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5 years after Hurricane Maria colonialism and capitalism wreak havoc in Puerto Rico
The Response Podcast: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People
Shareable|September 19, 2022
This weekend Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Puerto Rico – almost exactly five years to the day after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017.
As of Monday millions of people in Puerto Rico are still without power. With winds gusting up to 100mph, The Category 1 storm has incapacitated the country and, once again, laid bare the exceptional vulnerability of the island in the face of decades of neoliberal austerity and disinvestment in infrastructure.
As events continue to unfold on the island, it’s unclear exactly how severe and long-lasting the impacts of Hurricane Fiona will be — but if there’s one thing we know for certain, it’s that the island’s residents have an unfortunately deep understanding of the struggles and challenges ahead of them.
What lessons can be learned from the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria five years ago? Perhaps revisiting our 30-minute award-winning film exploring how communities responded to that disaster can provide some insight.
“The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People” documents how an impromptu community kitchen meant to help feed survivors in the town of Caguas quickly grew into an island-wide network of mutual aid centers (Centros de Apoyo Mutuo) with the ultimate goal to restore power — both electric and civic — to the people.
Thanks to a grant from the Guerrilla Foundation, “The Response,” is now available in four different languages: English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Bringing people together for an in-person or online film screening is a great tool for opening a dialogue about the lessons learned in Puerto Rico and how your community can be better prepared to respond to current and future disruptions.
To receive a free toolkit for hosting a screening, please fill out a short registration form here.
The Response project, is a documentary film, book, and podcast series exploring how communities are building collective resilience in the wake of disasters.
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COMMONS|UPSTREAMThe Green Transition Part 1: The Problem with Green Capitalism
The Green Transition by Bethan Mure
Robert Raymond|September 15, 2022
It’s clear that we need to decarbonize our economy as quickly as possible in order to avoid the worst of climate change — but carbon isn’t the only problem we’re facing. As the world moves towards renewables and away from fossil fuels as an energy source, we can’t forget that the technology and minerals behind this green transition need to come from somewhere — and that somewhere is primarily countries in the Global South.
The supply chains which carry the lithium, copper, cobalt, and other minerals essential for renewable technology from the peripheries to the imperial cores — from places like Chile and Bolivia to places like the United States and Europe — are built upon a foundation of colonialism, imperialism, hyper-exploitation, and ecocide: all essential components of our current economic system — capitalism.
In part one of this two-part series on the green transition, Upstream explores what happens when we simply paint capitalism green without addressing its fundamental global operating principles and processes. What is the dark side of the energy transition — particularly for the Global South and Indigenous communities?
In part two they will dive deeper into some solutions, but in this episode, Upstream starts their journey in the Atacama desert of Chile and ends all the way in the Arctic Circle, exploring the global extractive machine and the communities that exist on its frontiers.
You can listen to the full Upstream Documentary below to dive deeper into this topic.
Featured guests:
Max Ajl — Associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, author of A People’s Green New Deal
Ana Julia Aneise — Youth climate activist with Youth for Climate
Sergio Chaparro — Colombian human rights activist and researcher.
Jason Hickel — Economic anthropologist and author of Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Beaska Niillas — Northern Sámi traditional handicrafter, hunter and gatherer, activist, Sámi school kindergarten teacher, politician, and the host of the SuperSápmi Podcast
Thea Riofrancos — Associate professor of political science at Providence College and co-author of A Planet To Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
Matthias Schmelzer — Economic historian at the University of Vienna and co-author of The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
A full transcript of the episode is available for your viewing pleasure here.
Check out more Upstream conversations and previous episodes:
Debunking the myth of Homo Economicus
A people’s guide to capitalism with Hadas Thier
A world without profit with Jennifer Hinton
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ENTERPRISECo-ops meet capital with Start.coop’s Equitable Economy Fund
Launched in 2020, Start.coop's Equitable Economy Fund is an equity fund designed to provide capital that can accelerate cooperatively-owned & shared ownership companies. Credit: Stocksy
Alessandra Bautze|September 6, 2022
The United States is home to 30,000 cooperatives, or co-ops, businesses owned and managed by the people who produce and consume the goods, products, or services they offer.
The cooperative model serves as an alternative to traditional capitalism and has the potential to open doors for individuals and communities who may have historically been excluded from opportunities to generate wealth. Research suggests cooperatives may indeed be the key to building a more equitable, sustainable economy. But how can new co-ops get the support they need to get off the ground, grow, and thrive? One organization is working to answer that question.
Meet Start.coop
Formally known as Cooperatives for a Better World, Start.coop was designed with cooperatives — and their members — in mind. Start.coop’s mission is to “cultivate the next generation of cooperative businesses at scale…” To do this, the organization has three primary programs: an incubator program, an accelerator program, and design and coaching services.
To this end, Start.coop has also established a sister organization, The Equitable Economy Fund. A pilot fund of $2 million, The EEF was designed to match angel investors to co-ops to ensure said co-ops have the capital they need to succeed within the shared ownership model.
Start.coop founder and Equitable Economy Fund co-director Greg Brodksy poses with partners and accelerator program alumni. Credit: Fifty by Fifty
Co-directors Greg Brodksy and Jessica Mason are the driving forces behind both Start.coop and The Equitable Economy Fund. Brodsky is a seasoned start-up and co-op strategist and founder and co-director of the accelerator program. He also runs the Equitable Economy Fund. Prior to his current role, he founded the Bike Cooperative and helped launch the nation’s first purchasing co-op for craft breweries.
Like Brodsky, Mason’s work centers on helping co-ops address the challenges associated with shared ownership head on. An angel investor herself, she previously was the founder of The Social Impact Studio. In addition to her work with Start.coop, Mason is on the faculty of Foster America (an organization that sponsors a fellowship program to equip the next generation of child welfare leaders) and is a board member of the artist-owned cooperative Ampled, which previously benefited from the resources offered by Start.coop’s accelerator program.
The programs in action
The Equitable Economy Fund is a pooled investment fund exempt from registration with the SEC. As such, only accredited investors are able to invest in the Fund. Investors have access to a diversified portfolio that contains several different cooperatives, as well as other shared-ownership companies — all of whom are graduates of Start.coop’s accelerator program. If a cooperative or shared ownership company shows exceptional potential, then accredited investors have the option to invest more in a subsequent round (known as follow-on capital).
The Guild team (pictured in front of their cooperatively owned/managed building in Atlanta) participated in Start.coop’s 2022 accelerator cohort. Their mission is to develop equitable real estate and programs for communities of color to thrive in. Credit: The Guild
Start.coop’s annual accelerator program is based around a cohort model. Over the course of 16 weeks, the virtual program offers coaching, mentorship, platform service access, and an investment of $10,000 per team. Graduates who are considered high-performing are eligible to apply for $50,000 in follow-up funding. Eight companies were selected as part of the most recent 2022 accelerator program:
Freelancer Guilded Cooperative provides contract management, tax preparation, and healthcare for freelance artists.
The first breast milk bank owned by nursing mothers, Mother’s Milk Cooperative provides breast milk to premature babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
A joint venture between Navajo Power and Iluméxico (which provides affordable solar energy in Mexico), Navajo Power Home provides solar power to homes on Navajo and Hopi lands that were previously without electricity.
More than just a creative writing software program, Novlr also allows writers to make money from their writing.
Montreal-based Radish Cooperative is an online food delivery service owned by restaurants, consumers, and couriers.
SMAT provides tools for journalists to analyze hate and disinformation online.
Owned by its members, StyleCrush is an online resale market offering sustainable fashion curated into “mini-collections.”
Based in Southwest Atlanta, The Guild is dedicated to building affordable mixed-use real estate for community members and activists as a way to “build a pathway to ownership for Black and Brown people.”
The Nearness is a digital cooperative fostering “small-group rituals and soulful conversations” through a spiritual community.
Addressing pervasive inequities in funding
In putting forth its mission, Start.coop recognizes that “only a tiny fraction of the 30,000 co-ops in the United States are Black-owned”. With its focus on funding cooperatives owned by women and people of color, Start.coop is dedicated to ensuring that these often-excluded cooperatives have the resources they need to thrive. Funding recipients’ missions often address pressing issues that are often overlooked by traditional accelerator programs, but can have real implications for marginalized people and communities. These include the rise of the gig economy, the exploitation of workers in fast fashion, the rise of fake news, and the skyrocketing cost of housing.
In 2020, Y Combinator (a well-known American technology startup accelerator who Start.coop has been compared to) released data on the diversity of the companies it funded. Of the nearly 200 companies hosted in their summer 2020 cohort, only 16 percent o had a woman founder and only 9 percent had a Black founder.
With the Equitable Economy Fund, Start.coop hopes to paint a different picture for the future of funding. Noting in its mission that historical inequities in access and capital have stifled marginalized communities’ ability to thrive in traditional (and cooperative) economic spaces, Sart.coop says it is working “to address systemic racism and the root causes of inequality.”
Success stories and long term vision
Several startups have benefited from both Start.coop’s accelerator program and the Equitable Economy Fund. Two “alumni” include Obran Cooperative and UPROOT Homes. Obran Cooperative is a worker-owned staffing company with a focus on empowering people of color, including formerly incarcerated individuals. One of its two brands is Core Staffing, a staffing agency for returning citizens (people who are returning to society after being released from prison). Employees work in various industries,including food processing, light manufacturing, and warehouse operations.
UPROOT Homes, recognizing that 650,000 military families relocate every year, is dedicated to helping these families access homeownership and its financial benefits. UPROOT allows a succession of short-term homeowners to pay down a mortgage together and all access the long-term benefits of having a paid-off home.
The team at Core Staffing (one leg of Start.coop accelerator program alumni Obran Cooperative) connect returning citizens with quality employment and other opportunities. Credit: Core Staffing
Speaking to The Rework Podcast, Start.coop’s co-director Greg Brodsky says, “…a lot of our business curriculum might look like Y Combinator, or 500 Startups. But the two pieces that look really different are the governance aspect, and then the fundraising aspect. [When you invest in cooperatives] the goal is to create long term ownership within that community, whether that community is workers or consumers or farmers or musicians.”
In this way, Start.coop and its Equitable Economy Fund are determined to help cooperatives,and the often-marginalized communities they serve,hone their potential and find their footing. Brodsky continues, “We’re not trying to sell the company; we’re trying to bring that company wealth and voice.”
Check out these related articles:
‘Solidarity investing’ club helps plant a new crop of co-ops in Vermont
Racism in finance has sparked a grassroots response. Meet the Boston Ujima Project.
Acquisition-conversion: the promising new strategy for scaling worker ownership
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COMMONS|UPSTREAMThe War on Cash: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
The War on Cash illustration by Bethan Mure
Robert Raymond|August 30, 2022
There is an invisible war taking place right now. And although you may not be aware of it, it’s a war that’s impacting you in a direct way. It’s a war on your wallet, a war on your bank account, a war on your money. But it’s not happening in the way you may think it. And it’s happening right beneath your nose.
Is the growing ascendance of digital money simply an organic evolution away from the purported inconveniences of physical cash? Or is this transition actually a nefarious, corporate-engineered, neo-enclosure of money by Big Finance and Big Tech?
In his latest book, Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets, author, journalist, and financial hacker Brett Scott lays out an extremely compelling case arguing that corporations are engineering an enclosure of money — transforming it into a completely digital form which they alone will control.
In this Conversation, Upstream takes a deep dive beneath the surface of the global financial system to explore the technical and political differences between various forms of money, why corporations are attacking physical cash and plotting to completely replace it with digital money, who will really benefit from a cashless society, and why the fight for ownership of our digital footprints is one of the most pressing battles of our time.
You can listen to the full Upstream Conversation below to dive deeper into this topic.
Upstream · The War on Cash with Brett Scott (In Conversation)
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