Articles | Grassroots Economic Organizing

Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

Flat Iron Coffeehouse co-op

April 24, 2023

Worker Co-ops Fund Themselves, Solve Equipment Crisis

Dylan Hatch

Adam Trott

March 24, 2022

Cooperative Finance in Haiti and Grenada

GEO Collective

Caroline Shenaz Hossein

March 8, 2021

The Rest of Our Working Lives

Michael Johnson

Doctor performs blood pressure check on a patient.

August 19, 2020

Organizational Evolution at the Washington Free Health Clinic

George Cheney

January 6, 2020

What Happened at Who Owns the World?

Social.coop

March 18, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

Luis Razeto Migliaro

March 11, 2019

"We’re our own bosses here."

Aaron Wagener

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

January 6, 2017

Principle 7 in Action

Emma Weinstein-Levey

December 19, 2016

Solidarity with Standing Rock

Frank Cetera

August 12, 2016

Come for the Beer, Stay for the Revolution!

Grassroots Economic Organizing

November 22, 2015

#SolidarityCities: Philadelphia

SolidarityNYC

September 21, 2015

Advocacy Support for Worker Cooperatives

David Morgan

August 26, 2015

Detouring Clicktivists from Slacktivism to Activism

Frank Cetera

Detroit Industry Mural by Deigo Rivera. Photo by flickr user ashleystreet. CC BY 2.0

July 8, 2015

Building the New Detroit

Gloria Lowe

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

June 24, 2015

Vendor Solidarity at Seattle-Area Farmers' Markets

Devra Gartenstein

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

May 11, 2015

The Converters: Massage Chairs and Recliners

Zoe Oja Tucker

April 3, 2015

Cooperative Education and Cooperative/Solidarity Economics

Michael Johnson

Ricardo Nuñez

January 26, 2015

$5 Million for Co-op Development in Madison

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Chalkboard with P6 criteria at Seward Community Co-op in Minneapolis, MN

January 14, 2015

P6: Enacting Cooperative Values

Ruby Levine

December 30, 2014

Kwanzaa’s Ujamaa and Ujima

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo