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

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.

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.

October 2, 2016

UNM Health Sciences launches 'hire local, buy local' initiative to boost economy

by UNMHSC

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, with the support of The Democracy Collaborative, initiated the Healthy Neighborhoods Albuquerque initiative to spur local economic development. The initiative includes growing local jobs, supporting local agriculture, and providing better access

September 2, 2016

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The Pluralist Commonwealth

by Gar Alperovitz

The Democracy Collaborative’s co-founder Gar Alperovitz sketches out the major institutions of a systemic alternative based in plural forms of democratic ownership, oriented around community at various scales — what he has called “The Pluralist Commonwealth.” Visit thenextsystem.org for more