the economic revolution is already happening...

america is in the midst of a new revolution. but this revolution is quiet, incremental, nonviolent, and traveling beneath the mainstream media's radar. the new american revolution challenges the current notions of dog-eat-dog capitalism—through the building of a parallel economic system that shares, cooperates, empowers, and benefits fellow workers and community members. over the past few decades, thousands of alternatives to the standard, top-down corporate model have sprouted up—worker-owned companies and cooperatives, neighborhood corporations and trusts, community-owned technology centers and municipally owned enterprises. in fact, today, involvement in these alternative models of business outnumber union membership as the means by which private-sector workers and community members are taking economics into their own hands. author and political scientist gar alperovitz talks about it with maria armoudian// 10.07.09, alternet