Cooperatives are an old idea but more relevant than ever as they can be the drivers of a sustainable future, senior United Nations officials said on the International Day of Cooperatives today, urging Governments to create an enabling environment for these groups to thrive and grow.
Since 2010, 60 percent of new cooperative worker-owners are people of color and more than two thirds of total worker-owners are women.
Close to 90 percent of Mayes County, Okla., residents are without access to high-speed internet. In neighboring Delaware County, 75 percent lack broadband service.
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“CEO Jerry Stritzke made a comfortable $3.57 million in 2015 and is on track to making more this year,” Sawant said.
Look at a picture of New York City in the 1800s and see the streets filled with people, carts and animals doing a dozen different things and moving in many different ways.
ULCCS’s commitment to democratic and egalitarian principles harks back to its founding years in the early twentieth century. In the 1930s and 1940s, Uralungal was at the vortex of political turbulence, when powerful peasant and workers’ movements sprang up in Malabar, the nationalist movement took a radical turn, and the Communist Party emerged as a hegemonic force in the area.
Sometimes the obvious bears restating: The communities that electric cooperatives serve must be active participants in creating and managing smart growth.
What is smart growth, and how can co-ops play a part? It starts with a focus on the local community. In most cases, electric co-ops are among the main economic engines in their region. To be in this position and not leverage it for the greater good would essentially be working against our own interests. After all, if the local community does not thrive, what will eventually happen to the co-op?
When disaster strikes, local television matters. But does anyone actually care about small-town daily news coverage anymore? CHEK in Victoria is the last independent, employee-owned television station in North America, and Rob Germain is their news director. He defends the merits of local television.
In advancing a solidarity economy here in the borderlands, the language used continues to be an issue of much thought and discussion. In building an inclusive, democratically-based, economic network that promotes equality and justice, what words should be used? (I hope you appreciate how much care I put into the words chosen for that sentence!)
