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      Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain

      Two of the regions that were the most brutally repressed under the mid-century dictatorship of Francisco Franco built the world’s largest worker-owned cooperatives

      Putting Public Safety in Public Hands

      Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model To download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player below. A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through...

      The Future is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam

      From Austria to Chile, Lagos to London, people are demanding policies that democratize economies and keep public resources in public hands. In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have...

      How Can Municipal Government Promote Economic Democracy?

      New York, NY... it's a city with close to a $100 billion budget every year and a deputy mayor with some pretty creative plans for how to spend it. What can one city do?...

      Extreme Cities: Ground Zero for Climate Change

      How do we define "love is love," and what are we willing to do to defend one another? This week, we speak with a group of LGBTQIA leaders on just that.

      Chinese Women Then And Now: Yang Lan, China’s Premier TV Anchor

      How do we define "love is love," and what are we willing to do to defend one another? This week, we speak with a group of LGBTQIA leaders on just that.

      Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours.

      Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit has come at a cost to public services and public trust. Could it be different?

      The City as Living Laboratory: Mary Miss

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8HCNVvtNiMIn this excerpt we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist, whose organization, The City as Living Laboratory, strives to empower people to create not the cliché of the sustainable city, she...

      Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCmJcPkpI98 Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? What if more of us did? This week, we visit Mary Miss, a Guggenheim fellow and celebrated artist,...

      A Love Letter to Long Island City

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzpra1HL5YUAmazon might no longer be putting its headquarters here, but Western Queens and specifically, Long Island City are a new frontier for New York City's politicized land battles. A Long Island City preacher's son...

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