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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

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

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

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

March 24, 2017

Communes, Cooperatives, and Radical Democracy

Enzan Munzur

January 6, 2017

Principle 7 in Action

Emma Weinstein-Levey

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

September 16, 2016

Democracy on Every Corner

TEDx Talks

July 11, 2016

The Great Transition Experiment

Pamela Boyce Simms

Brett Barndt

March 25, 2016

BIOME: Operationalizing the Cooperative and Solidarity Economy

Fair Trade Hellas TV

In addition to conducting independent research, The Rules provides assistance to anti-inequality campaigns including Ekta Parishad. Photo via <a href="http://www.ektaparishad.com/en-us/resources/photos.aspx" target="_blank">Ekta Parishad</a>.

February 22, 2016

The Promises and Perils of Global Economic Activism

Anna Bergren Miller

January 22, 2016

Helping Each Other

The Laura Flanders Show

January 11, 2016

Materialized Empathy

Ma'ikwe Ludwig

January 6, 2016

Filipina Trafficking Survivors Launch a Co-op

Abigail Savitch-Lew

October 12, 2015

NYC’s Credit Unions Give Mom-and-Pop Stores a Chance, Despite Gentrification

Abigail Savitch-Lew

Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/davedehetre/5062505247/" target="_blank">David DeHetre</a>. CC BY 2.0

August 31, 2015

A New Journey with New Allies

Len Krimerman

Photo by Mercurywoodrose. CC BY SA 3.0

August 24, 2015

Anarchist Experiments in Northeast Connecticut

Len Krimerman

Members of the “Washington Freedom Riders Committee,” en route to Washington, D.C. Photo via <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/exhibit.html" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a>. Public Domain

August 17, 2015

A New York Yankee in Louisiana

Len Krimerman

March 4, 2015

An Ethical Bank for Croatia

December 30, 2014

Kwanzaa’s Ujamaa and Ujima

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

December 1, 2014

DC Solidarity Economy Summit

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

October 29, 2014

Ways to Create a Democratized Economy

Gar Alperovitz

October 10, 2014

Faircoin as the First Global Commons Currency?

David Bollier