Abdur-Rashid Ali, an African-American Muslim leader and community activist in Cincinnati, expected the worst when he sat down in a dialogue with a young, white police officer from the other side of town.
“We looked at each other and said, ‘Oh, man. This is going to be a problem here,’” Ali said.
Fifteen minutes into the discussion, Ali said he decided to listen to the officer.
Do you suppose the founders named it ”Airbnb” because they envisioned pulling billions ‘n’ billions of dollars out of thin air?
A union worker cooperative is an empowering way of organizing a business structured like the proverbial three-legged stool:
Empathy, cooperation and fairness seem like distinctly human traits. But biologist Frans de Waal explains why other animals might share those same qualities.
The Greek economic crisis led to devastating cuts in social services, including preschool childcare – but a new model of education is now emerging, with parents forming a co-operative to fill the gap.
An online survey conducted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Cooperative Alliance shows 75 % of survey respondents feel that women’s participation in cooperatives has increased over the past 20 years.
Sky-high corporate CEO pay, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz notes in a new report, “creates social norms” that drive up levels of inequality far beyond corporate payrolls.
Last week, Brentin Mock over at CityLab had an incisive response to Peter Dreier’s Shelterforce article, The Revitalization Trap. Mock didn’t dispute Dreier’s argument that the goals of the community development movement won’t be won solely with place-based work, and requires large-scale policies to address wage stagnation, labor rights, and inequality. As Dreier says:
The US Social Forum is coming to Philadelphia at the end of this month!PACA is co-hosting an exciting, historic Peoples' Movement Assembly focused on the solidarity economy and co-ops, and you're invited.
With its recycling and composting business, Cooperative Energy, Recycling and Organics, known as CERO Cooperative, has dedicated its efforts to creating green jobs in the local food economy. The effort is something its leaders view as for the Boston community, but now CERO is asking the community to show its support — with cash.
The hippies could be proven right. Four decades after they introduced the commune into the industrialised society, pooling goods and saving nature’s resources, sustainability and the sharing economy are on the up.
As late as the 1930s, nine out of ten rural homes did not have access to electricity.
The main objective of this call for expressions of interest is to improve the environment for transferring businesses to employees or workers organised in cooperative form and to raise awareness about the benefits of a cooperative model in Europe.
Projects to be supported under this call shall include the following categories of action:
