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MS: Tell us a little about the history of World Localization Day. How did it start, and what was its mission?

ICA & CICOPA JOINT STATEMENT ON INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO ADDRESSING INFORMALITY AND PROMOTING THE TRANSITION TO FORMALITY FOR DECENT WORK

Many people work in informal, unstable jobs or without proper rights and protections. As the International Labour Organization (ILO) holds its 113th International Labour Conference, there is a strong call to find new and practical ways to help these workers move into safe, secure, and fair jobs.

The media industry has never been the most stable place to work; its history has been characterized by booms and busts, and the current landscape is no different. But there are signs that we need a structural reset, as we experience mass layoffs; corporate consolidation; and hedge funds, private equity, and billionaires coming in and cutting newsroom budgets of our longstanding media institutions.

The goal of Cutting the Cord is to provide an initial road map for reducing our movement’s dependence on Google in particular and Big Tech in general. It provides a political overview of the reasons for moving away from large corporate technology services and a deeper understanding of the obstacles facing activists and organizers motivated to make the move, while providing information to help autonomous technology providers better meet their needs.

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What might sociocracy look like on the small scale, less formally, enacted by college students who have just begun to feel it out? How might sociocracy’s resonance pervade an organization, even without the opportunity for thoroughly elaborated structure? 

The struggle of Argentina’s recuperated workplaces forms part of a wide range of capillary attempts to overcome the democratic deicits of capitalist production and hierarchical intra-company governance, and it simultaneously provides “a possible answer to marginalization, structural unemployment and unequal in

In December 2023, the organization where I work, the Post Growth Institute (PGI), lost half of its funding for 2024. Our major funder was withdrawing support for three-quarters of their grantees, and we were one of them.

Our cash-flow projections showed a four-month runway until we wouldn’t be able to make payroll. At the time, 10 out of our 23 paid staff relied fully—or almost fully—on income from our organization to sustain themselves and their families. This was the gravest threat we’d faced in our 14-year history.

Jim Kucher has been preaching the need for non-profits to realize they are a uniquely American failed experiment in many respects. For all the good work they do, most nonprofits remain in a precarious financial condition because they do not choose to offer paid services, whether through misplaced fears of the IRS or a lack of familiarity with basic business practices.

Focus on how caregiving in all of its forms serves to create the economic — derived from the Greek oikos for home — points to how the economic should be conceptualized, not as something outside of the interactions between people that make lives livable and sustain them, but as produced through those activities.

Earthaven Ecovillage is a community of around 100 full-time residents tucked away in  the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. In late September, this idyllic place with its modest homes, babbling creeks and bumpy country roads was rocked as Hurricane Helene swept into the Carolinas, dropping torrential rainfall and bringing high winds. Across the state, more than 100 people died, and billions of dollars in property was damaged.