The Promise of Worker-Run Farming

By Matt Stannard, Shareable

The success of any worker-run farms will spread because it's easier to be a cooperative entity in places where there are a lot of other cooperative entities

How the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative is Pioneering a Model for Equitable Housing

By Saki Bailey, Shareable

The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative is an impressive burgeoning commons legal institution that's aimed at the decommodification of housing.

UK Co-operative Party Releases Report Outlining Plans to Double the Size of Co-op Sector

By Aaron Fernando, Shareable

On July 3, the Co-operative Party in the U.K. launched a report at parliament outlining a strategy to double the size of the U.K.'s cooperative sector by 2030. The report, written by the think tank New Economics Foundation (NEF), was commissioned by the Co-operative Party and comprises a vision of the party's goals.

Citizen-Led Community Center Springs to Life in Montreal

By Ruby Irene Pratka, Shareable

Bâtiment 7 opened to the public in May of this year, still entirely staffed by volunteers. The large complex houses a bicycle workshop, a car repair garage, a woodworking workshop, a co-op grocery store, a library and event space, a bar and a tiny microbrewery — and that's just the ground floor.

Kobane • Cooperatives as a Tool for Women’s Empowerment

By Loez, Lougar Raynmarth, Co-operative Economy

Our goal is not just to give women a job, we want to empower women, so that they may go out, be active. If women stay at home with nothing, their minds collapse. But if they go out, do something creative, meet people, their morale improves.

The Power of Cooperative Economics

By Ruby Irene Pratka, Shareable

The Solidarity Research Center based in Los Angeles, California, was established in 2014 by a group of researchers and academics with roots in organized labor. Now they are working on projects across the country, linking the ethos of the labor movement and the dynamics of the cooperative economy to build and promote cooperatives across a wide range of sectors.

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: A Sociocratic Perspective

By SoFA Coop Circle, Staff, Grassroots Economic Organizing

Sociocracy and cooperativism stem from the premise that humans thrive as social animals. Quite possibly, cooperation acts as our most characteristic trait as living beings. We need each other. No human effort, made by a lone individual, succeeds.

Who are the New Co-op Weavers?

By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley, Open Coop

Today the term ‘thread’ has taken on another meaning and even the Oxford English Dictionary includes a second definition, after sewing and weaving, citing a thread as “a group of linked messages posted on an Internet forum that share a common subject or theme” and it is here, in this new digital domain, that a renewed essence of cooperation is emerging.

How Cooperation Richmond is Empowering Marginalized Communities to Build an Equitable Economy

By Robert Raymond, Shareable

But in the shadow of the looming refinery, and within the spaces between boarded up storefronts and abandoned lots, something is stirring in Richmond. Residents, organizers, and activists have come together to create an incubation hub for community revitalization and resilience.

How Co-ops Can Help Spread the Benefits of Automation

By Nathan Schneider, P2P Foundation

There are two stories commonly told about robots these days. One is that, in the not-too-distant future, some enormous percentage of jobs currently being done by people will be taken over by computers, and the workers will be left twiddling their thumbs. The other is that, like past periods of technological change, job markets will simply evolve, and new, better things will arise for us to do. The truth is neither – and everything in between.