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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.

Redesigning Care For New Jersey’s Black Moms

February 12, 2025 Kimberly Izar, Next City. Create! Health Care, Health Outcomes, New Jersey (NJ), pregnancy, Racial disparities

Cherelle Lloyd had just given birth to her son two weeks prior when she sensed something was wrong. With her hands and breasts in pain, she decided she needed outside help. “It was hurting every time that [my son] latched,” says Lloyd. “It was just miserable.” Finding resources near where she lived in East Orange, N.J. wasn’t easy. When she searched for support, all the in-person lactation consultants covered by her insurance were more than fifty miles away. That’s when her doula connected her to Perinatal Health Equity Initiative (PHEI), a Black maternal health nonprofit offering community services in New Jersey.

Varieties Of Worker Cooperatives In Tech

February 11, 2025 Stefan Ivanovski, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Platform Coops, Technology, Worker Cooperatives

Working conditions in the tech sector are deteriorating. Leading tech firms like Google, once considered top employers, have laid off thousands of workers despite reporting profits. Traditional tech firms struggle to reconcile the paradox of high job quality and profitability. Can worker cooperatives offer an alternative for tech workers? Known for prioritizing equity and social well-being, can they succeed where traditional firms fail? I believe worker cooperatives are a viable solution for tech workers. I want to share a framework that explains the different varieties of tech worker cooperatives.

To Build Just And Sustainable Cities, We Need Community Banking

February 10, 2025 Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. Create! Banking, climate crisis, Community Banks, Economic crisis, Money

Hardly anyone these days talks about how banks have the power to create new money. Most bankers would say something along the lines of “We’re in the business of taking deposits and making loans.” That’s technically correct, but the precise relationship isn’t obvious. In 2023, a working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia stated: “Private money creation by banks enables lending to not be constrained by the supply of cash deposits. During the 2001–2020 period, 92 percent of bank deposits were due to funding liquidity creation, and during 2011–2020 funding liquidity creation averaged $10.7 trillion per year, or 57 percent of [gross domestic product].”

‘Quantitative Easing With Chinese Characteristics’

February 9, 2025 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Banks, China, Debt, Finance and the Economy, History, Infrastructure, Public Banks

China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek, the free, open source A.I. built by innovative Chinese entrepreneurs which just pricked the massive U.S. A.I. bubble. Even more impressive, however, is the infrastructure China has built, including 26,000 miles of high speed rail, the world’s largest hydroelectric power station, the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world, 100,000 miles of expressway, the world’s first commercial magnetic levitation train, the world’s largest urban metro network, seven of the world’s 10 busiest ports, and solar and wind power generation accounting for over 35% of global renewable energy capacity.

The New Yorkers Standing Behind Migrants

February 9, 2025 Luis Feliz Leon, In These Times. Create! Housing, Migrants, Mutual Aid, New York (NY)

Flatbush, New York — Shelves of weathered shoes line the purple basement walls of the Bridge, a nonprofit, on Dec. 14, 2024. Used coats hang from rolling racks. Residents of Floyd Bennett Field, a remote former airport-turned-migrant-shelter in Brooklyn, queue up with slips of paper in their hands, listing the ages and genders of their children. Kids weave among parents’ legs before moving to the second floor for childcare. Waiting is part of the ordeal for migrant families in shelters. But now the stakes have increased. The 2,000 Floyd Bennett Field residents will soon be moved to other shelters, and questions loom: Do other shelters have space?

Chicago Clinic Offers Free Legal Aid To Solidarity Economy Groups

February 6, 2025 Damon Orion, Resilience. Create! Chicago, Legal Aid, New Economy, Solidarity Economy

Chicago, Illinois, has a rich history of grassroots organizing. Notable examples are the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council’s efforts to improve local economic and social conditions and the Black Panther Party’s establishment of housing cooperatives and free food, clothing, and medical services. The solidarity economy movement has continued to gain momentum in Chicago. In 2024, a map from the worker-owned ChiCommons Cooperative showed more than 800 solidarity enterprises, co-ops, and mutual aid groups in the city.

Trump’s Reign Of Terror On Schools And How We Fight Back

February 4, 2025 Eve L. Ewing, In These Times. Create! Donald Trump, Education, History, Racism, Transgender Rights

The new presidential administration is enacting an education agenda the same way it is doing everything else: in a blitzkrieg, implementing sweeping measures as hastily as possible with little regard to their legality or feasibility. This rapid-fire assault — on trans youth who need gender-affirming care, on teachers who convey the basic facts of American history, on Head Start educators who need to make payroll—has a devastating material impact on countless individuals’ ability to teach, learn and feel safe in schools. Beyond these tangible consequences, the hailstorm of actions has a broader effect.

High Hopes For Hempcrete

February 3, 2025 Aldyn Chwelos, The Tyee. Create! Construction, Environment, Hempcrete, Sustainability

Lisa Sundberg and Peter Holmdahl want to change the construction industry in North America by using one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history: hemp. Sundberg is an activist from Trinidad, California, with a background in industry development. She met Holmdahl, a Swede with a background in business development and sustainability, through a shared commitment to expanding the use of hempcrete (also known as hemp lime). This building material made from industrial hemp byproduct is gaining attention for its sustainable properties.

We Need A Data Revolution To Avert Climate Disaster

February 2, 2025 Stephen Marshall, DeSmog. Create! climate action, climate crisis, Data, Technology

The fires in Los Angeles represent a catastrophic failure to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. In the aftermath of such devastation, an obvious question looms: How did we miss the warning signs? The answer is clear. Unlike other feedback systems designed to drive immediate response — think of the life-saving equipment in intensive care units, or even a car’s fuel gauge — the tools we use to monitor climate resilience and risk are dangerously, and indefensibly, outdated. Take the Planetary Boundaries framework, one of the most recognized global indicators of humanity’s transgression of critical ecological thresholds, such as climate stability and biodiversity.

Venezuelan People, Main Foundation Of The Revolutionary Process

February 1, 2025 Alejandra Garcia, Resumen English. Create! Communes, Infrastructure, Participatory Democracy, Venezuela

Venezuela is undergoing a period of profound social transformation, working toward the creation of a society focused on development, self-sustainability, independence, and sovereignty, all while navigating the challenges posed by foreign hostilities, coercive measures, and misinformation campaigns. In this process, community participation plays a crucial role, as it is the key to driving meaningful change and fostering a sustainable future. In this context, on Sunday, Venezuela will hold a historic election unlike any other in the world.

Vote On ‘Social Housing’ Could Break Stranglehold Of Private Landlords

January 29, 2025 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. Create! Elections, Housing, Landlords, Seattle, Social Housing, Washington

On a once-vacant plot of public land in Seattle, a cluster of mid-rise buildings surrounds a tree-filled courtyard. Children play on swings while adults run laps and chat on shared stoops. Some neighbors live in dorm-style rooms with common kitchens, others in family-sized townhomes — but all benefit from access to parks and transit, affordable rents and a democratic say in how their buildings run. None of this exists yet, to be clear. But it’s the vision, laid out in proof-of-concept sketches and during door-to-door canvassing conversations, that Seattle housing activists are hoping to make tangible to voters.

Celebrating Collective Courage

January 28, 2025 Malikia Johnson, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Black History, Book Review, Cooperatives, Economic Security

In 2014, the seminal book, Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice debuted, and with it a flame sparked in the cooperative movement. Slowly and then exponentially the book went viral by word of mouth throughout black and brown communities across the U.S. and beyond. It was a “how-to” for self-determination and making an impact in the world that was tangible. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard’s book gave us both the answer to a viable alternative outside of petitions and protests and provided a blueprint for how our ancestors, names both widely known and unknown, paved a path toward cooperative economics.

Amid Bad News For Workers, Win In New Orleans Offers Hope

January 27, 2025 Sarah Jaffe, In These Times. Create! Elections, Labor Movement, Louisiana, New Orleans, Worker Rights and Jobs, Workers Bill of Rights

There’s a little bit of hope in the city, even with grim election results and a grimmer start to the year. A Workers’ Bill of Rights was overwhelmingly approved by voters on Election Day. More than 80% of those who cast a ballot voted to enshrine workers’ rights in the city’s Home Rule charter, the first step in the process of building a real framework for enforcing higher minimum wages, employer-provided healthcare, paid family and sick leave, vacation time and the right to organize. In a state where President Donald Trump won 60% of the vote and where a far-right legislature and governor have preempted many of the possibilities for local action, the Workers’ Bill of Rights offers a blueprint for forward motion under conservative governance.

Sewing Network Shows How Entrepreneurs Can Thrive In Place

January 27, 2025 Ilana Preuss, Next City. Create! entrepreneurship, Pittsburgh, Women, Worker Rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

Despite no formal sewing training and few successful entrepreneurship examples in her neighborhood, Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur Nisha Blackwell has spent the last 10 years using her love of sewing to show her community that successful entrepreneurship is possible. Her boutique bowtie company Knotzland, upcycling rescued textiles and materials into high-quality bows through a distributed production model, shows how small-scale manufacturing can bring new life to struggling neighborhoods.

Meet The Cleaners Taking Control Of Their Work

January 26, 2025 Isaac Phan Nay, The Tyee. Create! Canada, Cooperatives, Low wages, Worker Rights

Lulu Hernández said when she first started working as a cleaner in Vancouver, she just accepted the long hours and low wages that were the industry standard. But two women she met on the job helped her realize her workday could be different, Hernández said. “We were just dreaming about having a company where we are all women and fairly paid and a community,” she said. “We had all these ideas, but we didn’t know what we were creating until we put the name on it.” Hernández is one of the three founders of the Cleaning Co-op. Since incorporating in May 2023, the co-operative has grown to employ about 20 women and gender-diverse employees, including cleaners and administration staff.

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