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Liberating Roots with Rootbound Film Project

Posted on November 2, 2026

Right now, reading our 95-page screenplay, I see the animate force of our film’s story emerging, bristling with roots straining against concrete and capitalist malaise; stretching through the Sonoma and Mendo woods to the wild sovereign spaces with older names, beyond all maps; and reaching back to our Bay Area’s... Continue Reading

Reflection on New Economy Coalition's Assembly for Our Future

Posted on October 27, 2026

Late July in North Carolina most years swelters, a muggy, peak heat experience, with the occasional warm summer rainshower. But the 160+ organizers, co-op owners, teachers, artists, facilitators, and more who converged on Durham for the New Economy Coalition People’s Assembly arrived in a cool, gray city at the peak... Continue Reading

Solidarity Economy Shorts #9: Democratizing Law, Land, & Labor with SELC

Posted on October 26, 2026

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Cooperatives as Incubators of Democracy

Posted on September 1, 2026

We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protestedbut not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I wasin my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside... Continue Reading

Podcast: Redneck Gone Green with Hasmik Geghamyan

Posted on August 17, 2026

(Hosted by Democracy At Work) Staff Attorney Hasmik Geghamyan shares in this podcast: "We've all grown up in places where sharing resources and ways of life was in solidarity with each other. We have to resurface what it is and what it means in these times. Instead of trying to... Continue Reading

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