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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Sociocracy for All, New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives and DAWI at 10 years old!
Sociocracy for All In October CWOP and the Murphy Institute at SLU hosted training with SoFA in partnership with Brooklyn Legal Services A. This aimed to help develop those coming from community organizing work to deepen practice for democratic self-management. People traveled from as far as Montreal and the day was dynamic with learning activities…
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Resist & Build: Report Back From the Solidarity Economy Movement
On the weekend of October 20th, 2023 two CUNY graduate students affiliated with the Community and Worker Ownership Project (CWOP) at the School of Labor and Urban Studies traveled to Richmond, Virginia to attend the Resist & Build Summit, organized by the US Solidarity Economy Network. Dozens of leading organizations in the national solidarity economy…
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Our Intern from the Colin Powell School Internship Program- we say thank you!
Exploring Worker Justice: A Journey into the Intersection of Immigration, Labor Rights, and Cooperative Business Models By Vanessa Crowe As an Economics student who is deeply passionate about social service, my participation in this internship alongside Rebecca helped refine my ideas and interest in the public sector. The research aspect of this internship was especially…
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Community Education: Co-ops 101 and A Report from the Field
By Abbie Harper The paradox of noble-cause corruption, unethical actions taken in pursuit of the greater good, is so prevalent in the non-profit sector that it’s become normalized. And due to the United States government’s ongoing divestment in public health, we have no choice but to rely on these organizations to access social services and…
