[RP TownTalk] SmallMart Revolution

[Jonah Blaustein]

Please let me know if anyone is planning to attend the conference this 
weekend at U of MD. (see below)
thanks



FROM WAL-MART TO SMALL-MART
How the global economy is undermining the foundations of US jobs and 
economy and how you can grow local business alternatives.

March 17-19, 2006
Michael Shuman, author and economist
CO-SPONSORED BY DEMOCRACY COLLABORATIVE and CHEASAPEAKE EDUCATION, ARTS 
AND RESEARCH SOCIETY (CHEARS!)
 
This course will provide participants with an understanding of the 
global economy and sustainable local alternatives for individual and 
community economic empowerment.  Participants will gain an 
understanding of cutting-edge, community-based economic systems rooted 
in local ownership, self-reliance, sustainability, and justice. The 
course will provide more than 100 practical tools for local planning, 
local entrepreneurship training, local investing, local purchasing, and 
local policymaking.

Participants  will analyze reasons and strategies for going local, 
including: how to strengthen locally-owned small businesses;  how to 
promote laws around living wages, smart growth, green taxes, local food 
strategy and investment reform; how to form alternative business models 
such as "community corporations;” how to create self-financing 
non-profits through for-profit subsidies.	    	
 
Michael Shuman is an attorney and economist, Vice President for 
Enterprise Development for Training & Development Corporation of 
Bucksport, Maine and the author of six books, including most recently 
"Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age.  His 
newest book, "The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are 
Beating the Global Competition" will be published in June.  Michael has 
been successfully involved in rebuilding local economies at various 
levels in Salisbury, MD; New Mexico; St. Lawrence, Maine; and projects 
in the Soviet Union.  He has appeared in numerous television and radio 
shows and is a periodic commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered".
 
 Location:  University of Maryland College Park      		Fee:  Including 
follow-up discussion date:
	       1208 Tawes Hall, College Park, MD  20742  		            $125 
before 2/20/06; $150 after that date.
          			Time:       March 17th - Friday: 7-9:30 
pm,            							                                   March 18-19th 
- Saturday and Sunday: 9 am-5:30 pm
				     Follow-up dinner/discussion date May 7, 2006, 4-8 pm.

Further Information:   Contact: Carol Iverson at 
301-565-3492: Iverson201 at aol.com  or                                    
                         			                 Joan Clement at 
301-270-3862: joanpclement at yahoo.com

 
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