Moving a city, moving an economy w/ Cheyenna Weber
Moving a city, moving an economy w/ Cheyenna Weber A bit over a decade ago, it was just a handful of people speaking the phrase "solidarity economy" in New York City in an intentional way. Today, the...
30 Juli 20231h 3min
The cooperative food system we need w/ Shylah Wolfe
The global food crisis is—according to most available indicators—just getting warmed up. Shylah Wolfe has participated in many cooperatives in the food sector, and with the Concordia Food Coalition,...
1 Juli 202357min
Communal socialism in Venezuela w/ Chris Gilbert
Venezuelan communes—where productive activities are controlled by a range of community assemblies—are fascinating examples of socialist forces experimenting with the creation of new social forms.Venez...
14 Maj 20231h 14min
Cuba's farming cooperatives and types of solidarity w/ Federica Bono
Cuba’s thousands of agricultural cooperatives are responsible for about 56% of Cuba’s growing land, and employ an estimated 300,000 cooperative worker members. Some observers say the cooperatives more...
19 Mars 202357min
Mountain Equipment Catastrophe w/ Kevin Harding
Dru Oja Jay is joined by Kevin Harding, one of the organizers of a spirited, hail-mary attempt to save Mountain Equipment Co-op from being sold off to a US private equity firm. Before its assets were...
14 Jan 20231h 5min
We sought the law (and the law won): Policy advocacy and cooperatives w/ Mo Manklang
Dru Oja Jay is joined by Mo Manklang of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives to discuss recent changes to federal legislation championed by various cooperative organizations, and how laws can be c...
11 Dec 202232min
House of the Mondragon: What happens when the world's biggest worker co-op expands abroad?
Dru is joined by Carmen Marcuello and Anjel Errasti, authors of some interesting publications about Mondragon's expansion abroad. We talk about why the cooperative model hasn't taken root in Mondragon...
14 Sep 20221h 1min
Ukraine's foreign debt and why we should cancel it w/ Elliot Dolan-Evans
I've been working on a Ukraine episode for a while. After an interview with Yulia Yurchenko (whose book Elliot recommends at the end) was unusable due to wartime internet, I turned to Elliot Dolan-Eva...
17 Apr 20221h 8min
