Wouldn't it be cool if there were something like this website, only instead of being owned by one guy, it was owned and controlled, democratically, by it's users? 🤔
Oh wait, that thing already exists! It's at social.coop
Unionized REI employees are calling on members of the outdoor retail co-op to vote no in this year’s board of director elections after the company excluded two union-backed candidates from the ballot.
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What if the way we support artists is broken, but the answers have been with us all along? How collective economic models could be the key to artists' survival.
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Union members are taking over the Utah statehouse to make their voices heard. Lawmakers are trying to take away the freedom for public service workers to have union representation and a voice on the job.
This is collective power IN ACTION! ✊
In 2014, the seminal book, Collective Courage: A History of African-American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice debuted, and with it a flame sparked in the cooperative movement. Ten years later and the book is out with a second edition.
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As Trump returns to the White House, what can we do to prepare our communities for the threats and uncertainties ahead? SRC explores these pressing questions through a conversation between organizers working on the frontlines of today’s social movements.
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David Bollier discusses the politics of care with Valeria Graziano and Tomislav Medak, co-authors of the new book "Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity."
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Faced with the erratic and negligent response of the city and county’s various institutions, the communities of LA have been left to take matters into their own hands through pop-up mutual aid networks and collaborative care.
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Reem’s California is an Arab bakery shop in San Francisco, democratically run by local workers. Using worker-ownership, the restaurant challenges the long-standing inequality and violence prevalent in the restaurant industry.
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GO-OP rail is a new type of Open Access railway operator that's local, community-based and with a co-operative ownership model that means it is there to serve passengers and workers. It’s all very laudable but is it credible?
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On Everything Co-op, Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo discusses the evolution of housing cooperatives in Washington, D.C., the prospect of forming a federation of limited equity housing co-ops, and the role co-ops play in improving quality of life for participants.
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