Red Emma’s

As part of Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy's month-long celebration of cooperatives and their own tenth anniversary, join Red Emma's worker-owner John Duda for a free talk exploring the global history of cooperatives as an alternative to capitalism, and their connection to political movements fighting for justice and liberation.

John Duda is an independent researcher and communications strategist working to advance a more democratic economy. He has worked extensively at the intersections of digital media, software development, and left politics, as well as serving for nine years as Communications Director for The Democracy Collaborative, an international research institute working to develop practical models for a post-capitalist economy. He has published widely on left organizing, history, and economic alternatives, and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Intellectual History. He is a co-founder of Red Emma’s, a worker-owned radical bookstore and restaurant in Baltimore, which he calls home. His book Noise From Below: Cybernetics, Socialism, and the Strange History of Self-Organization is forthcoming from Haymarket Books in 2027.