At the 11th annual conference of the Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative (GCGI) held at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, STWR hosted a panel on the theme ‘Making the Shift: Towards a Global Sharing Economy’. The presentations and Q&A session can be listened to below, with further resources.
International Acupuncture Cooperative Opens Groundbreaking New Acupuncture School
Will Train the Next Generation of Community Acupuncture Practitioners
As I stared into the gloomy room all I could see were the eyes of people at the meeting, eyes that were full of hope but also reflected the hard times they had lived through in their drought-ridden land. An infinite variety of flying insects were competing for a place around the four paraffin lamps that provided light at the meeting of co-op members that night.
Bruce A. Dixon of the Black Agenda Report reminds us that whenever we hold an even from a discussion group or featured speaker to a bigger protest, the event is only part of the activists' objectives. The other part is the collection of names and contact information for the people who show up and are willing to share their info.
My name is Jeff Goldhaber. I’m a 21-year, full-time employee of the Stop & Shop supermarket chain. I’m also a proud union member and shop steward with the Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), along with my 45,000 Stop & Shop brothers and sisters.
I have my own perspective about the boycott (not strike) that the Market Basket workers have been embroiled in.
Casual labour and tired ideas = not really web-tastic
More allegations have emerged of dodgy tactics on the part of car ride app Uber and rival Lyft – this time relating to so-called "brand ambassadors".
When it comes to ownership, there are few better structures for keeping a community’s wealth local than a cooperative. So why is it that America’s rural electric cooperatives are tethered to dirty, old coal-fired power plants instead of local-wealth generating renewable power?
There is something wholesome and nourishing about being involved with a network of like-minded woodland lovers, who driven by stubborn determination, inspiration, heartfelt ethical decisions and environmentalist beliefs, are banding together to revive local coppice industries against the odds of 21st century capitalism’s globalised markets.
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One of PACA’s goals is increasing public awareness about cooperatives—both about existing co-ops in the Philadelphia area and are open to new membership and also how co-ops work and why they are important.
This paper asks the question “What are the key elements to building an effective United States-based worker cooperative movement in the context of global capitalism?”
Co-ops are all the rage these days. Positive media coverage of co-operative organising is on an upswing. But that’s not good enough for Laura Flanders and Bryan Van Slyke.
There are beer geeks. There are co-op geeks, too. Matt Cropp could be a hybrid.
"I geek out on co-ops," said Cropp, 27, of Burlington. He writes about credit unions and is making a video about a central Vermont electric co-op.
The beer part concerns Cropp's work with Full Barrel Cooperative Brewery and Taproom, a cooperative brewery in the making. He is one of the principal organizers.
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