Week 4 (9/21) – Community wealth building and community economic control (CD)

Who controls the investments that grow our communities? Who controls the profits? 

Watch:

Own the change: Building economic democracy one worker co-op at a time. (2015). 

Read:

McInroy, N., McKinley, S., & Sutton, J. (2022). A New Era for Community Wealth Building: Growing a Democratic Economy in Cities Across America, with Lessons from Chicago. The Democracy Collaborative.

Kimble, M. & Wagner, A. (2022, August 9). Can Anacostia Build a Bridge Without Displacing Its People? New York Times. (pdf printout)

Submit by 11am:

1) Response blog CD-1: What is your assessment of community wealth building strategies, including cooperative businesses and community land trusts? Why don’t we see more of this? (250 words)

2) Monumental Travesties response (RS&I)

In class:

Speaker: Ginger Rumph, Exec. Dir., Douglass Community Land Trust