The latest from The Next System Project
A Plan for Taking Control of Public Utilities
In an article published today in In These Times, Next System Project research associate Johanna Bozuwa, Soulardarity executive director Jackson Koeppel and We Own It network director Liz Veazey call for the creation of a Community Ownership of Power Administration. They write that as part of a Green New Deal “a cornerstone must be a program to free communities from the unjust power of investor-owned utilities … in order to transform our economy so it serves everyone.” The model for the agency is one of the great cooperative success stories of the Great Depression: the Rural Electrification Administration.
ELEMENTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY
Worker Cooperatives
In the latest entry in the “Elements of the Democratic Economy” series, we explain how worker cooperatives offer a clear, intuitive example of the democratic economy in action. Though worker cooperatives are relatively few in number in the United States, they are an increasingly popular way for workers to have real power in the workplace.