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Many small growers across the global south experience unfair trading manifestations and practices, are trapped into selling their product at drastically low prices, and are stuck below or near the poverty line because of exploitative market intermediaries. To cope, small growers have united under the cooperative organisation model where small growers pool together their talent and skills to execute the role of intermediaries, eliminating their need and making direct connections to international markets.

On a quiet day this spring, Alejandra Chavez walked into her office at Westside Mobile Home Park in Durango, Colorado. Residents were gathered in the community space, discussing their plans for the park’s future, some leaning on the kitchen’s baby-blue counters while others sat in plastic lawn chairs. A year ago, this building was owned by a New York corporation and was off-limits to residents. But now, residents use the space for yoga, child care and community events. That afternoon, there were piñatas in the corner, left over from a recent birthday party.

“Good Food & Community” is what the Muskoka North Good Food Co-op is all about. This multi-stakeholder co-op is located in Huntsville, Ontario and boasts more than 1,700 proud member-owners with more people joining every day.

Introduction to Solidarity Economy Movements

Solidarity economy movements are people-powered forces to protect what matters most. They draw on tools and traditions within many lineages, making them accessible to any community, anywhere. Join us to explore what a solidarity economy movement is, how it works, and ways we can stay oriented to movement-building even as we navigate against the tides of capitalism and oppression.

Co-op members, neighbors, and visitors to Cleveland gathered at Fairhill Partners on Saturday, Aug. 12 for the Woodhill Community Co-op Conference, a day of workshops and discussions about community ownership.

The tenants of the 272 Caroline Street South in Hamilton are uniting to maintain the affordability of the 21-unit building by converting it into co-op housing.

Shared equity models represent one sustainable alternative to conventional homeownership; they include community land trusts (CLTs) and limited equity cooperatives (LECs). At their core, shared equity models are defined as follows: resale-restricted, owner-occupied housing where the “bundle” of property rights is divided between the homeowner and the community.

Humans have been participating in mutual aid long before it had a name. Indigenous and non-Western societies often prioritize collectivism and reciprocity over individual survival and continue to do so in the face of colonial oppression. The relief network Indigenous Mutual Aid writes “Indigenous Peoples have long-established practices of caring for each other for our survival, particularly in times of crisis.

Nearly 47,000 comments have been submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency by electric cooperative consumer-members as part of a grassroots campaign organized by Voices for Cooperative Power opposing the agency’s proposed power plant rule.