The Program

At the core of the network is a shared vision of how to create a new world.

Through on-going conversation, members of the network found five key strategies for shifting from extractive systems to communities that are collectively created, self-sufficient, and resilient.

We are six community based organizations strategically located across the United States. Each of us makes adaptations to fit the unique needs of our local circumstances, but we all implement the following Dual Power program:

1) Decommodify land using Community Land Trusts for community owned affordable housing, commercial space for worker owned cooperatives, food production using a food sovereignty framework, and to preserve the integrity of the life giving ecosystems of Mother Earth.

2) Community production employing digital fabrication technologies for decentralized manufacturing to empower local communities to create goods collaboratively and sustainably.

3) Incubating an ecosystem of worker-owned cooperatives that go beyond “coops for the sake of coops” to create profitable and vibrant local supply and value chains.

4) An internal self-education program that engages folks to foster critical thinking, dialogue, and empowerment to learn and implement our transformational and liberatory program.

5) Art and Culture is infused in everything we do. This includes making things beautiful, but goes deeper. We organize according to the adage “If it isn’t soulful, it isn’t strategic.”