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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

December 11, 2017

FairCoop: An Alternative System Outside of Capitalism

Niko Georgiades

December 4, 2017

Kenya’s Sarafu-Credit

Niko Georgiades

Tightshift member apprentices and supporters at Tightshift Laboring Cooperative’s launch in December 2016 at Impact Hub DC. Adriel Fogle, Delonte Wilkins, Noreil Gorham, Donnell Sims, Keith Gaffney, Nicholas Gorham (bottom row). Photo by Samira Rashid, <a href="http://www.srashid.com/" target="_blank">SR Photography</a>.

November 6, 2017

A Worker Co-op for Returning Citizens

J. Gabriel Ware

October 16, 2017

Innovative Funding Models for Worker-Owned Platform Cooperatives

Nithin Coca

Inaugaral celebration of cooperative generator project in Manbij. Image via <a href="https://cooperativeeconomy.info/mualda-cooperative-to-provide-electricity-to-200-houses-in-village-of-manbij/" target="_blank">Co-operative Economy in Rojava & Bajkur</a>.

October 9, 2017

Three New Cooperatives Aim to Develop the Economy in Manbij

Kameran Khojah

Cîwan Ahmed

September 1, 2017

Cooperative Care: Empowered Caregiving

Direct Care Alliance

Photo from <a href="http://www.kathleenmcgwin.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/newsletter_possibilitiesofrelationships.pdf" target="_blank">Cooperative Notes</a>.

August 28, 2017

Cooperative Care and Waushara County

Kathleen McGwin

August 7, 2017

The Strength of Cooperation

Maro

May 12, 2017

Solidarity Economics as Transformative Politics

Michelle Williams

Vishwas Satgar

April 14, 2017

Putting the Grocery Back in the Grocery Store

Greg Olson

Tanner Segbers

January 23, 2017

Permaculture, Commons and Community

Helen Iles

November 4, 2016

The Campaign to Turn Twitter Into a Co-op

#WeAreTwitter Organizing Collective

October 21, 2016

Building Black Cooperatives

Ed Whitfield

Father Albert McKnight

October 14, 2016

Here's to Community!

September 30, 2016

Debunking Co-op Myths

Ruby Levine

August 12, 2016

Come for the Beer, Stay for the Revolution!

Grassroots Economic Organizing

Still image from <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL4IIQZie7M" target="_blank">The Concept of Timebanking</a></em> by Edgar Cahn

July 27, 2016

DIY System Change

Stephanie Rearick

Hudson Valley Current Board of Directors

July 18, 2016

Keep it Local!

David McCarthy

Maria Reidelbach

July 11, 2016

The Great Transition Experiment

Pamela Boyce Simms

Brett Barndt

June 17, 2016

The Small Wind Co-op

March 25, 2016

BIOME: Operationalizing the Cooperative and Solidarity Economy

Fair Trade Hellas TV

February 3, 2016

Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons: Executive Summary

David Bollier

Pat Conaty

January 22, 2016

Helping Each Other

The Laura Flanders Show

January 6, 2016

Filipina Trafficking Survivors Launch a Co-op

Abigail Savitch-Lew