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April 2007

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New GEO Feature Articles:


Maria Trigona Worker Self-management threatened at the HOTEL BAUEN in Buenos Aires Rally support for the 150 workers who, since 2003, run this high-rise hotel themselves
John Teta Luhman Three Questions from the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives Conference Are worker coops obliged to be actively a part of a larger social justice movement? How do worker coops grow? If worker coops are so great, why isn’t there more of them?
Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone The World Social Forum at the Crossroads in Caracas: The Solidarity Economy and Other Options GEO’s Latin American correspondents talk about the World Social Forum meetings they attended in Caracas in January 2006, the highlight of their recent tour of newly democratized enterprises in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. They discuss the history of the World Social Forum and possible future directions for the Forum.
Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone Reflections on Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution and its Solidarity Economy The authors analyze the initiatives of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to build a "socialism for the 21st century" based on participatory democracy and using revenues from the oil industry for the benefit of the entire society.
Ethan Miller Solidarity Economics: Strategies for Building New Economies From the Bottom-Up and the Inside-Out There are many alternatives to corporate-driven capitalism. Ethan reminds us that thousands of grassroots initiatives across the U.S. and throughout the world are working to build a “solidarity economy” based on shared values of democratic empowerment and participation, broad social ownership and equity, ecological sustainability and community well-being. Linked together, these projects have the potential to be amplified into a significant force for social and economic transformation.
Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone Cooperativization as Alternative to Globalizing Capitalism Describes  conditions under which co-op networks like the one  near Mondragón, Spain  could be part of a non-violent replacement of capitalism by economic democracy.


Current Articles

Issue 74: Celebrating the 2nd National Conference of Democratic Workplaces

[print]   FROM THE EDITORS

[print]   RICK SURPIN'S KEYNOTE ADDRESS by John W. Lawrence

[print]   REFLECTIONS ON AN AMAZING CONFERENCE by Len Krimerman

[print]   A SNAPSHOT AND A CHALLENGE by Melissa Hoover

[print]   BOSTON WORKERS ALLIANCE TEMP AGENCY PROJECT by Chris Heneghan

[print]   RAISING CAPITAL FOR WORKER COOPERATIVES by John W. Lawrence

[print]   SUPPORT FROM THE HEART - THE MULTI-CULTURAL HEALTH COOPERATIVE by Len Krimerman

[print]   WORK, DIGNITY & SOCIAL CHANGE a video review by Frank Lindenfeld

 

Issue 72/73: Worker Coops Unite! Collaborative Double Issue with the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

[print]   FROM THE EDITORS: WORKER COOPERATIVES - A POWERFUL FORCE FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY by the GEO Collective

[print]   SOLIDARITY NEWS FLASHES

SPECIAL SECTION: WORKER COOPS UNITE!

[print]   FARTHER, FASTER, TOGETHER: THE US FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES AT TWO by Melissa Hoover

News From the Regional Networks:

[print]   NORTHWEST: PORTLAND ALLIANCE OF WORKER COLLECTIVES by Lori Burge

[print]   WEST: THE NETWORK OF BAY AREA WORKER COOPERATIVES (NOBAWC) by Kirsten Marshall

[print]   A CALL FROM THE MODERN TIMES

[print]   MIDWEST: THE FEDERATION OF WORKPLACE DEMOCRACIES IN MINNESOTA (FWD-MN) by Tom Pierson

[print]   EAST: NEWS FROM THE EASTERN CONFERENCE FOR WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY (ECWD) by Mary Hoyer

[print]   EASTERN CONFERENCE ON WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY: 2006-07 BOARD MEMBERS

[print]   U.S. REGIONAL WORKER COOP NETWORKS

Fellow Travelers: Profiles of Grassroots Economic Organizers

[print]   HILARY ABELL OF WAGES - HELPING LOW-INCOME LATINAS CREATE GREEN CLEANING CO-OPS ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST by Jane Livingston and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Worker Coop Profiles:

[print]   WAUSHARA COUNTY AND COOPERATIVE CARE: AN ENDURING PARTNERSHIP by Kathleen McGwin

[print]   I AM UNIQUE: A WORKER-OWNED NURSING COOPERATIVE

[print]   SUPPORTING ACTIVISM, FINDING GRATIFYING WORK, CREATING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS: A CONVERSATION WITH C4 OF NEW ORLEANS by Chris Heneghan

[print]   EQUAL EXCHANGE: TWENTY YEARS OF COOPERATION AND FAIR TRADE by Virginia Berman

[print]   HEALTHY FOOD FOR EVERYONE! BUILDING A COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEM IN WEST OAKLAND by People's Grocery (from www.peoplesgrocery.org)

[print]   NEWS FROM PEOPLE'S GROCERY: DEVELOPING A WORKER-OWNED COMMUNITY GROCERY STORE by Brahm Ahmadi

[print]   WHAT DOES A COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEM MEAN?

Forum:

[print]   GEO FORUM ON CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION: IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

[print]   SEARCHING FOR THE NEXT COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE by Len Krimerman

[print]   CORPORATION BUSTING: A STRATEGY FOR UNIONS AND COOPS: TOWARD BUILDING A LABOR-OWNERSHIP ECONOMY by Lisa Stolarski

[print]   UNIONS AND COOPERATIVES: ALLIES IN THE STRUGGLE TO BUILD DEMOCRATIC WORKPLACES by Lisabeth L. Ryder

[print]   OUR EYES ON THE PRIZE: FROM A "WORKER COOP MOVEMENT" TO A TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL MOVEMENT by Ethan Miller

Solidarity Economy in Latin America:

[print]   WORLD SOCIAL FORUM AT A CROSSROADS: 5TH INTERNATIONAL, SOLIDARITY ECONOMY, OR STAND PAT? by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

Reviews:

[print]   DREAMING OF AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM? GAR ALPEROVITZ - AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM reviewed by Len Krimerman

[print]   AUTONOMY AND/OR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? DAVID ELLERMAN - HELPING PEOPLE HELP THEMSELVES reviewed by Len Krimerman

 

Issue 71: Special Collaboration with Dollars and Sense: Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity

[print]   OTHER ECONOMIES ARE POSSIBLE! by Ethan Miller

[print]   VENEZUELA'S COOPERATIVE REVOLUTION by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

[print]   AFRICAN AMERICAN ECONOMIC SOLIDARITY by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

[print]   COOPERATIVES IN THE UNITED STATES

 

Issue 70: Building Solidarity, Not Charity: Collective Relief Efforts on the Gulf Coast

[print]   NEW IDEAS, NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE COLLECTIVE

[print]   LATIN AMERICA’S NEW SOLIDARITY ECONOMY: ARGENTINA’S CRISIS by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

[print]   LATIN AMERICA’S NEW SOLIDARITY ECONOMY: VENEZUELA & ARGENTINA by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

[print]   ROSARIO, ARGENTINA: AN ECONOMY BASED ON SOLIDARITY by Renate Lunn

[print]   CO-OPERATIVES PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEW ORLEANS’ SUFFERING

[print]   "WE ARE CREATING AN ALTERNATIVE!": A CONNECTICUT YANKEE VOLUNTEERS WITH COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE IN NEW ORLEANS A Report From the Gulf Coast, by Chris Heneghan

[print]   NOTES OF A NATIVE SON: STORIES OF NEW ORLEANS from a letter by John Clark

[print]   EVOLUTION OF COMMON GROUND CLINIC by Liz Highleyman

[print]   SIDEBAR: THE ANAND PATTERN

[print]   THE "FIRE THE BOSS!" TOUR by John W. Lawrence

[print]   NY AND 2ND ANNUAL US FEDERATION MEETING

[print]   THE UNITED STATES FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES HAS ISSUED A CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP By Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

[print]   IN MEMORY OF MEG PERRY, 1979-2005

[print]   THE BIG QUESTION: WHAT DOES RADICALLY DEMOCRATIC MEDIA LOOK LIKE? by Ethan Miller

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