How Public And Cooperative Grocers Could Transform New York City With rising grocery prices and record high food insecurity in mind, a new report proposes a publicly owned and cooperative grocery infrastructure for New York City.

Back in Dec, Forbes features a new framework to address food affordability in NY: "a scaled-up, 20 city-owned supermarket network, alongside a complementary strategy that supports cooperative food and supply chain infrastructure development across NYC" #solidaritycities @grocerynerd.bsky.social

Appraising Mamdani’s Five Key Policies — The Democracy Collaborative Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s policies are not only feasible, but could work to improve the lives of a majority of New Yorkers. And they have past precedent in the city, Professor Maliha Safri wr...

Maliha Safri gives wonderful analysis of Mamdani's policy agendas, showing how they build on successful solidarity economies from NYC's past and present! #solidaritycities. @msafri.bsky.social

New Books: Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation — Urban Affairs Review Featuring Maliha Safri, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Craig Borowiak, and Stephen Healy, authors of Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation , published by University of Minne...

Feels more urgent than ever to support cities as bulwarks against the storm. Very excited to have this new podcast drop with me and coauthors about our #SolidarityCities book!
Thank you.
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Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City We forge a shared strategy and identity amongst community-led, democratically-controlled initiatives across NYC.

Loving the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC’s (CEANYC’s) beautiful new website! Educate, Train, Strengthen Connections, make economic matches. Doing it right. #solidaritycities #cooperatives #soludarityeconomy #resist&build

10 Books for Urban Thinkers This Summer | Metropolis The 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award Long List Books have the power to transform how cities are understood, governed, and experienced. The Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities...

Our book SOLIDARITY CITIES made the long list for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award.

It's exciting to be selected alongside these other cool books!

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We did a podcast with New Books Network, and our host Elena Sobrino was an excellent interviewer. #SolidarityCities published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.

5/6 books on solidarity. #SolidarityCities by @uminnpress.bsky.social. "Between these paired logics of what might be familiar to readers as the Gentrified City and the Disinvested City, North Philadelphia's community gardens reveal a third dimension of city life that organizes urban space in a

Listen to @msafri.bsky.social speaking with @profwolff.bsky.social on #gentrification, #countermapping and #SolidarityCities on #EconomicUpdate! Hear the rest on our #democracyatwork @youtube channel here: tinyurl.com/5n9864cy

I love this video! Right to the point. #SolidarityCities

I hear that the mapping workshop with my #SolidarityCities book co-authors Craig @craigborowiak.bsky.social and Maliha @msafri.bsky.social was awesome. Great job and thank you!

I am looking forward to this. Feels about right! #solidaritycities

Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025) - New Books Network

This was fun! New book podcast on #solidaritycities with my coauthors. Thanks to Elena Sobrino for great interview!! elenasobrino.site

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Maliha Safri et al., "Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation" (U of Minnesota Press, 2025) - New Books Network

Thanks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for hosting a conversation about our book. All four authors participated! The podcast with Elena Sorbino was posted on April 29, 2025 newbooksnetwork.com/solidarity-c.... #SolidarityCities. @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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EXCERPT - The Solidarity Economy is Thriving in Cities Social Policy is the leading journal of labor and community organizing. For over 30 years, Social Policy has served as key site for intellectual exchange among progressive academics and activists from...

Social Policy, journal of labor and community organizing- published an excerpt of our new book #Solidaritycities Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation (by @uminnpress.bsky.social). Co-conspirators @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social @stephenhealy72.bsky.social & @craigborowiak.bsky.social

Yes. Many thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for hosting this webinar on our book. So many good vibrations and solidarities coming out of next system project @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social !

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EXCERPT - The Solidarity Economy is Thriving in Cities Social Policy is the leading journal of labor and community organizing. For over 30 years, Social Policy has served as key site for intellectual exchange among progressive academics and activists from...

An excerpt of Solidarity Cities now up on the journal Social Policy. www.socialpolicy.org/134-articles...

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Many thanks to @nextsystemstudies.bsky.social at George Mason University for hosting a discussion of our book #SolidarityCities at Online Convergence conference. Here is the video from this session: youtu.be/8kqsl16fSRE?.... Thanks to Amy Cohen and @benmanski.bsky.social for organizing the panel!

Check out my co-authors @msafri.bsky.social and @stephenhealy72.bsky.social discussing our book #SolidarityCities!

So grateful to visit the Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies at Temple University last week with a lecture on #SolidarityCities. A cherished opportunity to discuss our new book. Thank you Melissa Gilbert for the invitation and faculty and students for the warm welcome!

Speaking with @profwolff.bsky.social about our book #SolidarityCities. Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation with @stephenhealy72.bsky.social @craigborowiak.bsky.social, &
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Solidarity Cities | Manifold @uminnpress *Solidarity Cities* analyzes the deeply entrenched racial and economic divides from which cooperative networks emerge as they work to provide unmet basic needs. The authors show how these initiatives ...

We produced our book #Solidaritycities. Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation, by @uminnpress.bsky.social to be open access, but not easy to see that link, so voila.
If you want hard copy (w pretty maps!) get 40% OFF W CODE MN92000 thru 12/31/2025 @ www.upress.umn.edu/978151791602...

End your week on a hopeful note with this amazing article about #solidaritycities.

"What if, amid the towering trees of capitalist structures that seem to dominate our horizons, we could sense an expanding solidarity ecosystem growing in the understory and composing the Solidarity City?'

‘Beyond frustrating’: Sheriff’s Office problems prevent Land Bank from buying lots for community gardens, houses Even City Council members can't figure out what the holdup is. Sheriff Rochelle Bilal has been active at community events, but hasn't responded to questions.

Gift article.
Month after month, community gardens find their land parcels posted for sheriff’s sale. Even city council has trouble protecting gardens from sheriff office incompetence. This needs to be better! #solidaritycities #savetheLandBank
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photo of Alex Stewart, Craig Borowiak, and Maliha Safri at Making worlds Bookstore, seated and discussing.

Thank you @makingworlds.bsky.social for hosting an amazing conversation last weekend, guided by Alex Stewart from PACA, about our book #SolidarityCities by @uminnpress.bsky.social.

Coop folks, activists, students, people interested in real solidarity work and how to do it better.

Wonderful book launch of #SOLIDARITYCITIES last weekend at Making Worlds bookstore, one of the best and most beautiful bookstores I've visited in over a decade. Thank you!

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Urban agriculture continues to suffer from lack of land security - Grid Magazine In the summer of 2023, farmers and gardeners in Philadelphia had good reason to be optimistic. The City had just published its first urban agriculture plan, called “Growing from the Root,” which offer...

Wonderful story in Grid Magazine about Philly gardens struggling for land security. The Land Bank needs to work better for communities! Thank you Councilmember Brooks, for your advocacy. It matters!! #solidaritycities @kendraphlcouncil.bsky.social

Today at 5pm - @msafri.bsky.social and @craigBorowiak.bsky.social will be launching our collectively authored book #SolidarityCities at the Making Worlds bookstore in Philly! @StephenHealy.bsky.social and I hope to tune in to listen! Published by @uminnpress.bsky.social.

Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

Another devastating shift from “working poor” to “working homeless.” Instead of going along with how capitalism produces these inhumane condition, it is time to get serious about expanding #SolidarityEconomy and #SolidarityCities! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...

So, it works. Since 1967. #SolidarityEconomy #SolidarityCities