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Ohio cooperatives in negotiations to merge

Heritage Cooperative, Inc. and Agland Co-op, Inc. announced that they have entered into negotiations to consider a possible merger of the two cooperatives. The boards of directors of both cooperatives on Tuesday  entered into a letter of intent to work toward an agreement of merger.

July 2, 2016

On Doing Well

"Doing well by doing good" is an idiom that should be removed from our lexicon.

Brexit: ProgExit and the Transition Town Movement

Nobody knows what the Brexit vote will mean for the UK.  People are reeling after a campaign marked by very poor quality debate, some deeply dangerous and divisive framing, a decision many didn't really understand and an election where 

July 5, 2016

Evergreen: A Case Study for Our Movements

In this blog I want to share my current thinking about the meaning of the Evergreen project to our cooperative/solidarity and other alternative economic movements. This meaning is of major importance. That project may be the most concentrated effort to mainstream worker cooperatives of an industrial size in the US. To boot, it was combined with an innovative green economic development strategy.

NYCNOWC Hiring Coordinating Director

The NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives (NYCNoWC), a trade association for worker-owned cooperatives in the metro New York area, is hiring a Coordinating Director.

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July 10, 2016

On Doing Well, Part 2

In editing an article recently, that touched on the design of the US monetary system,  I was forcefully reminded of 1) how complex (some would say purposefully so) our monetary system is, and 2) how rarely anyone tries to talk about it in an easily digestable way.  There was a time in this country's history when knowledge of the fundamentals of the monetary system was wide spread among the common citizens, not just Wall Street financiers and academic economists.  Nowadays, however, even a lot of financiers and economists fail to understand either the design or the problems of our money system.

July 12, 2016

A reflection on race/class/gender

The only way out of our sexist nightmare is through it together. Men of all colors and classes will have to leave their cocoons of privilege, and allow women to begin leading them  through it. If our women are not willing to do this, not capable of moving beyond their traumas, rage and despair, then there is, indeed, no way out.

Kali Akuno on Police Killings and Nationwide Protests

[That] people have not backed down, have not been scared, I think is a positive sign, and I just think is more further indication that, overall, that the center, the liberal political center that we have known since I think World War II, is fracturing and it cannot hold.

Keeping Cooperatives Inclusive

The setting up of FairPrice Shop reflects, in a most basic way, the core mission of NTUC FairPrice Cooperative, set up over four decades ago to help tame the cost of living and fight profiteering. The no-frills stores are to serve smaller households and those with tight budgets, like residents of one- to three-room flats in Henderson, Boon Lay, Ang Mo Kio and Jurong East.