There's a lot to learn from Sweden's Meidner Plan, which would have phased in worker ownership over 30 years. As a followup to our episode with Joe Guinan, Dru Oja Jay spoke to Shannon Ikebe about some of the new archival materials about the Meidner plan, and insights it contains for current efforts to plan beyond capitalism. Read Shannon's dissert…

Yuill Herbert, a co-founder and long-time worker member at Sustainability Solutions Group, joins us to talk about life in an expanding co-op, and the 100-acre land trust he also helped start. Sustainability Solutions Group: https://www.ssg.coop/Podcast links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/halfpastcapitalismPatreon: https://www.patreon.com…

Esteban Kelly, Executive Director of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, joins Dru Oja Jay to discuss the state of the worker cooperative movement, the ecological approach to organizing, the evolution of equity discourse and its neglected revolutionary origins, and more.The USFCW: https://www.usworker.coop/en/Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops…

The Meidner Plan was a transformative plan proposed by Swedish trade unions in the mid-1970s to gradually transfer ownership of mid-sized and large businesses to their workers, and subsequently to workers at large. Dru Jay is joined by Joe Guinan, the President at The Democracy Collaborative and co-author of The Case for Community Wealth Building a…

-- Recorded July 2023 --Amrita Wassan is the Senior Director Programs at Center for Economic Democracy (CED), and they are an educator, organizer and solidarity economy practitioner. Francisco Perez is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah and he’s director of the Center for Popular Economics. They are both part of the team …

Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House, the Cush Vlog, and Hell on Earth joins Dru Jay to discuss the tyranny of the self, fear of death and horizons of post-capitalism.Check out Matt's vlogs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5ddgvszig&list=PLhxUDrMFUqyMQSozC1ES-Q4BkT8MJbY_1

Moving a city, moving an economy w/ Cheyenna Weber A bit over a decade ago, it was just a handful of people speaking the phrase "solidarity economy" in New York City in an intentional way. Today, the concept has gained considerable traction, but obstacles loom as successes accumulate. Cheyenna Layne Weber has been at close to the heart of that traj…

The global food crisis is—according to most available indicators—just getting warmed up. Shylah Wolfe has participated in many cooperatives in the food sector, and with the Concordia Food Coalition, is involved in the establishment of a non-profit food institution at Concordia University.She spoke to Dru Oja Jay about what kinds of cooperative syst…

Venezuelan communes—where productive activities are controlled by a range of community assemblies—are fascinating examples of socialist forces experimenting with the creation of new social forms. Venezuela's communes are an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of cooperatives and state-owned socialist factories by addressing not just economi…

Cuba’s thousands of agricultural cooperatives are responsible for about 56% of Cuba’s growing land, and employ an estimated 300,000 cooperative worker members. Some observers say the cooperatives more efficient than the state-owned parts of Cuba's agricultural production. Federica Bono is an Assistant Professor of Human Geography at Christopher New…

Dru Oja Jay is joined by Kevin Harding, one of the organizers of a spirited, hail-mary attempt to save Mountain Equipment Co-op from being sold off to a US private equity firm. Before its assets were sold (and the member list apparently destroyed), the outdoor supplies cooperative had reached an estimated 6 million members and $700 million in annua…

Dru Oja Jay is joined by Mo Manklang of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives to discuss recent changes to federal legislation championed by various cooperative organizations, and how laws can be changed further. Mo is the Communications Director and Policy lead at the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, a board members of the Philadelphia A…

Dru is joined by Carmen Marcuello and Anjel Errasti, authors of some interesting publications about Mondragon's expansion abroad. We talk about why the cooperative model hasn't taken root in Mondragon's overseas operations, and what makes Mondragon different from multinational conglomerates of similar size that are not owned and democratically mana…

I've been working on a Ukraine episode for a while. After an interview with Yulia Yurchenko (whose book Elliot recommends at the end) was unusable due to wartime internet, I turned to Elliot Dolan-Evans in Melbourne. In addition to being the author of the timely article "Why Ukraine needs foreign debt cancellation now,"[1] Elliot has spent time in …

Organizer, teacher, co-founder of Movement Generation and co-organizer of Seed Commons and Peoples' Solar Energy Fund, Gopal is a key facilitator, convener and thinker in the climate justice movement. He has been involved in Climate Justice Alliance, ETC Group, Ruckus Society, Cooperation Richmond, and the Center for Economic Democracy, and he teac…

Dancer, bodyworker, somatic educator and Art.coop co-organizer Marina Lopez joins us for episode 8 of Half Past Capitalism. Marina has been involved in solidarity economy organizing through Cooperation Humboldt in Northern California, and more recently in organizing an educational series following the release of the Art.coop report, "Solidarity Not…

Justin Podur has been poring over the details of world history with his comrade and former teacher, and sharing the results on the Anti-Empire Project podcast's "Civilizations" series (https://podur.org/). I asked Justin about the insights and shifts in perspective from this fascinating in-depth study, which covers the era of colonialism and imperi…

The rents heve gone up too much.No 1 bedroom apartment in Tucson is worth 800 plus and 60 per month for water trash and sewer system.

I am seeking an attorney or Attorney's that would be willing to handle a Pro Bono motion to make Clueless Doug Ducey put the 300 pandemic per week unemployment back in place.

If you or I had said that we would arrested and in jail with no bail..Americans demand arrest of Michael Flynn after he 'jokes' about assassination in Washington, DC with his new gunNow they want to stop flying the people that come across the border, because the government uses the the airlines to move those people to cities where they have familie…

Prayers go out 🙏 for the first responders that shot today in Tucson on Linda Vista on Tucson's south side.Sources say that two AMR EMTs and a Tucson Fire Department firefighter have been shot. Officials have not yet released the extent of their injuries. Watching the Chief of Police talk on EMT was shot in the head..by the suspect. The suspect was …

The social media Facebook,Twitter and Instagram and LinkedIn are allowing mis information to be posted and they are doing nothing.

Time for FBI and DOJ to look into Doug Ducey.What he did is illegal to do.This clueless fool. Did not give a fuck about the people of Arizona.He is too worried about his political needs.Untangling Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s complex network of interests.Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who has presidential aspirations and serves as an attack dog against Pres…

Well I am still seeking a Attorney or Attorney's that would be willing to handle a Pro Bono motion force Doug Ducey to put the 300 pandemic unemployment per week back in place

Our Governor Doug Ducey, is such a worthless POS.He took away the 300 per week pandemic unemployment away from the people of Arizona this last weekend. That 1200 per month they were paying rent and utilitys. Now they can't do that.

The price of apartments is going up and up. There are no full time job in Tucson. The Restaurant's pay min wage plus tips the people work 25 to 30 hours per week.

Happy 4th of July

I have taked to alot of Police Officer's and Firefighters and Paramedics. Alot say that they are tired of doing the job. For example here in Tucson my research I done our TPD Police Officer's are under paid and our Firefighters and Paramedics too. The they are run ragged. Over worked

Things to think about. Prayers go out 🙏 for those in Florida that have died in the building collapse

Governor Doug Ducey, keeps saying that Arizona's economy is going up. That is total bullshit. He is out of touch with reality and out of touch with the people of Arizona.

Derek Chauvin. Will find out how long he be locked up for. He deserves what he gets it should be maximum allowed by law 15 to 40 yrs

At the same time, we are warned that a bipartisan deal would need to be paired with a partisan, filibuster-proof budget reconciliation bill that would push through climate legislation, universal pre-K and other "soft infrastructure" sought by Democrats.The hope is for both packages to be voted on in the House and Senate sometime in July.…

Get your covid-19 virus vaccine shot. Stop the bullshit that it has tracking chip in the vaccine, that a total conspiracy theory.Or people dying from getting the shot, this people died because they, underlying medical conditions, like heart, kidney,

The republicans don't care about the people of OUR Country!!!! The don't want to work with the democrats on voting bill, infrastructure plan, or anything. Republicans don't want bipartisanship.

Evan Henshaw-Plath was one of the key organizers of the Indymedia network, employee #1 at Twitter, and started two worker co-ops and a bunch of other companies. He has worked at Fortune 500 monoliths and in anarchist collectives. In this episode, we discuss how software is a commons, what the cooperative movement can learn from Silicon Valley, and …

The republicans are changing the state rules trying to take away voting rights for black, Hispanic and some white people. The clueless Republican's have lost their minds.

The republicans and Democrat's are trying to tie a police officer's hands on when they can use deadly force. They are trying to get a police officer to second guess his self and could cost him his life or someone else

Ward 6 Council Member Steve Kozachik, has no idea what he is talking about putting 5G cell equipment in light poles. First off you can not run the cables up light poles. Second those same 5G Towers are public easement..And TPD and TFD use those 5G towers for their communications equipment.

Why are we having so many mass shootings in the US and in Tucson too. Most of these shootings have come after Trump left office

Doug Ducey is going to stop the pandemic unemployment on July 30th. Then he want to raise the gasoline tax and add 32.00 to people's car registration fees. plus the City of Tucson is in deep shit we don't have don't have enough patrol police officer's on our streets.

The random shit today, Trump, the migration of people from Central America. And the greddy real estate agents

The republicans claim that they have done so much for the people of OUR Country. That is total bullshit. The republican Governor's are doing away with unemployment on July 30th. The republicans are telling the people who voted for them that they are getting funds for business's, The thing is non of the republicans voted for those funds or for that …

You got the republican Governor's cutting people of the pandemic unemployment money on July 30th. Then you have the clueless dumb fuck Doug Ducey of Arizona, now wants people filing their weekly claims to put down that they applied for 4 jobs per week. And he cutting their unemployment of on July 30th. Then you have the Trump MAGA assholes that sti…

The republicans have come up with so many conspiracy theories it is no longer funny. The state of Arizona is laughing stock of the free world. Now Arizona will have buy new voting machines because a judge gave the Trump MAGA assholes use of the voting machines. No telling what they could have done to those machine's. And Arizona Governor Doug Ducey…

Keep in mind Trump is going to end up in jail in New York for fraud. And don't be surprised if the DOJ files charges on Trump, his sons and Rudy. As far as governor Doug Ducey of Arizona this clueless dumb fuck has lost his mind..

I am tied of people who attack people.I will not take that bullshit anymore when I see it.I am going to say this again Things I do not tolerateA woman is not a man's possession a man does not own a woman I can't stand a guy that physically and mentally abuses a woman.And to women out there if you are in Physical or Mental abusive relationship and y…

I am seeking any Attorney's that would be willing to handle a law suit aginst Doug Ducey.For the Negligent deaths of 17,000 plus deaths of our fellow Arizona people that have died from covid-19 virus vaccine.Due to Doug Ducey's.Negligence in handing the covid-19 virus response in our state.Negligent death is a civil action which charges another wit…

The Trump republicans done Liz Cheney wrong.The republicans have let lose a lose cannon. Liz Cheney is true republican conservative. I have great respect for her.

Historian-activists Kassandra Luciuk and Saku Pinta join us to discuss the "hall socialism" that flourished in communities of Finnish and Ukrainian migrant workers in the early 20th century. Though much of this incredibly vital social, political and cultural activity was successfully suppressed by anti-communist purges in the post-war period, the l…

All the clueless uneducated dumb ass people out there that saying people need to get off of unemployment. Restaurants are looking for employees.Pay the people 15.00 per hr plus tips. To all the assholes out there people working in a restaurant only make 3.00 to 5.00 per hr because they get tips. You have rents across the United States 1 br 1ba apar…