Re: EFES:

[Mattelé Jo <rhtribune.mrh@skynet.be>]

Dear Sirs,

Can we kindly ask you to erase our e-mail adress from your adress book ?

Thank you



----- Message d'origine -----
De : Erik Maaløe <erm@asb.dk>
À : <efes@cog.kent.edu>
Envoyé : woensdag 7 november 2001 13:38
Objet : RE: EFES:


Dear Bill
Nice hearing from you. Yes 1) "The only problem with Capitalism is that it
doesn't create enough Capitalists". The other that democracy without
participation is not what it is.
 <<Adv for EO.doc>>

Yours erik

Erik Maaloe, dr merc
Institute for Organization
Aarhus Business School
Fulglesangs Alle 4
8210 Aarhus / Denmark


> ----------
> From: william bishop
> Reply To: efes@cog.kent.edu
> Sent: lørdag 27. oktober 2001 13:54
> To: EFES@cog.kent.edu
> Cc: Hamud.Mohamoud@mayo.edu
> Subject: EFES: a RISES contribution to the European Commission on
> Employee Ownership
>
> Dear Mr. Mathieu;
>
> My name is Bill Bishop, and I have been a friend and supporter of ESOPS
> since my friendship with Louis Kelso in the middle 60's.
> I notice that you are the Secretary-General of the European Federation of
> Employee Shareownership in Brussels, and that you have launched an appeal
> for a "wide consultation" on Employee Ownership in the European Union.
> This will result, as we all hope, in an "action plan" for the European
> Social Agenda launched at the Lisbon Summit last year by the Council of
> Ministers.
> With a few Rochester Minnesota City leaders, I have been able to suggest
> an action plan relevant to Minnesota - and the rest of the United States.
> A few months ago, we created R.I.S.E.S. - The Rochester International
> Share Equity Society with the hope that we can do a small part to close
> the widening gap between those who own no assets - and those who own many.
> We plan to do this by teaching a unique curriculum to the working poor who
> have, at the moment, nothing but their labor to sustain themselves and
> their families. After 2 months of learning about the power of capital in
> wealth creation, we plan to help our participants organize themselves into
> investment clubs. In addition, we hope to offer them IDA's which, in the
> United States are Individual Development Accounts, a tripartite Government
> effort to help assetless citizens own significant assets.
> We are not in the consultation business; I have been consulting as an
> activist, for 35 years, and am the former founder and Director of the
> Pennsylvania Capital Ownership Council in 1987, the nation's first.
> Governor Bob Casey signed our legislation permitting $4 million dollars of
> state money to be used for feasability studies for workers to consider
> buying - via ESOP - their companies. I have known, and worked with, David
> Binns, Corey Rosen and Norman Kurland, all of whom whose work I support.
> RISES is a way for the working poor to have access to the information they
> need to become asset owners and, hopefully, prospering Capitalists We are
> not exclusive - in the sense that ESOPS are the only way to go. There are
> Co-ops and other variations on the theme. The issue is - as Louis Kelso
> put it - "The only problem with Capitalism is that it doesn't create
> enough Capitalists". We intend to work with the best and the brightest. We
> are negotiating with CITIGROUP and MERRIL-LYNCH for partnership and
> support, and we would be happy to widen our arms, as well as open our
> hearts, to like-minded people in the European Union.
> Should you be interested in our approach, our work and our action plan,
> please let me know.
> I am teaching at King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi
> Arabia, but I am connected to the RISES Board members in Rochester. This
> message is being sent to the Board Chairman, Mr. M. Hamud of the Mayo
> Clinic.
> Please let me know where to go from here.
>                                                       Sincerely,
>                                                      Bill  Bishop
>
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