Help Wanted: Join the VoxPop Cooperative!
Are you passionate about books, authors, and politics? Do you have experience in bookselling, working in a bookstore, live event organization, or promotion? If so, we want YOU to join the VoxPop Cooperative, a worker-owned collective dedicated to building community around ideas and action.
We’re Hiring: We’re seeking individuals with:
- Experience in bookselling and bookstore operations
- A love for books, authors, and a deep interest in politics
- A knack for organizing live events and promoting community engagement
About Us: VoxPop is a worker-owned cooperative focused on bringing people together through literature, live events, and activism. We believe in collective ownership and commitment to common values. You can read more about our mission in the VoxPop Manifesto of 2024 below.
What You’ll Do:
Work in a dynamic bookstore and event space
Organize and promote live events, from book readings to community gatherings
Participate in the growth of a cooperative business, working toward shared goals
Upcoming Meetings & Interviews: We have a big team event on the evening of September 20th, and we’re scheduling Zoom interviews for next week. We’re looking for people dedicated to our mission, who can meet in person for this event.
Apply Now: To apply, visit https://www.voxpop.nyc/apply and fill out our application. Be sure to check out our manifesto and see if our values align with yours. We look forward to hearing from passionate, committed individuals ready to make a difference!
Join us at VoxPop and be part of something bigger than a bookstore—be part of a movement.
Location: New York City
Website: www.voxpop.nyc
Interviews: Zoom (Next Week)
In-Person Event: September 20th
VoxPop Manifesto 2024:
We Believe:
Vox Pop Axioms:
Violence is outdated. Higher consciousness is the ultimate tool for change.
Everything is possible. The great figures of history are just a baseline that each of us can surpass. We each have the radical change-making power in us.
The more educated people become, the more people shift to the left.
Higher consciousness develops as society progresses. Old religions die and new forms of higher consciousness evolve.
Manifesto: Vox Pop Building on the Past
Vox Pop was more than just a coffeehouse, more than a “brand.” It was alive. It was a community center and a political incubator. It was a consciousness-raiser. It was a space of shared struggle and rambunctious open mics. It also had the best coffee in New York: fair trade, robust, fruit-forward, organic coffee from Ethiopia and Peru and points beyond.
Now, 20 years after the original Vox Pop opened, we have worked hard on improving on the model. The new version will practice the politics and philosophy of non-violence, drawing from the lineage of Jesus, Buddha, and Dr. Martin Luther King. As beacons of inspiration and spirituality, those figures incite us to create spaces for community care and thoughtful contemplation.
Funny enough, all three of those figures also practiced a politics rooted in love of the People, emancipation from violence and war, imperialism and racial antagonism. All three pointed to the empowerment of everyday individuals as radical agents of change.
Vox Pop 2024 will be a worker-owned cooperative, both giving back to the community while also pursuing viable and equitable models of economic development for collective prosperity. Cooperatives are a means of bridging the gap between the capitalist class and the working class.
In our era of gentrification and real estate speculation, we want to be more than just another cookie cutter coffee brand. We have always been about action. Vox Pop is about dreaming big and getting to work.
We envision community education, jobs training and legal clinics, space for activists and idealists, discussion, debates, and radical politics. And we’ll still make the kind of coffee that makes you feel unstoppable. Meanwhile, we spread the ideas that actually do make you unstoppable.
