‘ON THE GROUND’ SHOW FOR JUNE 16, 2017–The F-Word: Gar Alperovitz on Creating Another World…Shareholders Confront Dollar Tree Store Over Toxic Products…Headlines on Saving Medicaid, Bail-Out Campaign Continues and More…


Gar Alperovitz discusses his new free handbook, Principals of a Pluralist Commonwealth,” and outlines the possibilities of local, collective and co-op ownership that can be a model for a real democracy and not a future economy that is corporate capitalism, fascism or total state socialism. Shareholders and activists confront the Dollar Tree discount chain at a shareholder meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia to protest the chain continuing to sell toxic products to the public. Headlines on Medicaid, the continuing campaign to bail out mothers not convicted of any crime, House Republicans gut Dodd-Frank, 200 members of Congress file lawsuit against President Trump. And more…

Links: Website to read Alperovitz Principals of a Pluralist Commonwealth.