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From the Economics of Peace Conference, 2009.

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Fred Freundlich and Mikel Lezamiz (Mondragon) PART 1 of 4 speaking at The Economics of Peace Conference in Sonoma Ca 2009 from The Economics Of Peace on Vimeo.

Fred Freundlich and Mikel Lezamiz (Mondragon) PART 2 of 4 speaking at The Economics of Peace Conference in Sonoma Ca 2009 from The Economics Of Peace on Vimeo.

Fred Freundlich and Mikel Lezamiz (Mondragon) PART 3 of 4 speaking at The Economics of Peace Conference in Sonoma Ca 2009 from The Economics Of Peace on Vimeo.

Fred Freundlich and Mikel Lezamiz (Mondragon) PART 4 of 4 speaking at The Economics of Peace Conference in Sonoma Ca 2009 from The Economics Of Peace on Vimeo.

Fred Freundlich (left) teaches at Mondragon Universtiy in Spain. He is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, where his dissertation research is a new university initiative affiliated with the Mondragn Cooperative Corporation. Freundlich is a senior principal of Ownership Associates.

Mikel Lezamiz (right) is the educational director of the Mondragon Cooperatives Corporation, the world’s largest consortium of worker-owned businesses located in the Basque Country of Northern Spain. He helped organize Praxis Peace Institute’s 5-day seminar at the MCC headquarters in the fall of 2008. Lezamiz is one of the most knowledgeable sources on the history and current operations of Mondragon’s 120 worker-owned businesses.

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February 3, 2010