The United Nations has declared 2012 to be the "International Year of the Cooperative." This issue of GEO explores the significance of this declaration, ways that it connects with broader cooperative movement strategies, and other dimensions of building a stronger global cooperative/solidarity economy movement.
Articles about the legacy of John Howard Griffin's book 'Black Like Me'.
Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | "Birthing Justice" Series
21 April 2012
Coumba Toure | Bamako, Mali
Quebec Students Ignite the Popular Imagination
By Stefan Christoff, rabble.ca | Report
There has been a resurgence of interest in complementary currencies. With the Eurozone's austerity shutting down national economies in Greece, Italy, and Spain, local currencies are emerging as a tool fot communities to keep going and sustain themselves during periods of extreme economic deprivation. There has been coverage, for example, of an alternative currency scheme in Volos, Greece. The corporate media represents the currency as a "barter" system which it is not.
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS FOLLOW COLLEGE CYCLIST-ACTIVISTS ACROSS COUNTRY FOR CO-OPERATIVE AWARENESS
To the Moon is a documentary in production about a youth-led, bike-powered movement to build momentum for American co-operatives
May 14th, 2012 - New York, NY
The United Nations declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives-- an initiative to jumpstart the promotion of cooperatives as an alternative business model and mode of living in response to a world of growing economic instability. A team of college students from the American Northeast have decided to seize this chance to make a difference their own way.
