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November 8, 2021

Worker-Led Alternatives in the Global South

Exploring workers’ struggle to reclaim the means of self-determination and resist the steady march of dominant platforms.

November 1, 2021

Key Facilitation Skills: Trusting the Force

One the most important skills that a facilitator can develop is their intuition—the sense of what to do in a given situation, even when the rational pathway to that choice is obscure.

October 25, 2021

Organizing for Food Justice in a Texas Food Desert

How food several Dallas food justice organizations joined together to bring healthy food to the city's several food deserts.

October 21, 2021

Matt Cropp on Worker Co-op Basics

Matt Cropp of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center discusses the basics of worker cooperative structure.

October 18, 2021

Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times

I gave the following remarks about commons governance on September 27 as part of the U!REKA Lab Lecture Series.

October 14, 2021

Selling Cooperative: The Olympia Food Co-op

A documentary film about the 40 year history of the Olympia Food Co-op.

October 11, 2021

The Growing Democracy Project

Michael Johnson discusses his upcoming book, "The Growing Democracy Project," with Vernon Oakes.

October 8, 2021

Covid Couldn’t Stop Worker-Owned Co-ops

Collaboration and democratic decision making is just part of how worker owned businesses, or co-ops, fared better than other companies during the pandemic. By and large they survived, even thrived, and today they’re less likely to experience the labor shortages many businesses face as the economy reopens.

October 4, 2021

Green Mountain Spinnery + Flat Iron Cooperative

Green Mountain Spinnery is a 40 year old cooperative based in rural Vermont; Flat Iron Cafe is a cooperatively owned coffee shop also based in Vermont.