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place-based (local) economics

November 15, 2021

How Sister Midnight Aims to Create a Music Venue Powered by its Community

Sister Midnight is an independent label that recently became a Community Benefit Society and has begun to raise funds to buy The Ravensbourne Arms, which they plan to convert into a community-owned music venue and pub.

November 11, 2021

Mapping the US Solidarity City

Professor Maliha Safri discusser her research into post-capitalist economic organizing in NYC, and how people of color are forming and participating in a majority of the postcapitalist practices we studied in NYC.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

December 9, 2019

Solidarity Economy Roads

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

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.