Published: Sept. 11, 2018

Nathan Schneider

Assistant Professor of Media Studies Nathan Schneider

Join journalist, author and Assistant ProfessorÌýNathan Schneider for two local book launch events Sept. 12 and 14. His new bookÌýEverything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next EconomyÌýfollowsÌýformer protesters and other activists exploring alternative economies, namely the cooperative movement.

This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, when the investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. crashed on September 15, 2008. The sweeping financial crisis that followed sparked a national outcry for major economic reform.

Schneider's 2012 bookÌýThank you, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse reported on protests surrounding the financial crisis and Occupy Wall Street movement. He's spent the past five years following former protesters and other activists who are exploring alternative economies.

Many of them embraced a model that is at once revolutionary and historic: the cooperative movement. Schneider’s new book explores the history and future of this movement and its ties to local, national and international economies.

If you go


​Wednesday, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m.


Friday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m.

Interview

From broadband cooperatives bringing high-speed to rural communities to taxi drivers joining forces to fend off Uber, the co-op movement is alive.

Q&A

Schneider sat down to discuss his book and theÌýco-opÌýmovement with the College of Media, Communication and Information. Read more here.