Whether it’s fighting to get a better deal on tax credits or negotiating for health insurance, smaller studios have endless challenges to overcome. And if it’s your first time tackling these kinds of issues, you may not know where to start.
Casa Nueva is getting ready to celebrate. After being closed for a couple of days, Casa reopens today (Aug. 6) and is planning an anniversary bash on Saturday.
There’s been a lot of debate over whether the United States should treat Internet service as a utility.
Worker cooperatives can help build community wealth through sharing prof
With the 2016 presidential campaigns underway, economic populism has taken center stage.
The Communities Conference is a month away! If you haven’t registered yet, now is the time. Also, help us get the word out by joining the Facebook event and inviting your friends.
Positive News has become the world's first crowdfunded global media cooperative, after raising £263,422 in just 30 days with their #OwnTheMedia campaign.
[Editor's note: below are the slides from a presentation given at the Association of Cooperative Educators (ACE) 2015 conference by Adam Trott, of Collective Copies and the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives, and Erbin Crowell of the Neighboring Food Co-op Association.]
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CDI Executive Director Noemi Giszpenc was invited to present at the U.N. in New York as part of a panel on the “Sustainable Development Goals” and how to engage citizen participation in implementing them.
For many years, decades in fact, the storefront at 3546 Montgomery Road in Evanston sat vacant. That all changed on May 19 when Community Blend, the newest employee owned, cooperative business created by Interfaith Business Builders, Inc. (IBB), opened it doors to serve up coffee and change in the surrounding neighborhood.
Governor Brown announced today that he signed a bill into law to facilitate the creation of worker-owned cooperative businesses in California. The new law, Assembly Bill 816, will remove unnecessary barriers to the creation of new worker cooperatives in California and improve operations for some existing worker cooperatives.
The environmental movement is a microcosm of other realms of society in one troubling way: women are missing. In journalism, academia, politics – on climate change, agriculture, and the economy – men are the visible decision-makers and spokespeople.
