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David Graeber published a plea for attention to the Revolutionary Kurds in the autonomous region of Rojava of Syria.

Changing systems isn’t easy but it starts with small steps. Here’s ten ways in which you can help create change in a community near you now:

1. Develop person-centred integrated approaches

Alright! We're on! It's time for a HUGE TURNOUT at City Hall on Wednesday, February 25 at 9:30 AM. 

Just before his State of the Union address last month, President Obama showed up in the small city of Cedar Falls, Iowa, to highlight the work of Cedar Falls Utilities, a publicly owne

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There’s been a lot of noise lately in the debate in Vancouver over whether the city’s licensing board should allow the crowd-based ridesharing service Uber into its passenger transportation landscape. This battle is one that is high-stakes: loaded terms like “cartel” and horror stories of sexual assault by unlicensed drivers have been tossed by the two sides.

Imagine an online marketplace, similar to Amazon or eBay, that only sold ethical goods. Now make that marketplace a multi-stakeholder cooperative that involves sellers, consumers and the team building and running the platform along with other stakeholders. That's the vision for ethicalBay.

Shame to see plans for SeaFrance to become a worker co-op have run aground.  This is despite having political, legislative and support structures that promote worker co-operative buy-outs.

“The cooperative, was to be financed by workers’ standard lay-off  payments as well as “exceptional” cash of 60,000 euros per worker, paid by SeaFrance’s parent company, state-owned rail form SNCF.”

The co-op is named after Vancouver's four official "sister cities" of Edinburgh, Guangzhou, Odessa and Yokohama.

This short film reveals who Arizmendi was, how he became the spiritual father of a multi-billion-dollar network of businesses, and how “Arizmendi’s Secret” is quietly offering a practical solution to the crippling problem of income inequality in the US and elsewhere.

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The intersection of Central and Lowry Avenues in northeast Minneapolis is bustling. On the northwest corner is a trifecta of local businesses: A bike shop, a cooperative brewery, and a bakery, in buildings with eye-catching exteriors of rough-hewn wood and silvery porcelain bricks. The neighborhood grocery co-op is one block up the street.

Akinyele Umoja first met Chokwe Lumumba in 1978. As founding members of the New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Umoja and Lumumba naturally shared a passion for the politics of the black-power movement. Their ideologies diverged on one big issue, however: basketball.

Make the Road is in the planning stages of creating a workers’ cooperative that will focus on providing jobs, career support and training for transgender immigrant Latinas in Western Queens, many of which face a language barrier and discrimination in the job market.

On Saturday, March 7, from 3:30 to 6 pm, the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture and the BLK ProjeK are co-sponsoring an event with the Cooperative Development Institute, “Celebrating Collective Courage.”