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Half Past Capitalism
by Dru Jay
Talking to people building alternatives to capitalism, as if that was possible.RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/47dab294/podcast/rssPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/halfpastcapitalism
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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 allegiances, equity and IPOs in cooperatives, and how we can transform the food system.
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How 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 transformative process that results, and how that could open onto international solidarity and an anti-capitalist imagination.Sheikh currently works as an organizer...
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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 with Joe Guinan, Dru Oja Jay spoke to Shannon Ikebe about some of the new archival materials about the Meidner plan, and insights it contains for current...
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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, and the 100-acre land trust he also helped start. Sustainability Solutions Group: https://www.ssg.coop/ Podcast links:...
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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 cooperative movement, the ecological approach to organizing, the evolution of equity discourse and its neglected revolutionary origins, and more. The USFCW:...
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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 and large businesses to their workers, and subsequently to workers at large. Dru Jay is joined by Joe Guinan, the President at The Democracy Collaborative and...
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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, organizer and solidarity economy practitioner. Francisco Perez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and he’s director of the Center...
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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 horizons of post-capitalism. Check out Matt's vlogs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5ddgvszig&list=PLhxUDrMFUqyMQSozC1ES-Q4BkT8MJbY_1
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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 economy" in New York City in an intentional way. Today, the concept has gained considerable traction, but obstacles loom as successes accumulate. Cheyenna...
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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 in the food sector, and with the Concordia Food Coalition, is involved in the establishment of a non-profit food institution at Concordia University. She…
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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 forces experimenting with the creation of new social forms. Venezuela's communes are an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of cooperatives and…
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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 cooperative worker members. Some observers say the cooperatives more efficient than the state-owned parts of Cuba's agricultural production. Federica Bono is an...
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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 sold off to a US private equity firm. Before its assets were sold (and the member list apparently destroyed), the outdoor supplies cooperative had reached an...
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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 by various cooperative organizations, and how laws can be changed further. Mo is the Communications Director and Policy lead at the U.S. Federation of…
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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 about why the cooperative model hasn't taken root in Mondragon's overseas operations, and what makes Mondragon different from multinational conglomerates of...
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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 unusable due to wartime internet, I turned to Elliot Dolan-Evans in Melbourne. In addition to being the author of the timely article "Why Ukraine needs foreign...
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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 facilitator, convener and thinker in the climate justice movement. He has been involved in Climate Justice Alliance, ETC Group, Ruckus Society, Cooperation…
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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 involved in solidarity economy organizing through Cooperation Humboldt in Northern California, and more recently in organizing an educational series…
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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-Empire Project podcast's "Civilizations" series (https://podur.org/). I asked Justin about the insights and shifts in perspective from this fascinating in-depth...
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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 of other companies. He has worked at Fortune 500 monoliths and in anarchist collectives. In this episode, we discuss how software is a commons, what the...
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The "Hall Socialism" of Finnish and Ukrainian migrant workers w/ Kassandra Luciuk & Saku Pinta
Historian-activists Kassandra Luciuk and Saku Pinta join us to discuss the "hall socialism" that flourished in communities of Finnish and Ukrainian migrant workers in the early 20th century. Though much of this incredibly vital social, political and cultural activity was successfully suppressed…
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Caring for the children of capitalism w/ Nav Kaur
Nav Kaur (@north_kaur) joins HPC to talk about child care, how capitalism and colonialism are taught from an early age, and the conditions under which the people who care for children for a living might be less alienated. We talk worker cooperatives, landlords, boards and languages. * * *...
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Socialist strategy and a critique of cooperatives w/ Sam Gindin
Sam Gindin shares his critique of cooperatives and his ideas about the broader challenges of building socialism. Sam Gindin served as research director of the Canadian region of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and later as chief economist and Assistant to the President of the Canadian Auto...
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NYC's solidarity economy: lessons and challenges w/ Lauren Hudson
Half Past Capitalism Episode 002 – NYC's Solidarity Economy Movement Dru talks to Lauren Hudson, an organizer with SolidarityNYC, feminist geographer, PhD grad and lecturer at John Jay College (full bio below). She discusses her direct experience of capitalism, the differences in pandemic…
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Organizing treeplanters, transforming the forestry sector in Canada w/ Marcus Peters
Half Past Capitalism Episode 001 – How can we transform the forestry industry? Spoiler alert: organizing worker power is part of the mix. Dru talks to Marcus Peters, a friend, collaborator, cooperative developer and labour organizer about mosquitoes, clearcuts, transparency and workplace culture…
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