Three composters face funding challenges in an effort to foster land stewardship… Read More
A fisherman explains how corporations are displacing independent fisherfolk… Read More
In an hour-long conversation with Arthur Phillips of MECEP, Stacy Mitchell talked about how concentrated corporate power has impacted Maine communities and what state leaders...
Our tax system used to serve as a check on corporate power. Now it fuels market concentration and undermines the ability of small businesses to...
“The Onion Man” gives a first-hand account of what is driving farmers to extinction… Read More
A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis… Read More
On the local NPR affiliate, Stacy explains how dollar stores prey on communities. … Read More
Ron Knox writes in Competition Policy International that in order to foster a more democratic economy we must strengthen merger guidelines and enforce anti-merger laws,...
An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community… Read More
For our final Building Local Power episode of 2022, we invited co-founder, David Morris, to offer a history lesson on the self-reliance framework that underpins...
Stacy Mitchell spoke at “Rethinking Globalization, Intermediation, and Efficiency,” on exploring new paradigms for a post-neoliberal world. Community, Stacy argued, is the foundational basis for...
On this episode of Building Local Power, Christopher Mitchell and Sean Gonsalves talk about the work that immediately lies ahead for the broad array of...
Stacy Mitchell explains on Pitchfork Economics how for the last forty years, merging companies have convinced regulatory agencies that their merger will be better for...
On this episode of Building Local Power, three members of ILSR’s Independent Business team, Lauren Gellatly, Katy Milani, and Kennedy Smith, answer: What challenges are...
Ron Knox writes in Slate how the shocking collapse of Taylor Swift’s tour ticket presale was an inevitable failure of the monopoly Ticketmaster.… Read More