COP21: What Paris Can Learn From a Mississippi Co-op
By Marcus Harrison Green, YES! magazine
Business-as-usual capitalism may be bracing for a stiff challenge from a group in one of America’s poorest cities.
Tag: cooperatives
#SolidarityCities: Philadelphia
By Staff, SolidarityNYC, Grassroots Economic Organizing
#SolidarityCities is a project exploring how peer organizations facilitate cross-sectoral and regional organizing and grew from a desire to learn more about the challenges, victories, and movement-building of the solidarity economy movement.
Banding Together to Build a Better CSA
By Chris Hardman, Civil Eats
On paper, the community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription model is an ideal partnership.
“Something’s Happening Here… What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear…”
By Michael Peck, Shareable
“For What’s It’s Worth,” the 1967 Buffalo Springfield song as lyrical, close-up, socio-economic observation, still resonates.
Mutual Aid Network: The New Cooperative Model on the Block
By Stephanie Rearick, Shareable
The move to a new economy is underway, whether we like it or not.
The Death of the Labor Market
By Guy James, David de Ugarte, Guerilla Translation
Over the past 20 years, the existence of common spaces, places of social debate and pretty much everything involving citizenship has been erased in a conscious and ideologically-directed manner.
Powering Community: Talking Resilience with Timothy DenHerder-Thomas
By Timothy DenHerder-Thomas, Asher Miller, Resilience.org
Our whole economy is built on financing things for privatized benefit.
Cooperative/Solidarity Economics and Advancing the Development of Worker Co-ops
By Michael Johnson, Grassroots Economic Organizing
Let's try to get both a firm grasp and a large perspective on "regional co-operative/solidarity economic development," and what it has to do with “advancing the development of worker co-operatives.”
Living Co-operatively: Everyday Dissent
By Amy Corcoran, Red Pepper
Co-operatives (housing, energy, food and worker) act in opposition to the ruthlessness of capitalism, and provide security, opportunity and positivity to those involved with them.
We Need a New Economic System
By Gar Alperovitz, Gar Alperovitz blog
If we want to reverse this trajectory — if we want an economy that delivers democratic rather than plutocratic outcomes — we need to democratize the economy.
Worker Cooperatives – An Alternative for Youth
By Alexander Kolokotronis, Grassroots Economic Organizing
Worker cooperatives are rising, and youth are increasingly becoming a part of their success.
Self-Help by the People: A Short History of Cooperatives in Britain, With a Foray into the United States
By Jim Senter, Resilience.org
This is the story of 175 years of successful self-help, of an international movement that built lasting economic institutions out of the pooled pennies of millions of working people.