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Resilience Under Violence: The Highlander Center

A suspicious fire destroyed one of the main buildings of the Highlander Center in late March, an almost century-old civil rights school in Tennessee that once housed the likes of Rosa Parks and Dr. King. What has happened since our last discussion with the newest co-directors of the school and what do we need to know about the white power symbol that was found spray painted on the premises?

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Resilience Under Violence: The Highlander Center

Institutionalizing the Commons: An Italian Primer

"This chapter is devoted to what I believe is a rather interesting and unique experiment in transforming indignation into new institutions of the commons. Perhaps this praxis “Italian style” could become an example for a global strategy."

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Institutionalizing the Commons: An Italian Primer

The New Trusts: Democratic Ownership Beyond the ESOP

A webinar on emerging explorations on trust structures—their promise and their problems

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The New Trusts: Democratic Ownership Beyond the ESOP

Daycare co-ops: a rural solution

People are resourceful in small-town Alberta. In Smoky Lake — population 960 — there had never been a daycare facility, and parents always had to cobble together childcare plans.

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Daycare co-ops: a rural solution

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This Way Out: A Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative

Educational interviews with San Francisco Bay Area Worker Cooperatives on issues critical to starting a successful worker cooperative business.
"This Way Out: A Guide To Starting A Worker Cooperative" Interviews with Worker Coop members & coop attorneys (2012) Includes woodworker coop, tech coops, bakery, cheese/pizza, bike shop coop, soap maker coop, Bio Fuel/urban farm supplies, more.

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This Way Out: A Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative

Co-operatives First & Indigenous Technical Services Co-op

About five years ago, Federated Co-ops Limited, (FCL) a very large player in the co-operative sector in Western Canada, became concerned about the lack of co-op development in rural and Indigenous communities. So they asked The Centre for the Study of Co-operatives at the University of Saskatoon, to find out why.

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Co-operatives First & Indigenous Technical Services Co-op

US federal credit unions could be allowed to serve legal cannabis businesses

US banks and credit unions providing financial services at federal level could soon be able to serve legal cannabis businesses.
The US House Committee on Financial Services has voted through a bill to provide the legal framework for federal banking institutions to serve cannabis businesses.
But it also needs to be passed by the full House before being sent to the Senate for a vote.

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US federal credit unions could be allowed to serve legal cannabis businesses