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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

Cross-Sector Alliances

Citations

Dylan Hatch (2024).  The Union Co-ops Council: Seventeen Years of Forging Worker Alliances.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/union-co-ops-council-seventeen-years-forging-worker-alliances

August 1, 2024

The Union Co-ops Council: Seventeen Years of Forging Worker Alliances

As the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2024, July marks seventeen years since the founding of its oldest member council – the Union Co-ops Council. Established to bridge worker cooperatives and organized labor, the Council has become a crucial player in both movements, fueled by the resurgence of unions and worker co-ops throughout the beginning of the 21st century.

February 29, 2024

‘New Economies’ and the Rebuilding of Democratic Power

We need to look more directly at how we can stimulate a new structural transformation of civil society. It will be a broad process that explores how we can rebuild democratic power to facilitate mass involvement in civil society and, by extension, our political system. Though there seems to be an instinctual knowledge of this problem, many are unaware of this prehistory of civil society, and understandably find it difficult to see an alternative to the memberless NGO, whose unelected governance, unreliable funding streams, and informal support base is inadequate to the challenges of the present, let alone the disruptions of the future.

Citations

GEO Collective (2020).  Shared Capital and Solidarity:  An Interview with Christina Jennings.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/shared-capital-and-solidarity

May 21, 2020

Shared Capital and Solidarity

Executive Director of Shared Capital Cooperative, Christina Jennings, discusses how Shared Capital operates and how they have been acting to serve their members and the wider cooperative community during the COVID 19 pandemic.

Citations

Atlee McFellin (2017).  Ascending the Non-Profit Industrial Complex:  Part 2: Who Benefits?.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/story/ascending-non-profit-industrial-complex

January 12, 2017

Overcoming Polarization