In the 60s and 70s, the California Bay Area was a hotspot for worker co-ops — businesses owned and governed by the people who work in them. Over the years activism abated, gentrification set in and most of those co-ops collapsed and died.
Ripe, yellow argan berries fall to the ground in the courtyard of the Ajddigue women’s
NCDD’s 2016 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation is coming up this October 14-16 in the Boston area.
The following guide is based on 'Are You Ready for a Brand New Beat’ (written by Geof Cox in 1995 [in collaboration with Bob Wearn]), which outlined the formation of the North East Music Co-operative (NEMCO) – the UK’s first music teachers’ co-operative.
Students at the Hillsborough Community College Brandon Campus are planting seeds for a sustainable future.
The Túpac Amaru social organization not only has built housing projects for the poorest people in Jujuy, but also dedicated itself to constructing factories in order to provide new residents jobs along with shelter.
A self-described "anarchist housing collective" where members live a communal life sharing expenses as they occasionally host live music shows has successfully outbid a land developer trying to buy lots next door for new apartments.
Becoming a cooperatively owned enterprise rather than a traditional, privately owned one was something Sheila and Dylan had contemplated for their new generation mom and pop grocery when it was initially launched. However, they quickly ran into the usual startup financing obstacles. “No bank would fund us even though we had perfect credit and a good business plan,” Sheila reports, “They wer
[Editor's note: Below is a free chapter from the book Podemos: In the Name of the People, out now from Lawrence & Wishart publishers.
COOPFUNDING – A free and cooperative crowdfunding platform that promotes the self financing of cooperative projects.
In truth, I have always grappled with seeing myself as a traditional academic. Many theatre faculty artists with MFAs struggle with this feeling. The artistic compromise one often feels when researching and producing scholarship is not where I, as a tenure-track professor, felt most conflicted. I wish that were the basic fundamental struggle.
Rising concerns about the inequity between those who design web platforms such as google, FB and Uber and their users has seen a growing movement questioning the trend. The alternative is Platform Cooperatives. Lets discuss with Janelle Orsi (SELC), Prof Anthony Schneider (internetofownership.net/), Godrey Moase (NUW), Melina Morrison (BCCM) and Antony McMullun (Employee Ownership Australia NZ).
You can argue that the economy has largely bounced back from the state it was in seven years ago, but it's no secret that traditional community economic development models have stalled and often fail.
But one approach to community economic development is rapidly gaining attention: cooperative business development.
This Regulation was drafted by a working group appointed by the City of Bologna within the project "The city as a Commons" supported by Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna.
