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Louis Kelso appears on "60 Minutes" telecast (1975) entitled "A Piece of the Action." Interviewer: Mike Wallace. Features statements by Sen. Russell Long and Nobel Economist Paul Samuelson.
UAW President Walter Reuther testifies February 20, 1967 before a Joint Committee of Congress. He advocates employee stock ownership as a way for workers to gain their income increases out of the bottom line without raising costs to business.
Delaware Governor Pierre S. (Pete) duPont IV signs into law a bill making broadened capital ownership and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) official policy to be encouraged by all agencies of the State of Delaware. Legislative Hall, Dover, Delaware, June 22, 1981.
Louis Kelso and the ESOP are featured on “60 Minutes,” with Mike Wallace, broadcast over the CBS television network in 1975.
Candidates of the 1979 Ownership Campaign (l to r, Jim Burch, Ennis Francis, Tommy Kersey; standing right, Norman Kurland) with OC Campaign Advisor Lui Granados. Interview by the Manchester Union Leader.
Senator Russell Long wears the OWN button. "OWN" stood for "Ownership for Workers Now," the slogan of the Ownership Campaign which ran Democratic and Republican candidates in the 1979 presidential primary in New Hampshire. The late Senator Long is remembered as the "father of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan" on Capitol Hill.
Fr. William Ferree, co-founder of CESJ and renowned scholar in the social teachings of Pope Pius XI, visits home of Norm Kurland in 1984 for his "monthly pilgrimage" from Dayton, Ohio.
(l to r) Fr. Andrew Morlion (Pope John XXIII's emissary between Presidents Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis) meets in 1985 with Fr. William Ferree at CESJ headquarters. Morlion eulogized Fr. Ferree as "America's greatest social philosopher."
Members of the newly formed Center for Economic and Social Justice meet with Amb. J. William Middendorf II, prior to the creation of Pres. Ronald Reagan's bipartisan Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice.
Workers at the La Perla plantation in Guatemala organize to protect their lives and ownership stakes from communist insurgents, some of whom later joined to become part owners of the plantation.
Pope John Paul II meets Project Economic Justice Delegation, which is joined by representatives of the Polish Solidarity Union.
His Holiness Pope John Paul II greets CESJ President Norman Kurland, commending the work of the Center for Economic and Social Justice, 1987.
President Ronald Reagan accepts the report of the Presidential Task Force recommending the promotion of employee stock ownership plans throughout the Caribbean and Central America, as a way of counteracting communist insurgencies.
Sen. Russell Long and Norman Kurland
Pope John Paul II receives special copy of Curing World Poverty, from CESJ members Fr. Cassian Yuhaus and Norman Kurland
Participants of the 1995 East St. Louis Syntegration on Old Man River City, attended by State Rep. Wyvetter Younge (center row, third from left). The event was organized by Dr. Bill Perk, who studied under design scientist Bucky Fuller, who along with Rep. Younge and dancer-humanitarian Katherine Dunham, conceived of Old Man River City.
Illinois State Rep. Wyvetter Young (m) with Rowland Brohawn (l) and Dawn Brohawn (r) at 1995 Syntegration
Dr. Bill Perk (2nd from right), organizer of the 1995 syntegration on Old Man River City stands with other participants, including Rep. Younge and CESJ's Dawn Brohawn
Dance legend, humanitarian, global thinker Katherine Dunham who with Bucky Fuller and Rep. Wyvetter Younge, conceived of Old Man River City.
Illinois State Rep. Wyvetter Younge, sponsor of House bill introducing the for-profit, citizen-owned Community Investment Corporation. The bill passed 114-0, but Rep. Younge passed away soon after and the bill never went forward.
CESJ Pres. Norm Kurland (middle) and Rep. Walter Fauntroy (right) march with local DC community on New Birth Project (May 1996).

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DAS/ESJ strongly believes that what is really needed is allowing organizations to partner with businesses, social enterprise strategies that invest in assets and the resources that are already there in the communities. What we really need more of is investments in “systems and policy” change, which require long term investments, that is not a quick fix.

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