Community Wealth Building

Transforming local economies through direct ownership and control of assets

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Our next live show will be Monday, March 24 at 3pm pacific, 6pm eastern. Our guest will be Joe Guinan, President at The Democracy Collaborative. His work focuses on political economy and economic system change. You can join the conversation and make live comments or ask Joe questions on YouTube by clicking here.

If you have been watching the broadcast or listening to the podcast, you may have noticed that co-host Shane Knight and I have been frequently referencing a news aggregator called Tracking the Crisis: We Read the News So You Don’t Have To! Well, that is a project of The Democracy Collaborative.

But wait, there’s more!

The Democracy Collaborative is also a global leader in advancing Community Wealth Building, an economic development model that transforms local economies based on communities having direct ownership and control of their assets.

Joe also co-authored (with Martin O’Neill) The Case for Community Wealth Building and People Get Ready! Preparing for a Corbyn Government (with Christine Berry). People Get Ready was named one of The Guardian’s best politics books of 2019.


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Onward to the world we deserve,

David Cobb, The Redneck Gone Green

Joe Guinan

Joe is the President at The Democracy Collaborative. He co-authored (with Martin O’Neill) The Case for Community Wealth Building (Polity, 2020) and (with Christine Berry) People Get Ready! Preparing for a Corbyn Government (O/R Books, 2019), which was named one of The Guardian’s best politics books of the year.

A former journalist, he was previously a program director at the Aspen Institute, a fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and a consultant to the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. Born in England with dual Irish and British citizenship, he grew up in British labor movement circles and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.

He was the executive director of the Next System Project at The Democracy Collaborative when it was launched in 2016. He writes regularly for an array of progressive outlets, is a frequently cited expert on the new economics in major news media, serves on several nonprofit boards, and is a commissioning editor of the journal Renewal.

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