How to Run a Business on Unconditional Love | Interview with People's Pluming Worker Co-op YouTube video by Grassroots Economic Organizing

We talked to People's Plumbing of Cleveland, who are running their #WorkerCoop on a #GiftEconomy model!

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Our weekly newsletter is out!
#Cooperative #SolidarityEconomy

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Remembering Len Krimerman Len Krimerman, co-founder of Grassroots Economic Organizing, as well as many other things, passed away this last December. A beloved and hard-working comrade, he will be greatly missed by those he lea...

Remembering GEO co-founder Len Krimerman

"Len lived a rich and pioneering life as a community-engaged professor and a leading light of the worker democracy and grassroots economic cooperative movement."

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The Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society Today, the ULCCS is Asia’s largest workers’ cooperative, and it was ranked second in the 2021 World Cooperative Monitor list of industry and utilities cooperatives.

The Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society

"Today, the ULCCS is Asia’s largest workers’ cooperative, and it was ranked second in the 2021 World Cooperative Monitor list of industry and utilities cooperatives."
#Cooperatives #India #WorkeCoops

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 18 In this chapter, Luis Razeto identifies the key to the democratic transformation of the market – “the formation of a new social block, a subject of transformational action, the bearer of a new structu...

"In this chapter, Luis Razeto identifies the key to the democratic transformation of the market – 'the formation of a new social block, a subject of transformational action, the bearer of a new structure of social action'..."
#Cooperatives #SolidarityEconomy #Economics
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A Gourmet for the People How a group of food writers is reviving a legendary magazine as a worker-owned cooperative.

How five foodie journalists revived a famous magazine as a #WorkerCoop

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Factory Occupation In Italy: Laid-Off Workers Organise As A Cooperative And Want To Set Up Their Own Business In a kind of permanent works council, the workers at the GKN factory take turns in eight-hour shifts. Under the name “Collettivo di Fabbrica,” they are fighting to keep their jobs and for the climate-...

Laid-Off Workers Organise As A #Cooperative And Want To Set Up Their Own Business

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Topia Coffee Co-Op Rebrands as Radical Bean Cooperative - Cincinnati Magazine Even with a name change, this worker-owned coffee shop still puts community first.

Topia Coffee Co-Op Rebrands as Radical Bean Cooperative

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India's co-ops minister officially launches driver-owned Bharat Taxi Bharat Taxi, a platform co-op designed as a driver-owned alternative to the likes of Uber, was launched this month in New Delhi

"Bharat Taxi, a platform co-op designed as a driver-owned alternative to capital-extractive models like Uber, was launched this month in New Delhi...The platform is run as a multi-state co-op, with drivers...joining as members, shareholders and co-owners."

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Other Tech Worlds are Possible - via Brazil's Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST)

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Berlin’s Worker Co-op for Migrants & Cleaners w/ Rupay Dahm YouTube video by workerscoop

"Rupay is an employment lawyer in Germany, fighting for workers’ rights. Frustrated, working in a system rigged against workers, he sought out more empowering alternatives and discovered worker cooperatives."
#WorkerCoops

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The Sahya Tea Cooperative Designed to process 15,000 kg of green leaves per day, the Sahya Tea Cooperative generates employment for more than 150 workers, most of them recruited from the agricultural working class and peasantr...

Small tea producers in Kerala, India came together to create their own branding and facilities as a way to avoid exploitative corporate tea factories. Now they are thriving!
#Cooperative #Tea

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Financing freedom: how we funded our co-op — Ray When I shared our recent journey to settling into our new home one of the things that most interested people was how the finances work. It is also the aspect of co-operative living that seems to pre...

Financing freedom: how we funded our co-op
#Housing #Coops

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CDF introduces new catalog of shared equity models helping communities secure permanently affordable housing - NCBA CLUSA How do you make limited‑equity housing co‑ops work on a community land trust? What does it take to convert a […]

How do you make limited‑equity housing co‑ops work on a community land trust? What does it take to convert a manufactured home community into resident ownership? And what exactly is a permanent real estate co‑op? Find out in this webinar!
#Housing #Coops

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Today is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

Pretty cool that national places are delving into how Minneapolis is different. But they have really got to dig a little deeper. People know about the music scene, but no other city in the country had a worker co-op community over generations like Minneapolis.

US worker coop PSA YouTube video by Seize the Means Video Co-op

A PSA about #WorkerCoops from Sieze the Means Video Cooperative

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La Siembra and Equal Exchange Integrate — Equal Exchange Resource Center The worker-owners of La Siembra Cooperative Inc. and the members of the Equal Exchange Worker Cooperative have voted to merge, creating a unique model of international worker cooperation. This integra...

"In a time when political divisions and economic uncertainty threaten to divide people, worker-owned cooperatives are choosing solidarity and cooperation."

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La Siembra and Equal Exchange Integrate — Equal Exchange Resource Center The worker-owners of La Siembra Cooperative Inc. and the members of the Equal Exchange Worker Cooperative have voted to merge, creating a unique model of international worker cooperation. This integra...

"In a time when political divisions and economic uncertainty threaten to divide people, worker-owned cooperatives are choosing solidarity and cooperation."

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 17 In order to identify the role that cooperativism can play in addressing the current crisis of the capitalist mode of production, we should analyze the preceding process of capitalist development as we...

We just published chapter 17 of #Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy by @luisrazeto (translated by @Matt_Noyes)

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People's Plumbing offers pay-what-you-can repairs in Cleveland People's Plumbing offers repairs using what's called a gift economy model. That means people pay workers what they can.

Inside Cleveland’s pay-as-you-can plumbing co-op

"Founded by longtime plumber and community organizer Cristobal Van Breen in 2023, the co-op grew out of a belief that access to clean water and safe housing are human rights."

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SEIZE THE MEANS: A LEFTIST TELEVISION COLLECTIVE ft. NICK HAYES & NAOMI BURTON YouTube video by THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast

Seize the Means: A Leftist Television Collective

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Report Back: The 2025 Union Co-op Symposium Report back from an IWW delegation to the 2025 Union Co op symposium CINCINNATI, OH–Both the Pittsburgh and DC General Membership Branches formed a delegation of Wobblies organizing in the cooperat…

Report Back: The 2025 Union Co-op Symposium

"The council model within USW is similar to the IWW idea of organizing across an industry."

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 9 In this chapter, Razeto offers an analysis of equilibrium specific to two types of popular economic organization: community enterprises and subsistence collectives.

We finished the audio version of chapter 9 of Cooperative Enterprise & Market Economy!

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Co-ops After Incarceration A panel discussion by the Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development, with presentations from two worker cooperatives assisting the reintegration of previously incarcerated people.

Cooperatives after Incarceration (a webinar from the Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development)

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Co-ops After Incarceration A panel discussion by the Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development, with presentations from two worker cooperatives assisting the reintegration of previously incarcerated people.

Cooperatives after Incarceration (a webinar from the Interagency Working Group on Cooperative Development)

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Fairtrade America: Statement on Cocoa Alternatives In response to the confectionery industry's efforts to transition to low-cocoa and no-cocoa alternatives, Fairtrade America issued ...

“It’s up to chocolate lovers to demand accountability. Do we want to eat real cocoa grown in real soil by real people? Or do we want to eat synthetic, imitation, or lab-grown cocoa that lets the industry off the hook and leaves farmers in the dust?”

Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 16 We continue to explore the relationship between cooperativism and the market and society. Is cooperativism “a practical demonstration of the possibility of an economy without bosses? A convenient mode...

We just published chapter 16 of Luiz Razeto Migliaro's 'Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy,' translated by Matt Noyes.
#Coops #SolidarityEconomy #AlternativeEconomics

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We're super excited to have partnered with WorX Printing #cooperative to bring you the GEO Merch store!

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