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    Elias Crim, Kate Poole, Tiffany Brown

    Making Beautiful Experiments with Money

    “You have to know what you own,” Tiffany Brown and Kate Poole tell the people who join Chordata Capital’s investor cohorts. Theirs is an approach to managing wealth that foregrounds interconnectedness and counsels refusal to look away from the manifold harm cumulative capital causes under the existing economy’s terms.

    Issue 27|17 May 2022

    Chordata’s Beautiful Experiments; Neighborhood Econ in Indy; a Maryland Media Cooperative

    Elias Crim, Kate Poole, Tiffany Brown

    Making Beautiful Experiments with Money

    “You have to know what you own,” Tiffany Brown and Kate Poole tell the people who join Chordata Capital’s investor cohorts. Theirs is an approach to managing wealth that foregrounds interconnectedness and counsels refusal to look away from the manifold harm cumulative capital causes under the existing economy’s terms.

    Júlia Martins Rodrigues

    Who Tells the Untold Stories?

    Something new has emerged in Maryland’s local media landscape: a Black-led, cooperatively owned and managed news organization. At its heart is a commitment to journalistic credibility and community connection.

    Issue 26|3 May 2022

    What’s Next at OM; Solidarity Cities; the State’s Role — Transformed

    Júlia Martins Rodrigues, John Restakis

    Building a Free and Sovereign Civil Society

    “The Partner State represents economic democracy, transcending the conventional dualism between private capitalism and state,” John Restakis says in the first part of our conversation with him. Here, in part two, we explore further the implications of an expanding democratic sphere.

    Júlia Martins Rodrigues, Laura Granja

    Solidarity Cities

    In the U.S., owning the place where one lives represents both an essential basis for and a significant hurdle to entry into full participation in the economy, and the country’s urban centers are increasingly zones of division between the economically included and excluded. Alternatives to homeownership conventionally conceived offer steps toward meeting the challenge.

    Issue 25|19 April 2022

    What We Saw in Morganton; Restakis in Depth; the EO Transfers Funding Hole

    Júlia Martins Rodrigues, John Restakis

    Unpacking the “Partner State”

    How will 21st-century societies meet the challenge of reestablishing the position of the citizen, a role progressively stripped of status and prerogatives with the rise to dominance of corporations? We talk with John Restakis about the way forward argued for in his new book, Civilizing the State.

    Issue 24|5 April 2022

    The Partner State; Cooperative Cities?; R. Lurie on Workplace & Solidarity

    Elias Crim, Rebecca Lurie

    “Solidarity Looks Like You”

    Rebecca Lurie has unusual depth and breadth in activism for economic change. Now a professor with City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies, she was a union carpenter first. She talks with us about her initiatives blending community and worker ownership development with labor organizing.

    Issue 23|22 March 2022

    Real Power-Sharing; Paths to E.O.; Ukraine, Russia, and Cooperatives

    Elias Crim, Matt Cropp

    The Four Paths to Employee Ownership

    We talk with Matt Cropp about the work of cultivating worker ownership at the state and local level, drawing on insight gained in his role as director of one of a still relatively small number of public offices across the U.S. set up for this purpose.

    Issue 22|8 March 2022

    Why So Few Co‑ops?; Workplace Democracy; Arizmendi Assn.’s Big Vision

    Elias Crim, Tim Huet

    Building Beyond the Cooperative Business

    Tim Huet expands on the Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives vision in this installment of our conversation with him. Several years ago, the membership began to see the organization’s challenge as something larger than establishing cooperative businesses only. We talk about the implications of that shift.

    Júlia Martins Rodrigues

    What’s the Problem with Co‑ops?

    Cooperativism, weighed against the dominant system with its extremely narrow focus on the accumulation of private capital, is an approach to economic development with many intrinsic advantages. How then to think about cooperatives’ much smaller numerical share of the “pie” vis-à-vis that of conventionally structured businesses?

    Issue 21|22 February 2022

    Inside Solidarity Economics; Turning Franchising Upside Down; “Move Fast and Repair Things”

    Elias Crim, Tim Huet

    Turning the Franchise Model Upside Down

    Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives co-founder Tim Huet talks with us about challenges and lessons drawn in two decades of cultivating cooperative businesses — individual businesses, in the first place, but businesses with common stake in a cooperative network as well.

    Issue 20|8 February 2022

    Zebras Rising; Good Scout Capital; Catholic Economics

    Elias Crim, Astrid Scholz

    The Capital Hackers

    Zebras Unite’s idea took root six years ago among a group of women whose common experience of “financing purgatory” led them to a thorough rethinking of investment capital. Entrepreneur and economist Astrid Taylor, one of the founders, talks with us about her own formation, the Zebras’ expansive vision, and the path ahead.

    Elias Crim, Rupal Patel, Karlo Marcelo

    Fund Profile: Good Scout Capital

    The team preparing to launch Good Scout Capital have a confidence in competition and market principles — and a combined wealth of experience channeling capital resources to to address economic inequities. They aim to prioritize both returns and impact with a 20% employee-ownership requirement and focus on underserved entrepreneurs.

    Issue 19|25 January 2022

    A Thriving Cooperative Ecosystem; Co‑ops and DAOs; The Economics of Arrival

    Elias Crim, Molly Hemstreet

    Cultivating a Worker-Powered Cooperative Ecosystem in Western NC

    We learn from Molly Hemstreet, co-founder of Carolina Textile District and The Industrial Commons, about the multi-layered developmental scheme unfolding in this remarkable U.S. regional cooperative network. In her thinking, the first principle of cooperative growth is “Build deeper.”

    Júlia Martins Rodrigues

    Are You Financing a Genocide?

    The role of Western corporate culture in international reluctance to address an atrocity of enormous scale in Asia today has something to teach us about values implicit in commonplace notions of the global economy. A Uighur expatriate urges us to reflect.

    Issue 18|11 January 2022

    Giving Drivers Co‑op Power; Real Impact; What Needs Disrupting

    Elias Crim, Erik Forman

    Building Worker-Centered Platform Ridesharing

    Veteran labor activist and cooperative developer Erik Forman talks with us about the strategy and structures giving the unprecedented project of a driver-owned, democratically run ridesharing service in New York City’s tough market a fighting chance.

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