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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

Land Tenure & Stewardship

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April 25, 2024

Cathy Statz, Education Director at Wisconsin Farmer's Union

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Cathy Statz, Education Director of the Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU), discusses its origins and history. She also discusses the many programs and initiatives of WFU.

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August 21, 2023

Ecology Councils: Grassroots Climate Strategies from Mesopotamia

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In different parts of Mesopotamia environmental movements have been feverishly nurturing the emergence of the grassroots institution of the ecology council for the preservation of communal livelihoods.

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July 3, 2023

The Co-op Food System We Need

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Shylah Wolfe spoke to Dru Oja Jay about what kinds of cooperative systems for food production, distribution and processing are already being built and how we'll probably have to expand them pretty rapidly to feed ourselves.

 

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March 20, 2023

Cuba's Farming Cooperatives

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Cuba’s thousands of agricultural cooperatives are responsible for about 56% of Cuba’s growing land, and employ an estimated 300,000 cooperative worker members. Some observers say the cooperatives more efficient than the state-owned parts of Cuba's agricultural production.

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December 19, 2022

Harvesting is an act of indigenous food sovereignty

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In the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, getting out in a canoe to harvest manoomin, or wild rice (Zizania palustris), is a political assertion of indigenous food sovereignty for Anishinaabe people.

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April 25, 2022

Mumbet's Freedom Farm

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Mumbet’s Freedom Farm is a Black and Brown-led cooperative farm located at the base of a mountain in Sheffield, Massachusetts. In this episode I speak with worker-owner DeeArah Wright about their journey from the city towards collective rural land stewardship.

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December 23, 2021

The Old Salt Co-op

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An interview with Cole Mannix of Old Salt Co-op, in Helmsville, Montana.

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November 22, 2021

Community Owned Real Estate

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Ebony Gustave interviews East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Executive Director Noni Sessions for the Cooperative Journal podcast.

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April 29, 2021

Harcourt Organic Farming Co-op

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Ant Wilson talks about the Harcourt Organic Farming Co-op.

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February 18, 2021

Co-ops and Voting Rights

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Rev. Wendell Paris of Jackson, Mississippi discusses the history of co-op development and the struggle for voting rights among Black Americans in the Southern US.