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Along with direct action and other forms of resistance, a transformational movement must also have a constructive program that builds new institutions based on the values that the movement aspires to achieve. These may eventually replace the old systems. From small, worker-owned cooperatives to national advocacy groups, hundreds of thousands of people around the country are working to create democratic and sustainable systems that meet the basic needs of all people.

Do-Nothing Hydroponics

February 10, 2026 Mitch Hagney, Ambrook. Create! climate crisis, Food and Agriculture, Hydroponics, Sustainability

When Bernard Kratky left his Hawaiian home and horticulture research in the ‘80s, he went to learn from another island across the planet with similar challenges. Taiwan, and its Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, was running ambitious experiments to grow resilient crops in developing countries. Breeding sweet potatoes and mung beans, developing disease-resistant tomatoes, and reducing fertilizer inputs were some of their priorities. Among all of the vegetable excitement, Kratky saw researchers growing crops without soil, hydroponically.

Venezuela’s Acting President Calls For Breaking Oil Dependency

February 9, 2026 Olys Guárate, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Communes, Delcy Rodriguez, Oil, Public ownership, US Imperialism, Venezuela

During a community outreach activity in the Almirante Lino de Clemente commune, Miranda state, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez emphasized the strategic need to break with the oil rentier economic model and highlighted the importance of strengthening of the Venezuelan participatory and protagonistic socialist model in this regard. During the activity, held on Saturday, february 7, Rodríguez highlighted that oil revenue will be reserved exclusively for social welfare and the improvement of public services, while production must originate from the territory in the communes.

Illinois’ Low-Cost Library Program Takes On The Justice Gap

February 8, 2026 Sidnee King Pineda, Next City. Create! Courts, Illinois, Legal Aid, Libraries

Last fall, when an anxious patron rushed into the Addison Public Library asking how to file a court document, Sara Lock felt prepared. She’d grown up depending on the library herself and had just completed training so she could help people facing the court system alone. “It was just a coincidence that worked out well,” Lock recalled. Lock sat with the woman for an hour in one of the west suburban library’s computer labs and helped her craft an email to court officials to move the woman’s case forward. Lock couldn’t remember all the details of the woman’s case, and she and her co-workers say they prefer it that way – hoping a degree of obscurity will keep patrons coming back for free help.

The Promise Of A Circular Amazonian Socio-Bioeconomy

February 8, 2026 Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Resilience. Create! Amazon, Self-Organization, Socio-Bioeconomy, Sustainability

Is self-organization the answer to the foundational question of why life exhibits such complexity? And can it also serve as a guiding framework for how best to save complex webs of biodiversity amid the onslaughts of the modern world? Self-organization exists throughout nature and socioeconomic structures. It refers to the spontaneous emergence of collective, complex order within a disordered system, due to localized interactions that follow simple rules, and occurring without external controls. While conceptually abstract, given that uncertainty lies at its core, the applications of self-organization are everywhere.

Solidarity Economies And The Unmaking Of Racial Capitalism

February 6, 2026 Manifold.UMN.edu. Create! Capitalism, Gentrification, Racism, Solidarity Economy, Urban Design

Two large, painted signs sit at the entrance to the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden, a large community garden roughly the size of a city block located in North Philadelphia. “WELCOME. BIENVENIDOS. GROW SHARE GATHER,” reads the first in lavender and green. Beside it, in yellow and red, a second sign declares, “ESTE TERRENO NO ESTA EN VENTA” (this land is not for sale). A raised fist—the universal symbol of solidarity—is painted beneath the text. Together, the two signs convey complementary messages about the garden.

Indigenous Nations Extend Legal Personhood To The Colorado River

February 2, 2026 John Ahni Schertow, Intercontinental Cry. Create! Colorado River, Indigenous Sovereignty, Legal System, Rights of Nature

The Colorado River Indian Tribes took a key step in Indigenous environmental law by designating the Colorado River — the life source for millions across the Southwest — as a “living being” with legal rights under tribal law. The move, approved by the tribal council late last year, reflects both a cultural worldview and a strategic tool to protect dwindling water supplies amid prolonged drought and growing demand. The resolution describes the river as an entity with inherent value and rights comparable to those of a person, a legal concept known as the rights of nature.

In Defence Of A Basic Land Income

February 2, 2026 Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Resilience. Create! Basic Income, climate crisis, Ecological Collapse, Land Reform

By now, most people have heard of basic income in its various forms and meanings. However, there has been little analysis of whether such proposals, aimed at ensuring minimum coverage of citizens’ basic needs, generally as a complement to the universal basic services that constitute the Welfare State, remain viable from the point of view of industrialised countries’ socio-economic metabolisms, which are facing a drastic decline in the coming years1. Some of us supported this type of proposal in the 1980s and 1990s, but then becoming aware of the unsustainability of the system on which it necessarily relies...

France’s Bold Experiment In Commons-Based Development

February 1, 2026 David Bollier. Create! Commons, Development, France, Global South

The western world has long promoted “development” as a high-minded mission to bring capitalist markets and growth to impoverished areas of the world. But what if development were seen not just as a matter of creating markets, but of strengthening social collaboration and sharing in meeting needs? In short, what if development agencies were to support commoning? One major national development agency – the French Development Agency, or AFD – is actively experimenting with this very challenge. For the past five years, Stéphanie Leyronas, an AFD research fellow specializing in the commons, has been working with an internal expert network at the agency to investigate how it might support commoners in the Global South.

Local Governments Tap Worker Cooperatives In Depopulated Areas

February 1, 2026 The Japan Times. Create! Cooperatives, Japan, rural communities, Worker Cooperatives

In depopulated areas across Japan, the withdrawal of supermarkets and other businesses has left essential services, vital to residents' daily lives, at risk. To address this problem, some local governments are turning to resident-led nonprofit organizations known as "workers' cooperatives" as new providers of local services. In these cooperatives, residents themselves plan, develop and operate the services their communities need, supported by local government subsidies for startup and operating costs. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is also working to create a framework to make it easier for such organizations to receive financial assistance and other forms of support.

The Global South Needs Productive Employment

January 30, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Create! Finance and the Economy, Global South, Jobs, Manufacturing

On India’s 79th Independence Day, in August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted his speech to Viksit Bharat 2047 (Developed India 2047) and announced a National Manufacturing Mission. The mission, he said, must ‘reduce import dependence and strengthen economic resilience’ in sectors ranging from aerospace to artificial intelligence. He urged India’s twenty-eight states, eight union territories, and the central government to identify 100 ‘priority products’ for domestic manufacturing and added that state governments should streamline regulations and approvals, ‘especially with respect to land, utilities, and social infrastructure’, in order ‘to attract global companies’.

Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing

January 28, 2026 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Big Banks, Class Struggle, Public Banks, Wealth redistribution

A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearly all of their 2025 profits to shareholders. Goldman Sachs returned $16.78 billion on $17.18 billion in earnings, meaning 97.7% of its earnings went to shareholders. Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Bank of America collectively returned tens of billions more. Across the six largest banks, roughly $100 billion flowed to shareholders in a single year. Banks enjoy a long list of public privileges — federally guaranteed deposits, public charters allowing them to create deposits on their books as loans, access to the Fed’s discount window for emergency credit, and federal bailouts when they get into serious trouble.

Amsterdam Becomes First Capital City To Ban Fossil Fuel Ads

January 28, 2026 Ellen Ormesher, DeSmog. Create! Advertising, Amsterdam, climate crisis, Climate Justice, Fossil Fuel, Netherlands

Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads through local law. The city council voted 27-17 on Thursday (January 22) to approve the measure, which from May 1 prohibits advertising for high-carbon products and services such as flights, petrol and diesel vehicles, gas heating contracts and meat products across all public spaces in the city, including on buses, trams, and in metro and train stations.

Nicaragua: The Challenge Of A People As President

January 27, 2026 Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal. Create! Daniel Ortega, History, Nicaragua, Sandinista Revolution

For anyone who has witnessed Nicaragua’s development since the destruction and losses caused by the US terrorist war of the 1980s, the country has unquestionably become a dynamic modern society with strong social cohesion and a robust, competitive economy. Nicaragua is now entering the twentieth year of what people here call the second phase of the Sandinista Revolution. The country’s successful transformation is an outcome of the commitment of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN), under the leadership of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

This Kansas City Neighborhood Is Transforming Neglected Housing

January 26, 2026 Hope Davis, Next City. Create! Affordable Housing, Community Control, Gentrification, Kansas City

In Northeast Kansas City, Missouri, one working-class neighborhood is using a multi-pronged approach to take control of its housing supply. Since 2018, the Lykins Neighborhood Association has been taking on ambitious projects including using a state law to take control of abandoned homes, establishing a mixed-income neighborhood trust and partnering with Habitat for Humanity to construct 15-20 new houses. Their goal: enhancing the neighborhood’s livability, not maximizing property values. As one of the most diverse sections of Kansas City, the Lykins neighborhood wants to revitalize its housing stock while preserving its blue-collar heritage.

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