Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy
Cooperative lawyer and organizer Clark Arrington recently passed away. Clark was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame in 2021.
A pragmatic visionary, Clark Arrington used his legal training to address capital formation for worker cooperatives. From developing bylaws that established capital accounts to pioneering preferred stock that maintained democratic control, Arrington has had a foundational influence on worker cooperatives.
We are live at the Launch of the African Cooperatives Centre (ACC) taking place at the PAP Precincts
Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis are the cofounders of the Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU), a multilingual formation organizing across the vast sprawl of the city. Situated in multiple organizing histories, LATU organizes to build tenant power and to prefigure a housing system not built on a foundation of extractive and carceral relationships with landlords or the state.
Palante Technology Cooperative is seeking a new worker to join our cooperative! We are looking for someone who is passionate about supporting nonprofit social justice organizations in meeting their technology goals. The new worker will join our web team, providing remote support and maintenance to clients across the country.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.
Outside a church on Haywood Road (a major commercial strip in West Asheville) a child held a huge posterboard sign that read “FOOD BABY,” smiling and waving at the cars… because there was free baby food being given away at the church. Keep going, and you’ll go past lines outside restaurants where food is being cooked and given away for free. Then another church with another relief site. Then the fire station, more relief. Then the anarchist bookstore, bustling with people self-organizing to get supplies out everywhere across the region.
Sometimes you wonder if economists ever step outside their lecture halls. Monopolies aren’t businesses, they’re a series of curves on a graph. Consumers aren’t people, they’re utility functions.
A Co-op Prayer from Botswana*
Oodi Women's Weaver Co-operative
Botswana Cooperative MovementLord, save our cooperative, and keep it safe from the attention of:
Social capital has proven to be a fundamental component of all the experiences, along with the ability to mobilize resources at the individual level making them converge into the collective project of recovering the company.
This episode takes us into the long history of the Civil Rights Movement as we talk about the methods and legacies of two long-distance runners, Ella Baker (1903-1986) and Septima Clark (1898-1987).
Baker was a legendary organizer who espoused a group-centered form of leadership and insisted that deep change required the long-haul “spadework” of community organizing. Clark, known as “the teacher of the Civil Right movement,” built a network of Southern Citizenship Schools, which were crucial to the emergence of Black voting power in the early 1960s.
