Wouldn't it be cool if there were something like this website, only instead of being owned by one guy, it was owned and controlled, democratically, by it's users? 🤔
Oh wait, that thing already exists! It's at https://t.co/qjLZeHUKwR
In the Northwest US and interested in #Coops? Come to the first bi-annual Cascadia Cooperative Conference, Aug 25 & 26 in Seattle. #cooperatives
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Unionized REI employees are calling on members of the outdoor retail co-op to vote no in this year’s board of director elections after the company excluded two union-backed candidates from the ballot.
https://t.co/spQMElQD9D
What if the way we support artists is broken, but the answers have been with us all along? How collective economic models could be the key to artists' survival.
https://t.co/feuJ03HbKP
Union members are taking over the Utah statehouse to make their voices heard. Lawmakers are trying to take away the freedom for public service workers to have union representation and a voice on the job.
This is collective power IN ACTION! ✊
In 2014, the seminal book, Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice debuted, and with it a flame sparked in the cooperative movement. Ten years later and the book is out with a second edition.
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As Trump returns to the White House, what can we do to prepare our communities for the threats and uncertainties ahead? SRC explores these pressing questions through a conversation between organizers working on the frontlines of today’s social movements.
https://t.co/7EsTXLEVKV
David Bollier discusses the politics of care with Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak, co-authors of the new book "Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity."
https://t.co/qHCZKefIBv
Faced with the erratic and negligent response of the city and county’s various institutions, the communities of LA have been left to take matters into their own hands through pop-up mutual aid networks and collaborative care.
https://t.co/8zPg1QY6u2
Reem’s California is an Arab bakery shop in San Francisco, democratically run by local workers. Using worker-ownership, the restaurant challenges the long-standing inequality and violence prevalent in the restaurant industry.
https://t.co/2UGjlX8zSb
GO-OP rail is a new type of Open Access railway operator that's local, community-based and with a co-operative ownership model that means it is there to serve passengers and workers. It’s all very laudable but is it credible?
https://t.co/rVBvbuIx2q
On Everything Co-op, Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo discusses the evolution of housing cooperatives in Washington, D.C., the prospect of forming a federation of limited equity housing co-ops, and the role co-ops play in improving quality of life for participants.
https://t.co/W0sbgDcTfh