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Talking to people building alternatives to capitalism, as if that was possible. RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/47dab294/podcast/rss Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/halfpastcapitalism

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Skip the doordash w/ Mansib Rahman

Apr 21, 2025 1h 23m

Mansib Rahman, CEO of Montreal-based food delivery and logistics startup Radish.coop, joins Dru to discuss cooperative governance, member allegiances, equity and IPOs in cooperatives, and how we can…

S1E24 How to organize a union w/ Aminah Sheikh

Mar 23, 2025 1h 11m

Union organizer and activist Aminah Sheikh (@simplyaminah) join Dru Oja Jay to discuss the elements of organizing a workplace, the transformative process that results, and how that could open onto…

Meidner-ing at night w/ Shannon Ikebe

Jun 19, 2024 1h 10m

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…

Working the co-op and trusting the land w/ Yuill Herbert

Apr 30, 2024 1h 1m

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…

S1E21 Ecologies of Worker Cooperation w/ Esteban Kelly

Mar 11, 2024 1h 35m

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…

The Meidner Plan w/ Joe Guinan

Jan 24, 2024 48m

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…

Tame, smash or escape? Post-capitalist popular education w/ Amrita Wassan & Francisco Perez

Nov 21, 2023 1h 7m

-- 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…

S1E18 Penitentiary of the Self w/ Matt Christman

Aug 23, 2023 49m

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:…

Moving a city, moving an economy w/ Cheyenna Weber

Jul 30, 2023 1h 3m

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,…

S1E16 The cooperative food system we need w/ Shylah Wolfe

Jul 01, 2023 57m

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…

S1E15 Communal socialism in Venezuela w/ Chris Gilbert

May 14, 2023 1h 14m

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…

S1E14 Cuba's farming cooperatives and types of solidarity w/ Federica Bono

Mar 19, 2023 57m

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…

Mountain Equipment Catastrophe w/ Kevin Harding

Jan 14, 2023 1h 5m

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…

S1E12 We sought the law (and the law won): Policy advocacy and cooperatives w/ Mo Manklang

Dec 11, 2022 32m

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…

S1E11 House of the Mondragon: What happens when the world's biggest worker co-op expands abroad?

Sep 14, 2022 1h 1m

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…

S1E10 Ukraine's foreign debt and why we should cancel it w/ Elliot Dolan-Evans

Apr 17, 2022 1h 8m

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…

S1E9 How the left can govern w/ Gopal Dayaneni

Jan 17, 2022 1h 8m

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…

S1E8 Art & artists in the solidarity economy w/ Marina Lopez of Art.coop

Oct 24, 2021 53m

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…

S1E7 Lessons from the last 529 years w/ Justin Podur of the Anti-Empire Project

Sep 06, 2021 1h 13m

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…

S1E6 Tactics for a cooperative digital commons w/ Evan Henshaw-Plath

Jun 20, 2021 1h 10m

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…

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