This month we’re talking about Black cooperative land ownership through the legacy of Alabama’s Freedom Quilting Bee, rising union and worker co-op organizing in response to layoffs and workplace instability, and artist-led campaigns divesting from war industries, alongside urgent calls from Congo and Bolivia, and more.
This month, communities are taking action everywhere, from May Day mobilizations and housing wins to water protectors fighting pipelines and AI extractivism. Together, these stories point to a shared fight to defend land, housing, and life over profit, and a reminder that what communities face at home is deeply connected to struggles everywhere else in the world. As wars intensify and ecological crises deepen globally, internationalism has never been more necessary.
This month, we’re talking about how to resist ICE in your community and demand corporate accountability; people-led assemblies reclaiming democracy and collective decision-making; international solidarity with Rojava as its autonomous project comes under attack; and communities in Patagonia organizing mutual aid and volunteer brigades amid climate denial and devastating wildfires.
This month, we’re talking about New York’s Festival of the Solidarity Economy in NYC, Black farmers across the South stepping in to feed communities amid SNAP cuts, neighbors defending against ICE, Ecuadorians standing up to neoliberalism, and grassroots climate justice movements mobilizing at COP30 in Belém.
In this episode we talk with Cooperate Western North Carolina about conflict transformation, finding the balance between relational trust building and practical work, and tools for shifting from individualism to a collective way of life!
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