Skip the doordash w/ Mansib Rahman
Mansib Rahman, CEO of Montreal-based food delivery and logistics startup Radish.coop, joins Dru to discuss cooperative governance, member al...
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20 of 25 episodesHow to organize a union w/ Aminah Sheikh
Union organizer and activist Aminah Sheikh (@simplyaminah) join Dru Oja Jay to discuss the elements of organizing a workplace, the transform...
Meidner-ing at night w/ Shannon Ikebe
There's a lot to learn from Sweden's Meidner Plan, which would have phased in worker ownership over 30 years. As a followup to our episode w...
Working the co-op and trusting the land w/ Yuill Herbert
Yuill Herbert, a co-founder and long-time worker member at Sustainability Solutions Group, joins us to talk about life in an expanding co-op...
Ecologies of Worker Cooperation w/ Esteban Kelly
Esteban Kelly, Executive Director of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, joins Dru Oja Jay to discuss the state of the worker cooperat...
The Meidner Plan w/ Joe Guinan
The Meidner Plan was a transformative plan proposed by Swedish trade unions in the mid-1970s to gradually transfer ownership of mid-sized an...
Tame, smash or escape? Post-capitalist popular education w/ Amrita Wassan & Francisco Perez
-- Recorded July 2023 -- Amrita Wassan is the Senior Director Programs at Center for Economic Democracy (CED), and they are an educator, org...
Penitentiary of the Self w/ Matt Christman
Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House, the Cush Vlog, and Hell on Earth joins Dru Jay to discuss the tyranny of the self, fear of death and h...
Moving a city, moving an economy w/ Cheyenna Weber
Moving a city, moving an economy w/ Cheyenna Weber A bit over a decade ago, it was just a handful of people speaking the phrase "solidarity...
The cooperative food system we need w/ Shylah Wolfe
The global food crisis is—according to most available indicators—just getting warmed up. Shylah Wolfe has participated in many cooperatives...
Communal socialism in Venezuela w/ Chris Gilbert
Venezuelan communes—where productive activities are controlled by a range of community assemblies—are fascinating examples of socialist forc...
Cuba's farming cooperatives and types of solidarity w/ Federica Bono
Cuba’s thousands of agricultural cooperatives are responsible for about 56% of Cuba’s growing land, and employ an estimated 300,000 cooperat...
Mountain Equipment Catastrophe w/ Kevin Harding
Dru Oja Jay is joined by Kevin Harding, one of the organizers of a spirited, hail-mary attempt to save Mountain Equipment Co-op from being s...
We sought the law (and the law won): Policy advocacy and cooperatives w/ Mo Manklang
Dru Oja Jay is joined by Mo Manklang of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives to discuss recent changes to federal legislation championed...
House of the Mondragon: What happens when the world's biggest worker co-op expands abroad?
Dru is joined by Carmen Marcuello and Anjel Errasti, authors of some interesting publications about Mondragon's expansion abroad. We talk ab...
Ukraine's foreign debt and why we should cancel it w/ Elliot Dolan-Evans
I've been working on a Ukraine episode for a while. After an interview with Yulia Yurchenko (whose book Elliot recommends at the end) was un...
How the left can govern w/ Gopal Dayaneni
Organizer, teacher, co-founder of Movement Generation and co-organizer of Seed Commons and Peoples' Solar Energy Fund, Gopal is a key facili...
Art & artists in the solidarity economy w/ Marina Lopez of Art.coop
Dancer, bodyworker, somatic educator and Art.coop co-organizer Marina Lopez joins us for episode 8 of Half Past Capitalism. Marina has been...
Lessons from the last 529 years w/ Justin Podur of the Anti-Empire Project
Justin Podur has been poring over the details of world history with his comrade and former teacher, and sharing the results on the Anti-Empi...
Tactics for a cooperative digital commons w/ Evan Henshaw-Plath
Evan Henshaw-Plath was one of the key organizers of the Indymedia network, employee #1 at Twitter, and started two worker co-ops and a bunch...