[RP TownTalk] SmallMart Revolution

[Dannielle and Steve Glaros]

I am and would be happy to report back.  I thought it would be helpful 
for our town.

Dannielle Glaros

On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Jonah Blaustein wrote:

> 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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