Grassroots Economic Organizing

Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

place-based (local) economics

July 1, 2021

Rethinking the Farming Economy

A Vermont nonprofit is connecting independent farms with buyers and distributors, reducing food surplus and working to eliminate food insecurity.

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February 11, 2021

Disaster Relief, Mutual Aid, and Revolt

How Puerto Ricans are using their long experience of mutual aid to counter government austerity.

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Citations

GEO Collective (2021).  Investing in Real Cooperation:  An Interview with Matt Cropp.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/investing-real-cooperation

January 11, 2021

Investing in Real Cooperation

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

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Citations

Matt Noyes (2020).  Learning from the Earth:  Permaculture Meets Cooperation at OrganaGardens.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/learning-earth

August 13, 2020

Learning from the Earth

OrganaGardens is a landscaping cooperative that uses a unique structure to account for collective ownership as well as mutual care and transformation.

Land Tenure & Stewardship place-based (local) economics Environmental Justice Producer Cooperatives
Citations

Josh Davis (2020).  The Ideas That Are Lying Around.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/ideas-are-lying-around

April 16, 2020

The Ideas That Are Lying Around

We need to make some big changes to the way we think and act after covid-19.

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Citations

Malikia Johnson (2020).  Seneca Price Kern:  An Interview from the Take Care of Each Other World Tour.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/seneca-price-kern

February 17, 2020

Seneca Price Kern

Malikia Johnson interviews Seneca Price Kern about his work in urban agriculture in the Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, his inspirations, and dreams for the future.

 

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Citations

Luis Razeto Migliaro (2019).  Solidarity Economy Roads:  Chapter 12 - Toward a Civilization of Labor and Solidarity.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/solidarity-economy-roads-chapter-12

December 9, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

The concluding chapter of Solidarity Economy Roads which brings together observations from the previous 10 chapters.

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Citations

John Restakis (2019).  The Kurdish Betrayal:  A Democracy Imperilled.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/kurdish-betrayal

October 10, 2019

The Kurdish Betrayal

The Democratic Federation of Norther Syria deserves to be protected by the US, not abandoned to the Turkish army.

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September 16, 2019

How the Women of Standing Rock Are Building Sovereign Economies

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August 29, 2019

Co-op Education in Madison

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