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Catalyzing worker co-ops & the solidarity economy

place-based (local) economics

June 27, 2022

Unions and Co-ops: Gem City Market

A look at a multi-stakeholder cooperative with a worker-owner member class and bylaws that state neutrality toward union formation.

Citations

Emet Değirmenci (2022).  Book Review: Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/book-review-concepts-democratic-and-ecological-society

May 31, 2022

Book Review: Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society

Yavor Tarinski’s Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society challenges your mind on the most significant questions such as direct democracy, de-growth, solidarity economy, and libertarian municipalism.

Citations

Anja Lyngbaek (2022).  The Global Movement for Localization:  A beautiful and potent paradox.  Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO).  https://geo.coop/articles/global-movement-localization

May 26, 2022

The Global Movement for Localization

Across the world, a quiet revolution is emerging. Countless grassroots groups, civil society organizations and individuals are coming together to forge a more hopeful path to the future: away from the destructive global consumer culture, towards healthy communities grounded in strong local economies.

April 11, 2022

Retaining Rural Businesses through Conversion to Employee Ownership

Employee ownership, particularly in the form of worker cooperatives, offers a solution for business transitions.

March 3, 2022

How Grocery Co-ops Across New England Thrived Despite the Pandemic

Grocery co-ops have grown during the pandemic, with overall sales increasing 10% during 2020, a year full of supply and social disruptions.

January 10, 2022

Lessons from Venezuela's Social Economy

Michael Lebowitz shares his perspective on the social economic models in Venezuela and Yugoslavia. Lebowitz highlights the importance of self-actualization through protagonism and how the most successful of these models focused on solidarity over self-interest.

December 20, 2021

How to Start a Library of Things

An interview with Gene Homicki, co-founder and CEO of myTurn, an online platform for managing libraries of things.

November 22, 2021

Community Owned Real Estate

Ebony Gustave interviews East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Executive Director Noni Sessions for the Cooperative Journal podcast.

November 15, 2021

How Sister Midnight Aims to Create a Music Venue Powered by its Community

Sister Midnight is an independent label that recently became a Community Benefit Society and has begun to raise funds to buy The Ravensbourne Arms, which they plan to convert into a community-owned music venue and pub.

November 11, 2021

Mapping the US Solidarity City

Professor Maliha Safri discusser her research into post-capitalist economic organizing in NYC, and how people of color are forming and participating in a majority of the postcapitalist practices we studied in NYC.