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Outlandish is a worker cooperative making the world of tech a fairer place. Kayleigh Walsh joins us on this week's LF Show to discuss alternative social enterprise models and putting clients at the center of projects.
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The Laura Flanders show streams from www.grittv.org. Although Jackson, Mississippi has experienced a purge of the industry that once formed its economic backbone, many Jacksonians think that cooperative and solidarity economics could be the antidote that puts the economy back on track. A few weeks ago, the GRITtv team went to Jackson to document this conversation as it unfolded.
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Senior Economics Commentator for the Guardian, Aditya Chakrabortty sits down with Laura to discuss how new models for community wealth building in Preston and Enfield are transforming these towns from places of working poverty to working prosperity.
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Desiree Pilgrim Hunter, of the Northwest Bronx, was part of a 20 year effort by community and labor groups to redevelop the Kingsbridge Armory in a way that would benefit local people. Read Laura Flanders' full story at Yes Magazine: http://bit.ly/1e4nBEN #Commonomics
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The problem with Amazon has less to do with Trump's criticisms and more to do with a government that's helped it become a market monopoly. Two experts on community wealth building speak to Laura about why Amazon's effort to corner the market on commerce make it a dangerous and unprecedented economic phenomenon. Stacy Mitchell is the co-director of the Institute of Local Self Reliance, and Joe Maxwell is the CEO of Family Farm Action.
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Fran and David Korten, entrepreneurs, longtime anti-capitalist advocates for global economic justice, and married couple. They speak to us about their lifelong efforts to challenge the capitalist and privatizing schemes that have exacerbated global poverty and scarcity. They are "waking up at a very fundamental level to questions that have to do with the nature of life, with the nature of being human, with our human possibilities, and most fundamentally our relationship with a living...
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The Boston Ujima Project is empowering residents in underserved communities in Boston, to fund and invest in the businesses they want to support in their neighborhoods. Founders, friends, and members of the project explain the impetus behind the project and how they see it as paving the way for community control in increasingly oppressive times.
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Activism in the community and in the halls of Congress. This week, our final interview from our Progressive Caucus Center Strategy Summit coverage with Seattle Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal and Baltimore community activist Dominique Stevenson. Their work may have more in common than you think. Then, Dominique takes us to the site of a community farming initiative in Sandtown - the neighborhood where Freddie Gray once lived.
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A new world based on community and collaboration is closer than you think. We can steward resources together, in fact, millions of people are doing just that. And not just in the history books. This week, from Kingston, NY, author and activist David Bollier, Co Founder of the Commons Strategy Group, explains what it means to Think Like A Commoner. Then, two activists engaged in Commons projects right now, talk about two very distinct but complementary Commons strategies -- one digital in...
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The Preston Model -- based off Evergreen Cooperative, a community wealth building model in Cleveland, OH -- is designed to keep and build wealth within a designated area by emphasizing local investment and procurement to democracy.
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Capitalism looks different to those who were once commodities, and that has implications for how we build a future not based in domination. In this conversation, Laura talks with Farah Tanis, executive director of Black Women's Blueprint and Marxist economist, Professor Richard Wolff, about late capitalism, early democracy, the crisis that gave rise to Donald Trump’s election and what might come next, if we take seriously the task of erasing race, gender and other disparities. Solidarity...
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Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party discusses the importance of worker cooperatives in empowering communities across Britain. Wealth inequality obstructs a democratic society. Emphasizing investment at a local level is central to Labour's plan to put money back in the pockets of working people and create a more equitable society.
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A short, practical guide for those considering worker owned cooperatives, made by GRITtv & TESA, the Toolbox for Education and Social Action. Featuring conversations with worker-owners from Union Cab; Ginger Moon; Arizmendi Bakery, Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA); New Era Windows; and more. Educational kits for use with the doc are available at: http://store.toolboxfored.org/own-the-change/
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A conversation with Matt Standard, former Policy Director for Commonomics USA
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No is not enough, says Naomi Klein, so if no isn't sufficient, what might be? This week, Laura talks with author/activist Gar Alperovitz, co-chair of the Next System Project (a framework for imagining 'the next system' of governance, democracy, and security). From the gloom of today he sees the principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth emerging. Then a video from Local Futures, counts down the many changes that can come from investing locally. All that and a commentary from Laura on the Diggers...
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Community organizer Dominique Stevenson takes the LF Show on a tour through Tubman House, a community farming project in Sandtown, Baltimore. From a vacant, rundown lot to a thriving urban farm, Tubman House is addressing the issue of food apartheid in Baltimore while reinvigorating community wealth building in that neighborhood.
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In this particular moment, where we see that union density is on the decline, and we see that this culture of fear is permeating every workplace, we need organization that can hold space for the trauma that workers are experience ans we need organizations to have the kind of slack that's required to test new membership models and to test new organizing campaigns..." - Sophia Zaman, Executive Director of the Raise the Floor Alliance
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Dreams and defiance. This week on The Laura Flanders show we are joined by award winning playwright and essayist Wallace Shawn, who has a new book of essays he calls his Night Thoughts, meditations and speculative dreams for a better world from the Tales of Genji to libraries and the power of fiction. And Ed Whitfield, from The Fund for Democratic Communities in Greensboro, North Carolina, has a few thoughts on cooperatives, consumer politics and impeachments. All that and a commentary from...
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The city of Preston, UK is taking its lessons from rust-belt Cleveland, and spearheading a global movement to invest in local economies through economic cooperation. With the potential to subvert neoliberalism, this model uses community input and local investment to tackle issues such as housing, wages, and austerity. Featured here are UK Labour Party Council Leader for Preston, Matthew Brown, as well as Tim Murgatroyd, teacher and author, at the "Another York Is Possible" event in...
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Aaron Tanaka, director of the Center for Economic Democracy, on why this moment requires us to think creatively and originally about how we will empower POCs, queer people, Muslim people, disabled folks, to lead governmental change -- starting at the local level.
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Ed Whitfield, co Managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities, on cooperatives, consumer politics, and conspiring for a commonwealth beyond Trump.
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Monopoly capitalism may be on its last legs! This week, economist Michael Hudson joins us to say his predictions on the Trump budget have come true and seem to suggest, more than ever, that capitalism is not only a disservice to the people, but it's also unsuccessful. Then, Stacy Mitchell and Joe Maxwell join us at the Progressive Caucus Strategy Summit in Baltimore. Monopoly capitalism, they say, translates to monopolized power.
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Kamau Franklin is a co-founder of Community Movement Builders in Pittsburgh, Atlanta. Community Movement Builders (CMB) is a member based collective of black people dedicated to being a force for creating sustainable self-determining black communities through cooperative economic advancement and collective community organizing.
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