From pubs and football clubs to housing and music venues, community shares are a way for ordinary people to pool their resources and take ownership of the places and services that matter most. Dave Boyle has spent years helping groups do just that, proving that another way of running our economy is not only possible, but already happening.

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00:00 Co-ops & Community Shares

05:53 The power of co-ops

08:28 What are community shares?

14:09 Bad landlords

20:28 Non-private ownership models

24:17 Invisible inequalities

28:13 Co-operative movements are the political form for the neurodivergent

36:39 How-to: Community Shares

40:36 Get an irish passport; get a flag

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📩 News Club – newsletter , podcast @newsclubuk_

🔥 Dave Boyle – co-operative advisor; community shares expert

📖 Ian Adderley – Co-operatives: Linking practice and theory

🤝 Co-ops UK – empower and support co-operative enterprise with specialised knowledge and expertise

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This week we’re joined by Manasa Narayanan, a journalist and researcher looking into issues at the intersection of politics and technology, including Big Tech/AI, misinformation, online hate and misogyny, surveillance and data rights. In this episode, we unpack the stories we’re told about Big Tech and AI, and why so many of them are misleading by design.

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00:00 Big Tech Narratives

02:00 Tech complicity in violence

05:54 Palantir is evil

11:07 Mainstream misrepresentation

17:26 AI: an ethical consumer choice

25:35 Technological determinism

27:12 Missing context – check out Migrants Organise

32:33 Independent media consortium

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📩 News Club – newsletter & podcast @newsclubuk_

✒️ The Citizens – nonprofit journalism and campaigning organisation with a focus on technology and politics.

🏘️ Migrants Organise – provides a platform for refugees and migrants to organise for power, dignity and justice.

💼 Independent Media Association (IMA) – co-operative dedicated to promoting the work of independent media in the UK.

📰 Independent Community News Network (ICNN) – supporting the development of community news hubs.

📻Independent Publishers Alliance (IPA) – championing, advocating for, and interconnecting independent publishers.

This week we’re joined by Johnbosco Nwogbo from We Own It to ask: what can 21st century public ownership look like? From buses to rivers, health to food, we get into why privatisation sucks, and how we can build services that put people (and planet) first.

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00:00 21st Century Public Ownership

04:51 Goodbye to PFI

08:18 Why privatisation sucks

13:31 What can public ownership look like?

18:24 Wins wins wins

22:31 Check out Signalise Co-op

26:13 Better buses!! Better everything

31:00 Reform want to steal all your money

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📅 NEWS CLUB LIVE – 20 September, register here

📩 News Club – newsletter & podcast @newsclubuk_

✊ We Own It – campaigns against privatisation and for 21st century public ownership @weownit_campaign

📖 Radical Abundance – Kai Heron, Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell

💧 Windrush Against Sewage Pollution – making the River Windrush safe for all

🌊 River Action – rescuing Britain’s rivers

👍 Compass – building a Good Society

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