CWOP
The Community and Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) supports efforts percolating around the nation and New York City focused on worker-owned cooperatives, economic democracy, and community planning. In this age of burgeoning inequality and pervasive challenges to political and workplace democracy, this project supports projects in worker participation and control, as well as grassroots leadership in community development in collaboration with a broad array of organizational stakeholders, including unions, worker centers, community-based organizations, businesses and worker cooperatives.
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Boyfriend Co-op – A Lesbian Bar for All – Opened March 2025
By Isabella Barbuto Located almost directly at the bustling intersection of Myrtle and Broadway, right off the J, M & Z trains sits a welcoming, eclectic, chandelier-filled, lesbian co-op bar and cafe amusingly called Boyfriend. Opened by two childhood best friends Hena Mustafa and Mica Fisher, the co-op has been on their minds for years.…
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Radical Municipalism
On March 13, 2025 Eleanor Finley visited our Urban Studies class Delivery of Urban Public Services so we could explore possibilities and solutions through Municipalism. You can see and share the video from the talk here:https://youtu.be/ojBYhQMIXLo As reported by a trusted colleague and attendee, Pacyinz Lyfoung: I have been really inspired by this webinar, “Introduction…
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