Charles (Chuck) Turner has been a community organizer and civil rights activist in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1966.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1963 with a B.A. in government. After a year spent in Washington, D.C. reporting for The Washington Afro-American Newspaper, he moved to Hartford where he joined the influential civil rights group, the Northern Student Movement.

Turner has championed and been actively involved with cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises. In the 1980s he was a leader with the Industrial Cooperative Association (now the ICA Group), for which he provided training on worker-ownership issues.

He delivered this speech at the 27th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures in October 2007.

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