The Checkou‪t‬ Errol Schweizer and Evan Driscoll

From https://www.foodandpower.net/our-team: Claire Kelloway is a senior reporter and researcher with the Open Markets Institute. She is the primary writer for Food & Power, a first-of-its-kind website, providing original reporting and resources on monopoly power and economic concentration in the food system. Her writing on food and agriculture has appeared in the American Prospect, ProPublica, Civil Eats, the Washington Monthly, and more.

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“The Line 3 Pipeline goes through the heart of our wild rice territory and wild rice is our most sacred food. This battle is about the wild rice. It is our responsibility to protect the wild rice.”

From http://www.honorearth.org/speaking_engagements : Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a two time vice presidential candidate

Order her new book at https://www.winonaladuke.com .

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This episode covers different models of worker ownership and cooperative enterprises, with an eye towards creating a solidarity economy that meets the needs of all.
Dedicated to MF DOOM and Riley Gale, whose music continues to inspire.
Sources for all information are available upon request. Major sources:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/09/millennials-own-less-than-5percent-of-all-us-wealth.html

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/02/03/seeking-a-more-worker-friendly-economy-some-states-push-employee-ownership

https://project-equity.org/learn-about-employee-ownership-options/

https://www.nceo.org/what-is-employee-ownership

https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity

https://institute.coop/what-worker-cooperative

https://www.usworker.coop/what-is-a-worker-cooperative/

https://geo.coop/blog/door-door-interview-jessica-gordon-nembhard

https://www.ownershipeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/employee_ownership_and_economic_wellbeing_2017.pdf

https://institute.app.box.com/s/28pe2jpxvowxjvqralw6e778k5npavx9

https://institute.coop/examples-worker-cooperatives

https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/role-worker-ownership-raising-incomes

https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/role-worker-ownership-raising-incomes

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/12/how-socialists-created-a-co-operative-commonwealth-in-the-american-midwest

https://geo.coop/articles/esteban-kelly-usfwc

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/01/the-future-of-tech-will-be-an-old-model-the-co-op

https://platform.coop

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https://geo.coop/articles/how-platform-co-ops-transform-gig-economy

https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/2019/12/melissa-hoover-employee-ownership-often-helps-to-shape-and-build-hot-new-markets-then-what/

https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/2020/01/hazel-corcoran-what-if-we-had-an-antidote-to-worker-co-ops-selling-out/

https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/2020/01/hazel-corcoran-what-if-we-had-an-antidote-to-worker-co-ops-selling-out/

https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/2020/01/christopher-mackin-new-belgium-brewing-and-the-future-of-american-esops/

https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/2019/12/christopher-michael-could-the-employee-ownership-trust-better-sustain-perpetual-employee-ownership/

https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/2019/12/erbin-crowell-and-sonja-novkovic-esops-or-co-ops-depends-on-the-long-term-goal/

https://www.fiftybyfifty.org/2019/12/camille-kerr-new-belgium-point-is-systems-change/

https://u.osu.edu/coopmastery/history/mondragon/
https://www.shareable.net/mondragon-corporation-a-manufacturer-of-equality/

https://www.mondragon-corporation.com/en/about-us/

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https://medium.com/fifty-by-fifty/mondragon-through-a-critical-lens-b29de8c6049

https://icic.org/cooperatives/works-leveraging-union-support-business-growth-mondragon-usa-model/

https://coopcincy.org/history

http://unioncoops.org

https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/multi-stakeholder-cooperative

https://www.alternativeownershipadvisors.com/blog/legislation

https://neweconomy.net/solidarity-economy/

https://ussen.org

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2021 will be the year that we re-center working people in the food system. History shows that organized efforts and legally-binding contracts result in safer workplaces and better livelihoods for all supply chain workers, particularly women and people of color.

Andres Bernal, an advisor to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, joins us for a wide ranging discussion on worker cooperatives, Modern Monetary Theory, myth busting the Federal deficit, the need for a Jobs Guarantee and how to fund a Green New Deal.

From https://www.andres-bernal.com/about : Andrés Bernal is a Lecturer of Urban Studies at CUNY Queens College and Doctoral student at The New School For Public Engagement, Division of Policy Management and Environment. His research focuses on the Green New Deal as a site of political communication and policy analysis. Andrés is a leading voice and proponent associated with the heterodox school of economic thought known as Modern Monetary Theory. He is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperityand a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Missouri Kansas City Department of Economics. In the Summer of 2017, Andrés began supporting the Congressional campaign of former colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a policy advisor and organizer. His work facilitated the incorporation of the Federal Jobs Guarantee policy onto the official campaign platform.

This episode details the vast inequality in the USA and the inequities in our food industry, the levels of retail consolidation and profiteering, and the impacts on supply chain workers.

Sources for all information are available upon request.

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