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Tightshift member apprentices and supporters at Tightshift Laboring Cooperative’s launch in December 2016 at Impact Hub DC. Adriel Fogle, Delonte Wilkins, Noreil Gorham, Donnell Sims, Keith Gaffney, Nicholas Gorham (bottom row). Photo by Samira Rashid, <a href="http://www.srashid.com/" target="_blank">SR Photography</a>.

November 6, 2017

A Worker Co-op for Returning Citizens

J. Gabriel Ware

The Calafou hacklab (Source: <a href="http://calafou.org" target="_blank">calafou.org</a>)

October 30, 2017

The Catalan Integral Cooperative in the Age of Crisis

George Dafermos

October 23, 2017

Overcoming our Americanness

Colin Doyle

October 16, 2017

Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives

Nithin Coca

September 1, 2017

Cooperative Care: Empowered Caregiving

Direct Care Alliance

Photo from <a href="http://www.kathleenmcgwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/newsletter_possibilitiesofrelationships.pdf" target="_blank">Cooperative Notes</a>.

August 28, 2017

Cooperative Care and Waushara County

Kathleen McGwin

August 4, 2017

Countering the Confederate Assault and the Struggle for Economic Democracy

Brandon King

Rukia Lumumba

Photo via <a href="https://www.greenbeltonline.com/behind-the-scenes-at-the-new-deal-cafe/" target="_blank">Greenbelt Online</a>.

July 21, 2017

Everything Old is New Again

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

May 8, 2017

A Culture with Heart

Kara Huntermoon

May 5, 2017

Visiting Worker Cooperatives in Cuba: Muy Complicado

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

April 10, 2017

Will the Poor Always be With Us?

Jim Tull

April 7, 2017

SIN PATRÓN (Without a Boss)

Colectivo Documental Semillas

March 24, 2017

Communes, Cooperatives, and Radical Democracy

Enzan Munzur

February 24, 2017

Resist & Build

wcmctv

Image: Public doman via <a href="https://pixabay.com/en/road-sign-asphalt-road-sign-90390/" target="_blank">Pixabay</a>.

February 6, 2017

The Next System Project, Reconsidered

Len Krimerman

Image adapted from original art by Joshua Kahn Russell, via <a href="http://beautifultrouble.org/principle/praxis-makes-perfect/" target="_blank">Beautiful Trouble</a>

January 9, 2017

What We Need is Some Culture: Part 3

Michael Johnson

January 6, 2017

Principle 7 in Action

Emma Weinstein-Levey

January 2, 2017

What We Need is Some Culture: Part 2

Michael Johnson

December 5, 2016

Support Women's Worker Co-op Bakery in Rojava

Radical Routes

Image via <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/black-and-white-people-bar-men-4417/" target="_blank">Pexels</a>. Public Domain.

October 24, 2016

The Cooperative Movement vs. Global Capitalism

Margaret Rapp

Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnian/223547716/in/photostream/" target="_blank">Brian</a>. CC BY-SA 2.0

October 7, 2016

Creating A New Democratic & Collaborative Anthropological Type

Yavor Tarinski

September 2, 2016

The Cooperative Movement in Latin America

Silvia Leindecker

Michael Fox

August 5, 2016

An Economy of Empowerment

The Extraenvironmentalists

Hudson Valley Current Board of Directors

July 18, 2016

Keep it Local!

David McCarthy

Maria Reidelbach