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Cinar, Larry, and Kevin talk with Hazel Corcoran and Jared Blustein from the Canadian Worker Cooperative Federation.

In recent weeks, we commoners have lost three great visionaries. Each spawned robust institutions and movements to carry their visions forward.

Mumbet’s Freedom Farm is a Black and Brown-led cooperative farm located at the base of a mountain in Sheffield, Massachusetts. In this episode I speak with worker-owner DeeArah Wright about their journey from the city towards collective rural land stewardship.

Learn the origin story of privatization and explore the true meaning of commons and how to manage them for sustainability and equity.

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Ph.D., Professor at John Jay College, and economic social justice advocate discusses her research on Black women in the U.S. co-op movement, and the Cooperative Development Fund's "Unsung Heroes Project."

Employee ownership, particularly in the form of worker cooperatives, offers a solution for business transitions.

Joining Rebecca Kemble to explain worker co-ops is MadWorC Coordinator Rek Kwawer and The Real News Network reporter Jaisal Noor. In the hour they explore how cooperatives work across the country and dive deep into worker exploitation.

This interview digs into the oligopoly control of academic publishing, the high prices of academic journals and books, the lack of choices among many scientists and scholars, the limited leadership of university administrations, and some open-access innovations now being developed.

Gilda is a co-founder and Senior Advisor to the L.A. Co-op Lab which works to build L.A.’s capacity for creating and sustaining worker-owned cooperatives as one way to push back against gentrification, the gig economy, and economic exclusion. Gilda also represents L.A. Co-op Lab on the loan committee and board of the national Seed Commons financial cooperative.

Degrowth, as a form of resource reloca(aliza)tion through social action, should also be considered as not only an answer to climate change but a form of intrinsic social practice that is present in humankind.