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Radical Routes, a network of co-operatives working for social change are looking to raise £15k for a women‘s worker co-operative bakery in Kobane a city rended apart by the long civil war in Syria, but now being run under democratic principles as an autonomous region.

What if our economy actually served people and the planet, and built stronger communities? Instead of extracting resources, what if businesses built local wealth and resilience while regenerating ecosystems? And what if we create enterprises that provide good jobs, reduce income inequality, and lower our carbon footprint?

 

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These posts will identify a few of the most compelling, provocative, and otherwise informative issues that I and you - my readers - have found on the internet this past week and that are relevant to our solidarity economy effort....

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There is a lot of momentum and increasing interest in the issues and needs around co-op development within western Canada’s Indigenous populations and communities. It is a conversation that is both new, and very old within co-op development circles.

I have a hypothesis. It’s just a hypothesis, but it makes sense to me. I’ve tried to research it, but the terms are so common that it’s hard to isolate my idea.

It goes like this: the Rochdale Pioneers emerged in England specifically because England was where the commons were most thoroughly enclosed.