Ethan Miller is an activist, educator, researcher and musician working to cultivate and support movements for solidarity-based economic transformation. He works with Grassroots Economic Organizing and the Community Economies Collective, and has been a part of many organizing efforts including the alter-globalization movement, various regional social forums, the anti-war movement, immigrant rights work, and Maine Earth First. Ethan is also part of the musical collective Riotfolk. He has lived for the past ten years at the JED Collective and Giant's Belly Farm in Greene, Maine, and is currently on a hiatus in Australia, working on a PhD at the University of Western Sydney with the Community Economies Research Group.
From Starbucks and Amazon to political campaigns and digital media, workers in historically unorganized occupations are forming unionsāand breathing new life into the U.S. labor movement
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Note: This blog post is the second of a seven-part series called Occupy, Connect, Create! Imagining Life Beyond 'The Economy' that will…
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