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The term gongxiaoshe, or supply and marketing cooperatives, has attracted wide attention since a report by Hubei Daily in late October said Hubei province has restored and reconstructed 1,373 local gongxiaoshe in almost every county and town.

Since such cooperatives used to be very common during the planned economy era, some people are claiming their "re-emergence" is an indication of planned economy making a comeback in China.

However, this is nothing but overreaction to a normal development.

On Wednesday, Lexington Co-op Workers United sent a letter to the Co-op’s Board of Directors, announcing the formation of an organizing committee.

They also called on management to sign the Fair Election Principles and recognize their union, Workers United Upstate New York. This is the same union which helped Spot Coffee and Starbucks in their unionization efforts.

In the past two years, Bellegarde Bakery (purveyor of the highly-sought-after picnic baguettes, and other glutenous delights) has joined the ranks of Pagoda Café, which is currently transitioning to worker-ownership, and

As many people are coming to the fediverse from birdsite (that's what we call Twitter), it's important that we be intentional. A Mastodon server is just a tool, not a solution. There are lots of other fediverse tools out there as well. But what matters above all is how we use that tool, and how we co-govern it. If everyone just all joins the same server, we will probably end up with something worse than Twitter. Lots of servers, also, are run by admins who do not necessarily have accountability to their users.

After more than two years of work on the project, Gracewin Living Cooperatives has made the difficult decision to suspend development of its senior housing cooperative planned for construction along Vanrooy Drive near Highway 32 South in Thief River Falls.

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A community-led approach to housing that focuses on permanent affordability has acquired its first two apartment buildings in Kitchener after a multi-year grassroots campaign.

Worker-owners from The Drivers Cooperative, Sustainergy and Cooperative Home Care Associates share the benefits of the cooperative business model for workers, customers and communities.

Innovative and non-speculative housing policies need resources. We’re signing the Barcelona Declaration to promote communal public and cooperative housing through leaseholds. The content for the declaration is inspired by the resolution by the Parliament of Catalonia to support a cooperative housing model, approved through a broad consensus.

As Islamic economic and financial institutions continue to thrive in Muslim-majority countries, cooperatives have also taken sharia-compliant forms. What sets the sharia cooperatives apart from their conventional counterparts? 

Established in 2013 by Jamie Miller, Tŷ Pren was already running as a community business, but thanks to the help of Cwmpas (formerly the Wales Cooperative Centre) it is now officially a workers’ cooperative putting community and worker benefits at the heart of what it does.

To that end Jamie, as well as all members of the Tŷ Pren team now run the business on an equal footing.

The Cooperative Movement in Zambia has expressed concern on how Cooperatives have become a fertile ground for mobilization by politicians. Speaking on Tuesday’s edition of Let the People Talk program on Phoenix FM, Global Entrepreneurship Network Managing Director Edwin Zulu noted with concern that politicians are using Cooperatives for political expediency as opposed to mobilizing people to form Cooperatives for business purposes.

Another branch of the Eastern Kentucky Mutual Aid group is hosting a holiday drive for Lechter County residents affected by the summer flooding. 

Jessica Shelton, director of the Appalachian Media Institute at Appalshop, is volunteering with the effort. 

“Mutual aid is a big community, region-wide effort,” Shelton said. “The community is this whole region. And there are people in different areas of the region that are focusing on more local efforts for mutual aid.”