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August 19, 2024

Back to Basics: Aligning Our National Organizations with Co-op Principles

We need our national and international organizations to join us. I call on others to participate in building the movement while reframing and redirecting the Federation to become a member-controlled and -focused organization once again.

October 3, 2016

A Cooperative Manifesto

Cooperative development is the most important social change work that a person can do.

April 16, 2026

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 20

What appears to be a proof of the economic viability of the cooperative enterprise, turns out to be an argument for the potential of cooperativism, as part of a larger movement of movements, to constitute a force capable of overcoming the crisis of the State by re-founding political democracy on new, distributed and democratic foundations.

April 2, 2026

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 19

The author’s task here is to explain the functioning of a democratic market and how market democratization, actual perfect competition, might be achieved in the face of monopoly, oligopoly, centralization, and other anti-competitive phenomena.

March 30, 2026

The Hammond Community Garden

We interviewed two members of the Hammond Community Garden about the benefits of creating community space.

March 23, 2026

Get Ready for a Grassroots Poetry Slam

find a (relatively) short poem to share and bring it to our May 4th virtual Solidarity Economy Poetry Slam!

March 16, 2026

The Best Creative Commons License for the Solidarity Economy

If we want to expand the solidarity economy by building the knowledge commons, the best license to use is CC BY-SA.

March 16, 2026

Memories of Len Krimerman from the Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective

Members of Grassroots Economic Organizing share memories of our dearly departed co-founder, Len Krimerman.

March 9, 2026

Remembering Len Krimerman

Len Krimerman, co-founder of Grassroots Economic Organizing, as well as many other things, passed away this last December. A beloved and hard-working comrade, he will be greatly missed by those he leaves behind.