Videos

Aligning finance with people and planet Centering community and place Demanding racial equity Expanding democratic ownership Fighting for a new systemic vision Mobilizing anchor institutions Redesigning the enterprise Transitioning to ecological sustainability

May 14, 2020

Community Wealth Building in the Era of COVID-19

by Ted Howard

On 14th May 2020 Ted Howard, President and Co-Founder of The Democracy Collaborative, and Neil McInroy, Chief Executive of CLES were joined in conversation by Stephanie Flanders, Senior Executive Editor for Economics at Bloomberg and Head of Bloomberg Economics. Together they explored the role that

July 14, 2019

Economic Update: Worker Co-Ops Rising

by Richard Wolff

Prof. Richard Wolff interviews John Duda, Director of Communications at the Democracy Collaborative and one of the founders of Red Emma’s bookstore and coffeehouse, a 30-member worker cooperative in Baltimore.

March 15, 2019

Enacting Progressive Policies Means Changing Our Culture

by Sam Seder

Peter Gowan, resident fellow at The Next System Project, joins Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder to talk about laying the foundation for Bernie Sanders’s progressive policies. They discuss Peter’s piece “A Plan To Win Socialism In America,” published in Jacobin.

February 8, 2019

Johanna Bozuwa: The People Should Own the Power (Utilities)

by RJ Eskow

Johanna Bozuwa, Democracy Collaborative research associate, comments on the responsibility that PG&E holds for the deadliest wildfires in California’s history and for climate change.

January 21, 2019

Revolution at the Federal Reserve: Nomi Prins and Thomas Hanna

by Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders speaks to former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins, author of “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World,” and the Democracy Collaborative’s Thomas Hanna believe that banking, and development, could be very different.

September 13, 2018

Hundreds Disrupt Global Climate Action Summit, Demand Climate Justice

by Dharna Noor

Civic and business leaders convened at California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, but protestors decried their “false solutions” to the climate crisis. Johanna Bozuwa offers thoughts on the public voice’s power against large corporations.

September 15, 2017

Jessica Rose Speaks at ECONOUS 2017

Jessica Rose, CFO and Director of Employee Ownership Programs, spoke at ECONOUS 2017 on a plenary on Good Jobs. She speaks on Evergreen Cooperatives and her work with The Democracy Collaborative at 27:54, 41:23, and 56:52 in the video below.

May 31, 2017

A Conversation on Employee and Community Ownership

by Matt Cropp

Matt Cropp, Associate Director of Vermont Employee Ownership Center and Marjorie Kelly, Executive Vice President of Democracy Collaborative, discuss employee and community ownership, with a specific discussion of the Keep BT Local Campaign.

March 20, 2017

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Ted Howard Speech at Labour New Economics Conference

by John McDonnell MP

Ted Howard, co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative, gives a speech at the United Kingdom’s Labour Party’s New Economics Conference in Newcastle in 2017.