Check out our thread on how community ownership of the Brown could work -- it's working in Green Bay! And how we'd need to launch a national campaign to make it happen.
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Power through collective ownership
Blossoming Economic Democracy
Join us Saturday, May 4th, 11 am - 2 pm at Rust Belt Riders, 2701 St. Clair Ave, as we celebrate five year of Cleveland Owns building economic democracy.
100 seats available! Reserve yours at the link below
100 seats available! Reserve yours at the link below
Check out Fox 8's coverage of Cleveland Owns' work building community-owned solar in East Cleveland!
Our lead organizer Jonathan Welle and partners in East Cleveland shared our plan to build a solar array owned by the community. Read more on our blog!
About Us
We know that in racial capitalism, ownership matters, so we're organizing multiracial, grassroots cooperatives that enable member owners to build wealth and power. We're working towards a Cleveland owned by its residents.
What we do
We support groups of workers and neighbors as they seeks to turn what they have into what they need to demand their share of the region’s prosperity.
Today we support five cornerstone cooperatives working in clean energy, food access, and digital access, and collective purchasing. We also work for deeper democracy in the public sector, where we co-lead PB CLE, a coalition of 50+ organizations calling on Cleveland City Council to enable residents to allocate $30 million in ARPA funds using participatory budgeting.
The common thread for all our work is deep democracy through collective ownership and, in the case of the PB CLE, collective stewardship of public money -- economic democracy.
Today we support five cornerstone cooperatives working in clean energy, food access, and digital access, and collective purchasing. We also work for deeper democracy in the public sector, where we co-lead PB CLE, a coalition of 50+ organizations calling on Cleveland City Council to enable residents to allocate $30 million in ARPA funds using participatory budgeting.
The common thread for all our work is deep democracy through collective ownership and, in the case of the PB CLE, collective stewardship of public money -- economic democracy.
Blog
This week Fox 8 news featured our work building community-owned solar in East Cleveland with the Cleveland Solar Cooperative. Check it out!
Read MoreBogdan is learning to cooperate and organize, putting them both into practice as he works to energize a solidarity economy as a new team member with Cleveland Owns.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to welcome Molly Bryden to the Cleveland Owns team this summer as a Freedom Fellow with Emerald Cities Collaborative.
Read MoreWe’re proud to support the powerful grassroots People's Budget Cleveland coalition in their fight for economic democracy.
Read MoreThe Energy Democracy Initiative at Cleveland Owns
