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Tightshift member apprentices and supporters at Tightshift Laboring Cooperative’s launch in December 2016 at Impact Hub DC. Adriel Fogle, Delonte Wilkins, Noreil Gorham, Donnell Sims, Keith Gaffney, Nicholas Gorham (bottom row). Photo by Samira Rashid, <a href="http://www.srashid.com/" target="_blank">SR Photography</a>.

November 6, 2017

A Worker Co-op for Returning Citizens

J. Gabriel Ware

The Calafou hacklab (Source: <a href="http://calafou.org" target="_blank">calafou.org</a>)

October 30, 2017

The Catalan Integral Cooperative in the Age of Crisis

George Dafermos

October 16, 2017

Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives

Nithin Coca

October 6, 2017

Taking Power vs Making Power

The Laura Flanders Show

September 1, 2017

Cooperative Care: Empowered Caregiving

Direct Care Alliance

Photo from <a href="http://www.kathleenmcgwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/newsletter_possibilitiesofrelationships.pdf" target="_blank">Cooperative Notes</a>.

August 28, 2017

Cooperative Care and Waushara County

Kathleen McGwin

August 7, 2017

The Strength of Cooperation

Maro

May 17, 2017

Advancing the Development of Worker Co-ops 4

May 12, 2017

Solidarity Economics as Transformative Politics

Michelle Williams

Vishwas Satgar

April 10, 2017

Will the Poor Always be With Us?

Jim Tull

February 17, 2017

Earthaven Ecovillage

Frequency555

January 27, 2017

From Degeneration to Regeneration

Michael Lewis

Institute for Solidarity Economics

December 16, 2016

Change from the Bottom Up

The Laura Flanders Show

Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnian/223547716/in/photostream/" target="_blank">Brian</a>. CC BY-SA 2.0

October 7, 2016

Creating A New Democratic & Collaborative Anthropological Type

Yavor Tarinski

Still image from <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4IIQZie7M" target="_blank">The Concept of Timebanking</a></em> by Edgar Cahn

July 27, 2016

DIY System Change

Stephanie Rearick

Hudson Valley Current Board of Directors

July 18, 2016

Keep it Local!

David McCarthy

Maria Reidelbach

Mousai’s weekly gatherings started as weekly impromptu jam sessions, but transformed into the basis for a thriving creative economy.

July 6, 2016

Music, Solidarity and Community

Jennifer Bryant

June 27, 2016

Putting the Soul Back in the Motor City

Grassroots Economic Organizing

At home in her kitchen, Elideth prepares tamales. She wraps both the masa paste and the chicken and mole sauce in a corn husk and then steams it. Photo by Martin Do Nascimento

June 6, 2016

Immigrant Moms Start a Tamale Co-op

Travis Putnam Hill

May 20, 2016

Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard Inducted into Cooperative Hall of Fame

April 15, 2016

A Cooperative of Collectors

SUSY

April 8, 2016

Fueling the Transition to Sustainability and Democracy

Transition Bus

March 25, 2016

BIOME: Operationalizing the Cooperative and Solidarity Economy

Fair Trade Hellas TV

March 21, 2016

Happiness is Political

John Lawrence