Cross-Sector Alliances
San Francisco Community Congress: background and update
San Francisco Community Congress: background and update
(EDITOR’S NOTE: A very interesting grassroots development happening in SanFrancisco: The San Francisco Community Congress.The goal is to “devise practical, locally actionable proposals to shape and direct future policy affecting the local economy and the provision of critical human services.” Their mantra, “another San Francisco is possible.” If the devil is in the details, then this appears to be the beginning of a premier Solidarity Economy project.
GEO is...Doing Green Jobs Right
Social Justice Organizers Articulate the Values of the Cooperative Movement
One of the formative questions of the contemporary worker cooperative movement has been that of who the movement is for. What group of people are included in the movement's organizations, have access the movement's resources, share and shape the movement's values and the campaigns around those values?
CO-OP ASSET BUILDING, HOW A PRODUCER CO-OP HELPED TO REVITALIZE A COMMUNITY
Cooperation: Unique Prescription for Health
Mondragon and Steelworkers Union Alliance
Cooperatives and Peace
Overcoming Barriers
Ohio City Bike Cooperative tour
Today was another amazing day of presentations at the ACE conference!....
Unlike other conferences that I'm used to attending, you don't have to choose from workshops at the Association of Cooperative Educators. There is only one track, and everyone is on the same one.
I actually ended up being very glad that it was arranged this way, else I might have missed out some very important information and stories.
Worker Education at Equal Exchange
Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/442
A Network of Cooperatives Gets Organized in New York City: Low-income and immigrant workers well-represented
Regional Alliance of Worker Co-ops to Publish a Movement Book
Tuesday November 3 marked a milestone for the book project of the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives (VAWC). Food for Thought Books, a 33-year collective and member of VAWC, hosted an advance book sale for CO-OP VALLEY! THE WORKER COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY. They organized the event to help finance the writing and publishing of the book.
Our purpose in publishing this book is three-fold: An Opportunity Missed? Reflections on a Workshop (Part I)
By Len Krimerman, GEO
I went to the Green Union Coop Development Initiative workshop at the "Democracy at Work" Conference in New Orleans (June, 2008) with very high hopes. Somehow, the Conference organizers had managed to bring together, in a large and over-filled room, committed and inventive practitioners from the labor union, cooperative, and green economy movements. The speakers spoke with clarity and passion about:
Co-ops Unite to Support Worker-Ownership in Home Care
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.
Co-op As Alternative to "Take a Leak" Economics
