{"id":23578,"date":"2014-05-19T21:35:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T21:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=ce656173b1812d4148562cc1efae5b90"},"modified":"2014-05-19T21:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T21:35:27","slug":"clearing-the-fog-on-the-new-economy-that-is-empowering-communities-with-lasana-mack-and-dorcas-gilmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2014\/05\/19\/clearing-the-fog-on-the-new-economy-that-is-empowering-communities-with-lasana-mack-and-dorcas-gilmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the FOG on the New Economy that is Empowering Communities with Lasana Mack and Dorcas Gilmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month, economic democracy conferences were held in both Jackson, MS and Baltimore, MD. The conferences focused on the structural causes of poverty, the failures of the current economic system and new systems that can be put in place to build wealth in communities. Th Baltimore conference, which we helped to organize, focused on building cooperatives, complementary currencies and alternative finance, participatory budgeting, land trusts, renewable energy and food security. Our guest Dorcas Gilmore attended both conferences and the other guest Lasana Mack is working on new systems in African-American communities of Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/clearing-the-fog-on-the-new-economy-that-is-empowering-communities-with-lasana-mack-and-dorcas-gilmore\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, economic democracy conferences were held in both Jackson, MS and Baltimore, MD. The conferences focused on the structural causes of poverty, the failures of the current economic system and new systems that can be put in place to build wealt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23579,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23578\/revisions\/23579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}