Networking & Collaboration

Plural Economies

Ethan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:40:55 -0400

Visions for "simultaneous, co-locative pluralistic systems."

Old GEO Yahoo Group

WilliamCerf — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:49:58 -0400

Several years ago a group fo folks started a GEO group on Yahoo groups. Over the years different people acted as custodians/ownsers of the group. It was passed on to me a couple of years ago.

Since we have this forum, I'd like to delete that one. There has been no activity in a very long time. I will post one message to it suggesting that folks come to this website.

If I don't hear any objections, I'll delete the Yahoo group in about a month. Please post a reply if you have any thoughts.

Cheers,

William Cerf

Brooklyn, NY

Co-ops Unite to Support Worker-Ownership in Home Care

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:17:11 -0400

by Jim Johnson, GEO Collective

Past issues of GEO have reported on the emergence of a particular type of worker cooperative, the home care cooperative. In the 1980s, the federal government followed the lead of state governments like Wisconsin and acknowledged that elderly and disabled people who need help in day-to-day living are best served by in-home assistance. Medicare and Medicaid funding that would have otherwise been used only for nursing homes would now be applicable to home care services. With "the gray tsunami" of aging baby boomers looming, demand is only going to increase for the next few decades.

Cascadia Hour Exchange Goes Public

jpoling — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:33:58 -0400

Better Than Barter

Co-op As Alternative to "Take a Leak" Economics

Ethan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:19:23 -0400

A brainstorm on strategies for local economic development

The Seed

Ethan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:37:01 -0400

A solidarity trade organizing effort in Greece

Linking Post-Capitalist Alternatives

Ethan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:49:17 -0400

Social theory perspective on building alternative economies

Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (W. Mass and Southern VT)

Ethan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:08:30 -0400

Searching For the Next Cooperative Principle

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:52:31 -0500

By Len Krimerman

In 1995, the International Cooperative Alliance adopted seven cooperative principles to define and guide cooperatives throughout the world. Briefly stated, the "traditional seven" include: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for community.

A Strategy for Unions and Coops: Toward Building A Labor-Ownership Economy

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:15:54 -0500

By Lisa Stolarski

Both Hands in the Soil

There is an ethical imperative to shift the balance of economic power away from corporate Capitalism and toward economies that benefit us all. Beginning with this assumption, I will explain how it is possible for unions and worker cooperatives to collaborate strategically to take market share away from absentee-owned and wage labor capitalist enterprises and place control of resources and production in the hands of communities of working people.