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Quebec Declaration

A joint Declaration on the socio-economic future of our communities and on public policy concerning co-operatives
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Resolution No. 27: Workers' Capital, Industrial Democracy and Worker Ownership

US Steelworkers pass resolution endorsing its unionized, worker-owned cooperative development activities
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Canadian Co-operative Association urges candidates to support the co-operative movement

 

Ottawa, April 12, 2011 -- With the first leaders' debate taking place April 12, the Canadian Co-operative Association is encouraging co-operators and friends of co-operatives to email party leaders and candidates in their riding to ask them to support co-operative recommendations for the next government through an on-line tool on CCA's web sit

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2010 Canadian Worker Co-op Federation AGM and Conference open for registration

The 2010 Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation AGM and Conference is being held from Thursday, October 28th to Saturday, October 30th, 2010 in Vancouver, B.C. at the YWCA Hotel.  The theme is "Worker Co-operatives and Sustainable Development."
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Co-op Studies Go Global: The Master in Management - Cooperatives and Credit Unions

Permanent link to this article:  http://geo.coop/node/448

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Education about Co-operatives in Canada

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/443

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A Sampling of News and Opinion Regarding the Deal Between Mondragon and the United Steelworkers

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Free Geek, a Computer Recycler: Testing the Limits of Reproducing Worker-Managed Enterprises

 

By Jim Johnson, GEO Collective

Since its founding in 2000, worker-managed non-profit Free Geek of Portland, Oregon, has supplied over 15,000 refurbished computers to individuals and community organizations, and has also ethically recycled 2,000 tons of non-reusable computer components (known as "e-waste"). Along the way, they've also successfully reproduced their organizational model, with nine similar organizations having taken root in the US and Canada. But they've also encountered some special challenges in propagating their model, and their experience offers some important cautionary tales for co-ops and collectives seeking to do the same.

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Caisse d'économie solidaire Desjardins: A Unique Financial Institution

By Yvon Poirier
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Community Stability & Climate Change

Toronto's community currency suggests possibilities for building community economic security in the face of the destabilizing effects of global climate change.
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