@dsmithwales.bsky.social
Thinker/Doer. fmr lecturer. Democracy Animator. Organiser @CoopWales, R Owen Museum trustee, ex Co-op Group Main Board, NPF CLP rep. Health, Food & Climate Crisis Politics. Deacon Canton Uniting #Askforadoctor #TruthWarriors
About time!
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The Community Wealth Building Bill has been passed by the Scottish Parliament, with ministers promising it will support investment in local and regional economies.
www.thenews.coop/scottish-par...
Congratulations Nicola
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Thank you to the speakers and attendees who made our Celebration of Cooperative Innovation and AGM this week a success
Our Chair @jimrobbins.bsky.social reflects on the week and celebrates the appointment of Nicola Huckerby as our new CCIN President
Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.
11.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 28998 🔁 10311 💬 1068 📌 625More needs to be done urgently to clean out the stable!
11.02.2026 07:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0More sloppy reporting! Are they not pain enough to avoid disinformation and bias?
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The Co-op being referred to in the current BBC news story is most certainly NOT our Central / OurCoop.
The BBC has fallen into the trap of saying ‘the co-op’ as if all co-op businesses are one. They are NOT and this is not the co-operative society of which I am President.
Hi thanks for that question. Without doubt embedding cooperative values and principles into Early Years Learning. Also remembering Robert Owen founded early years learning in 1816 in New Lanark.
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Where are the jobs? Looking after the sick and elderly
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French police have raided the Paris offices of X and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of a cybercrime investigation into artificial intelligence-generated pornographic deepfakes and Holocaust denial. www.ms.now/news/french-...
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National insurance hike and energy bills behind food price rise, say UK retailers.
No mention of the role of private equity ownership of supermarkets, restaurants and pubs. No mention of profiteering, exec pay, dividends or profit shifting to dodge taxes.
The first time ever. A Co-operative Manifesto for Education in Wales - From Birth to Business Schools: A Whole Nation Approach to Co-operation, Collaboration & Community Cohesion. Comments welcomed.
www.cooperatives-wales.coop/wp-content/u...
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The first time ever. A Co-operative Manifesto for Education in Wales - From Birth to Business Schools: A Whole Nation Approach to Co-operation, Collaboration & Community Cohesion. Comments welcomed.
www.cooperatives-wales.coop/wp-content/u...
www.cooperatives-wales.coop/wp-content/u...
A new five-part podcast series from media co-op Positive News will feature leaders who are “reshaping business, community and culture by putting purpose into practice”.
www.thenews.coop/media-co-op-...
Real inclusion isn't an HR policy; it’s a legal structure.
Italy’s Law 381 uses 'Type B' co-ops to move marginalized workers from charity cases to worker-owners.
I've translated the full statute to show how it works: rootandbranch.online/library/law-...
#SocialCoops #LegalHacking #SSE
We are not the 'Third Sector'. We are the alternative. 🌍
My translation of the Brazilian FBES Charter rejects the idea that we exist just to fix capitalism's mistakes. We are here to build the Economy of Work.
rootandbranch.online/library/char...
#SolidarityEconomy #Brazil
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
Everything Trump is doing now (from from Portland to Minneapolis to Chicago) is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.
I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but I've been warning for months of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.
'When people get to that point of feeling disgruntled, that's when you know this alternative should be made clear ... But it’s just not'
Former Green Party MEP Molly Scott Cato wants more awareness of the #coops model, and of green economics
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...
A strong stirring message from Ann Petifor open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...?
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2026 could be the year to ‘Bring back the family Doctor’ Wes Streeting
To do so will require a patient centred GP contract with the vision & resources to genuinely bring quality, safe, focused care
This is in the hands of Govt, DHSC, NHSEngland
dauk.org/our-call-for...
Don't rule out EU customs union, TUC boss tells Starmer
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
