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Ever dreamed about starting your own business with like-minded creators? A worker cooperative is a business that is owned and controlled by its workers. It is an underused model in the cultural industry that channels the creative power and freedom of the workers to build a world grounded in solidarity. Join us in this discussion on how Creative Workers Cooperatives function and how you can make one too! 

We interviewed two members of the Hammond Community Garden about the benefits of creating community space.

Josh talks to Cristobal, Wren, and Dayle, three of the people behind People's Plumbing, a worker cooperative operating on the Gift Economy model in Cleveland, OH.

How a group of food writers is reviving a legendary magazine as a worker-owned cooperative.

Come join Baltimore Roundtable for economic Democracy for a fun filled hour full of conversations about legal structures and capital! We will be discussing the pro's and con's, the differences between these flexible forms of doing business, and how you can put what you learn to work.

A panel discussion by the Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development, with presentations from two worker cooperatives assisting the reintegration of previously incarcerated people. 

The 2025 Union Co-op Symposium took place from October 17-18, offering workshops, panels and conversations on how the cooperative and labor movements can work together to build a democratic economy. This year’s theme was From Breakdown to Breakthrough, focusing on how we can meet this moment of system breakdown with cooperative solutions. 

The Puerto Rico Social Solidarity Network is a platform that connects people and organizations to promote and foster the social solidarity economy. The network emerged after a series of economical disasters and from the coop and community development movements to influence economic transformation for a sustainable, integral, human development for the common good.

This webinar, moderated by Shelterforce's Miriam Axel-Lute, caps off our most recent Under the Lens series “Innovations in Community Ownership.” Learn about the power of Los Angeles’s Measure ULA, New York City’s take on a shared services model, cooperation between conservationists and affordable housing development in New York’s Hudson Valley, and more. Speakers: —Deyanira Del Rio, executive director of the New Economic Project and convener of NYC Community Land Initiative. —Roberto Garcia Ceballos, co-director of Fideicomiso Comuniatario Tierra Libre, and director of the LA Housing Training Hub. —Chris Brown, board vice president of Trillium Community Land Trust, and a member of Hudson Valley Alliance for Housing and Conservation.

I reached out to David to talk about homes, ownership, and why rebuilding communities might be the last honest form of democracy left.