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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

At home in her kitchen, Elideth prepares tamales. She wraps both the masa paste and the chicken and mole sauce in a corn husk and then steams it. Photo by Martin Do Nascimento

June 6, 2016

Immigrant Moms Start a Tamale Co-op

Travis Putnam Hill

May 11, 2016

Black Farmers Are Back And On the Rise

Leah Penniman

May 6, 2016

At the Intersection of Race and Gender

April 25, 2016

The Commons Collaborative Economy Explodes in Barcelona

Ann Marie Utratel

Stacco Troncoso

March 23, 2016

Movements at the Crossroads

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Michael Johnson

Abby Scher

March 11, 2016

The Art of Working Together

Photo by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/savethe12stparcelforthepeople" target="_blank">Save the E12th Parcel for the People</a>

March 2, 2016

Community Development and the Commons

Chris Tittle

February 29, 2016

An Alliance in the Spirit of Egalitarian Practice

Pamela Boyce Simms

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

February 3, 2016

Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons: Executive Summary

David Bollier

Pat Conaty

January 27, 2016

We Can Have the Economy We Want

Fund for Democratic Communities

January 22, 2016

Helping Each Other

The Laura Flanders Show

January 20, 2016

The Commons is the Future

Yavor Tarinski

January 13, 2016

Creating a Commons in the Capital

Amanda Huron

January 6, 2016

Filipina Trafficking Survivors Launch a Co-op

Abigail Savitch-Lew

Grace Lee Boggs. Photo by Kyle McDonald. CC BY 2.0

November 17, 2015

Farewell Grace

Gloria Lowe

October 26, 2015

The 10 Commandments of Peer Production and Commons Economics

Michel Bauwens

September 29, 2015

2 New Ebooks from Las Indias

Las Indias

September 28, 2015

Three Pioneering Faces of Public Hope

Len Krimerman

September 3, 2015

The Book of Abundance

las Indias

September 2, 2015

Notes on Advancing the Development of Worker Cooperatives 3

July 27, 2015

How To Save Higher Education with Cooperation

Joss Winn

Paul Fitzpatrick of the Data Commons Cooperative working with Ben Blackshear of SolidarityNYC on making the back-end of their map easier to maintain. Allowing users to assign tags to listings creates a grassroots sense of connection. <em><strong>Nerdy but necessary!</em></strong>

June 29, 2015

What's Data Got to Do With It?

Noémi Giszpenc

June 15, 2015

NoBAWC and Bay Area Regional Cooperative/Solidarity Economics Organizing

John Curl