New Orleans The problem with celebrating our victories is that often we need to do so pretty quickly before the forces of reaction overrun us again. Hopefully, this won’t be the situation in a recent critical breakthrough in the Public Service Commission regulation of rural electric cooperatives in Louisiana, but it’s worth concern. A …
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Louisiana Co-ops Run from Democracy and Accountability
New Orleans Cooperatives should be the shining example that we hold up to corporate abuse and investors greed. Idealists raise the prospects of cooperatives as the solutions for commerce, housing shortages and affordability issues, worker ownership, and all manner of other social problems everywhere I travel. The experiments are small but exciting, and then there …
Change Coming to Rural Electric Cooperative Governance – Finally!
New Orleans Cooperatives are something that many of us hold up as models of how things might work in a better – and different – world than the one where we now live and work. Rural electric cooperatives display their democratic and membership principles as part of the cooperative movement since the 1930s on …
How Many Rural Electric Cooperatives Can Stand the Glare?
New Orleans In 2016 after an exhaustive research project on all of the rural electric cooperatives in the twelve Southern states ACORN and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center published two reports on our website, as well as in two issues of Social Policy. One looked at the lack of diversity and absence …
Finally, South Carolina Finally Cracking Down on Electric Coop Abuses
Kawakawa A couple of years ago after extensive research Social Policy published two extensive studies focusing on rural electric cooperatives in all of the southern states and their lack of diversity and democracy. We didn’t throw the rock and hide the hand. Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center and its Rural Power Project sent a …