This package includes three short films centered on cooperative environments, be it in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Cincinnati.

In 1962, the ILGWU (International Ladies Garment Workers Union) threw open the doors to Penn South, the affordable housing cooperative in the middle of New York City. The Cooperators is based on oral history interviews with the first residents of the coop. Their voices weave a story of the vision, struggle and community that have kept Penn South a beacon of affordable housing and the bold possibilities of social unionism.

The Cooperators

An oral history of Penn South, the affordable housing cooperative in the middle of New York City.

Since 2011, Cincinnati has been home to Co-op Cincy, a unique network of activists and unionized cooperatives that are building "an economy that works for all." This film visits several of the diverse worker owned cooperatives in the network, many led by people traditionally marginalized in the U.S. economy, and shows Co-op Cincy's remarkable work to transform and provide training and support for these businesses. Particularly significant for the future is the effort to help convert existing businesses where owners are retiring into cooperatives.

Works For All: Cincinnati's Co-op Economy

Cincinnati is home to Co-op Cincy, a unique network of activists and unionized cooperatives that are building an economy that works for all.

This documentary tells the story of how Mil Mundos, the first bilingual bookstore of East Bushwick, became a mutual aid hub and a safe space for their neighbors during the early days of the pandemic, changing the course of its operations. We follow the day-to-day activities of this Bushwick coop and its members' relationships to the space that informs the core of their community-making. <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/7720cbe99e3cdb31e9fe8c61b25d8ded.png" width="210">

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En Común: Bookloving y Organizing

Mil Mundos is a bilingual, co-op bookstore in Bushwick that has fostered a larger sense of community in the area.

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