While the residents in Northeast Greensboro just wanted to get grocery store, they are doing something much bigger and more important.

Signs of deep economic changes are slowly taking place across the United States, focusing on cooperative/solidarity economics.

We currently face two equally urgent and significant crises: rising inequality and climate change. Rising inequality is not only morally unacceptable; it hinders economic growth. Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than other time in history and is already impacting every part of the country with low-income communities and communities of color getting hit first and most hard.

Reclaiming our Commons requires coming together as a community.

By working together, we can build the next great progressive movement to take back our government and create the kind of just and sustainable economy in which we want to live and work.

Climate change, shifting demographics, and sobering economic realities for a growing number of Americans have sparked increased awareness of the need to re-examine how working class people and communities of color will successfully participate in tomorrow’s economy, the one they will inherit when our nation becomes an ethnic plurality.