This week we’re talking about the national climate emergency declared by the UK, how streetlight development in Michigan is building the future of energy democracy, and how one city plans to use cooperatives to solve the baby boomer retirement crisis.
New Economy Roundup: #NowWeOwn The Code, Global Transformation for Reparations, & Highlander Center
This week we’re talking about the evolution of tech ownership, the system change needed for true reparations, and reflections on recent conversations of reactions and impacts of burning of well-known buildings.
New Economy Roundup: John Oliver, Nazis, and Aboriginal Rights
This week we’re talking about John Oliver lifting up resident owned communities as a solution to rent hikes, corporations reckoning with their Nazi affiliated past, and how aboriginal people of Australia had their native title rights recognized.
New Economy Roundup: Reflections, Reparations and Resilience
This week we’re talking about planning arts-based community dialogues, the case for reparations, and the resilience created by affordable housing and cooperatives.
New Economy Roundup: Exploring Public Ownership – The Internet, Seeds, and Housing
This week we’re talking about fights for public ownership of the internet in the United States, seeds in Japan, housing in Berlin and much more.
New Economy Roundup: Building A Mass Movement for a Just Planet, International Day of Coops, Venezuela and the Community Power Scorecard
This week we’re talking about building a mass movement for a just planet, what New York City can become without Amazon, the theme of the International Day of Cooperatives, Venezuela and scoring how state policies help or hinder local clean energy action.
New Economy Roundup: Planning for Post-Coal, Black Lives Matter is Buying Homes & Worker Coop Census
This week we’re talking about a just transition to a new economy in post-coal Appalachia, how Black Lives Matter Louisville is organizing around housing in Kentucky and exciting new data from the US Federation for Worker Cooperatives & Democracy at Work Institute based on their first national study of the worker cooperative experience.
New Economy Roundup: What Has Amazon Done? Who Tells Our News? What Are Banks For?
This week we’re talking about Amazon’s ambitions to overtake… everything, how the cooperative model allows for true news telling, and how public banks are gaining momentum in the U.S. and beyond.
New Economy Roundup: Forbes 400 vs. Black Households, Peoples State of the Union, and FairBnb
This week we’re talking about a new report on racial wealth inequality, a community-based alternative to the State of the Union address, and a worker-coop looking to challenge AirBnb.
New Economy Roundup: Dollar Store Domination, a Declaration of Peasant Rights, and Democratic Finance
This week, we’re talking about how Dollar Stores ravage local economies, a 17-year campaign for peasant rights, and the first of its kind democratic investment fund!
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