The news has been dominated in the last two weeks with talk about the G.O.P. tax bill, COP23, and of course Thanksgiving and Native History Month (check out the piece on decolonizing your mind in Movement News). Going into the holiday season, we hope these roundups serve as a reminder that incredible people building democratic alternative to our current system are out there.
In this week’s roundup: creating 50 million worker owners by 2050; using media platform’s as places of protest; and the future of the co-op movement.
In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about the biggest resident owned community of its type in history, the native women leading #DivestTheGlobe, and grassroots storm relief. Check it out!
In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about the Codfather, creating feminist foreign policy, and a new comedic web-series that tackles climate change and gentrification.
In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about citizen-powered storm relief, urban farming in Atlanta, Finland’s unique UBI plan, and the #EquatorBanksAct.
In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about composting capitalism, Berlin’s plan to keep private investors from buying up land, and more!
In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about healthcare platform co-ops, the impact of community owned land, and more.Plus, we are hosting a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) about tech democracy tomorrow, Friday September 1st at 1:00 pm EST as part of #NowWeOwn. Join us and ask experts and activists anything how communities can take back their internet from monopolies like Comcast and Verizon. Read more about it below.
This week, we launched #NowWeOwn, a campaign to make visible how our communities are owning up right now and taking control of everything from their jobs and their neighborhoods, to the internet and the banks.
In this week’s roundup: DIY democracy, lessons from Germany’s Energiewiend, and the Pennsylvania town that put a right to clean air and water on the books! Plus: Check out the latest articles from our New Economy Reporting Project Fellows!
In this week’s roundup we’re exploring models of sustainability: from growing kelp to a farm that combines land-trusts, CSA’s, and community currency in one place. Plus: a toolkit for building equitable cities.
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