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In this memoir, Elayne Archer describes daily life in the commune, its challenges, and its rewards. The memories of several commune participants, including three of the children, enrich the memoir and make it a vivid description of the time and of an alternative approach to living and raising children.

Mumbet’s Freedom Farm is a Black and Brown-led cooperative farm located at the base of a mountain in Sheffield, Massachusetts. In this episode I speak with worker-owner DeeArah Wright about their journey from the city towards collective rural land stewardship.

Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Ph.D., Professor at John Jay College, and economic social justice advocate discusses her research on Black women in the U.S. co-op movement, and the Cooperative Development Fund's "Unsung Heroes Project."

Employee ownership, particularly in the form of worker cooperatives, offers a solution for business transitions.

Joining Rebecca Kemble to explain worker co-ops is MadWorC Coordinator Rek Kwawer and The Real News Network reporter Jaisal Noor. In the hour they explore how cooperatives work across the country and dive deep into worker exploitation.

Gilda is a co-founder and Senior Advisor to the L.A. Co-op Lab which works to build L.A.’s capacity for creating and sustaining worker-owned cooperatives as one way to push back against gentrification, the gig economy, and economic exclusion. Gilda also represents L.A. Co-op Lab on the loan committee and board of the national Seed Commons financial cooperative.

Rebecca Lurie, co-author of the Union Co-ops Toolkit presents the ways in which Unions and Cooperatives can support each other to build worker power and strengthen each other's movements.

Grocery co-ops have grown during the pandemic, with overall sales increasing 10% during 2020, a year full of supply and social disruptions.

In this video, Bruce Mayer of Wegner CPAs reviews key tips to filing your taxes as a worker cooperative, how to avoid problems with the IRS, a new tax law that could change how you do business and answers questions from cooperators doing their taxes.

An interview with Gopal Dayaneni on the Seed Commons and building community power for a just transition.