Economic Justice
Sowing Seeds of Farm Co-op In Detroit
by John Gallagher for Common Dreams
The Mo' Green Town proposal by New York City activist Majora Carter just might hit the sweet spot in Detroit urban agriculture.
Carter visited Detroit recently to talk up her plan to create a worker-owned urban agriculture cooperative venture. By pooling the efforts of numerous small growers in Detroit, it would attempt to grow big enough to generate real profits and a return for investors. But it would be run by local community growers themselves.
Job Opening: Workers' Center Network Coordinator
Organization Name: Interfaith Worker Justice
Website: www.iwj.org
Location: 1020 W Bryn Mawr, Chicago, IL
Job Post Date: 17 Sep 2009
Job Terms: Full Time
Salary: Depending on experience, between $35,000 and $45,000 annually.
Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
Title: Workers' Center Network Coordinator
Cascadia Hour Exchange Goes Public
Who Gains From the Green Economy?
The People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store
Searching For the Next Cooperative Principle
In 1995, the International Cooperative Alliance adopted seven cooperative principles to define and guide cooperatives throughout the world. Briefly stated, the "traditional seven" include: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for community.
Our Eyes On the Prize: From a "Worker Co-op Movement" to a Transformative Social Movement
Shakoor Aljuwani in New Orleans: We Need Viable Community-Based Development Models
Shakoor Aljuwani is an organizer with the Home Coming Center in New Orleans. GEO Newsletter's Jessica Gordon Nembhard interviewed him in April 2007 about his work and progress with helping low-income residents return to New Orleans and rebuild their homes and neighborhoods. Aljuwani describes some of the grassroots efforts to help returnees with both direct services and advocacy - to play a role in designing their homecoming, rebuilding their neighborhoods, and making government programs work for them. He also discusses prospects and opportunities for including cooperative economic development in the efforts to rebuild neglected neighborhoods in New Orleans.
Argentina's Unemployed Workers Movement: A Traveler's Report
For a total of twelve months between 2003 and 2005, I lived and worked with the Unemployed Workers' Movement of Solano (MTD-Solano) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was an experience that fundamentally changed the way I think about community organizing and activism; I continue to search for ways to put those ideas into practice. This article is an attempt to share these experiences, and to let you know about a new video-workshop tool that aims to deepen the exchange between organizers around the world.
Worker Self-management Threatened at the HOTEL BAUEN in Buenos Aires
By Maria Trigona
Inside the BAUEN Hotel, one of Argentina's worker-run workplaces, janitors, repairmen, receptionists and maids sit in an assembly with worried but determined faces and sheets of paper in hand. Each of the workers, some of whom have been working at the hotel since it was built in 1978, hold a court ordered eviction notice, a judicial document notifying the workers they must abandon the hotel or police will force them to leave.
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