A collective of urban families in the Jordanian capital, Amman, are reclaiming their food sovereignty by cultivating native wheat varieties in empty urban plots.
At a time when the world is suffering from a food crisis caused by climate change and exacerbated by the Russian-Ukrainian war, this initiative aims to reduce Jordan’s import dependency for 97% of its food grains.
The 2022 Worker Co-op Conference created some much-needed space for our movement to gather, connect, and learn alongside each other. Our USFWC and DAWI teams hosted about 500 people from across the U.S. and around the world on September 9-10, bringing together worker owners, co-op developers, and allies in Philadelphia.
In July 2022, Kaiser Permanente awarded Denver’s Center for Community Wealth Building (CCWB) $360,000 for a three-year initiative to launch six to nine new cooperatives in Denver and the neighboring city of Aurora. CCWB is using cooperative development as an economic development strategy for low-income and underserved communities at risk of displacement resulting from gentrification.
A panel discussion about three key figures of the social Catholicism of the 20th century--and what their legacy can and should mean today.
Fri, November 4, 2022, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
By encouraging widespread involvement from their local community members, community co-ops play a really important role in helping to overcome issues like social isolation and loneliness, which can be prevalent, particularly in rural areas. Community co-operatives are set up on a one member, one vote basis, rather than one share, one vote.
Sasha Zbrozek lives in Los Altos Hills, California, which he describes as "a wealthy Silicon Valley town," in a house about five miles from Google's headquarters. But after moving in December 2019, Zbrozek says he learned that Comcast never wired his house—despite previously telling him it could offer Internet service at the address.
I was an organizer with the Boston Workers Alliance and the executive director through my 20s. We were predominantly for people who are under- and unemployed, the thinking being that the conventional labor sector was organizing people with jobs. But we had a whole sector of people who had trouble just getting into work.
What is the meaning of the term “solidarity economy”? Because my graduate research is focused on the US solidarity economy movement, I often find myself answering this question in conversation with people from various walks of life.
Did Austrian economics still apply if the monetary commodity was redeemable for nothing and less useful than gold? Deflation might be good for the hodlers, but wasn’t that at the expense of everyone else, many of them hard-working, wealth-creating people, who weren’t hodling? And nobody ever, ever, talked about commercial banks and the 97% of money which they issued, as debt, for profit, in such quantity as suited them.
