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The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM Neoliberalism – the set of economic ideas and policies that have dominated politics for the past 40 years – is rapidly losing legitimacy in the face of multiple crises: stagnant or falling living standards, sharply rising inequality of income and wealth, financial fragility and environmental breakdown. The Global Financial Crisis of2007/08
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORGTHE PRESTON MODEL
The community wealth project also gained growing interest from other local anchor institutions. In 2015, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) signed up to become the seventh member organization.Talks are now underway with the local health trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs Royal Preston Hospital – the area’s biggest employer – and Chorley Hospital. FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community membersJOHN RESTAKIS
John Restakis is executive director of Community Evolution Foundation and former executive director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held for sixteen years. His professional background includes community organizing, adult and popular education, and co-op development. He is adjunct professor atthe
COOPERATIVE BANKING IN CROATIA The Democracy Collaborative’s Adam Simpson and Sarah McKinley sat down with Goran Jeras, one of the lead developers of ebanka, an ethical bank project launching in Croatia, for a conversation about building the institutions of an ethical and sustainable financialsystem.
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The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM Neoliberalism – the set of economic ideas and policies that have dominated politics for the past 40 years – is rapidly losing legitimacy in the face of multiple crises: stagnant or falling living standards, sharply rising inequality of income and wealth, financial fragility and environmental breakdown. The Global Financial Crisis of2007/08
MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORGTHE PRESTON MODEL
The community wealth project also gained growing interest from other local anchor institutions. In 2015, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) signed up to become the seventh member organization.Talks are now underway with the local health trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs Royal Preston Hospital – the area’s biggest employer – and Chorley Hospital. FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community membersJOHN RESTAKIS
John Restakis is executive director of Community Evolution Foundation and former executive director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held for sixteen years. His professional background includes community organizing, adult and popular education, and co-op development. He is adjunct professor atthe
COOPERATIVE BANKING IN CROATIA The Democracy Collaborative’s Adam Simpson and Sarah McKinley sat down with Goran Jeras, one of the lead developers of ebanka, an ethical bank project launching in Croatia, for a conversation about building the institutions of an ethical and sustainable financialsystem.
LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM No other measure captures the legacy—the cumulative disadvantage of race for minorities or cumulative advantage of race for whites—than net worth or wealth.” 9. This “past” history is exacerbated by contemporary forms of systemic racism, as the almost weekly procession of black lives extinguished at the hands of the police have PRINCIPLES OF A PLURALIST COMMONWEALTH Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth: Introduction. If the design of corporate capitalism is unable to sustain values of equality, genuine democracy, liberty, and ecological sustainability as a matter of inherent systemic architecture, what systemic DEMOCRATIC DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE The global spread of COVID-19 has shone a bright spotlight on both the vital need for reliable high-speed internet and the inadequacies of the for-profit, corporate model in delivering it.This paper, the first of four modules on democratic public ownership in the United Kingdom and the US, explores the future of digital infrastructure: the core assets and services upon which the 21st-century THE NEW SYSTEMS READER The New Systems Reader Guide. This free study guide is designed for college courses and study groups. Written by noted professor and civic activist Thad Williamson, the guide is written to help readers think critically, creatively, and synthetically about the diverse, challenging, and wide-ranging ideas within The New Systems Reader andto
TED HOWARD - THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT Ted Howard is the Co-founder and President of The Democracy Collaborative. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Economic Alternatives. In July 2010, Ted was appointed the Steven Minter Senior Fellow for Social Justice at The Cleveland Foundation, a position he held for four years. A HISTORY OF NATIONALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: 1917-2009 Introduction. Climate change is an unprecedented global social, political, and economic crisis. Without drastic action, the United States will likely experience rising sea levels that will regularly flood major cities, more intense weather patterns that will destroy homes and businesses, longer and deeper droughts that will disrupt agricultural production, and an increase in disease that willPUBLIC BANKS
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IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES The special two-part edition of The Next System Podcast features Clark Arrington, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, an innovative legal practitioner, and a leader in the movement for Black economic empowerment. Listen to Part 2 of the podcast here .) He now works as general counsel for The Working World, which provides creative LATIN AMERICA'S "PINK TIDE" AND THE CHALLENGE OF SYSTEMIC Latin America’s “pink tide” and the challenge of systemic change. In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power from Nicaragua to Venezuela to Uruguay and beyond. Several of these governments were able to implement radically THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECTSIGN ONALL COLLECTIONSALL VIDEOSALL STORIESALLREPORTS
The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM No other measure captures the legacy—the cumulative disadvantage of race for minorities or cumulative advantage of race for whites—than net worth or wealth.” 9. This “past” history is exacerbated by contemporary forms of systemic racism, as the almost weekly procession of black lives extinguished at the hands of the police have HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM Neoliberalism – the set of economic ideas and policies that have dominated politics for the past 40 years – is rapidly losing legitimacy in the face of multiple crises: stagnant or falling living standards, sharply rising inequality of income and wealth, financial fragility and environmental breakdown. The Global Financial Crisis of2007/08
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The community wealth project also gained growing interest from other local anchor institutions. In 2015, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) signed up to become the seventh member organization.Talks are now underway with the local health trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs Royal Preston Hospital – the area’s biggest employer – and Chorley Hospital. FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community members GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010. MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORG A NEW HEDONISM: A POST-CONSUMERISM VISION Introduction. Consumerism is the major cause of global warming and wrecking the planet for future generations. It is driven by a growth economy that favors the ever-expanding consumption of the already very affluent and has allowed the gap between the richest and poorest to grow to inflammatory proportions, both within the nation-state andglobally.
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The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM No other measure captures the legacy—the cumulative disadvantage of race for minorities or cumulative advantage of race for whites—than net worth or wealth.” 9. This “past” history is exacerbated by contemporary forms of systemic racism, as the almost weekly procession of black lives extinguished at the hands of the police have HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM Neoliberalism – the set of economic ideas and policies that have dominated politics for the past 40 years – is rapidly losing legitimacy in the face of multiple crises: stagnant or falling living standards, sharply rising inequality of income and wealth, financial fragility and environmental breakdown. The Global Financial Crisis of2007/08
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The community wealth project also gained growing interest from other local anchor institutions. In 2015, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) signed up to become the seventh member organization.Talks are now underway with the local health trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs Royal Preston Hospital – the area’s biggest employer – and Chorley Hospital. FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community members GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010. MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORG A NEW HEDONISM: A POST-CONSUMERISM VISION Introduction. Consumerism is the major cause of global warming and wrecking the planet for future generations. It is driven by a growth economy that favors the ever-expanding consumption of the already very affluent and has allowed the gap between the richest and poorest to grow to inflammatory proportions, both within the nation-state andglobally.
RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM No other measure captures the legacy—the cumulative disadvantage of race for minorities or cumulative advantage of race for whites—than net worth or wealth.” 9. This “past” history is exacerbated by contemporary forms of systemic racism, as the almost weekly procession of black lives extinguished at the hands of the police have PRINCIPLES OF A PLURALIST COMMONWEALTH Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth: Introduction. If the design of corporate capitalism is unable to sustain values of equality, genuine democracy, liberty, and ecological sustainability as a matter of inherent systemic architecture, what systemic ELEMENTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY Elements of the democratic economy. Traditional policies and approaches are demonstrably failing to alter deteriorating long-run trends on income inequality, concentrated wealth, community divestment and displacement, persistent place- and race-based poverty, and environmental destruction. As a consequence, we have witnessed inrecent years an
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CHANGE "THE SYSTEM”? For example, our co-chair Gar Alperovitz has sketched an alternative institutional design he calls “the pluralist commonwealth.” In the short video and free online book below, you can see how this version of a next system works to alter the outcomes produced by concentrated corporate ownership by democratizing the economy. THE NEW SYSTEMS READER The New Systems Reader Guide. This free study guide is designed for college courses and study groups. Written by noted professor and civic activist Thad Williamson, the guide is written to help readers think critically, creatively, and synthetically about the diverse, challenging, and wide-ranging ideas within The New Systems Reader andto
“GIVE THEM THE AMTRAK TREATMENT”: GROWING CALLS FOR March 25, 2020. Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the United States, calls for nationalization of various industries—from the airlines and Big Pharma to the energy grid, hospitals, and entire supply chains—have erupted from even the unlikeliest proponents. We’ve been tracking how, in just the last few weeks, electedofficials
THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM The Democracy Collaborative is excited to have partnered with openDemocracy and Commonwealth Publishing to produce a free e-Book, New Thinking for the British Economy, whose 14 essays will be available in pamphlet form at The World Transformed, a three day festival of ideas and organizing in Liverpool from September 22-25th (which will also feature a number of panels with DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS WITH KATE RAWORTH This week on The Next System Podcast. Adam talks with Kate Raworth about her Doughnut Economics model. The pair discuss economic justice, unpaid labor, the commons, and much more. You can learn more about Doughnut Economics at Kate’s website or purchase the book wherever books are sold. You can also follow Kate on twitter. LATIN AMERICA'S "PINK TIDE" AND THE CHALLENGE OF SYSTEMIC Latin America’s “pink tide” and the challenge of systemic change. In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power from Nicaragua to Venezuela to Uruguay and beyond. Several of these governments were able to implement radically IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES The special two-part edition of The Next System Podcast features Clark Arrington, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, an innovative legal practitioner, and a leader in the movement for Black economic empowerment. Listen to Part 2 of the podcast here .) He now works as general counsel for The Working World, which provides creative THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECTSIGN ONALL COLLECTIONSALL VIDEOSALL STORIESALLREPORTS
The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM 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. HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM ‘New Thinking for the British Economy’ – a new eBook published today by openDemocracy – brings together leading thinkers to outline the broad pillars of a new post-neoliberal agenda, and the type of policies that are needed to get us there. While there are matters for continued contestation, it is clear that a consensus on the broad outlines of a new political economy are beginning to MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORG FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community membersJOHN RESTAKIS
John Restakis is executive director of Community Evolution Foundation and former executive director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held for sixteen years. KATE SOPER - THE NEXT SYSTEM Kate Soper is emerita professor of philosophy at London Metropolitan University. She has published widely on environmental philosophy and theory of needs and consumption. IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES John Duda: I think one of the things that I am really excited to get into is just the way that you have found your way into the cooperative movement, where you came from, how that’s all worked. You were born in Philadelphia. Tell me a little bit about growing up in Philly; what happened? Clark Arrington: Well, I grew up mostly a single parent, my mother, who, God bless her, very competent THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECTSIGN ONALL COLLECTIONSALL VIDEOSALL STORIESALLREPORTS
The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM 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. HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM ‘New Thinking for the British Economy’ – a new eBook published today by openDemocracy – brings together leading thinkers to outline the broad pillars of a new post-neoliberal agenda, and the type of policies that are needed to get us there. While there are matters for continued contestation, it is clear that a consensus on the broad outlines of a new political economy are beginning to MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORG FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community membersJOHN RESTAKIS
John Restakis is executive director of Community Evolution Foundation and former executive director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held for sixteen years. KATE SOPER - THE NEXT SYSTEM Kate Soper is emerita professor of philosophy at London Metropolitan University. She has published widely on environmental philosophy and theory of needs and consumption. IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES John Duda: I think one of the things that I am really excited to get into is just the way that you have found your way into the cooperative movement, where you came from, how that’s all worked. You were born in Philadelphia. Tell me a little bit about growing up in Philly; what happened? Clark Arrington: Well, I grew up mostly a single parent, my mother, who, God bless her, very competent LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM Las políticas y prácticas tradicionales evidentemente nos están fallando frente a las tendencias decadentes de largo plazo en cuanto a la desigualdad de ingresos, la concentración de la riqueza, la desinversión y desplazamiento de las comunidades, la pobreza persistente con carácter racial y geog read more RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM Why must the United States confront its long history of systemic racism? In a country as diverse as the United States, a short entry cannot do justice to the complex racial history of our nation—from Japanese internment during World War II to the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression.1 Therefore, the following is a necessarily partial and THE NEW SYSTEMS READER This free study guide is designed for college courses and study groups. Written by noted professor and civic activist Thad Williamson, the guide is written to help readers think critically, creatively, and synthetically about the diverse, challenging, and wide-ranging ideas within The New Systems Reader and to develop concrete steps toward realizing their own visions of a better future. THE INDEX OF SYSTEMIC TRENDS One of the signs that a crisis is systemic, rather than purely political or economic, is that key indicators decline or stay the same regardless of changes in political power or business cycles. This first edition of the Index of Systemic Trends is an effort to quantify, track, and visualize this crisis. It shows the need to move in the direction of a new system that can and will produceTHE PRESTON MODEL
The community wealth project also gained growing interest from other local anchor institutions. In 2015, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) signed up to become the seventh member organization.Talks are now underway with the local health trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs Royal Preston Hospital – the area’s biggest employer – and Chorley Hospital. TED HOWARD - THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT Ted Howard is the Co-founder and President of The Democracy Collaborative. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Economic Alternatives.PUBLIC BANKS
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The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM The Democracy Collaborative is excited to have partnered with openDemocracy and Commonwealth Publishing to produce a free e-Book, New Thinking for the British Economy, whose 14 essays will be available in pamphlet form at The World Transformed, a three day festival of ideas and organizing in Liverpool from September 22-25th (which will also feature a number of panels with GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010. FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community members MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORGJOHN RESTAKIS
John Restakis is executive director of Community Evolution Foundation and former executive director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held for sixteen years. His professional background includes community organizing, adult and popular education, and co-op development. He is adjunct professor atthe
IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES The special two-part edition of The Next System Podcast features Clark Arrington, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, an innovative legal practitioner, and a leader in the movement for Black economic empowerment. Listen to Part 2 of the podcast here .) He now works as general counsel for The Working World, which provides creative COOPERATIVE BANKING IN CROATIA The Democracy Collaborative’s Adam Simpson and Sarah McKinley sat down with Goran Jeras, one of the lead developers of ebanka, an ethical bank project launching in Croatia, for a conversation about building the institutions of an ethical and sustainable financialsystem.
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The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM The Democracy Collaborative is excited to have partnered with openDemocracy and Commonwealth Publishing to produce a free e-Book, New Thinking for the British Economy, whose 14 essays will be available in pamphlet form at The World Transformed, a three day festival of ideas and organizing in Liverpool from September 22-25th (which will also feature a number of panels with GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010. FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community members MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORGJOHN RESTAKIS
John Restakis is executive director of Community Evolution Foundation and former executive director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held for sixteen years. His professional background includes community organizing, adult and popular education, and co-op development. He is adjunct professor atthe
IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES The special two-part edition of The Next System Podcast features Clark Arrington, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, an innovative legal practitioner, and a leader in the movement for Black economic empowerment. Listen to Part 2 of the podcast here .) He now works as general counsel for The Working World, which provides creative COOPERATIVE BANKING IN CROATIA The Democracy Collaborative’s Adam Simpson and Sarah McKinley sat down with Goran Jeras, one of the lead developers of ebanka, an ethical bank project launching in Croatia, for a conversation about building the institutions of an ethical and sustainable financialsystem.
RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM Why must the United States confront its long history of systemic racism? In a country as diverse as the United States, a short entry cannot do justice to the complex racial history of our nation—from Japanese internment during World War II to the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression.1 Therefore, the following is a necessarily partial and THE INDEX OF SYSTEMIC TRENDS One of the signs that a crisis is systemic, rather than purely political or economic, is that key indicators decline or stay the same regardless of changes in political power or business cycles. This first edition of the Index of Systemic Trends is an effort to quantify, track, and visualize this crisis. It shows the need to move in the direction of a new system that can and will produce THE NEW SYSTEMS READER The New Systems Reader Guide. This free study guide is designed for college courses and study groups. Written by noted professor and civic activist Thad Williamson, the guide is written to help readers think critically, creatively, and synthetically about the diverse, challenging, and wide-ranging ideas within The New Systems Reader andto
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The community wealth project also gained growing interest from other local anchor institutions. In 2015, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) signed up to become the seventh member organization.Talks are now underway with the local health trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs Royal Preston Hospital – the area’s biggest employer – and Chorley Hospital. TED HOWARD - THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT Ted Howard is the Co-founder and President of The Democracy Collaborative. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Economic Alternatives. In July 2010, Ted was appointed the Steven Minter Senior Fellow for Social Justice at The Cleveland Foundation, a position he held for four years.PUBLIC BANKS
A public bank is a financial institution owned by and accountable to the people through their representative government (e.g. a municipality, state or country). Public banks receive their revenue through mechanisms set by the jurisdictions that run them. They invest, lend, and provide banking services, often at below-marketrates and sometimes
A HISTORY OF NATIONALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: 1917-2009 Introduction. Climate change is an unprecedented global social, political, and economic crisis. Without drastic action, the United States will likely experience rising sea levels that will regularly flood major cities, more intense weather patterns that will destroy homes and businesses, longer and deeper droughts that will disrupt agricultural production, and an increase in disease that will PATTERNS FOR COOPERATIVE NETWORKS AND ASSOCIATIONS Incubation hub. In an incubation hub pattern, a central node is responsible for developing new cooperative businesses, providing them with a range of supports that can include fiscal sponsorship, back-office services, business development, marketing, and training, with the goal of launching the incubated cooperatives as independent financial entities once they are ready to stand on their own. KATE SOPER - THE NEXT SYSTEM Kate Soper is emerita professor of philosophy at London Metropolitan University. She has published widely on environmental philosophy and theory of needs and consumption. More recent books include What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Blackwell, 1995), Citizenship and Consumption (co-editor, Palgrave, 2007) and ThePolitics and
JAMIE HARVIE
Jamie Harvie, P.E., is the Executive Director of the Duluth, MN based Institute for a Sustainable Future (ISF) and founder of the Commons Health Network.He is nationally recognized for his extensive experience at the nexus of health, community, environment and healthcare.
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The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM No other measure captures the legacy—the cumulative disadvantage of race for minorities or cumulative advantage of race for whites—than net worth or wealth.” 9. This “past” history is exacerbated by contemporary forms of systemic racism, as the almost weekly procession of black lives extinguished at the hands of the police have PRINCIPLES OF A PLURALIST COMMONWEALTH Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth: Introduction. If the design of corporate capitalism is unable to sustain values of equality, genuine democracy, liberty, and ecological sustainability as a matter of inherent systemic architecture, what systemic HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010.THE PRESTON MODEL
The community wealth project also gained growing interest from other local anchor institutions. In 2015, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) signed up to become the seventh member organization.Talks are now underway with the local health trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs Royal Preston Hospital – the area’s biggest employer – and Chorley Hospital. MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORG FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community members IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES The special two-part edition of The Next System Podcast features Clark Arrington, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, an innovative legal practitioner, and a leader in the movement for Black economic empowerment. Listen to Part 2 of the podcast here .) He now works as general counsel for The Working World, which provides creative THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECTSIGN ONALL COLLECTIONSALL VIDEOSALL STORIESALLREPORTS
The New Systems Reader highlights some of the most thoughtful, substantive, and promising answers to these questions as the world grapples with the effects of a global pandemic on top of the looming climate crisis, chronic structural racism, and worsening wealth inequities.The book draws on the work and ideas of some of the world’s key thinkers and activists on systemic change. LEARN - THE NEXT SYSTEM by Dana Brown, Tinashe Goronga, Siddhartha Mehta. For decades, we have been sold a myth of private health. It is a myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities. It is a myth that our healthcare is a service that private corporations can provide, and for which we must pay to survive. RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM No other measure captures the legacy—the cumulative disadvantage of race for minorities or cumulative advantage of race for whites—than net worth or wealth.” 9. This “past” history is exacerbated by contemporary forms of systemic racism, as the almost weekly procession of black lives extinguished at the hands of the police have PRINCIPLES OF A PLURALIST COMMONWEALTH Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth: Introduction. If the design of corporate capitalism is unable to sustain values of equality, genuine democracy, liberty, and ecological sustainability as a matter of inherent systemic architecture, what systemic HOW LOCALITIES CAN SAVE SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH LOCAL 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. One such indicator is a survey done by the popular business review site Yelp, which in July 2020 reported that of the businesses that announced that they were closing due to COVID-19 restrictions, 55% of them will not reopen. GUS SPETH - THE NEXT SYSTEM James Gustave “Gus” Speth is Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. In 2009 he completed his decade-long tenure as Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and joined the Vermont Law School in 2010.THE PRESTON MODEL
The community wealth project also gained growing interest from other local anchor institutions. In 2015, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) signed up to become the seventh member organization.Talks are now underway with the local health trust, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, which runs Royal Preston Hospital – the area’s biggest employer – and Chorley Hospital. MULTI-STAKEHOLDER COOPERATIVESEE MORE ON THENEXTSYSTEM.ORG FIGHTING GENTRIFICATION AND DISPLACEMENT: EMERGING BEST The Douglass Community Land Trust in Washington is based in the largely Black and low-income neighborhood of Anacostia. After years of organizing and community outreach, the CLT was incorporated in late 2019 to push back against the expected development pressures wrought by the 11th Street Bridge Park, slated to open in 2023. To preserve their homes in the CLT, community members IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES The special two-part edition of The Next System Podcast features Clark Arrington, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, an innovative legal practitioner, and a leader in the movement for Black economic empowerment. Listen to Part 2 of the podcast here .) He now works as general counsel for The Working World, which provides creative RACE - THE NEXT SYSTEM Why must the United States confront its long history of systemic racism? In a country as diverse as the United States, a short entry cannot do justice to the complex racial history of our nation—from Japanese internment during World War II to the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression.1 Therefore, the following is a necessarily partial and PRINCIPLES OF A PLURALIST COMMONWEALTH Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth: Introduction. If the design of corporate capitalism is unable to sustain values of equality, genuine democracy, liberty, and ecological sustainability as a matter of inherent systemic architecture, what systemicOUR STAFF/FELLOWS
Fellow. Fellow, The Democracy Collaborative; Associate Professor of History, Miami University of Ohio. View Profile. THE NEW SYSTEMS READER The New Systems Reader Guide. This free study guide is designed for college courses and study groups. Written by noted professor and civic activist Thad Williamson, the guide is written to help readers think critically, creatively, and synthetically about the diverse, challenging, and wide-ranging ideas within The New Systems Reader andto
PUBLIC BANKS
A public bank is a financial institution owned by and accountable to the people through their representative government (e.g. a municipality, state or country). Public banks receive their revenue through mechanisms set by the jurisdictions that run them. They invest, lend, and provide banking services, often at below-marketrates and sometimes
THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEOLIBERALISM Neoliberalism – the set of economic ideas and policies that have dominated politics for the past 40 years – is rapidly losing legitimacy in the face of multiple crises: stagnant or falling living standards, sharply rising inequality of income and wealth, financial fragility and environmental breakdown. The Global Financial Crisis of2007/08
DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS WITH KATE RAWORTH This week on The Next System Podcast. Adam talks with Kate Raworth about her Doughnut Economics model. The pair discuss economic justice, unpaid labor, the commons, and much more. You can learn more about Doughnut Economics at Kate’s website or purchase the book wherever books are sold. You can also follow Kate on twitter.JOHN RESTAKIS
John Restakis is executive director of Community Evolution Foundation and former executive director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association in Vancouver, a position he held for sixteen years. His professional background includes community organizing, adult and popular education, and co-op development. He is adjunct professor atthe
A HISTORY OF NATIONALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: 1917-2009 Nationalization is the process. of bringing previously privately controlled assets (businesses, land, real estate, services, natural resources, etc.) under public authority. While a shift in con- trol is often associated with a transfer of ownership, as LATIN AMERICA'S "PINK TIDE" AND THE CHALLENGE OF SYSTEMIC Latin America’s “pink tide” and the challenge of systemic change. In the late 1990s and the 2000s, Latin America experienced a “pink tide” of sorts, with a number of self-proclaimed socialist governments coming to power from Nicaragua to Venezuela to Uruguay and beyond. Several of these governments were able to implement radically Skip to main content The Next System Project* About
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December 19, 2019
MAJOR ADVANCES IN 2019 TOWARD A MORE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMYby Juliana Broad
This past year, state and municipal lawmakers teamed up with community organizations to fight for—and win—a wide variety of policies and initiatives that will help foster a more democratic economy. read more Democratic Ownership Money &Banking
December 11, 2019
SYSTEM CHANGE MAGAZINE HIGHLIGHTS A YEAR OF BOLD IDEAS The Democracy Collaborative and the Next System Project has published System Change, a magazine that captures the bold ideas and groundbreaking work of our leaders and scholars in 2019. read more Democracy & Governance Democratic Ownership Environment & Energy Health & Wellbeing Money & BankingDecember 17, 2019
THROUGH THE KITCHEN WINDOW: A VISION OF A NEW AMERICAby Gus Speth
I had something like a vision not long ago as I was enjoying my breakfast. It began when I looked out the kitchen window and saw, instead of my front yard, a community going about its everyday affairs. read more Democracy & GovernanceNovember 22, 2019
BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH GLOBALLY: THE KIGOMA-PRESTON COLLABORATIONby Michaela Collord
Advancing the democratic economy in Tanzania with the help of an international politics of solidarity and co-creation. read more Community & Place Movement Strategy& History
November 20, 2019
IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES AND BLACK ECONOMIC POWER (PART 1) by John Duda, Clark Arrington An exclusive conversation with a pioneer in the cooperative movement in both the US and Africa and a leader in the fight for Black economic power. read moreNovember 4, 2019
A HISTORY OF NATIONALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: 1917-2009by Thomas Hanna
The United States has a long and rich tradition of nationalizing private enterprise, especially during times of economic and social crisis. read more Public Planning DemocraticOwnership
PRINCIPLES OF A PLURALIST COMMONWEALTHby 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 Democratic Ownership ELEMENTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY An entry point for all those looking to understand the various building blocks of the democratic economy currently being constructed from the ground up in communities across our nation and around the world. read more THE NEXT SYSTEM PODCAST The Next System Podcast, hosted by Adam Simpson, features conversations with leading thinkers and activists about movements, models, and pathways toward a new system. read moreSeptember 10, 2019
MEDICINE FOR ALL: THE CASE FOR A PUBLIC OPTION IN THE PHARMACEUTICALINDUSTRY
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Democratic, public ownership of pharmaceutical development, production, and distribution in the U.S. is necessary to combat the increasingly harmful impacts of Big Pharma which decades of regulation have failed to counteract. read moreHealth & Wellbeing
TAKING CLIMATE ACTION TO THE NEXT LEVEL by Gus Speth, Carla Skandier, Johanna Bozuwa Real climate leadership means changing the system in ways that get to the root causes of climate change and other societal ills. Three groundbreaking and complementary interventions could transform the power structures that promote and enable our problematic energy and political-economic systems: quantitative easing for the planet, public ownership for energy democracy, and anchor strategies for the energy transition. read more Environment & EnergyMay 20, 2019
THE INDEX OF SYSTEMIC TRENDS One of the signs that a crisis is systemic, rather than purely political or economic, is that key indicators decline or stay the same regardless of changes in political power or business cycles. This first edition of the Index of Systemic Trends is an effort to quantify, track, and visualize this crisis. It shows the need to move in the direction of a new system that can and will produce better outcomes. read more Health & Wellbeing Democracy & Governance Race & EthnicityMoney & Banking
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BALTIMORE COMMUNITY PROJECT THREATENED AS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CONSIDERS NEW BUYER FOR UNUSED PROPERTY. by Luís Garcia de la Cadena BALTIMORE, MD – After months of negotiation over sale of two unused properties with the United Methodist Church in Baltimore, the Village of Love and Resistance (VOLAR) read moreDecember 19, 2019
MAJOR ADVANCES IN 2019 TOWARD A MORE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMYby Juliana Broad
This past year, state and municipal lawmakers teamed up with community organizations to fight for—and win—a wide variety of policies and initiatives that will help foster a more democratic economy. read more Democratic Ownership Money &Banking
December 17, 2019
THROUGH THE KITCHEN WINDOW: A VISION OF A NEW AMERICAby Gus Speth
I had something like a vision not long ago as I was enjoying my breakfast. It began when I looked out the kitchen window and saw, instead of my front yard, a community going about its everyday affairs. read more Democracy & GovernanceDecember 11, 2019
SYSTEM CHANGE MAGAZINE HIGHLIGHTS A YEAR OF BOLD IDEAS The Democracy Collaborative and the Next System Project has published System Change, a magazine that captures the bold ideas and groundbreaking work of our leaders and scholars in 2019. read more Democracy & Governance Democratic Ownership Environment & Energy Health & Wellbeing Money & BankingNovember 22, 2019
BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH GLOBALLY: THE KIGOMA-PRESTON COLLABORATIONby Michaela Collord
Advancing the democratic economy in Tanzania with the help of an international politics of solidarity and co-creation. read more Community & Place Movement Strategy& History
November 20, 2019
IN DEPTH WITH CLARK ARRINGTON, A PIONEER FOR COOPERATIVES AND BLACK ECONOMIC POWER (PART 1) by John Duda, Clark Arrington An exclusive conversation with a pioneer in the cooperative movement in both the US and Africa and a leader in the fight for Black economic power. read morelearn
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November 22, 2019
BUILDING COMMUNITY WEALTH GLOBALLY: THE KIGOMA-PRESTON COLLABORATIONby Michaela Collord
Advancing the democratic economy in Tanzania with the help of an international politics of solidarity and co-creation. read more Community & Place Movement Strategy& History
November 4, 2019
A HISTORY OF NATIONALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: 1917-2009by Thomas Hanna
The United States has a long and rich tradition of nationalizing private enterprise, especially during times of economic and social crisis. read more Public Planning DemocraticOwnership
September 19, 2019
THE BRITISH DIGITAL COOPERATIVE: A NEW MODEL PUBLIC SECTORINSTITUTION
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The tech giants aren’t going to save democracy—we need public investment in digital infrastructure and innovation. read more Democracy & GovernanceSeptember 10, 2019
MEDICINE FOR ALL: THE CASE FOR A PUBLIC OPTION IN THE PHARMACEUTICALINDUSTRY
by Dana Brown
Democratic, public ownership of pharmaceutical development, production, and distribution in the U.S. is necessary to combat the increasingly harmful impacts of Big Pharma which decades of regulation have failed to counteract. read moreHealth & Wellbeing
June 21, 2019
CONSTRUCTING THE DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC ENTERPRISE by Thomas Hanna, Andrew Cumbers This response to the Labour Party’s Consultation on Democratic Public Ownership sets out the key features of what existing research and experience tells us works for creating democratic forms of public enterprise. read more Democratic Ownership Democracy& Governance
June 12, 2019
DEMOCRATIC OWNERSHIP FUNDS: CREATING SHARED WEALTH AND POWER by Peter Gowan, Mat Lawrence An introduction to the various (and often complementary) models for creating ownership funds at different scales and with different characteristics, designed to reshape company ownership so that it is democratic, inclusive, and purposeful by design. read more Democratic OwnershipAll Reports
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