Cooperators Confront the “System Problem”
How to Scale-Up the Cooperative Movement Without Sacrificing Cooperative Autonomy
Jan 8
Greetings from the GEO Collective
14 Ways to Help Build the Solidarity Economy with GEO
GEO's Collective members send Season's Greetings and Many Thanks for your Support! Here are 14 Ways You Can Help Even More.
Dec 6
Intentional Communities and Solidarity Economics
The Fall GEO Theme seeks to deepen awareness and understanding of the strong connections between solidarity economic activists and members of intentional communities through the common work they are doing. There are a variety of intentional communities:
Aug 26
Advancing the Development of Worker Co-ops (ADWC) 2013
Focus: Self-financing and Inter-cooperative Financing for Worker Co-ops
The topics presented at the ADWC pre-conference to the 2013 ECWD (Updated with 2 New Articles)
Jun 24
GEO 14: The Anniversary Issue
Still truckin' after three decades!
Thirty years later, the GEO Newsletter continues its ongoing work to catalyze worker co-ops and the solidarity economy.
May 4

Recent Articles

Food Co-ops, Food Hubs, and Food Democracy: An Interview with John Curl
Part 2 of 2
by Jim Johnson on Feb 27
Food Co-ops, Food Hubs, and Food Democracy: An Interview with John Curl
Part 1 of 2
by Jim Johnson on Feb 25
Co-op Consultant Ben Sandel on the Past, Present and Future of Food Co-ops
An Interview with GEO's Jim Johnson
on Feb 24
A Call to Develop a Worker Cooperative Sector in New York City
How the City Can Create Jobs and Address Inequality at Its Roots
by John W. Lawrence on Feb 13
Unions and Worker Co-ops: Working Together
Report from the Cinncinati Union Co-ops Symposium
by Mary Hoyer on Feb 10
Transforming Our Dark Affinities
by Michael Johnson on Feb 2
Confronting the “System Problem”Cooperatively
by Len Krimerman on Jan 10
Planning Must Be Centered in the Cooperative Movement
by Andrew McLeod on Jan 8
Cooperative Movement Should Embrace Discussion of Systemic Issues
by Thomas M. Hanna of the Democracy Collaborative on Jan 6
Cooperative Movement Should Engage Government Cautiously
A response to Hanna and Alperovitz on Mondragón and the System Problem
by Andrew McLeod on Dec 24
Mondragón and the System Problem
by Thomas M. Hanna, by Gar Alperovitz on Dec 24
Major Mondragon Co-operative Faltering
General Council delcares Fagor Electrodomesticos "not viable"
on Nov 4
Who Can You Trust to Cope With Climate Disasters?
An Interview Series with Keith McHenry
by Len Krimerman on Oct 16
The Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives: Exploring the Potential of Co-op Led Development
Preface, 2013
by Adam Trott, by Erbin Crowell on Oct 14
ZEGG-Forum and the Johari Window
The Johari Window and its relevance for ZEGG-Forum work.
by Ina Meyer-Stoll and Achim Ecker on Aug 27
more articles

Blog and Gleanings

Jessica Gordon Nembhard on Co-operatives and the Civil Rights Movement (Gleaning)
Mar 10 Southern pews and pulpits weren’t the only source of people power during the long civil rights movement. So, too, were cooperative economic...
Gen-Y and the New Economy: Precarity and the Value of Cooperation (Gleaning)
Mar 10 Many design agencies and arts organisations use a constant churn of skilled and productive long-term interns, sometimes comprising a third or more...
Toolbox For Education and Social Action Course Registration (Gleaning)
Mar 7 Dear worker co-op friends and allies,Thank you for your ongoing support of TESA. We know that you may have already received an outreach letter from...
On "There Never Was a West" (Blog entry)
Mar 7 by Marty HeymanI have been working my way through David Graeber's Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire, a 2007 collection...
From Trusts to Co-ops, Six Practical Forms of “Commons Ownership” (Gleaning)
Mar 6 More and more, people are beginning to recognize the immense value of our commons and search for ways to protect them. Here we’ve compiled a short...
Despite Poor Economy, Spanish Cooperative Sector Continues to Grow (Gleaning)
Mar 6 Worker cooperatives in Spain have grown by 32% in the third quarter of 2013, compared to the same period last year, according to data recently...
Sale of Co-operative Farms Undermines Food Sovereignty (Gleaning)
Mar 5 Back in 2010, I co-wrote a paper called ‘The co-operative path to food security‘. In it, I pointed to the increasing volatility of global food...
Support the Jackson Rising Co-op Conference this May (Gleaning)
Mar 2 On Tuesday February 25th, 2014 Mayor Chokwe Lumumba unexpectedly passed away. The Jackson Rising: New Economies Conference (May 2-4, 2014 at Jackson...
Latina-Run Co-Op Empowers Its Members (Gleaning)
Mar 2 Bruce Wallace, http://www.npr.orgWorker cooperatives are growing all over the country. Reporter Bruce Wallace takes us to visit a New York City...
Concerns about "Scaling Up" (Blog entry)
Mar 1 by Marty Heyman"Democracy" is a complicated idea and difficult ideal to establish as a political, economic, and social objective. Democracy is...
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