PeerTube, a free and federated video platform
PeerTube is a practical answer to all video-tubes that centralize our data and attention. With it, videos can be hosted by the people, with the people, for the people.
ROC USA: Better Together
Co-op leaders, affiliate staff, and ROC USA President Paul Bradley lay out how and why ROC USA does what it does through the lens of four resident-owned communities.
Building a cooperative economy
In permaculture terms the economy sometimes feels like a segregated monoculture planted with terminator seeds, sprayed with patented pesticides on venture capital backed farms designed to maximise profits in an unsustainable market place full of thieves and cheats. No wonder people prefer to potter in their gardens and allotments - and try to forget the craziness of corporate capitalism!
Roadmap for radicals
Activism has lived primarily in the middle and upper-middle classes. That class-based insularity is preventing us from building the power of working people. From radical subcultural circles to non-profit organisations to the Democratic party, the leadership of the broad left over the past 40 years has become concentrated in the top 20 per cent of US society.
Interview with Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and Evie Zavidow
This week AND next week, we are spending the hour with Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and Evie Zavidow.
Sustainable Food Systems: An interview with Robert Biel
AF: So what about this term ‘food sovereignty’? That sounds nationalistic in a way…
Cooperatives provide security and meaningful jobs to young people
Brussels, 6 June 2018 – CICOPA, the international organisation of industrial and service cooperatives, has published today a new “Global Study on Youth Cooperative Entrepreneurship”, as part of its campaign “We own it! The future of work is ours”.
A Q&A with Victory Gardens Co-op
Tell us about Victory Gardens. How did it get started and how does it work?
John Barry Talks about Workers Cooperatives
When Committees Are Authorized to Make Decisions
One of the key challenges for groups of 20+ members working with consensus is how to effectively delegate. If you retain all decision-making in the plenary it invariably leads to a bottleneck—on the one hand there are too many plenaries and they last too long; on the other, committees are almost certainly underutilized (and probably demoralized by being expected to content themselves doing only scut work in service to the plenary).
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2018 ACE Annual Institute
The Association of Cooperative Educators (ACE) is pleased to invite you to its 2018 Annual Institute "Fostering Coop Innovation"!
Montana ROC Goes Online
Morning Star Community, a 41-home resident-owned community in Kalispell, Mont., debuted its marketing website this week.