By Rawnak N. Zaman As a student in the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies’ Workplace Democracy and Cooperative Ownership program and researcher with an urban planning background, I’ve had the privilege of learning about New York City’s robust cooperative and mutual aid ecosystem and the people whose often unseen efforts enhance our livability.

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On Wednesday, April 1, 2026, a group of over a dozen key solidarity economy organizers, including the Community Worker Ownership Project (CWOP), met to hear the Chair and Executive Director of the NYC Commission on Racial Equity (NYC CORE), Linda Tigani, speak about the role of NYC CORE and how the solidarity economy can play

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By Abbie Harper As New York City prepares to dramatically expand childcare access, a new report asks a deeper question: who should control the system? In A Shared Services Cooperative for Childcare Workers: Building Civic Infrastructure for Mass Governance, authors Sanjay Pinto, Ra Criscitiello, Camille Kerr, and Mary Jirmanus Saba propose a citywide shared services

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Greetings in this post election season where we can begin to experience hope for our shared values translating to public policy and programs. In the video below Rebecca Lurie found herself being asked for an interview by a Chinese student in Bryant Park  after class on Election Day! This was at the very hour the

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