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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
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Closed permanently due to COVID-19

How localities can save small businesses through 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
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Circles rising above a cityscape

Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth

by Gar Alperovitz

Our time demands we meet the challenges inherent in an era of deepening despair and accelerating crises—political, ecological, and economic—that is also potentially the prehistory of transformative and fundamental systemic change. read more
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Democratic public ownership panel

Ownership futures

Public ownership of railways and road networks, land and natural resources, water and electricity utilities, and banking and postal services helped build the infrastructure, institutions, and technologies of the mid-20th century. Today, public ownership once again has a key role to play in laying the foundations for a transformative and prosperous 21st-century economy. read more
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The Next System Podcast

The Next System Podcast

The Next System Podcast features conversations with leading thinkers and activists about movements, models, and pathways toward a new system. read more
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Online Roundtable: Nationalization

We’ll be sorting out the surprising history of nationalization in the US, the demands currently on the table, and what we need to know in order to make sure nationalization is used to make a more democratic economy, not set up a post-crisis reconsolidation of corporate power. read more
Economic Update host Richard Wolff interviews John Duda

Worker co-ops rising

Democracy Collaborative communications director John Duda explains in this edition of “Economic Update with Richard Wolff” how worker cooperatives have become a rising movement that is shaping mainstream economic development strategy around the country. read more
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Joe Guinan on Raising Incomes panel

The role of worker ownership in raising incomes

by Isaiah J. Poole

The Next System Project’s Joe Guinan called for a “democratic ownership revolution” at a Washington forum organized to discuss strategies for addressing extreme wealth inequality in the United States. read more
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Out of time

Out of Time: The case for nationalizing the fossil fuel industry

by Mark Paul, Carla Skandier, Rory Renzy

With oil prices collapsing and firms’ market values plunging, the government can once again use a policy weapon that has in the past been successful in overcoming social and economic unrest. read more
Environment & Energy Democratic Ownership
Democratic digital infrastructure

Democratic digital infrastructure

by Mat Lawrence, Thomas Hanna, Miriam Brett, Adrienne Buller

We need to build a digital landscape that provides world-class connection to all and is sustainable, privacy-enhancing, rights-preserving, innovative, and democratic by design. This report makes the case for democratic public ownership of the foundational digital infrastructures of the 21st century. read more
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The case for public ownership of the fossil fuel industry

The case for public ownership of the fossil fuel industry

by Johanna Bozuwa

Instead of bailing out the fossil fuel industry in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the U.S. government should assert long-term ownership and control of the industry to ensure an eventual managed phase-out of coal, oil, and gas production. read more
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