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Protesters from the No PG&E Bailout Coalition

Power to the People: Winning public control of electric utilities

by Juliana Broad

Alternatives to our broken corporate energy system are gaining traction—here’s a breakdown of where people are fighting back, and where they are winning public ownership of power. read more
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Bologna, Emilia Romagna. Photo by Tomas Kohl.

La Región de Italia Donde Las Cooperativas Producen una Tercera parte de su Producto Interno Bruto (PIB)

by John Duda

Seis cosas que podemos aprender de la región del norte de Italia, Emilia Romagna, donde las cooperativas impulsan la economía. read more
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Rise against predatory landlords

The homes guarantee: A promise of housing for people, not profit

by Adam Simpson, Stephanie Bastek, Tiana Caldwell, Peter Gowan, Tara Raghuveer, Christy Respress

We talk to people at the front lines of the nation’s housing affordability crisis and activists fighting for a “homes guarantee,” a set of systemic solutions based on the principle that housing is a human right. read more
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The Plan For A National Homes Guarantee

Addressing the nation’s housing crisis requires a plan that enables everyone to have safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing. read more
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Video: Community Land Trust

by Jarrid Green

CLTs are nonprofit organizations that acquire and steward land in a “trust” for the permanent benefit of low-income communities. This video explains what they can achieve. read more
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Video: Resident-Owned Community

by Jarrid Green

Resident-owned communities (ROCs)—manufactured housing neighborhoods in which the land is community-owned and managed–are one of the leading sources of affordable housing in the U.S. This video explains their benefits. read more
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Video: Limited Equity Housing Cooperative

by Jarrid Green

A limited equity housing cooperative is a residential development owned and managed by a democratically governed, nonprofit cooperative corporation, such as a tenants’ union. This video show how they help keep housing affordable over the long term. read more
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Illustration of groups of people connected by lines

The Pluralist Commonwealth

by Gar Alperovitz

In this video, Next System Project Co-chair Gar Alperovitz sketches the major institutions of a systemic alternative based in plural forms of democratic ownership, orientated around community at various scales—what he calls “The Pluralist Commonwealth.” read more
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Prisons and policing: systemic challenges and alternative visions

What can advocates for a more democratic economy learn from the movements for the abolition of prisons and policing? read more
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Building community wealth globally: The Kigoma-Preston collaboration

by Michaela Collord

Advancing the democratic economy in Tanzania with the help of an international politics of solidarity and co-creation. read more
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Community Control of Land and Housing

by Jarrid Green

Exploring strategies for combating displacement, expanding ownership, and building community wealth. read more
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The Joyful Economy

The Joyful Economy

by Gus Speth

Next System Project Co-chair Gus Speth explores a vision for the future in which the goal of economic life is to sustain, nourish, and restore human and natural communities, so that the material and non-material blessings of life are available to all. read more
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Cultivating Community Economies

Cultivating Community Economies

by J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Kelly Dombroski, Stephen Healy, Ethan Miller

In this paper, J.K. Gibson-Graham and Community Economies Collective (CEC) members use Marx’s analysis of “class as a process” (of producing, appropriating, and distributing surplus) to unpack the diversity of economies that exist in any historical or geographic context. read more
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