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Issue 72/73: Worker Coops Unite! Collaborative Double Issue with the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

[print] [0]   FROM THE EDITORS: WORKER COOPERATIVES - A POWERFUL FORCE FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY [0] by the GEO Collective

[print] [0]   SOLIDARITY NEWS FLASHES [0]

SPECIAL SECTION: WORKER COOPS UNITE!

[print] [0]   FARTHER, FASTER, TOGETHER: THE US FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES AT TWO [0] by Melissa Hoover

News From the Regional Networks:

[print] [0]   NORTHWEST: PORTLAND ALLIANCE OF WORKER COLLECTIVES [0] by Lori Burge

[print] [0]   WEST: THE NETWORK OF BAY AREA WORKER COOPERATIVES (NOBAWC) [0] by Kirsten Marshall

[print] [0]   A CALL FROM THE MODERN TIMES [0]

[print] [0]   MIDWEST: THE FEDERATION OF WORKPLACE DEMOCRACIES IN MINNESOTA (FWD-MN) [0] by Tom Pierson

[print] [0]   EAST: NEWS FROM THE EASTERN CONFERENCE FOR WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY (ECWD) [0] by Mary Hoyer

[print] [0]   EASTERN CONFERENCE ON WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY: 2006-07 BOARD MEMBERS [0]

[print] [0]   U.S. REGIONAL WORKER COOP NETWORKS [0]

Fellow Travelers: Profiles of Grassroots Economic Organizers

[print] [0]   HILARY ABELL OF WAGES - HELPING LOW-INCOME LATINAS CREATE GREEN CLEANING CO-OPS ON THE CALIFORNIA COAST [0] by Jane Livingston and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Worker Coop Profiles:

[print] [0]   WAUSHARA COUNTY AND COOPERATIVE CARE: AN ENDURING PARTNERSHIP [0] by Kathleen McGwin

[print] [0]   I AM UNIQUE: A WORKER-OWNED NURSING COOPERATIVE [0]

[print] [0]   SUPPORTING ACTIVISM, FINDING GRATIFYING WORK, CREATING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS: A CONVERSATION WITH C4 OF NEW ORLEANS [0] by Chris Heneghan

[print] [0]   EQUAL EXCHANGE: TWENTY YEARS OF COOPERATION AND FAIR TRADE [0] by Virginia Berman

[print] [0]   HEALTHY FOOD FOR EVERYONE! BUILDING A COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEM IN WEST OAKLAND [0] by People's Grocery (from www.peoplesgrocery.org)

[print] [0]   NEWS FROM PEOPLE'S GROCERY: DEVELOPING A WORKER-OWNED COMMUNITY GROCERY STORE [0] by Brahm Ahmadi

[print] [0]   WHAT DOES A COMMUNITY FOOD SYSTEM MEAN? [0]

Forum:

[print] [0]   GEO FORUM ON CROSS-ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? [0]

[print] [0]   SEARCHING FOR THE NEXT COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE [0] by Len Krimerman

[print] [0]   CORPORATION BUSTING: A STRATEGY FOR UNIONS AND COOPS: TOWARD BUILDING A LABOR-OWNERSHIP ECONOMY [0] by Lisa Stolarski

[print] [0]   UNIONS AND COOPERATIVES: ALLIES IN THE STRUGGLE TO BUILD DEMOCRATIC WORKPLACES [0] by Lisabeth L. Ryder

[print] [0]   OUR EYES ON THE PRIZE: FROM A "WORKER COOP MOVEMENT" TO A TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL MOVEMENT [0] by Ethan Miller

Solidarity Economy in Latin America:

[print] [0]   WORLD SOCIAL FORUM AT A CROSSROADS: 5TH INTERNATIONAL, SOLIDARITY ECONOMY, OR STAND PAT? [0] by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

Reviews:

[print] [0]   DREAMING OF AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM? GAR ALPEROVITZ - AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM [0] reviewed by Len Krimerman

[print] [0]   AUTONOMY AND/OR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? DAVID ELLERMAN - HELPING PEOPLE HELP THEMSELVES [0] reviewed by Len Krimerman

 

Issue 71: Special Collaboration with Dollars and Sense [1]: Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity

[print] [1]   OTHER ECONOMIES ARE POSSIBLE! [1] by Ethan Miller

[print] [1]   VENEZUELA'S COOPERATIVE REVOLUTION [1] by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

[print] [1]   AFRICAN AMERICAN ECONOMIC SOLIDARITY [1] by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

[print] [1]   COOPERATIVES IN THE UNITED STATES [1]

 

Issue 70: Building Solidarity, Not Charity: Collective Relief Efforts on the Gulf Coast

[print] [1]   NEW IDEAS, NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE COLLECTIVE [1]

[print] [1]   LATIN AMERICAâ??S NEW SOLIDARITY ECONOMY: ARGENTINAâ??S CRISIS [1] by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

[print] [1]   LATIN AMERICAâ??S NEW SOLIDARITY ECONOMY: VENEZUELA & ARGENTINA [1] by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

[print] [1]   ROSARIO, ARGENTINA: AN ECONOMY BASED ON SOLIDARITY [1] by Renate Lunn

[print] [1]   CO-OPERATIVES PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEW ORLEANSâ?? SUFFERING [1]

[print] [1]   "WE ARE CREATING AN ALTERNATIVE!": A CONNECTICUT YANKEE VOLUNTEERS WITH COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE IN NEW ORLEANS [1] A Report From the Gulf Coast, by Chris Heneghan

[print] [1]   NOTES OF A NATIVE SON: STORIES OF NEW ORLEANS [1] from a letter by John Clark

[print] [1]   EVOLUTION OF COMMON GROUND CLINIC [1] by Liz Highleyman

[print] [1]   SIDEBAR: THE ANAND PATTERN [1]

[print] [1]   THE "FIRE THE BOSS!" TOUR [1] by John W. Lawrence

[print] [1]   NY AND 2ND ANNUAL US FEDERATION MEETING [1]

[print] [1]   THE UNITED STATES FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES HAS ISSUED A CALL FOR MEMBERSHIP [1] By Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

[print] [1]   IN MEMORY OF MEG PERRY, 1979-2005 [1]

[print] [1]   THE BIG QUESTION: WHAT DOES RADICALLY DEMOCRATIC MEDIA LOOK LIKE? [1] by Ethan Miller

 

Issue 69: Cooperative Organizing From Coast To Coast

[print] [1]   CONNECTIONS CO-OPERATIVE: NOT YOUR ORDINARY TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICE [1] by Hana Tauber

[print] [1]   MOVING FORWARD NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY [1] by Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo and Ajamu Nangwaya

[print] [1]   GREEN WORKER COOPERATIVES [1] The Future Green Republic of the South Bronx

[print] [1]   WESTERN WORKER COOPERATIVES CONFRONT CHANGE [1] by Andrew McCloud

[print] [1]   CONNECTING WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION [1] by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

[print] [1]   WORKER COOPERATIVE TRENDS IN N. AMERICA & EUROPE [1] by Trent Craddock and Sarah Kennedy

 

Issue 68: Celebrating the 3rd Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy

[print] [1]   INTRODUCTION [1]

[print] [1]   100 ATTEND CONFERENCE AT SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY [1] By Jessica Gordon Nembhard

[print] [1]   WILLIAM GREIDER, THE ECWD KEYNOTE SPEAKER [1] The Time Has Come for Workplace Democracy

[print] [1]   U.S. FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES ANNUAL REPORT, 2005 [1] GEO Special Report

[print] [1]   THE ECONOMY OF HOPE: BUILDING A NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY [1] By Ethan Miller

[print] [1]   LONG ISLAND BUILDERS' CO-OP: WHERE TIME IS MONEY AND WORKERS ARE CAPITALISTS [1] By Melissa Daniels

[print] [1]   EMPLOYEES BUY OUT NYC FRENCH RESTAURANT [1] By John W. Lawrence and Ken Estey

[print] [1]   FIRE THE BOSS: RECUPERATED FACTORY WORKERS AND UNEMPLOYED WORKER MOVEMENTS IN ARGENTINA TO SHARE EXPERIENCES WITH WORKERS IN NORTH AMERICA [1] Edited by Ajowa Ifateyo

[print] [1]   CO-OP RESPONSES TO KATRINA [1] by Jane Livingston

[print] [1]   RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHERE TO SEND MONEY TO HURRICANE VICTIMS [1]

 

Issue 67: Cooperative Growth Grows and Deepens, but towards what?

[print] [1]   INTRODUCTION [1]

[print] [1]   BUILDING AN "AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM" [1] Len Krimerman interviews Gar Alperovitz on his message to workplace pioneers in his new book.

NASCO section:

[print] [1]   LET THE COOPERATIVE COLLABORATION BEGIN! [1] intro by Len Krimerman

[print] [1]   REFLECTIONS ON A COOPERATIVE JOURNEY WITHIN NASCO [1] Steven Kelly

[print] [1]   PROPOSAL FOR NASCO-WORKER CO-OP JOINT MEMBERSHIP [1] Steven Kelly

[print] [1]   SUMMER ACTION CAMP IN CALIFORNIA [1] Steven Kelly


[print] [1]   COOPERATIVE FUND OF NEW ENGLAND CELEBRATES BEST YEAR EVER [1]

[print] [1]   RIOTFOLK: "MAKING FOLK MUSIC A THREAT AGAIN!" [1] Ethan Miller

[print] [1]   EQUAL EXCHANGE SWEETENS FAIR TRADE [1]

[print] [1]   NO BOSSES HERE: MAY DAY BOOKS, NYC [1] John Korber

 

Issue 66: Boycotts, Barter Clubs, Women's Collectives...
Paths of Promise to a World of Our Making

[print] [1]   INTRODUCTION [1]

[print] [1]   EDITORIAL [1]

[print] [1]   WAGING PEACE WITH OUR DOLLARS: BOYCOTT WAR PROFITEERS [1]By Paul Rockwell (Condensed by GEO editors) CommonDreams.org

[print] [1]   BRAZIL’S GROWING BARTER GROUPS [1]By Heloisa Primavera (condensed by GEO editors)

[print] [1]   WAGING PEACE WITH OUR DOLLARS: FAIR TRADE AND COOPERATIVES [1] By John W. Lawrence

[print] [1]   LABOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP [1] (GEO SPECIAL SDECTION: U.S. FEDERATION OF WORKER CO-OPS) by Ajamu Nangwaya*

[print] [1]   THE CASCADIA COLLECTIVE CONFERENCE [1] (GEO SPECIAL SECTION: U.S. FEDERATION OF WORKER CO-OPS) by Ethan Miller

[print] [1]   The COOPERATIVE POWER OF WOMEN [1] by Holly Yasui, Center for Global Justice

[print] [1]   BUY COOP: SHOPPING FOR A BETTER WORLD [1] By Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone*

[print] [1]   WAGING PEACE WITH OUR DOLLARS: BUY LESS, BUY LOCAL! [1]

 

Issue 64-65: This is What Democracy Looks Like!

[print] [1]   The Elections Are Over, But Take Heart…Grassroots Democracy Is Alive & Well! [1]by Betsy Bowman

[print] [1]   Globalization with a human face: In Nicaragua, Worker Co-ops Triumph [1] by Michael Woodard

[print] [1]   YouthGROW (Growing and Raising Organics in Worcester)
A Local Food System Grows an Alternative Economy
[1] by Matt Feinstein, YouthGROW

[print] [1]   Why the ‘Local Multiplier EffectAlways Counts [1] by Tricia Truit, Earth and Sky Collective

[print] [1]   Democracy Schools: On the path to ‘Consent of the Governed’ [1]by Adam D. Sacks

[print] [1]   Reclaiming Public Revenues: Brazil’s Participatory Budget [1]by Gianpaolo Baiocchi, University of Massachusetts, and Len Krimerman, GEO Newsletter

[print] [1]   Special Section -- US Federation of Worker Cooperatives [1]   

 

Issue 63: Youth Organize!

[print] [1]   Knowing Rights from Wrong in India [1]by Uchengamma

[print] [1]   NASCO and the Cooperative Education and Training Institute [1]  

[print] [1]   Summerhill: Is the Oldest School Based on Children's Rights a Cooperative Community? [1] by Michael Newman  

[print] [1]   The Barrington Collective: What Happens when "Cooperation among Co-ops" meets "Concern for Community" [1] by Anjanette Bunce  

[print] [1]   Her Today, GHANA Tomorrow [1] by Dannie Danger   

[print] [1]   Play Mountain Place: A Problem-Solving Place for Children and Families [1] by Michelle Weiner Woolner   

[print] [1]   "Other Economies are Possible": A Report from the Boston Social Forum [1] by Ethan Miller   

 

Issue 62: A National Federation, Part II

[print] [1]   Reawakening the Dream [1] by Len Krimerman  

[print] [1]   Land, Freedom and Cooperation! [1] by Betsy Bowman  

[print] [1]   (Co-) Operating from the Center of the Heart [1] by Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo  

[print] [1]   Childcare that Works for Everyone [1] by Elayne Bender   

[print] [1]   US Federation of Worker Co-ops and Democratic Workplaces [1] by Livingston and Nembhard   

[print] [1]   Discovering Workplace Democracy [1] by Shirley F. Grigsby   

[print] [1]   Worker Co-ops on the World Stage [1] by Len Krimerman    

 

Issue 61: A National Federation of Democratic Workplaces

[print] [1]   A Proposal: Let GEO Be the USFDW'S Print Newsletter [1]  

[print] [1]   Open Enterprise Cooperative: A Business With a Unique Message [1] by Ajowa Ifateyo  

[print] [1]   Possible Directions for the New Federation [1] Abe Karl-Gruswitz Interviews Co-op Activists  

[print] [1]   World Declaration on Cooperative Worker Ownership [1] [excerpt]  

[print] [1]   A National Federation of Democratic Workplaces Can Lay The Foundation for Historic Change [1] by Gar Alperovitz   

[print] [1]   A Cooperative Manifesto [1] by Tim Huet   

 

Issue 60: New Forms of Global-Wide Cooperation

[print] [1]   NYC Restaurant Opportunities Center [1] by Fekkak Mamdou  

[print] [1]   Loyalty Management [1] by Daniel Côté  

[print] [1]   Youth Empowerment Fuels Renewal in Tuzla, Bosnia [1] by Monika Kleck  

[print] [1]   On the Razor's Edge: Organize at all levels or Risk Extinction [1] by Bruno Roelants   

[print] [1]   A Week at the World Social Forum: Where are the Co-op Activists? [1] by Isaac Ashton   

 

Issue 59: The Many Faces of Grassroots Cooperation

[print] [1]   Introduction: Grassroots Cooperation [1]  

[print] [1]   The Kallari Handcraft Cooperative of Ecuador [1] by Luci Latina Fernandes  

[print] [1]   Building Genuine Campus-Community Partnerships [1] by Mary Bombardier and Kiara Nagel  

[print] [1]   Global Roundup: Building a Cooperative World [1]   

 

Issue 58: Workplace Democracy in the U.S.

[print] [1]   Another Successful Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy [1] by John Lawrence  

[print] [1]   Democratic Values and Accountability [1]by Carol Haack, Susan Bob and Stephen Prieston   

[print] [1]   Collective Copies Celebrates 20 Years! [1] by Jessica Gordon Nembhard  

[print] [1]   excerpt from: "Collective Copies: An Exercise in Workplace Democracy [1] by Benjamin Turner  

[print] [1]   The Madison Post-Capitalist business Association [1]   

[print] [1]   Cooperatives as a form of Socially Responsible Business [1]by Tim Huet   

[print] [1]   NCBA tells Congress: "Worker Co-ops Need Capital, Development Resources" [1] by Richard Dines 
 
[print] [1]   "Top Down vs. Bottom Up": Time to Reframe the debate? [1]by Len Krimerman   

[print] [1]   Time to Reframe the Debate: Make the Solution a Cross-Border One! [1] by Bob Stone  

 

Issue 57: Alternative Economy Networks

[print] [1]   The Internet and Democracy [1] by Michael W. Howard  

[print] [1]   The Mararikulam Experiment: Women-Owned Co-ops in Kerala, India [1]by Richard W. Franke  
 
[print] [1]   The First Midwest Worker Cooperative Conference [1] by Jessica Gordon Nembhard  

[print] [1]   New Orlean's Alternative Economy [1] by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone  

[print] [1]   The Co-op Advantage: A Promising Tale in th U.K. [1] by Len Krimerman  

[print] [1]   U.K. Youth Run Their Own Fair Trade Cooperatives [1]by Kevin McGrother  

 


Issue 56: The Social and Solidarity Economy

[print] [1]  Argentina's Struggle: New Solidarity Economy Resists Corporate Globalization [1] by Bob Stone  

[print] [1]  Resurgent World Organization of Producer Co-ops: CICOPA [1]by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone   

[print] [1]  Solidarity Economies and Cooperatives [1] by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone  

[print] [1]  Europe's "Social and Solidarity Economy" [1]  

[print] [1]  The Global Cooperative Commonwealth [1] by Betsy Bowman  

[print] [1]  A Plan to Bring Youth and Cooperatives Together [1]by Jö:rn Hammerstrand   

[print] [1]  The Impending War on Iraq: An Attack on Peace, Democracy and Security [1] by John W. Lawrence  

[print] [1]  Statist vs. Solidarity Strategies in Latin America [1] by Bob Stone  

[print] [1]  Is the Time Ripe for Creative Insurgency? [1] by Len Krimerman  

[print] [1]  What is the "Social Forum" Movement? [1]

[print] [1]  Underground Summits? [1] by Len Krimerman  

 

Issue 55: Advancing the Cooperative Movement

[print] [1]  Moving Towards a National Worker Co-op Federation [1] by Frank Lindenfeld  

[print] [1]  A Proposal for a US Worker Co-op Federation [1]   

[print] [1]  A Report on the 2002 Western Worker Cooperative Conference [1]   by Paul Fairchild  

[print] [1]  Some Possible Elements of a Leadership Development Program [1] by Tim Huet  

[print] [1]  Imagining a Cooperative Revolution with NASCO [1] by T.J. Lehman  

[print] [1]  When Does a Proposal Reflect Group Consensus? [1]   

[print] [1]  Gung Ho in China [1]   by Bob Ware  

[print] [1]  Mapping Cooperative Studies in the New Millennium [1]      

[print] [1]  Letter from Tom Anderson - Self Directed IRAs [1]

[print] [1]  Letter from Bill Ellis - Creating Learning Communities [1]

 

Issue 53-54: Education for Economic Democracy

[print] [1]  The UMass Student-RunBusinesses: A Community of Learning [1] by David A. Lambert  

[print] [1]  Education for Economic Democracy [1]by Christina A. Clamp   

[print] [1]  Education for and by Worker-Owners: The Vision of Frank Adams [1]   by Bill Caspary  

[print] [1]  Education for a People-Centered Democratic Economy [1] by Jessica Gordon Nembhard  

[print] [1]  Report back from the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy [1] by John W. Lawrence  

[print] [1]  History of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association [1]abridged from the OSCA website [1]   

[print] [1]  Book Review - Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy after the 1960's [1]  by Ron Miller Reviewed by Frank Lindenfeld  

[print] [1]  Book Review - After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy [1]   by Seymour Melman Reviewed by Bob Stone  

[print] [1]  Letter from Ken Freeland [1]

 

Issue 52: Corporate Globalization, Peace, Sweatshops:
Connecting the Struggles

[print] [1]  Connecting the Struggles [1] by GEO Editors  

[print] [1]  Discordant Reflections [1]by Len Krimerman   

[print] [1]  Cooperatives and Peace Activism [1]   by Ken Estey  

[print] [1]  A Global Non-Violent Peace Force [1] by Kate Rope  

[print] [1]  TeamX: A Worker Co-op Joins the Fight Against the Sweatshop Apparel Industry [1] by John W. Lawrence  

 

Issue 51: From Enterprise Facilitation to Grassroots Globalization

[print] [1]  A Different World is Possible [1] by GEO Editors  

[print] [1]  Enterprise Facilitation in Northeast Oregon [1]by Peter Donovan   

[print] [1]  Canada Funds Co-op Sector Initiative [1]   by Brenda Heald  

[print] [1]  Book Review:Sirolli's Ripples from the Zambezi [1] by Peter Donovan  

[print] [1]  Democratic Worker Co-ops and the Struggle for Economic Democracy [1] by John W. Lawrence  

[print] [1]  Community Based Solutions for a Sustainable, Democratic Future [1]by Aaron G. Lehmer  

 

Issue 50: Worker Ownership Worldwide and at Home: Constructive Responses to Terrorism and Global Militarism

[print] [1]  What Happens to Successful Cooperatives in Capitalist Globalization? [1] by Holm-Detlev Köhler  

[print] [1]  Employee-Owned Companies in Eastern Europe, After Ten Years of Privatization [1]by Iraj Hashi   

[print] [1]  Self-Management in Sweden? [1]   by Jöern Hammarstand  

[print] [1]  IIS, 2002: in Teeside, England- on “Community Informatics” [1] by Pat Cook  

[print] [1]  The Continuing Relevance of Social Ownership and Equality: A Reply to David Ellerman [1] by Michael W. Howard  

[print] [1]  USA’s Only Worker Co-op Conference sets Participation Record [1]by Bob Stone  

[print] [1]  Flash! Eastern Conference of Democratic Firms! [1]by Bob Stone   

[print] [1]  Shaping Our Future! The Tenth Annual Conference of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation [1]by Blair Hamilton   

[print] [1]  Worker Co-ops Cooperate Globally: International Worker Cooperative Association [1]  

 

Issue 49: Cooperatives as a Response to Terrorism

Available as pdf only. Requires Acrobat Reader. Issue49.pdf [1]

 

Issue 48: Inter-Cooperation—Youth and Student Style

[print] [1]  INTER-COOPERATION—YOUTH AND STUDENT STYLE [1]  

[print] [1]  Responding to the September 11 Tragedy [1]by Len Krimerman   

[print] [1]  A Different Teacher Training College—Denmark’s DNS [1]   by Beth Coleman  

[print] [1]  Four kinds of Intercooperation among Cooperatives [1] by Bob Stone  

[print] [1]  Youth Adelantando [1] by Jesse Gates-Chinoy  

[print] [1]  Helping Graduates Launch Careers of Contribution [1]by Melissa Everett  

[print] [1]  Building New Coalitions for a Democratic Economy [1]by Mike Prokosch   

[print] [1]  Maine Passes Anti-Sweatshop Purchasing Bill [1]   

[print] [1]  Quebec Protests and Beyond: An Introduction [1]   by Beth Coleman  

[print] [1]  Quebec Protests: A Report from the Streets [1] by Roger Benham  

[print] [1]  Decline of Self Management in Yugoslavia: [1]A Report on the May 2001 Conference of the IIS in Dubrovnik by Michael Howard  

 

Issue 47: The New Paradigm Project

[print] [1]  The New Paradigm Project: Introduction [1]   moderated by Jonathan Michael Feldman and Jessica Gordon Nembhard  

[print] [1]  1. The Need for and Objectives of Economic Democracy [1] by Shipp, Engelen, and Ellerman  

[print] [1]  2. Strategies for Supporting Cooperatives and Economic Democracy [1] by Krimerman, Pestoff, Emspak, and Benner  

[print] [1]  3. Constraints on Economic Democracy [1]by DeFillipis, Széll, Feldman, and Nembhard  

[print] [1]  4. Case Studies in Economic Democracy and Cooperative Economics [1]by Hill, Mackin, Haynes, and Clamp   

[print] [1]  NPP: Principle Researchers and Followup Information [1]   

[print] [1]  Related Publications and Organizations [1]

[print] [1]   GEO Plans On-Line Clearinghouse for Cooperative E-Commerce [1] by Alex Pukinskis  

 

Unpublished Articles

[print] [1]  Citizen Ownership: A multi-stakeholder system that goes beyond worker co-ops [1] by A.D. Rowland   

[print] [1]  A Contribution to the Forum on Cooperative Theory [1]by Ken Freeland

 

Issue 46: Focus on Youth

Food from the 'Hood [1]   by Haydee Vicedo  

Training for Democracy [1] by Andrew McLeod  

Youth Organizing Comes of Age [1] by Bill Alexander  

Co-ops for Older Workers on the Rise in Japan [1]by Richard Evanoff  

 

Issue 45: Globalization from Below

Equal Exchange and Fair Trade Coffee [1] by Bob Stone.   

Democratic Decision Making: Attentive Listening [1] by Bill Caspary.   

Michael Howard, Self-Management and the Crisis of Socialism: The Rose in the Fist of the Present. [1] Reviewed by Ken Estey   

Building New Coalitions for a Democratic Economy: The Local Faces of Anti-(Corporate) Globalization [1] by Mike Prokosch   

Finding Funding Fundraising for the Long Haul and Guide to Proposal Writing [1] Reviewed by Frank Lindenfeld  

Farmer Co-ops and the WTO [1] by Lynn Benander and Jane Livingston  

 

Issue 44: Democracy within Co-ops

Democracy Makes Us Powerful [1]  

Count us In! An interim report on subscriber Responses to GEO’s survey and makeover plans [1] compiled by Len Krimerman  

We Are All Leaders! Democratic leadership makes us more powerful [1] by Bill Caspary  

Making Decisions Together: Collective Copies, a worker owned, union copy shop [1]by Matt Grillo  

Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc: A democratic ESOP [1] by Bill Caspary  

Western Massachusetts Co-ops Form Network: Formation of the Valley Cooperative Network [1] by Matt Grillo  

Co-op Solidarity Through Intercooperation [1] by Jenny Silverman  

Mondragon and Valencia - Coops in the Global Economy [1] by David Freeburg  

Bill Caspary,Dewey on Democracy [1] Reviewed by Len Krimerman  

 

Related Articles

Australia. Looting the Mutuals: The Ethics and Economics of Demutualisation [1] by Race Mathews   

Australia. Credit Unions in the New Millennium: A Paper Delivered at the Credit Union Historical Co-operative Convention Dinner [1] by Race Mathews  

USA. What's a Co-op? Focus on Democratic ESOP's.
Restructuring for the Long Term: South Mountain Company on Martha’s Vineyard and Big Timberworks, Inc. in Montana
[1] by John Abrams and Merle Adams.   

 

Issue 43: Intercooperation

The Scope of Canadian Co-ops [1]

Intercooperation is Alive and Well in the Bay Area! [1]

Intercooperation News from the Boston and Pioneer Valley Areas [1]

Worker Ownership and Co-Management at Algoma Steel in Sault St. Marie, Canada [1]

Canada's Government Funds Job Creation by Worker Co-ops [1]

Democracy in the Workplace: Three Worker-Owned Businesses in Action, a video [1]

Sherbrooke Declaration [1] from the Proceedings of Global Meetings on Community Economic Development

 

Issue 42: Focus on Cuba

Co-operative Development in Cuba: Many Questionmarks [1]

La Guinera: A Model of Participatory Community Development [1]

Organic Vegetable Farms Bloom in Havana [1]

A Visit to One of Cuba's Democratic Sugar Cane Cooperatives [1]

Prijateljice-Humanitarian Aid and Economic Recovery in Bosnia and Herzegovina [1]

BUY CO-OP, BOYCOTT MULTI-NATIONALS [1]

Book Review: People´s Power: Cuba´s Experience with Representative Government [1]

Book Review: Cooperation Works! [1]

Mexico City: The Hard Road From Successful Strike To Successful Cooperative [1]

Mexico City: The T.U.Y.O. Cooperative [1]

Over The Rainbow in Hungary-The Cooperative and Ecological Work of Geza Varga [1]

Voices from the Ground: South African Cooperatives [1]

Russian Workers Protest Movements [1]

Forum on the Development of a Usable Theory of
Cooperative Socio-Economics

Cooperatives as a Socio-Economic Alternative to the Mainsteam: Are We Ready? [1] by Jacques Kaswan

Theory—Yes, What Sort of Theory [1] by Bill Caspary

Let's Make Cooperative Theory by Talking—To One Another! [1] by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone

And What Did Theory Ever Do for Us? [1] by Len Krimerman

"Cooperative Theory" Dialogue Continues [1] by Jacques Kaswan

First Things First—Joins in the dialogue [1] by Ken Freeland


Education for Economic Democracy

An Invisible Revolution? Study Circles and the Renewal of Democracy [1] by Len Krimerman

Education for Cooperative Ownership—at UC Berkeley [1] by Deb Goldberg Gray



Vision and Strategy

Beth Raps' Cooparcana: My Vison of the World Economy—Dreamtime of the Transitional Future [1]

Cooperatives as a Socioeconomic Alternative to the Mainstream: Are We Ready? [1] by Jacques Kaswan

Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Local Age [1] by Michael Shuman

Building Bridges to the High Road [1] by Dan Swinney

 

From Our Editors

My Vision for Economic Democracy [1]by Frank Lindenfeld

Interview with Len Krimerman [1]: Building a Democratic Economy and Culture

 

Urban Agriculture

City Farms: The Big Apple's City-Wide Network of UrbanFood Producers [1]

Five food-related organizations collaborate to grow food for donation to emergency food providers. Pilot gardens are hoped to be demonstation sites and will ultimately produce food for cash as well as donation.

Food, Poverty, and Empowerment: Holyoke's Nuestres Raices [1]

Holyoke's Puerto Rican community now hosts 4 community gardens, a youth program, and more, thanks to Nuestres Raices and community support.

Nueva Esperanza (New Hope) [1]

A fifteen year old community based organization renovates housing, coordinates education, and plan economic development projects.

The Seattle Youth Gardenworks [1]

This 2 year old organization employs homeless youth as well as "at risk" youth. Participants may become eligible to be shareholders.

 

Cooperatives Around the World

Credit Unions and Demutualization in Australia [1] by Race Matthews

This article is about why and how demutualisation threatens to destroy Australia's credit unions and what can be done about it. Credit unions are a lot like dinosaurs grazing on prehistoric grasslands shortly before the impact of the asteroid which wiped them out. The difference is that there is still time for their extinction to be averted.

Italian Social Cooperatives [1] by Wilda Vanek

Relief for the financial strain on the national system of social welfare has been found in Italy

through an innovative new form of cooperative.

Chac Lol Cooperative: A Red Flower Bloom in the Yucatan [1]by Betsy Bowman

A Mondragon-type cooperative of Mayan peasants which makes corn tortillas.

Working on the Good Life at Twin Oaks Community [1] by a Twin Oaks member

How labor is managed at this long-time American cooperative community

Tim Huet on Mondragon [1] Tim Huet, director of The Center for Democratic Solutions, shares the full report of his visit to Mondragon.     The New Cooperativism in Cuba [1]

William Waterman on his experiences visiting Cuba cooperatives.

The Worker Cooperative: A Vehicle for Economic Development [1]

John Cline reporting on his survey of 407 Canadian and U.S. worker cooperatives.

Raising Capital for Co-ops [1]by Guy Major

Describing his plan for Non-voting Value-added Residual Sharing Renewable Shares