Cincinnati is an historic city, just across the Ohio River from Kentucky in the heart of the American Midwest.In the years when people were fleeing slavery in the South, the city became a way station on the underground railroad.And since 2011, it has been home to Co-op Cincy, a unique network of activists and unionized cooperatives that are building "an economy that works for all."Film presents 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, to cooperatives. Biography:
Photographer and director Mark Dworkin, together with Melissa Young, leads the Moving Images Video Project, a nonprofit organization that makes and distributes television documentaries about war and peace, the environment, and social justice. Many of their award-winning documentaries have aired on PBS stations around the country, including Argentina—Hope in Hard Times and Net Loss: The Storm over Salmon Farming.
