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Co-ops 101 from Co-op Cincy

In this workshop, we'll discuss the cooperative business model, how it works, and how it's beneficial. We'll focus on worker cooperatives.

Participants will learn about the underground history of cooperatives and how they have played a key role in U.S. history, as well as the potential they have to help solve our most challenging issues, including income equality.

We'll meet virtually for the workshop. After you register, we'll send you a zoom link.

The workshop is free, but donations are appreciated!

Feds off-track courting foreign groceries

Forget Trader Joe's. Some observers say Canadian grocery co-ops are a better climate-friendly community alternative to big foreign chains.

News that federal officials eager to lower food prices are now courting foreign grocery chains to set up shop in Canada has left some questioning why the government isn't instead supporting a Canadian alternative: grocery co-operatives, or co-ops.

Melanie Bush

Melanie Bush is Professor of Sociology at Adelphia University as well as a board member of May First Movement Technology (MFMT) and the US Solidarity Economy Network.

October 6, 2011

Sharing Power: Building a Solidarity Economy

Jes Ciacci

Jes Ciacci is a board member and the Membership Coordinator of May First Movement Technology (MFMT).

Alice Aguilar

Alice Aguilar is the board co-chair of May First Movement Technology (MFMT) as well as the executive director of the Progressive Technology Project.

Estrella Soria

Estrella Soria is a board member of May First Movement Technology (MFMT) and a consultant in digital literacy, with experience in digital protection for activists.

February 19, 2024

May First Movement Technology: Digital Radicalism

Resistance in the digital environment demands that we center our values, intentions, and dreams, focusing on other ways to live, be, and know. May First Movement Technology is a cooperative (primarily based in the United States and Mexico) that aims to put these values into practice: digital media that supports social struggles and grassroots movements working to create the world we know is possible.

Information Technology Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives Democratic Dialog & Deliberation Linking Opposition & Alternatives cooperative commonwealth
February 22, 2024

Battle River Railway Co-op

In this episode of Each For All: The Co-operative Connection, host Robin Puga sits down with Matthew Enright, the General Manager of the Battle River Railway Co-operative (BRR).

Trade & Exchange Transportation Food Producer Cooperatives

A co-op worked for her and then some

It’s become very expensive to get into the housing market and the dream of buying a home appears unattainable for many. What can you do to be able to purchase a house? In the ‘Affording a Home’ series, we look at different ways others have done it and at resources that can help.

2023 BSEF Grantees

In December  2023,  the Black Solidarity Economy Fund working group redistributed $280,000 to 48 Black-led solidarity economy projects!

Ingrid Henriksen

University of Copenhagen

October 6, 2011

Daily Kos Map of #OWS

United States beyond capitalism Strategies for Change #Occupy Movement

Markus Lampe

Carlos III Madrid

Paul Sharp

University of Copenhagen

February 26, 2024

Danish Creamery Co-ops in the Late Nineteenth Century

We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous introduction of the automatic cream separator and the cooperative ownership form in the Danish dairy industry from around 1880. Using a new database of statistics from creameries and the tool of stochastic frontier analysis, we find that both institutions and technology were important for the success of the Danish dairy industry and, by implication, the growth and early development of the Danish economy.

Food Wholesale Trade Producer Cooperatives Africa

Tell Your Cooperative Story

Take some time to consider what IS your story? This sounds rudimentary, but it’s easy to forget the real story behind the numbers. If you are celebrating your co-op’s 25th anniversary, ask yourself, why was your co-op created? What solution did your co-op develop for the community that it serves? How did it help the community? What impact did it have on families? Do some research and think about who within your co-op community will have inspiring stories to share.

Stir to Action Recieves Working Capital from Co-op Loan Fund

Stir to Action was founded as an online publisher in 2012 platforming new ideas and debate around economic alternatives. Over the past decade it has developed into a national infrastructure body for economic development, focussing on using democratic ownership to transform inequality, the climate emergency and political culture.