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Campaigning candidates often think and talk big in order to win votes, and Pennsylvania State Senator Anthony H. Williams, who’s seeking the Democratic nod in the Philadelphia mayoral race, has proposed a municipal bank as part of his economic platform.
A vacant building tucked away on Palmyra Street in Mid-City is being developed in what housing advocates say could be an answer to the rising cost of renting in New Orleans for generations to come.
The member-owned co-op that’s trying to build a $4.2 million biodiesel factory in the Greenfield [MA] Industrial Park is racing toward a June 1 deadline on construction bids to raise what it says is the final $850,000 for the project that has been in the works for more than 10 years.
Inside a small, unassuming warehouse in a quiet neighborhood nestled near the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland, a small group of activists are busy cooking, shuffling about and giving marching orders as veggies simmer on a stove and potatoes bake in an oven. Though they're used to the hustle and bustle of cooking massive amounts of food, the past two weeks have taken a more urgent tone.
Over the next twenty years retiring baby boomers will be exiting the workforce in droves, a phenomenon often described as the “silver tsunami.” Baby-boomers own 66% of all businesses with employees in the U.S., and their retirement will cause the transfer of trillions of dollars in business assets.
A few weeks ago, Worcester-based video production and photography business Future Focus Media Cooperative incorporated in the state as an employee-owned cooperative, which means its four partners – and all future employees – will be equal owners.
More than a dozen people packed inside a 700-square-foot corner store in central Brooklyn early on a recent afternoon. Some arrived with babies in strollers, others just with carts.
At the 2015 Austin Co-op Summit, Jon Lebkowsky of Polycot Associates spoke about the process of converting from a sole proprietorship business structure to a worker-owned cooperative.
[Editor's note: for more information on recovered factories/businesses, see the short documentary Occupy, Resist, Produce - RiMaflow about a recovered factory in Italy, the recent GRITtv profile of the New Era Windows Co-op in Chicago, and download our recent ebook translation of the Report of the
According to Cultivating the Commons, a 2009 analysis by UC Berkeley Geography Department students Nathan McClintock and Jenny Cooper, the City of Oakland has more than 800 acres of unused, arable public land — much of it consisting of vacant lots in East and West Oakland — that, if cultivated, could easily supply as much as 5 percent of city residents’ total fruit and vegetable needs.
The grounds of St.
A ground-breaking housing scheme – partially financed by UK co-operatives – is providing a beacon of hope for the people of Haiti.
Five years on from the catastrophic magnitude seven earthquake, which hit in January 2010, the Caribbean nation remains in turmoil. Around three million people were affected by the quake, while death toll estimates ranged from 100,000 to more than 300,000...
At a Civics Day hosted by the non-profit organization Generation Citizen high school students from John O’Connell High School argued that David Campos’ push for a housing moratorium in the Mission was all wrong. And it won them an award.
