Latin America

Grassroots Democracy in Venezuela

michaeljohnson — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:58:37 -0500

a struggle for participatory budgeting in the largely agrarian municipality of Torres (population 197,000) in the central-western Venezuelan state of Lara

Occupy event in San Miguel, Mexico

michaeljohnson — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:51:22 -0500

GEO folks organized demonstration and Teach-in/Speak-out in Mexico.

Quebec Declaration

michaeljohnson — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:29:55 -0400

A joint Declaration on the socio-economic future of our communities and on public policy concerning co-operatives

Cooperatives in Venezuela Promote Solidarity, Equality and Dignity

michaeljohnson — Sat, 07 May 2011 10:16:00 -0400

Conversations with members from several worker co-ops in Venezuela

Field study in solidarity economics

michaeljohnson — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:59:36 -0500

The Salinas reality helps us to pose the big questions we need to pose if we are preoccupied with processes of radical social transformation.

Working Together to Achieve Economic Success: Argentine printing cooperatives transform social networks into economic ones

jim — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:07:20 -0500

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/585

By Traci Kuratomi, current Fulbright Fellow in Argentina

In 2001, Argentina was devastated by an economic crisis that led to widespread deindustrialization and unemployment levels of 21 percent. As factories closed, thousands of people suddenly found themselves jobless and without the possibility of finding work. Worse, the factory owners who declared bankruptcy often owed their workers months of wages and failed to provide workers severance pay.

Cooperation Across Borders: El Salvador's Las Colinas is Hosted by a New England Food Co-op

jim — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:42:50 -0500

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/583

By Len Krimerman, Willimantic Inter-Cooperative Zone (WICZ)

Like many of you reading this, I drink Equal Exchange (EE) coffee at home and wherever else I can, and am happily aware that EE is both itself a worker cooperative and draws its coffee supply exclusively from small agricultural cooperatives throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia. But - again, like many of you - until recently I knew next to nothing about these other co-ops, aside from some few sentences and photos on EE coffee bags.

Third International Encuentro: "The Workers' Economy"

jim — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:32:52 -0500

Analyzing & Debating a New Economy from the Perspective of Workers & Self-management

Mexico City, June 9-11, 2011

Big Growth of Worker Co-ops in Argentina

michaeljohnson — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:39:44 -0500

35% growth since 2005, study claims

Reuters reports that Cuba to expand use of employee-run cooperatives

michaeljohnson — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 12:31:24 -0400

Cuba will soon turn some small-scale manufacturing and retail services into cooperatives as the state retreats from minor businesses in an effort to boost the island's troubled economy, government and Communist Party sources said.