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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

November 3, 2017

16 Lessons for Community Longevity

Graham Ellis

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 27, 2017

Paths to Just Recovery

The Laura Flanders Show

October 23, 2017

Overcoming our Americanness

Colin Doyle

October 20, 2017

Tips for More Effective Meetings

Grassroots Economic Organizing

October 16, 2017

Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives

Nithin Coca

October 13, 2017

Platform Co-ops and the Digital Commons

Institute of Network Cultures

Inaugaral celebration of cooperative generator project in Manbij. Image via <a href="https://cooperativeeconomy.info/mualda-cooperative-to-provide-electricity-to-200-houses-in-village-of-manbij/" target="_blank">Co-operative Economy in Rojava & Bajkur</a>.

October 9, 2017

Three New Cooperatives Aim to Develop the Economy in Manbij

Kameran Khojah

Cîwan Ahmed

October 6, 2017

Taking Power vs Making Power

The Laura Flanders Show

Image by <a href="http://nyphotographic.com/" target="_blank">Nick Youngson</a>. CC BY-SA 3.0

October 2, 2017

Is Entrepreneurship Intrinsically Capitalist?

Ajamu Nangwaya

September 29, 2017

Mandela MarketPlace

Mandela MarketPlace

Kontent Films

September 25, 2017

Cast Down Cancel Culture

Malikia Johnson

September 22, 2017

We'll See It When We Know It

Matt Noyes

September 18, 2017

Community Is the Best Medicine

Lily Silver

September 15, 2017

How Young Farmers Are Using Cooperatives to Build Successful Farms

Democracy at Work Institute

National Young Farmers Coalition

September 11, 2017

Barcelona's Open-Source Platform for Participatory Democracy

Kevin Stark

September 8, 2017

Resident-Owned Communities

Pat Streeter

Mary Lou Affleck

Photo via The International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity

September 5, 2017

Stop the Economic War Against Cuba!

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

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 25, 2017

Ecovillage at Ithaca

Zaccharie Charvolin

August 21, 2017

CooperationWorks! Statement on Charlottesville

CooperationWorks!

August 18, 2017

Let's Get a Drink

GEO Collective