What Public Banks Can Do for Food Systems
By Matt Stannard, Shareable
A public bank is a government-run financial institution that takes banks' power to create value through lending and turns that power into a public utility, lending at low interest to meet public needs.
The Promise of Worker-Run Farming
By Matt Stannard, Shareable
The success of any worker-run farms will spread because it's easier to be a cooperative entity in places where there are a lot of other cooperative entities
How to Start a Worker-Owned Cooperative Farm
By Matt Stannard, Shareable
Cooperative work structures promote ecologically sustainable farming and create sustainable livelihoods for farmworkers and their communities. Here's a general blueprint for starting a worker-owned cooperative farm...
The 2016 Elections: 6 Takeaways for the Economic Cooperation Movement
By Matt Stannard, Cowboys on the Commons
The election of America’s most prominently parasitic and malicious real estate capitalist to Chief Executive says “this is what happens, Larry.”
People vs. Big Oil: Washington Victory over Shell Oil Signals a Turning Tide
By Matt Stannard, Occupy.com
From Standing Rock Reservation to the Florida Everglades, 2016 has been an unprecedented year in people’s resistance to the fossil fuel economy.
Capitalism Killing You? Income Sharing Could Save our Lives
By Matt Stannard, Occupy.com
Economic insecurity is the American nightmare.
For Economic Justice, Is it Time for Time Exchange?
By Matt Stannard, Occupy.com
Our Village Life’s exchange system lets people purchase and trade goods and services for time as well as money.
It’s Time for a Land Reform Movement
By Matt Stannard, Occupy.com
On a systems level, I am most excited about community land trusts as a way to move land out of the speculative real estate market and into the public trust.