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A Less Dogmatic Day for Jenna: Structural Roots and Short Term Fixes

Jenna Allard September 7, 2007 at 12:49 pm

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In my activist orientation, I heavily emphasize the structural roots of injustice and conflict. Individual events, like the Iraq War for instance, may have particularly shady beginnings and horrific consequences, but it is our constitutional structure that gives the president his power as commander-in-chief, and his ability to veto yet another bill that sets timelines [...]

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Summer Camp for Radicals: The Union of Radical Political Economics 2007 Summer Conference

Jenna Allard August 24, 2007 at 10:37 am

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This past weekend I traveled to Pine Bush, New York, for my first URPE Summer Conference. This three-day conference was located at Camp Deer Run, and we all discussed economics around campfires and swimming pools as well as in workshops and plenaries. It was a small and relaxed conference –there were about 90 participants, and [...]

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Defining the Solidarity Economy, Defining my job

Jenna Allard August 8, 2007 at 1:04 pm

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So, I’m somewhat new to Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy and to Transformation Central, and this means that I am both learning about my new job and learning how to explain it to others. I haven’t quite gotten the conversational job description in a nutshell it down to a standardized spiel yet, so it inevitably [...]

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Consternation over Consumption

Jenna Allard July 20, 2007 at 5:04 pm

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As a recent college-graduate, making a somewhat abrupt transition to the working world (albeit the rather cushy feel good world of the non-profit working world) and to the supposed beginning of “the rest of my life”, these past few weeks have been filled with overwhelmingly large purchases. I have just ended an apartment search, am [...]

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Solidarity at the U.S. Social Forum 2007

Jenna Allard July 11, 2007 at 3:16 pm

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On my way to the first ever Social Forum held in the United States, the journey itself featured a little more prominently in my overall experience than I would have liked. By the time I stepped off the first leg of my flight, my connection was already delayed for wont of a pilot. [...]

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