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Pharmacist holding medicines

Four steps toward reclaiming public medicine for public health

by Dana Brown, Alex Lawson, Christopher Morten, Fran Quigley

Now is the time to redesign our medicines system around open science practices, full-cycle public pharmaceutical production, compulsory licensing, and public ownership of the vaccine industry. read more
Health & Wellbeing Democratic Ownership

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Defund militarized police

Defund the militarization of local police and fund community needs instead

by Peter Gowan

One way to defund and demilitarize police departments is to end the federal law known as Section 1033, which enables the transfer of military equipment—weapons of war—to local police departments that have used them against Black Lives Matter protesters. read more
Democracy & Governance Race & Ethnicity
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How localities can save small businesses through local economy preservation funds

by Marjorie Kelly

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold in the US through the summer of 2020, evidence mounts that the pandemic has become an extinction event for small businesses. read more
Community & Place Democratic Ownership
Solidarity economy

System Change: A basic primer to the solidarity economy

by Emily Kawano, Julie Matthaei

There is a great deal of confusion about both what socialism and capitalism mean. Here is a look at different systems or models of socialism, capitalism, and solidarity economy, a post-capitalist framework that emerged in Latin America and Europe in the 1990s. read more
Democratic Ownership Movement Strategy & History
BRESCO protest

The nation’s first “fair development” zero waste plan 

by Nicole Fabricant, Heather Hax

In a south Baltimore neighborhood, a powerful, youth-led coalition helped spearhead the first Zero Waste Plan developed by and for U.S. grassroots communities that want to transition from an economy of extraction to one of reuse and regeneration. read more
Environment & Energy Community & Place
Public holding company

Public holding company

by Peter Gowan

The effects of a local firm facing economic disaster can ripple destructively through a community. Public holding companies could take either partial or full ownership positions in distressed firms to prevent the economic and social dislocations associated with liquidation or collapse. read more
Democratic Ownership Community & Place
Hundred dollar bills in the shadows

A reading list for taking on financialization

by Sean Estelle

One of the most important parts of a program for building power to take on the financial industry must be one of political education. read more
Money & Banking Democracy & Governance
Oil well

The movement to nationalize the fossil fuel industry: a timeline

by Juliana Broad

An interactive timeline chronicles key moments in the movement to advance the nationalization of the fossil fuel industry, which would enable a managed just transition to renewable energy. read more
Environment & Energy Democratic Ownership

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Postal banking

Use the post office as a banking lifeline

by Will Flagle

A postal banking system in which everyone can have an account could provide quick access to emergency support for the millions of people without bank accounts forced to wait months for a stimulus check from the government.   read more
Money & Banking Democracy & Governance