This article was shared on a Pacific Northwest Co-ops listserv, and I'm so glad it was! I'm a co-owner at PixelSpoke, a worker-owned co-op in Portland, OR. Thank you for illuminating other ways we can practice democracy in and beyond the workplace. Yes, it's sometimes tedious and not always fun, but so important in the long run and something most Americans aren't particularly well-versed in. Yes, we pay a lot of lip service to democratic principles but ironically have very few opportunities to put them into practice on a day-to-day basis.