There are alternatives laying around all over — land trusts, worker coops, social wealth funds, neighborhood councils, democracy vouchers, public pharma, public banks, municipal utilities, mobile crisis units, and so much more. Our task is to foster, cultivate, and spread them!
Eugene, Oregon has CAHOOTS: https://whitebirdclinic.org/services/cahoots/
CAHOOTS

CAHOOTS Eugene: 541-682-5111  /  Springfield: 541-726-3714 CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) provides mobile crisis intervention 24/7 in the Eugene-Springfield Metro area. CAHO…

https://whitebirdclinic.org/services/cahoots/
North Dakota has a public bank: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/9/24/20872558/california-north-dakota-public-bank
How a brief socialist takeover in North Dakota gave residents a public bank

North Dakota’s government-owned bank has been a celebrated institution for a century. Now California might get one, too.

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/9/24/20872558/california-north-dakota-public-bank
Cleveland has the Evergreen worker coop model: https://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth
The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth

The Democracy Collaborative, in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, the City of Cleveland, and the city's major hospitals and universities—is helping to...

https://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth
DC has TOPA: https://ggwash.org/view/43788/a-dc-law-lets-tenants-buy-their-buildings-before-anyone-else-can-but-it-also-helps-renters-stay-put
DC’s TOPA law lets tenants buy their buildings before anyone else can, but it also helps renters...

DC has a law that lets tenants buy their building if their landlord wants to sell it.  Under the law, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), tenants can work out a deal directly with their...

https://ggwash.org/view/43788/a-dc-law-lets-tenants-buy-their-buildings-before-anyone-else-can-but-it-also-helps-renters-stay-put
LA has neighborhood councils: https://empowerla.org/councils/ 
Councils

To find your Neighborhood Council please enter your address HERE For contact info and current meeting agenda, click the Neighborhood Council’s name Neighborhood Councils are the closest form of...

https://empowerla.org/councils/
Seattle has democracy vouchers: https://www.vox.com/2018/11/5/17058970/seattle-democracy-vouchers
Seattle’s radical plan to fight big money in politics

Swamp it with little money.

https://www.vox.com/2018/11/5/17058970/seattle-democracy-vouchers
Alaska has a sovereign wealth fund: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/13/16997188/alaska-basic-income-permanent-fund-oil-revenue-study
The amazing true socialist miracle of the Alaska Permanent Fund

Every resident gets a check just for being alive, and it really, really works.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/13/16997188/alaska-basic-income-permanent-fund-oil-revenue-study
Maine has prison voting: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/states-rethink-prisoner-voting-rights-incarceration-rates-rise-n850406
Voting is a sacred right. Even for some prisoners.

Advocates say the rehabilitative effects of letting inmates have a voice is profound.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/states-rethink-prisoner-voting-rights-incarceration-rates-rise-n850406
I could go on with dozens more examples. Point is: the future is already here, in green shoots 🌱 sprouting up across the country, awaiting more civic gardeners to grow and spread them!
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