3 Nov 2016

Powering a Political Revolution, North Dakota’s Non-Partisan League (Episode 4)

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In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews David Morris, the co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and the director of the Public Good initiative about the history behind North Dakota’s Non-Partisan League. In this podcast, Morris goes into detail on the League’s political influence and how their policies set North Dakota on a trajectory of local ownership and a tradition of fighting concentrated economic power. He also notes that North Dakotans are still fending off challenges from major banks and pharmaceutical chains, and that the tradition of local ownership is strong throughout the state.… Read More
10 Oct 2016

ILSR’s Testimony at New York City Hearing on Retail Diversity and Neighborhood Character

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At a recent New York City Council hearing, ILSR submitted testimony examining the importance of locally owned businesses to the City, the crisis affecting them, and examples of effective and proven policy strategies to level the playing field for these businesses.… Read More
3 Oct 2016

Statement on Clinton’s Call for Stronger Antitrust to Protect Small Business

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Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and author of Monopoly Power and the Decline of Small Business: The Case for Restoring America’s Once Robust Antitrust Policies, issued the following statement today in response to Hillary Clinton’s economic policy speech in Ohio, in which she discussed growing corporate concentration and its impact on small business, and called for stronger antitrust measures.… Read More
29 Sep 2016

Want to Subscribe to our Building Local Power Podcast? Here’s How

by | Date: 29 Sep 2016 | posted in: Building Local Power, Energy, From the Desk of David Morris, MuniNetworks, Retail, The Public Good, Waste to Wealth | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

In case you missed it, we launched a new podcast series last week. It’s called “Building Local Power” and it tells the story of how we at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, with our strong allies, are working to break the chains of monopoly power in all sectors of our economy and build local economies. There … Read More

1930s anti-chain cartoon
23 Sep 2016

The Dark Store Tax Dodge of Big-Box Retailers (Episode 1)

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In the first episode of our new podcast series, “Building Local Power,” Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews Olivia LaVecchia, a research associate with our Community-Scaled Economy initiative, about her work on the “dark store” strategy that big-box retailers have been using to slash their property tax assessments.… Read More
7 Sep 2016

Watch: Policy Tools That Enable Local Businesses to Thrive

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For too long, public policy has rigged the market to favor big corporations and undermine small, locally owned businesses, especially those launched by women and people of color. In this video of a panel session at the CommonBound conference, ILSR’s Stacy Mitchell and other leaders discuss how, now, local businesses and activists across the country are working to change the rules to instead support community enterprises.… Read More
10 Aug 2016

Report: Monopoly Power and the Decline of Small Business

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Small businesses have been in steep decline. In this report, we argue that anticompetitive behavior by large, dominant corporations is largely to blame and present three reasons to bring a commitment to fair markets for small businesses back into antitrust policy. The report won an award for antitrust scholarship in 2017. … Read More

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