What does cooperation look like on a city-wide scale?  How can we make sure community members know their voices are not just heard - but acted upon? 

Nia Evans and Cierra Peters explain the ways that the Boston Ujima Project gets results!  We also hear about their roots, and the shoulders of activists they proudly stand upon.

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Boston Ujima Project

Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life book by Theda Skocpol

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice book by Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Boston Ujima Project’s 2020 Investor Report

The Banker Ladies a film by The Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective


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In this cultural offering from musician and neuroscientist Clara Takarabe, we learn about a type of “clinical music” she helped develop, designed to cue the body to recognize that it is safe – and the personal experiences that inspired her to create this tool.

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Northwestern Music and Medicine Program 

Nireus with Clara Takarabe and H. Anton Riehl

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Just what exactly IS the “solidarity economy,” anyway? Hear all the ways that you’re probably already participating in it, right now!  

Art.coop co-founders Nati Linares and Caroline Woolard speak about cooperation, and how to deconstruct the systems that convince us that the myth of the starving artist is real – and instead move towards a world in which artists’ work is valued in our economy!

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Art.coop

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What does liberation feel like, physically?  Join our host Marina Lopez in this cultural offering, as she walks us through a meditative body movement exercise, and explains how a physical practice can yield revolutionary results.

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Connective Somatics on Instagram 

Art.coop

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What happens when you not only recognize that you are on stolen land, but then you actually do something about it?  Witness the inspiring partnership between a theater company and Indigenous folks, and how they listen, care, and build stability, moving at the speed of trust.

Enormous gratitude to our guests on this episode, Rhonda Anderson of Ohketeau Cultural Center, and Carlos Uriona from Double Edge Theatre. 

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Ohketeau Cultural Center

Double Edge Theatre

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How can you use creativity to fight the systems that are literally built to stop you from being creative?  How can you make your process as radical as the art you make?

Maddy Clifford, aka MADLines, walks us her music, the importance of political education for artists, and how she uses her creative practice to break the spells of systemic oppression.

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Creative Wildfire Artist Cohort

MADlines on TikTok

MADlines on Instagram

Buy her music on Bandcamp!

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What does it look like when you report to your co-workers, instead of someone up top?  

We hear from cooperative owner and artist Daniel Park, as he talks through the peaks and valleys of cooperative art-making and business ownership – and how your business can be as radical as the art you create.

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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

Obvious Agency

U.S. Federation of Worker Coops (USFWC)

Guilded Freelancer’s Co-op

Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC)

Democracy at Work Institute

Creatives Rebuild New York Guaranteed Income / Artist Employment Programs

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Guaranteed Income Pilot Program 

Don’t Start a Non-Profit Part 1 with Adrienne Mackey of Swim Pony

“The Talk”


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