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Building a New Economy in New York City

New York City’s history is rich with examples of winning people’s movements and progressive change — and we’ve shared many of those stories on Laura Flanders & Friends. With the election of Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first democratic socialist mayor, initiatives like city-owned grocery stores and public banking will introduce even more people to the new economy models we champion on this show. But the question of the city’s economy is not new. Today we’re turning back the clock to 2019, the year we learned about worker cooperatives and public ownership experiments in New York at a conference held at the City University of New York College of Labor and Urban Studies, or CUNY SLU.

J. Phillip Thompson, the city’s deputy mayor for........

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