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June 7, 2021

Elizabeth Heyrick's Consumer Campaign to Abolish Slavery

Elizabeth Heyrick energized the abolition movement with a consumer boycott.

What Is Mutual Aid & How To Get Involved

Mutual aid firmly believes that everyone has something to contribute, though these resources may differ, and everyone has something they need, creating symbiotic relationships. It’s volunteer-run, decentralised, organised without top-down authority, transparent, and driven by the needs articulated by community members.

Second Round Winners of D.C. Co-op Impact Grant

The recipients of the D.C. Co-op Impact Grant range from a start-up, worker-owned grocery store in Ward 7 to a collective advocating for the rights of D.C.’s street and sidewalk entrepreneurs. Learn more about the four cooperatives and their visions below:

2021 Virtual ACE Institute

An ACE Institute like no other / Un institut ACE pas comme les autres / Un Instituto ACE como ningún otro

This year, we are hosting an interactive, virtual ACE Institute for Co-op Educators, Managers and Developers across North America. This conference will bring together co-operators in English, French and Spanish speaking nations, to look at the steps involved in rebuilding, educating and co-operating in a post-pandemic world.

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June 10, 2021

Worker Co-ops vs. COVID

We speak with worker-owners at 8 co-ops in 4 states about the unique benefits, struggles, and limitations of of the worker cooperative model.

Is the Nation Retreating Already?

JGN: Childcare problems are more acute because many schools are not operating full time and many childcare centers are closed. Transportation is less reliable because of cutbacks. Many workplaces are more dangerous. 

Putting Values into Practice: Webinar

Does your organization value collaboration and shared power, yet struggle to match your decision-making, leadership, and management to reflect those values? You are not alone and Resource Generation staff have been working to better reflect their anti-oppressive values in their leadership structure.

Round Sky and Resource Generation are hosting a conversation on putting the work into shared power and collaboration through organizational structures and leadership development.

The Very First Oakland Co-op DiscoTech

How can technology build a co-op economy? This is the question that motivated Co-op DiscoTechs.

June 14, 2021

Co-ops Not Cops - Part 2

Join us as we discuss the impact of co-ops in abolition work.

Lydia DePillis joined ProPublica in 2019. Before that, she covered national economics issues for CNN Business, Texas’ economy for the Houston Chronicle, labor and the workplace for The Washington Post, and the business, culture and politics of the technology industry for The New Republic. DePillis was also previously a real estate columnist for the Washington City Paper, where she authored its award-winning Housing Complex blog. Her work has appeared in the New York Observer, Pacific Standard, Slate and various trade publications. She’s from Seattle, and is based in New York.

June 14, 2021

The Government Is Here to Help Small Businesses — Unless They’re Cooperatives

The Small Business Administration’s rules prevent it from helping most employee- and consumer-owned cooperatives, even though Congress specifically asked it to.

Co-op Group faces call to pull advertising

The Co-op Group is one of a number of businesses called on by pressure group Stop Funding Hate to withdraw its advertising from GB News, the controversial TV news channel which launched this week.

The channel – owned by US multinational TV company Discovery Inc, with other investors including include Dubai investment firm Legatum and Vote Leave-backing hedge fund manager Sir Paul Marshall – has been accused of a right-wing bias by critics.

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Cooperating out of isolation: Domestic workers’ cooperatives

Domestic workers may need support in acquiring the required business skills. Cooperative business support organizations, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, and other non-profit bodies can provide such assistance. In fact many of the examples of domestic worker cooperatives had such support to get start-ed in the form of training. Once the cooperative becomes more established and experienced, it will be in a position to provide this support to new members and share the experiences for the formation of other similar domestic worker cooperatives.