristam description of the tribes inhabiting the Ghor, there appears the names of some Bedouin Berber tribes apparently those based in Misr (The land of Israel, pgs. 478-479).
Burckhardt also notes his fellow student of Blumenbach, Seetzen, citing that there were Berbers as well along the area of the Nubian Nile (Travels in Nubia, pg. 535).
Seetzen also appears to mention Christians presumably either Shamiyyah Yacobi or Assyrian among the Bedu (again the Bedu follow urf, local customs & traditions that the community respects whether Yehudi, Nazereni, Muslimi or Magian; A Brief Account of the Countries Adjoining the Lake of Tiberias, pg. 38).
The Armenians of the Eur-Asian Economic Union, survivors of that tragic event as traumatic if not more than what went down in Europe yet "international community" does not recognize are Yacobi, as are the Nazereni of Misr, some of Iraq & Eritreans (ancient Aksum & Daa'mot) who are also part of the Arab League.
So again I wish the Australian Aborigines;Maori of New Zealand; Aboriginal nations of Alaska, Hawaii (who are related to the American Samona), & the mainland U.S.; the Ainu & other descendants of the Jomon of Japan;the Gypsies of the E.U. (Roma speaking or otherwise); the Canuck Aboriginals; the Urifiyi (rule by local customs & traditions that all members of the community follow whether Muslimin, Yehudi, Nazereni, or Magian) Bedawin & Ghauriyah; & the Khoisan of South Africa luck with the 21st century 4th World movement.
Last century the issue was how to understand communalism as opposed to the Cold War bloc concepts of capitalism & communism. I guess now in addition to contending with nation states eager about imitating massah on his plantation, now communalism also has to deal with globalization which is the plantation ideology on steroids.
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The nonbinding declaration recognizes the rights of indigenous peoples to self-determination, as well as their institutions, cultures and traditions, and prohibits discrimination against them.
When the document was introduced in 2007, 143 countries voted to approve it, 11 abstained, and four - the U.S., Canada, New Zealand and Australia - voted to oppose it.
Since then, the other three nations have switched their votes in support of the declaration, leaving the U.S. as the lone holdout.
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