Taking on a Billionaire Landlord in the Twin Cities
Private equity firms snatched up rental properties, then neglected them. So Minneapolis activists organized the tenants to fight for their rights.
Economic Power
精东影业 Media鈥檚 coverage of economic power focuses on solutions to runaway wealth and income inequality. Achieving economic equity stems from the ability of workers to organize in traditional and non-traditional ways, including unions and cooperatives. It also means uplifting specific solutions to the housing crisis and hunger as well as educational and medical debt, and generational wealth inequity. And, it lies in broad programs to redistribute wealth via universal basic income programs and reparations for racial harms. Our vision also incorporates the value of rest and care, which do not need to be earned or deserved. The ultimate question is: Can we imagine a working alternative to capitalism?
Worker-Owned Cooperatives Are Creating Their Own Funding Networks
Because of their unorthodox ownership structures, cooperatively owned businesses don鈥檛 fit neatly into most lenders鈥� boxes. So one group decided to build their own source of funding.
Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community鈥檚 Quest for Peace
A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.
Why I Gave Away My Salary During the Pandemic
It wasn鈥檛 philanthropy. It was an investment in a marginally more livable world for us and our child.
Indian Women Turn to Ancient Grains to Feed Their Families and Their Futures
As climate change threatens rainfed farming, millets offer a way to achieve food, financial, and environmental security.
Unions and LGBTQ Workers Could Be a Powerful Marriage
History has shown that people-power is one of the best ways to advance rights and win protections, especially when the courts are unreliable.
My Grandparents鈥� Redlining Story Shows Why We Must Do Better
As we face the impact of COVID-19, now is an opportune time to create equitable housing policies that can close the yawning gaps created by racial inequity.
A Better Option For the Gig Economy
Gig workers like flexibility, but get no benefits. Employees get the reverse (usually). There鈥檚 a better way with platform cooperatives.
Trump鈥檚 Biggest Advantage in Fighting Off COVID: His Wealth
Trump has a number of risk factors that increase the chance of mortality with the disease. But the president鈥檚 wealth may be the best medicine he has.
How Urban Planning Keeps Cities Segregated鈥攁nd Maintains White Supremacy
Across the U.S., racial segregation was not the byproduct of urban planning but often its intention. Minneapolis, one of the most liberal cities in the country, is no exception.
How a Black Commons Could Help Build Communal Wealth
The idea of collective ownership has a long history in the United States.
For Indigenous Zapotec Families, Spinning Becomes a Lifeline
The COVID-19 pandemic has hurt communities all over Mexico. But a network of Indigenous artisans is finding a way to survive during the shutdown.
These Small Dairy Farms Are a Model for a Resilient Food System
Due to the coronavirus, dairy producers are dumping thousands of gallons of milk every day. But these New Jersey dairy farmers have a better system.
Now Is the Time to Take Radical Steps Toward Housing Equity
It鈥檚 time to think big about housing. No more evictions and foreclosures. Rent and mortgage cancellation on a grand scale. Twelve million new green housing units in the next 10
How to Start a Union When You Don鈥檛 Have the Right
The growers have the money but . . . the farmworkers have the time. 鈥擟esar Chavez From 1962 to 1993, more than 2,200 people鈥攁ll ages, all walks of life, and
Unsung Black Heroines Launched a Modern Domestic Workers Movement鈥擯owered By Their Own Stories
The struggle for labor rights started decades ago among private household workers, mostly Black American women.
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