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- Lesson three: Build resilience with cooperative economics. In Baltimore and beyond, we see that communities come together in crisis, crossing natural and artificial boundaries, including gang territories, generations, religion, race, ethnicity, and geography. We can invest in this collective human capacity to not only rebuild what disaster destroyed, but to create a more generative and protected society.
“Cooperative economics” is one way to do so. Cooperative economic enterprises are organized to benefit workers, communities and consumers—not just to maximize profits for shareholders. As documented in Jessica Nembhard’s book, Collective Courage, the African-American community has a special history with cooperative economics, which protected threatened communities from economic and social disasters, and also helped them to thrive until they were destroyed by threatened competing economic interests.
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