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largest non-profit cooperative housing project in North
America, with some 1200 residents federated into 22 co-ops and non-profit housing associations on the first land trust in Canada, preventing all land speculation. Roussopoulos was a president of the University Settlement of Montreal, which sought to democratize and localize the neighbourhood economy and successfully launched a credit union, a public library, and a rooftop garden.
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Since the 1970s, Roussopoulos has been active in radical municipalist community organizing in
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In a recent interview, Roussopoulos stated that the mission of the publishing house was threefold: to disseminate ideas of participatory democracy and community organizing, to publish the best radical analysis of
Canadian society, to revive libertarian socialist literature long suppressed on the
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in 1989, the first municipal green party in North
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universities. He has remained institutionally independent apart from teaching two years in the late 1960s at a progressive college.
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