2025年1月17日 · What is Local Self-Reliance? Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are free to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our communities, and how decisions are made by government, corporations, and businesses because it ...

2024年5月2日 · Over the past 50 years, the growth of ILSR and its mission to build local power and fight corporate control has become a story worth telling.From taking on corporate giants like Amazon and Walmart to leading the charge against utility and waste monopolies, ILSR’s research, advocacy, and community assistance continue to break new ground for advancing vibrant, sustainable, and just cities and ...

2024年5月1日 · Jessica Auer, Tribal Broadband Policy Analyst, Community Broadband Networks. Jordan Ashby, Advocacy & Communications Lead, Composting for Community. John Bailey, Development Director. Ingrid Behrsin, Senior Researcher, Energy Democracy Initiative. Linda Bilsens Brolis, Associate Director for Education & Advocacy, Composting for Community. Danny Caine, Multimedia Content Creator

We provide community members with the research and advocacy tools they need to reclaim power over local decision making and hold corporations and government accountable. We believe that democracy can only thrive when economic and political power is widely dispersed. ILSR works to achieve this vision ...

2024年8月12日 · States and the Future of Antitrust: How State Policymakers Can Take On Monopolies and Rebuild Local Economies in 2025 and Beyond. Wednesday, January 15 | 3 – 4:15 p.m. ET Join the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) and the State Innovation Exchange (SiX), along with leading policymakers, experts, and advocates for a virtual event on how states can strengthen enforcement of existing ...

2025年1月23日 · A Public Utility for New York’s Hudson Valley – Episode 227 of Local Energy Rules. Rep. Sarahana Shrestha has a bill, The Hudson Valley Power Authority Act, that would take the privately-owned Central Hudson Gas & Electric public in order...

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2024年8月5日 · Tens of millions of Americans are stuck on the wrong side of the digital divide, depriving them of the ability to fully participate in modern society.We believe community-led broadband is the best way to bridge the divide, promote economic prosperity, and improve quality of life – regardless of income or background.

Local self-reliance means that we, the people, are able to exercise power over our lives — how we provide for our families, how resources are shared and allocated in our communities, and how decisions are made by government, corporations, and businesses because it affects all of us.

In 1974, David Morris, Gil Friend, and Neil Seldman launched the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) in Washington, D.C. The organization’s motivation grew out of the social and economic unrest in D.C. and the country at large, stemming from racial injustice, the scarcity of quality jobs, and skyrocketing food and fuel prices.