Asia (Southeast)

Worker's Cooperative Blooms In Cambodia

Ethan — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:55:04 -0400

Fair work, fair wages, worker's control

Towards the Solidarity Economy

Ethan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:21:32 -0400

Keynote address by John Samuel to the Asian Forum on the Solidarity Economy, Oct. 3, 2008.

Linking the Global and the Local: Seikatsu's Vision

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:47:50 -0400

By Yvonne Poirier

Editors' note: Yvon Poirier is an editor of the International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development, from which this article is copied. The Japanese Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-Operative Union was the subject of both the spring and summer issues of GEO (#s 12 and 13) in 1994. Seikatsu has grown since then to include 290,000 households. It is notable for its combination of worker and consumer co-ops, its insistence on high food quality, and for its direct involvement in local politics in the Tokyo area. Yvon comments that the current conservative government is doing all it can to undermine co-ops and other similar sectors.

Cooperative Forest Conservation

Ethan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:26:15 -0500

Forest conservation is being promoted in India through the creation of commuity-controlled forestry "cooperative societies." By Suresh Khatta.