Two articles about the 1960s Counterculture, art, and social revolution, published in The Drop City Newsletter and Inner Space magazine under my Dropper name, Ishmael. (1967) Drop-City-two-articlesDownload
Drop City and the New Society
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Cooperatives & Cultural Revolution
Art, Work, and Class
The conundrum of work and survival for creative people. Published in Toward Revolutionary Art (TRA) magazine. (1974) Art, Work & Class - TRA_1974 compDownload
Worker Cooperatives and Collectives
Two articles published by the Bay Area Directory of Collectives in 1977 and 1980. The first discusses how the structural innovation of the collective led to a resurgence of the cooperative movement in the 1970s. The other article examines the history of Heartwood...
Living in the UXA
At the height of the Great Depression, a group of unemployed Oakland workers decided to take matters into their own hands. The system wasn’t working, so they set up their own system. Money was nearly worthless, so they decided to live by barter. They called themselves...
The Rise and Fall of the Berkeley Co-op 1939-1988
In the 1970s and ‘80s, the Berkeley Co-op was the largest and most successful consumer cooperative in the US. The ranks of people who were active in the Co-op and went on to make other important contributions to the community, reads like a who’s who of the Berkeley...
The Cooperative Movement in Century 21
This is a pamphlet I put out in connection with the publication of my book, For All The People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America. (2009) CO-OP MOVEMENT CENTURY 21Download
Food for People, Not for Profit
The revolution in the food movement of the 1970s in San Francisco and Minneapolis: the rise and fall of the People’s Food System and the People’s Warehouse. This investigative article was included in the 2nd edition of For All The People, Uncovering the Hidden History...
Worker Coops in Crisis
Has human society today ever really been on track? Or has it always been a train wreck? Most students of history can probably agree that there have been eras of greater and lesser social justice and accomplishments, highs and lows. Particular times and places that we...
Market Socialism in Yugoslavia and its Relevance to Cuba Today
The destruction of Yugoslavian socialism by the World Bank in the late 20th century is a cautionary tale as Cuba joins today’s globalized corporate economy. This is my paper, “Market Socialism in Yugoslavia and its Relevance to Cuba”, which I read on June 28, 2016, at...
Reclaiming the American Commons
A quiet upsurge of cooperative activity has been taking place throughout the US, where people are turning to mutual aid, collectivity and the commons. (ROAR magazine, 2016) Reclaiming the American CommonsDownload
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