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Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power

Building Local Power Season 2 Category.

6 Jul 2023

Keeping My Public Options Open

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 6 Jul 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power, Top Three | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Two advocates for affordable life-saving drugs share their stories exposing America’s healthcare woes… Read More

antitrust policies, audio, California, healthcare, homepage feature, insulin, life-saving medication, mblp, PBMs, public action, public options
20 Jun 2023

Broadband is Good for Your Health

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 20 Jun 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A Georgian devotes herself to expanding the rural South’s broadband for better healthcare access… Read More

audio, broadband, broadband infrastructure, connectivity gap, homepage feature, rural south, teleheatlh
10 Jun 2023

Left Out in the Coal

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 10 Jun 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

An activist mobilizes hundreds of residents in an effort to shut down a coal plant… Read More

audio, coal, coal retirement, dirty energy, homepage feature, private equity
18 May 2023

Housing Is Where the Heart Is

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 18 May 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power, Top Three | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A tenant organizer battles profit-focused private equity firms for safe, affordable housing… Read More

affordable housing, audio, Community Power, homepage feature, homes guarantee, private equity, union
3 May 2023

Composters Dreaming, Investors Scheming

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 3 May 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Three composters face funding challenges in an effort to foster land stewardship… Read More

audio, circular food system, community composting, composting, economic incentives, environmental justice, environmental solutions, Food Waste, funding, homepage feature, private equity
18 Apr 2023

Graying of the Fleet

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 18 Apr 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A fisherman explains how corporations are displacing independent fisherfolk… Read More

antitrust, audio, catch share, consolidation, fisheries, fishing, homepage feature, market concentration, mblp, private equity, regulations
30 Mar 2023

A Country with No Farmers

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 30 Mar 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

“The Onion Man” gives a first-hand account of what is driving farmers to extinction… Read More

agricultural diversity, agriculture, antitrust, audio, consolidation, decentralized farming, farmers, homepage feature, market concentration, mblp
16 Mar 2023

A Food Oasis in North Tulsa

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 16 Mar 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power, Top Three | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

A grocery store owner transforms a food desert into a food oasis… Read More

antitrust, audio, Black businesses, consolidation, csbf, Dollar Stores, dv, food deserts, food justice, grocery stores, homepage feature, independent businesses
28 Feb 2023

Toledo Takes Dollar Stores to Church

by Luke Gannon and Reggie Rucker | Date: 28 Feb 2023 | posted in: Building Local Power, Frontline Stories in the Fight Against Monopoly Power | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

An Ohio pastor leads the charge against the dollar store invasion in his community… Read More

antitrust, audio, Black businesses, dd, df, Dollar Stores, dv, food deserts, homepage feature, independent businesses, justice, lblp, political movement

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