Skip to main content

GEO Original

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.

May 7, 2026

Reflections on Euclides Mance’s Solidarity Economic Circuits and Economic Liberation

The purpose of this article is to share the concept of a Solidarity Economic Circuit as presented in Euclides Andre Mance’s 2022 curriculum Solidarity Economic Circuits and Economic Liberation – moving from capitalist economy to liberation economy.

April 23, 2026

Brazilian Cooperatives: The Path to a Green Economy

The Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB) took a stand to support the UN Climate Summit, COP30, held in Belem, Brazil on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. The OCB issued a Manifesto outlining their many projects that support a truly sustainable society.

April 20, 2026

GEO Returns to Print!

GEO is returning to print after nearly two decades. Here's why we're doing it.

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!