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March 29, 2024

Reflecting on the Movement: A Survey for Worker Cooperators

A survey for cooperators, reflecting on the worker cooperative movement on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the founding of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives.

October 3, 2016

A Cooperative Manifesto

Cooperative development is the most important social change work that a person can do.

March 17, 2025

We Who Believe in Freedom Must Rest

The following is a verbal report presented to the members of the Ella Jo Baker Intentional Community Cooperative (EJBICC), during their 2025 Annual Meeting.

March 11, 2025

DC Tenants Need $11,000 to Convert their Apartment to a Housing Co-op

Residents organized a fundraiser on Feb. 22 to buy the building themselves under DC’s Tenants Opportunity to Purchase Act.

January 27, 2025

Celebrating Collective Courage

In 2014, the seminal book, Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice debuted, and with it a flame sparked in the cooperative movement. 

January 23, 2025

Elements For Regional Solidarity Economies

We're joined by Lauren Hudson and Evan Casper-Futterman for a discussion of the upcoming Peoples Hub training the pair will be leading this year, focused on providing the skills and knowledge necessary for organizers to create regional solidarity economies.

January 9, 2025

Arab Street Corner Bakery Challenges Inequality with Cooperation

Reem’s California is a worker-owned restaurant. It is democratically run by local workers. Using worker-ownership, the restaurant challenges the long-standing inequality and violence prevalent in the restaurant industry, and provides an empowering and transforming workplace for those who have faced the most barriers–people of color, queer, formerly incarcerated folks, and undocumented individuals.

January 2, 2025

Grassroots Disaster Relief in Asheville

On Saturday Sept. 28, the day after the storm, about 40 people gathered outside the store for the first community meeting, where they set up tables to distribute food and supplies. Everyone agreed they would keep doing this every day, and Sunday’s meeting drew at least 100 people.