In Cincinnati, Ohio, a city with high levels of unemployment, new models of co-operation are being developed based on examples in US history – as well as current projects overseas. […]
Read More >February 2018
8 Philly impact leaders on how to build a positive workplace culture
U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), where Mo Manklang works as communications director, has staffers all over the country: four in Philly, one in Seattle, one in Oakland. It might be difficult to foster […]
Read More >Californian City Looks To Keep Its Factories Locally-Owned
Project Equity approached Kline and the City of Fremont with a plan to both understand the threat they faced with ageing business owners and also to help get the word […]
Read More >Cooperatives of Freelancers in Spain
The issue of “freelancers” cooperatives in Spain is a controversial one. Partly because the function and objective of worker cooperatives (democratic governance, solidarity, mutual support, cooperativization of work…) are confused […]
Read More >Sowing the Seeds for More Community-Based Economies
“You can’t hate someone who you know a lot about,” said keynote speaker Rachel Plattus, drawing on the words of Gladys Tantaquidgen, a famed Mohegan anthropologist. Plattus, in her address at […]
Read More >How the Stud Was Saved: An 18-member nightlife collective prevented SoMa’s 50-year-old queer bar from disappearing.
It’s 11:40 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, and everyone around me is drunk. I’m drunk, too. I’m at The Stud, a 50-year-old gay bar in San Francisco’s South of Market […]
Read More >Space Cooperative Launches Social Network for Citizen-Led Blockchain Space Agency
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Space Cooperative, an international worker-cooperative focused on space expansion, has launched Space Decentral (spacedecentral.net) a social network for space and the first mission control […]
Read More >Worker Cooperatives Offer Real Alternatives to Trump’s Retrograde Economic Vision
Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic […]
Read More >Member Spotlight: Check out Radix Media’s new anthology, AFTERMATH
“Being a coop has changed the way I work and the way I view work. Doing the work is much more fun and fulfilling, you feel like you have an […]
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