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Bernard Marszalek joins us to discuss the history of the Hawthorn Works and his new book: Jobs, Jive, and Joy: An Argument for the Utopian Spirit.

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

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

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Chris interviews worker-owners at the 2024 Worker Co-op Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

Josh talks with Kate "Sassy" Sassoon about her long history in co-ops of all different varieties and her current work as a co-op facilitator.

The Commons are a set of resources and places that are accessible to all members of society (parks, libraries, air). When we say 'the commons' we are referring to things and places that are held collectively, not owned privately.