Nada Khader

Nada Khader (Nirainjana) has served as the Director of WESPAC Foundation since 2001. WESPAC was recently recognized by the City of White Plains as a leading force in Westchester County, New York, for peace and justice work for the past five decades. Nada has been a student of Prout, the Progressive Utilization Theory, for more than thirty years and serves as the chair of the steering committee of Prout Alliance, a network of activists and thinkers in North America who are working to implement Prout. Prout is a vision of a just and peaceful world with an economy that works for all people and is based on local self-reliance, cooperation, guaranteeing all people and living beings the minimum necessities of life and ending poverty.

Cooperatives Promote Local Economic Diversity and Economic Decentralization

By Nada Khader A major tier of a Proutistic economic system is worker-owned and operated businesses. This model is in contrast to the current “chain store” phenomenon that we see in much of the world today, where capital has been concentrated privately and allowed to accumulate in the hands of fewer people, and where business …

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Sarkar on Afghanistan and the Status of Women

It has been heartbreaking to watch over the past few weeks scenes of desperation amongst ordinary Afghan civilians who are horrified to see the Taliban back in power in their beloved country. The younger generation in the capital city Kabul had grown up with freedom of movement, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of dress …

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