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    Júlia Martins Rodrigues, Elias Crim, Aaron Tanaka

    Taking Movements to the Next Level

    Aaron Tanaka joins us to share observations from a number of years of leadership in one of the U.S.’s more dynamic environments for solidarity-economy organizing — and comes to a root question of social change work, as cast by Boston Ujima Project’s Nia Evans: “How do we make the air that we’re breathing?”

    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.

    Issue 17|14 December 2021

    Labor and Co‑op Together; Letting Go of Power; Funding the Packers

    Elias Crim, Brian Corbin

    Some Forgotten U.S. Labor and Cooperative History

    Brian R. Corbin has spent decades in the trenches working for economic democratization in Ohio. We talk with him about the remarkable labor-cooperative coalition in Youngstown during Carter administration years, its legacy, and collaborating with Mondragon toward Rust Belt renewal.

    Júlia Martins Rodrigues

    Teach a Man to Fish . . .  in Cooperation

    Foundations for building the new institutions of solidarity economy — the structures that enable people to take charge of their own destinies in community — are not lacking. And the time to build is now.

    Elias Crim

    Are the Green Bay Packers Some Kind of Co‑op?

    What to make of the Green Bay Packers organization’s recent offering of ownership shares for public sale? Count us skeptical.

    Issue 16|30 November 2021

    Inside the Bronx’s BCDI; Worker Self-Management; Entrepreneurship as Spiritual Practice

    Elias Crim, Evan Casper-Futterman

    Building Economic Democracy at the Borough Level

    Evan Casper-Futterman talks with us about joining BCDI, the decade-old project for “thinking regionally” from cooperative principles in the United States’ poorest urban county, and its multi-pronged, long-range vision.

    Elias Crim, Elizabeth Garlow

    Entrepreneurship as a Spiritual Practice

    The Francesco Collaborative’s Elizabeth Garlow sketches for us a personal and communal journey from reliance on neoliberal assumptions about business practice and finance to a “homo cooperans” understanding undergirded by Catholic social teaching.

    Issue 15|16 November 2021

    Co-investing with Black Churches; Quebec’s Social Economy; Fireside on Mission-Aligned Funding

    Elias Crim, Daniel Fireside

    Daniel Fireside on Funding the Revolution (Part Two)

    Our conversation with capital strategy advisor Daniel Fireside turns to changes in the funding environment, strategies for resourcing without sacrificing community control, and the ongoing effort of Downtown Crenshaw Rising in Los Angeles.

    Issue 14|2 November 2021

    Kelso’s Legacy; Fireside on Funding the Revolution; LEAF Fund

    Elias Crim, Daniel Fireside

    Daniel Fireside on Funding the Revolution (Part One)

    Capital strategy advisor Dan Fireside talks with us about coming into a political outlook as a student in the 1980s and finding his way into cooperative finance, subsequently, as Capital Coordinator at Equal Exchange.

    Elias Crim, Josh Glickenhaus

    Fund Profile: LEAF Fund

    LEAF Fund, formed in Boston four decades ago in affiliation with the ICA Group, today works with clients in 27 states and finds its focus on cooperative development a basis for sustained portfolio growth. We talk with current Director of Lending and Operations Josh Glickenhaus.

    Issue 13|19 October 2021

    Law and Land Craft; Schneider on Cooperative Identity; Union and Co‑op

    Janelle Orsi

    Law and Land Craft

    Lawyers are looked to for practical arrangements, which implies expectation that things can and will be conformed to legal boxes. But what of the lawyer whose purpose is transformative? What if the legal formulas don’t exist? Land craft is an expression suggesting new ways to think.

    Elias Crim, Nathan Schneider

    Nathan Schneider Reflects with Us on Everything for Everyone (Part Two)

    “Like any kind of politics, the cooperative movement needs to rediscover its purpose in every generation.” In part two of our conversation about his thoughts since publication of Everything for Everyone, movement identity and the character of cooperative difference come into focus.

    Issue 12|5 October 2021

    Frank Talk about Co-ops; Schneider on Scaling; Surveillance Capitalism

    Elias Crim, Nathan Schneider

    Nathan Schneider Reflects with Us on Everything for Everyone (Part One)

    “A more cooperative economy,” says Nathan Schneider, “would be one in which we are able to better allocate the things that should be at scale to lean-scale operations while keeping the things that should be locally controlled more local.”

    Issue 11|21 September 2021

    The Co-op Ecosystem & the Economic Moment; Dubb on Sector Challenges & Opportunities; #Coopalooza!

    Elias Crim, Steve Dubb

    A Conversation with Steve Dubb of Nonprofit Quarterly (Part Two)

    In this latter part of our interview with him, Nonprofit Quarterly’s Steve Dubb reflects on an evolving U.S. cooperative sector’s limitations and potentials.

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