Strategies for Change

Urban researcher Nikos Vrantsis interviews Yavor Tarinski, author of Common Futures: Social Transformation and Political Ecology, on the current bureaucratic state of cities and the democratic perspectives offered by autonomous urban movements. 

This report presents the results of a collaborative research project on the theme of cooperatives and youth, developed by the ICA and its four regional offices under the ICA-EU Partnership for international cooperative development (#coops4dev).

Matt Cropp talks about what the Oak Street Cooperative and Vermont Real Estate Co-op have been up to.

New Yorkers discuss the importance of economic democracy.

European communities are adapting the U.S. model of the community land trust to mitigate the housing affordability crisis.

The principle of spreading losses is important to expand upon to make the worker co-operative movement resistant to, and even benefited by, economic disruptions.

We don't need to be perfect to have solidarity.

Joseph Cureton discusses the holding company model being used by the Staffing Cooperative (now the Orban Cooperative).

Mutual aid mobile apothecaries are taking off as a model for providing health services to people who may not have access otherwise.