When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: "Whose?" ~ Don Marquis

Economics

The E.F. Schumacher Center
Great Barrington, MA  (413) 528-1737
www.schumachersociety.org or www.smallisbeautiful.org (same site)
Resource center and annual lecture series regarding community renewal, decentralism, and human-scale, sustainable technologies.

Center for Popular Economics
Amherst, MA  (413) 545-0743
www.populareconomics.org
Collective of political economists putting useful tools in the hands of people fighting for social change. Offers the Summer Institute, a week-long training in economics for ordinary folks.

Institute for Community Economics
Springfield, MA  (413) 746-8660
www.iceclt.org
Promoting economic justice through community land trusts and local investment.

National War Tax Resistance
Local contact list at:   www.nwtrcc.org/contact.htm#new

Cooperative Development Institute
Greenfield, MA   (413) 774-7599
www.cooplife.com

Jobs With Justice - Western MA
Springfield, MA  (413) 737-0640
www.jwj.org
www.topica.com/lists/WMassJWJ  (local listserv)
Workers' rights campaigns.

Grassroots Economic Organizing newsletter
www.geonewsletter.org