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.
