😍😍😍 The Wall Street Journal article on kiranas, mom-and-pop stores throughout #India 🙌🏾 Institute for Local Self-Reliance AMIBA Stacy Mitchell Left for bluer skies

Great article by our longest serving advisor, Michael Shuman: "Politicians who insist on subsidizing private developers, denying the fiscal impacts and then sticking the bill to taxpayers do so at their peril." #BOOM #econdev NewEconomyCoalition washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opin…

25 years ago, small businesses employed millions more Americans than big businesses did. No longer. Big business keeps growing -- often at the expense of small. nytimes.com/2018/06/17/opi…

Looking forward to this event on Thursday — a panel on Amazon’s cozy relationship to government. Join us! x.com/amconmag/statu…

"Our economy is largely the consequence of public policy. We have made rules that privilege the global over the local, concentrate ownership, and undermine democracy." Stacy Mitchell from waaaaay back, 2009 The Schumacher Institute conference in Bristol, England #noexpirationdateontruth

#PSA announcement regarding Trump's immigration speech to NFIB... the "National Federation of Independent Business" is a partisan thorn in the side for folks like us that authentically support independent business. Thx to Kauffman Foundation & AMIBA for the laying down facts 👇🏾

Happy solstice placemakers!

Love Cornucopia Foods in Northampton, MA ❤️❤️❤️ x.com/cornucopiafood…

**WOW** We 💯 percent understand how difficult it is to navigate around conventional fundraising to preserve mission integrity. Congrats to Organically Grown Co for trailblazing a model that many more will surely follow 🙌🏾 #socent x.com/organicgrownco…

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Today's gratitude goes to... Civic Economics for a lovely phone call between old local-economy-nerd-pals and Institute for Local Self-Reliance for releasing the long-awaited report on Amazon's mission to take over city government procurement 🙏🏾

71 years ago Salzburg Global was born. A mega hope beacon where (over the decades) 36,000 intellectuals from 170 countries have convened to learn from each other. Last year, co-founder K Scotto di Carlo became a Salzburg fellow 🙌🏾 #SalzburgGlobalDay

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Co-founder K Scotto di Carlo just gave a presentation to Japan Intercultural Academy of Municipalities on why independent businesses are so vital to the fabric of neighborhoods 🇺🇸 ❤️🇯🇵

Milestone Reached: Six Monadnock Placemaker Businesses buff.ly/2xMZbT3 Supportland

Economic concentration has a geography, and it’s devastating. “Just 20% of rural counties with populations of fewer than 100,000 added net businesses between 2007 and 2016."

Eeks! Black Friday and Small Business Saturday earn DOUBLE Merits at all Placemaker businesses! This means 40 Merits at businesses you've never been to 😲

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Had a blast making a Raspberry Pi slot machine for Crafty Wonderland! The joy of folks winning Supportland Merits to their fav local businesses was infectious 😊 #CommunityNotCompetition

Love that Cambridge Local First has an "Amazon Watch" section in their newsletter 🙌🏾 #StrongerTogether