Workplace Democracy Across the Professions
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The New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives will hold its second annual conference of presentations and discussions about economic democracy and the road to economic justice.
We are gearing up for our Grand Opening of the Lumumba Center and Commemoration for our late Mayor, Chokwe Lumumba. We need to raise at least $20,000 to continue the renovations of the Lumumba Center, including the future space for Nubia's Place Cooperative Cafe, named after Nubia Lumumba.
[Editor's note: This article from 1991 examines the Wholly Grains Cooperative Bakery in San Francisco. While it comes from the perspective of an outside academic, it nonetheless offers some interesting insight into the functioning of this particular enterprise. Especially interesting is the bakery's use of an "efficiency standard" in place of a straight hourly wage. I can find no trace of the bakery now, either online or in GEO's national directory of co-ops and solidarity economy enterprises, An Economy of Hope, which we published a nu
In coming days, the Rochester City Council will take up what could be a good idea, even a transformative idea, if all the parts of this town, public and private, are in sync.
AltGen is an organisation that helps young people set up workers’ co-operatives as an alternative to competitive, precarious and low-wage career paths. Recent graduates ourselves, we are well acquainted with this situation.
Think of a co-op, and REI might come to mind. The outdoor gear retailer is a huge consumer cooperative. In Everett, the Sno-Isle Natural Foods Co-op sells organic groceries to hundreds of members. Now, a local coffee shop is working to become a cooperative business.
In October 2008, at the beginning of the financial meltdown, Praxis Peace Institute was in Mondragon, Spain, with a group of 20 people. We were there to study the Mondragon Cooperatives, the largest consortium of worker-owned businesses in the world.
Rather than pay for expensive leases from traditional taxi companies or give up a portion of their earnings to startups like Uber and
The reforms of second reconstruction of the 1950's and 60's, removed the blatant hard edges of national oppression against African descendants in the U.S. but they did not change the structural divisions between "citizens and subjects" and the "haves and the have-nots" at the foundation of the American project.
While still in architecture school, María García Mendez and Gonzalo Navarrete drafted a plan to re-design a high-density area of Alfafar, called Barrio Orba, using the principle of co-housing — in which residents trade and share space and resources, depending on their needs.
For people who participate in commons, peer production or co-operatives, the emerging economy presents a frustrating paradox in the enormous mismatch between cooperative culture on the one hand and the organizational forms, on the other hand, that can sustain it and advance the general well-being of society.
The New Economy Coalition (NEC) seeks a facilitative and innovative leader to guide the organization at this unique and formative moment. The leader of NEC will build, inspire, and manage a talented staff team as well as a vibrant coalition; keep the board strong and engaged; be a primary public face of the organization; further develop a strong and innovative fundraising capacity; and build co
Besides a playground, amphitheater and the quiet sanctuary of the oak savanna, Frogtown Park and Farm will feature an urban agricultural education center with demonstration plots, greenhouses, a farmhouse, fruit and nut orchards, farm stand and beehives. Art projects will be integrated into most of the activities, helping establish the farm as a community gathering spot.
We arrived late to the graduation. The entire block was full and there wasn’t a free seat in sight. Hundreds of people filled the street. Some people came dressed from work, and others, who had loved ones graduating, were dressed in their best clothes, cameras ready.
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