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  <title>Episode 178: How can values strengthen your organization?</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Farra Trompeter, co-director, talks with Esteban Kelly, executive director at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, to discuss how cooperatives work and aspects of worker democracy. </itunes:subtitle>
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