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Support Rise Up: The Game of People and Power

Lead a march of thousands of people. Write a protest song that goes viral. Fight for what you believe in. Rise Up is a cooperative board game about building people power and taking on oppressive systems to create change. It’s ethically manufactured and made by the creators of Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives.

October 3, 2016

A Cooperative Manifesto

Cooperative development is the most important social change work that a person can do.

European Commons Assembly

We call for the provision of resources and the necessary freedom to create, manage and sustain our commons. We call upon governments, local and national, as well as European Union institutions to facilitate the defence and growth of the commons, to eliminate barriers and enclosures, to open up doors for citizen participation and to prioritize the common good in all policies.

Toward Post-Capitalist Cities?

In the US, it’s not uncommon to think about cooperatives and non-profit social enterprise as something wholly outside the realm of conventional politics. Yet, in many parts of the world, and increasingly in some corners of the US, government, especially at the local level, plays a critical role in supporting ecosystems of enterprises that are structured to put people and planet before profit.

Merger of food cooperatives nears completion

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) and Affiliated Foods Midwest of Norfolk recently announced that they had reached agreement to combine the two cooperatives’ distribution businesses.