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The Oak Tree, a faith movement working toward justice in Spokane, is focusing on building and enacting a sustainable economic development strategy for the city.

Through its Worker Owned Cooperatives Team, which meets the second and fourth Friday of the month, the group will conducting feasibility studies in various industry areas for first worker owned cooperative startups, draft a charter for the Spokane Cooperative Network and organize money to create a shared-secure lending pool for startup capital. The meetings are at 5:30 p.m. at Indaba Coffee.

The Oak Tree also has a leadership team, which is working to create the organizational infrastructure to build power through relationships for justice. That team meets the first and third Tuesday of the month at 4 p.m. at Indaba.

Guests are welcome. For information visit the groups Facebook page.

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Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
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