For over a year, the Crenshaw Mall, a landmark Black economic and cultural hotspot that sits on 40 acres, has been the target of numerous outside White developers seeking to gentrify Black Los Angeles.
Date / Fecha - August 6th / 6 de agosto
Time / Hora - 12pm ET / 11am CT / 9am PT, 90 min
Cost / Costo - Free / Gratis
Language / Lengua - English / Ingles
On Sundays, Edith Alas Ortega travels 20 minutes from her home to a farm field in Henderson County, North Carolina, and takes a deep breath. “There’s a mental and physical healing that happens out here,” she said in Spanish. Ortega is one of five members of Tierra Fértil Coop—“fertile ground” in English—an agricultural, worker-owned cooperative for and by Latinx immigrants.
I want to make three overarching points in my testimony:
August 10th | 11:00am-12:30pm Eastern
What would it be like to spend time together in your community that is meaningful, fulfilling, and fun, even if there are unresolved issues and disagreements? Join us for this workshop to learn how creating a safe space facilitates meaningful conversations, healing in your relationships, and unconditional acceptance, support, and belonging.
SPARCC has been working in six metropolitan regions for five years. We invest in and nurture relationships with multidisciplinary groups that bring together community residents, public and private sectors, and local governments in each city. From the very beginning of our partnership in 2016, community partners and residents alike have shared a growing fear of displacement—and yearned for community ownership as a safeguard against these growing pressures.
In the 1970s and '80s, there were land struggles, assertions of indigenous rights, and attempts to figure out alternative ways of doing things. Cooperatives were one answer — business ownership, supply and demand, could be shared by forming agricultural cooperatives, electric cooperatives, retail or housing cooperatives, even credit unions.
As my earlier research on worker buyouts of businesses in Italy and Argentina’s worker-recuperated companies has shown, businesses that convert to co-operatives represent a tried-and-true rescue and succession strategy.
Wines produced by the cooperative union Les Vignerons de Carthage, formerly known as the Union Centrale des Coopératives Viticoles of Tunisia, have won awards across the globe in countries such as France, Belgium, the UK, Canada and China. A well-coordinated association of cooperatives overseeing some 9,000ha of vineyards has made these accolades possible.
Established in 2013, Co-op Cred was structured as a complementary currency in part to help those receiving social assistance avoid higher deductions taken on their income. By providing compensation in cred, the program permitted participants to maintain their benefits payments.
Nonprofit organization Materializing and Activating Radical Social Habitus (MARSH) Cooperative is launching its own storefront grocery beginning this Saturday, July 24. Measuring just over 1,000 square feet and located at 6917 S. Broadway in the Carondelet neighborhood of South City, Marsh Grocery will offer a full range of accessibly priced grocery items, including organic produce. Prepared foods and baked goods produced on site in the worker-owned and -operated kitchen will also be available.
When a Kansas City foodie hears the name Cauldron Collective, they may have an idea of who they are and the kind of food they make — plant-based comfort food made from scratch.
