A Co-op Story: Green Worker Co-op Academy
For our New Economy series The Laura Flanders Show at GRITtv is highlighting solutions to our economically precarious times. Cooperatives have demonstrated the great power in working together, and this...
View ArticleAfter Sandy: Re-Building Co-operatively [CLIP]
This week, 12 months after Hurricane Sandy, GRITtv looks at rebuilding in the Rockaways. A peninsula of Long Island, NY which was particularly hard bit by the storm, whole sections of the Rockaways...
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Solidarity NYC: Participatory Budgeting in Harlem
In this video by Solidarity NYC, the spotlight shines on the organization Community Voices Heard which implemented a policy called participatory budgeting. Participatory budgeting is a democratic...
View Article2013 in Review: Chomsky, Trumka & Co-ops!
Author/activist Laura Flanders looks back at another year of GRITtv, featuring clips of interviews with professor Noam Chomsky, on President Obama's terrorism, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka on the...
View ArticleWorking Today: Juggling Jobs, Fighting Fear
Employed or officially "unemployed" Americans work too damn hard. That's what we heard when six New Yorkers talked to GRITtv with Laura Flanders about their working lives. This week, on GRITtv, those...
View ArticleChris Mackin: Creating Economic Democracy
At GRITtv, through our focus on Commonomics, we have explored worker-owned cooperatives in depth, but not often the ways in which worker co-ops fall short, or the other options for a democratic...
View ArticleOwn The Change [Trailer Release]
Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Coop at a Time is a joint project of GRITtv and the Toolbox for Education and Social Action. It is not simply a film about the lives of coop...
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