At the time the first nationwide lockdown was announced by the Government of India due to the rising coronavirus cases, the country witnessed a dearth in masks and sanitisers caused due to panic buying and confusion.
On the other hand, millions of Indians had started migrating back home after losing their livelihoods in big cities.
To support our mission and ensure the stability of the business, The Compost Co-operative is establishing a housing co-operative to create housing security for our members. In the two and a half years we’ve been in business, only one in ten of our formerly incarcerated apprentice worker-owners has had access to safe, affordable housing. People coming out of jail require housing that is safe and secure; without it, risk of re-incarceration greatly increases.
Communes are the most basic unit of the political system of North and East Syria. They are established in Article 48 of the Social Contract, which defines the commune system as “the essential basic organizational form of direct democracy. It is a system that sets out an organizational and administrative framework within which to make decisions and management.
Inducting Ben Burkett, Everett Dobrinski, Carmen Huertas-Noble and Michael Mercer into the Cooperative Hall of Fame.
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In collaboration with fellow Cooperative Development Program (CDP) implementers NCBA-CLUSA, Global Communities, and Equal Exchange, Land O’Lakes Venture37 (Venture37) conducted a study on the impact of COVID-19 on nearly 90 agricultural cooperatives in 8 countries globally. Data for this study was collected in three intervals (May, June, and July 2020) to assess how the impacts of COVID-19 on cooperative operations changed over time.
We are at a historic juncture. If we can secure a transformative and green recovery from Covid-19, the crisis could prove a watershed moment - a break from an unsustainable present and unjust past towards a reparative future anchored in a purposeful, inclusive economy. But there is no guarantee the Covid-19 conjuncture will not be resolved on terms that accelerate the conditions of the crisis. The path we take will depend on the actions we now take.
The USFWC Worker Benefits Program has officially opened for enrollment. December 9th is the deadline for co-ops or organizations to enroll. You do not need to be a co-op to enroll but you do need to be a member. Enrollment is open for the following categories of benefits: dental insurance, vision insurance, health insurance (dependent on the state), accident, and disability insurance. Enrollment at other times is limited to people eligible based on qualified life events and new members of USFWC.
How do co-ops function in a capitalistic system?
The Inter-Cooperative Council (ICC) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, one of the largest and longest standing student housing co-ops in North America, was founded during the era of the Great Depression with the idea that there is strength in numbers and cooperation. It all started with one house in 1932 where the members voluntarily pooled their resources to afford the housing costs and buy food together.
In recent decades a wide range of scholars have begun to investigate something that activists and social movements have long implicitly embraced in their organizing: religion and economics do not exist in isolation from each other but instead inform and shape their respective social, political, and cultural manifestations.
Set up last year by a group of community organisers and council residents in London, Cooperation Town’s mission is to “organise around food poverty outside, against and beyond the mainstream charity model, where do-gooder philanthropists provide for the deserving poor for as long as they feel like it,” says its co-founder Shiri Shalmy.
