Articles | Grassroots Economic Organizing

Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

March 14, 2024

An Interview with Ukraine's ReSew Coop

Patrick Le Tréhondat

Doctor performs blood pressure check on a patient.

August 19, 2020

Organizational Evolution at the Washington Free Health Clinic

George Cheney

Worker-owners with Wisconsin Natural Heritage Cooperative

July 2, 2020

How to Turn Your Non-Profit into a Worker Co-op

GEO Collective

January 6, 2020

What Happened at Who Owns the World?

Social.coop

August 15, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

Luis Razeto Migliaro

March 18, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

Luis Razeto Migliaro

June 25, 2018

How to Start and Maintain a Micro-Revolutionary Project

Katarzyna Gajewska, PhD

Photo via The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity

September 5, 2017

Stop the Economic War Against Cuba!

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

June 2, 2017

Finally Cuba!

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Graphic by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Social_Network_Analysis_Visualization.png" target="_blank">Martin Grandjean</a>. CC BY SA 3.0

May 22, 2017

The Future is a "Pluriverse"

February 13, 2017

Sociocracy: Connecting Humans for a Shared Purpose

Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_gas#/media/File:Light_my_fire_(2152952690).jpg" target="_blank">Michal Osmenda</a>. CC BY-SA 2.0

August 1, 2016

"Pilot Lights" Need Fuel

Pamela Boyce Simms

Groundwork Anacostia River Young Adult Green Team

June 8, 2016

At the Nexus of Gentrification and Environmentalism

Pamela Boyce Simms

April 20, 2016

The Kallari Cooperative of Ecuador

Luci Latina Fernandes

February 29, 2016

An Alliance in the Spirit of Egalitarian Practice

Pamela Boyce Simms

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

August 26, 2015

Detouring Clicktivists from Slacktivism to Activism

Frank Cetera

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

July 7, 2015

Cross-Sector Cooperation in Philadelphia

Caitlin Quigley

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

Adrionna Fike and James Bell, two of the worker-owners at Mandela Foods, in front of their revamped produce cooler.

May 25, 2015

The Expanders: Groceries and Greywater

Zoe Oja Tucker

At Sarana, community acupuncture is about financial accessibility and healing in groups.

May 11, 2015

The Converters: Massage Chairs and Recliners

Zoe Oja Tucker