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Our weekly newsletter is out! This week we've got #cooperative #childcare, Spain's Mondragon seeking international partners, and more! #coops #news newsletter.geo.coop/archive/news...
📬 GEO Weekly Newsletter | What Co-ops Can (and Can't) Do for Childcare | Mondragon is Seeking New Allies
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This is such a great story! An employee at a rural electric co-op recognized a need for childcare among their membership, and so the electric co-op helped organize a cooperative solution! #childcare #cooperatives energycapitalcooperativechildcare.com/about/
About Us – Energy Capital Cooperative Child Care
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We made a transcript of this great interview with the members of EMMA Technology Cooperative! Be sure to give it a read/listen. Lots of great stuff for here for freelance techies and artists! #WorkerCoops #tech geo.coop/articles/emm...
EMMA Technology Cooperative
Ramsey Nassar, Gwen Pasquarello, and Andy Wallace at EMMA Technology Cooperative have spent five years as a worker-owned co-op building software and hardware for video games, theater, public installat...
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Great interview with EMMA Technology Cooperative from Strange Birds (also a co-op!) #WorkerCoops #Tech www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Rg...
#18 EMMA Technology Cooperative: Businesses need more verbs
YouTube video by Strange Birds
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Power Tools for Artists: Co-ops for Creatives webinar - 8/21 app.betterunite.com/artcoop/page...
Power Tools for Artists: Co-ops for Creatives with Obvious Agency
Power Tools for Artists Cooperatives for Creatives with Obvious Agency
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The UK's Solidfund and Industrial Common Ownership Fund are trying to secure space for their worker-led cooperative campus in Birmingham. #Coops www.solidfund.coop/news/space-b...
Space battle in Birmingham
Solidfund members have agreed to pledge £30,000 from their cash reserve to buy loan stock in Stirchley Co-op Developments. Our financial services partner ICOF (Industrial Common Ownership Fund) agreed...
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Cooperatives and Social Transformation: An assessment of the global cooperative movement and its diverse trajectories #Cooperatives geo.coop/articles/coo...
Cooperatives and Social Transformation
Usually, cooperatives are created by people as a reaction to specific, most often local, conditions. Through their joint action individuals show collective or social agency and the conviction that the...
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"Workers’ self-management is on the rise, as a response to recurring neoliberal crises: this is the central argument in a new book co-authored by Professor Dario Azzellini, senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology, University of Duisburg-Essen..." www.thenews.coop/can-worker-c...
Can worker control guide the world past a neoliberal crisis?
Dario Azzellini talks to Co-op News about his new book, which looks at workers’ self-management as a response to recurring neoliberal crises
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Board Ready: A Training Series for New Co-op Directors "We’re excited to introduce Board Ready: A Training Series for New Co-op Directors—a revamped cooperative director training program, now expanded into a five‑part series delivered fully online." #Coops #Training uwcc.wisc.edu/cooperative-...
Cooperative Director Training
Board Ready: A Training Series for New Co-op Directors Outstanding board leadership is a critical component of being a successful cooperative business. Great boards don’t just happen, they are built a...
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How Journalists and Readers Started a Media Co-op in Pittsburgh #Coops #Media #Unions www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp0T... pittsburghprogress.com
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
YouTube video by Working People
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Unions and co-ops go together. This session outlines the practice of labor neutrality...and how workers in cooperatives can benefit from their employer proactively supporting their rights. #Unions #Coops #Labor www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7H6...
Labor Neutrality: A New Standard for Cooperatives
YouTube video by U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
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Negotiating Identity in Care Work: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Care Workers in Equal Care "...the article examines how gender identity and sexual orientation shape experiences of care work beyond conventional discussions of workplace discrimination." geo.coop/articles/neg...
Negotiating Identity in Care Work
Across all conversations, participants described continually negotiating how and when aspects of their identity were disclosed, adapting to the needs of the people they supported while simultaneously ...
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There's a new directory of US worker-owned co-op products! #WorkerCoops #Coops #Market geo.coop/articles/new...
A New Directory for Worker Co-ops Products
workerowned.info is a free, searchable marketplace that indexes products from worker-owned businesses and puts them in one place.
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Hear from Game Worker Cooperatives in this session from the 2026 Game Workers Conference. #WorkerCoops #Gaming #GameDev www.youtube.com/live/CFF97Oj...
Game Workers Conference 2026 Day 1 (FULL STREAM)
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News you can use! The Heat Stupids and How to Prevent Them #HeatStroke #HeatExhaustion geo.coop/gleanings/he...
The Heat Stupids and How to Prevent Them
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The Cooperative Case Against AI #Coops #AI #LLM geo.coop/blog/coopera...
The Cooperative Case Against AI
In this article I will present the strongest case that I can for why cooperatives and solidarity economy organizations should avoid the use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Sun...
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"Four cases are reviewed: the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation in the Basque region of Spain, the national worker self-management system of the former Yugoslavia, and political and labor histories of Argentina and the United States of America." #WorkerCoops www.academia.edu/22534325/OWN...
OWNERSHIP, PARTICIPATION AND LEADERSHIP IN WORKER COOPERATIVES
This thesis attempts to broaden the understanding of workplace democracy and worker cooperatives particularly focusing on ownership, participation and leadership. Four cases are reviewed: the Mondrago...
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A Stunning Visual History of English Land Commoners and Their Folk Culture (via David Bollier) #Commons #FolkCulture geo.coop/articles/eng...
English Land Commoners and Their Folk Culture
Our modern mental maps of commons are woefully inadequate, in part because we have forgotten the history of commons and its once-flourishing folk culture.
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How worker ownership strengthens workplace culture, supports business continuity, and builds stronger community connections in Raleigh. #Coops www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rox...
Inside a Worker-Owned Business in Raleigh
YouTube video by City of Raleigh
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"As the unflagging challenge of housing affordability spreads to all corners of the country, novel efforts to increase the prevalence of limited equity cooperatives (LECs) are getting underway... #Housing #Coops www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/learnin...
Learning From Recent Efforts to Create Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives
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"Hi, we are Green Halcones, a social cooperative owned by formerly incarcerated individuals based in Los Angeles, California. We are working to make neighborhoods beautiful, grow healthy food, and protect the environment for future generations." #WorkerCoops geo.coop/articles/int...
Introducing Green Halcones
We are Green Halcones, a social cooperative owned by formerly incarcerated individuals based in Los Angeles, California. We are working to make neighborhoods beautiful, grow healthy food, and protect ...
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Great interview with Cherry Haynes and Siôn Whellens of Calverts worker co-op! #WorkerCoops #Printing #Publshing www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7T9...
Calverts: the worker co-op that outlasted the collapse of London's print industry
YouTube video by Changing the Narrative
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Wake Up World: ROSCAS Are Apart of the Co-op Family! "Communities across the world have organized member-owned institutions, both formal and informal, to survive against corporatized financial systems." #Coops #Cooperatives #ROSCAS geo.coop/articles/wak...
Wake Up World: ROSCAS Are Apart of the Co-op Family!
Communities across the world have organized member-owned institutions, both formal and informal, to survive against corporatized financial systems. The most predominant cooperative systems across the ...
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Learn about Japan's Seikatsu Club, Venezuela's CECOSESOLA, and California's Ventures in this presentation from the Right Livelihood Center. #Cooperatives #SolidarityEconomy #Japan #Venezuela #US geo.coop/articles/coo...
Cooperatives in Action
This session will explore the power of cooperatives working across three very different contexts: Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Cooperative, Cecosesola and Ventures. It will explore how the cooperative eco...
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"We sat down for lunch at Heather’s kitchen table and spoke for over an hour...Over the course of the conversation, Heather mentioned many cooperative organizations and key figures in the cooperative movement in British Columbia." #Coops #Farms #Farming #BC geo.coop/articles/sta...
“Start by forming a group.”
On March 2nd, 2026, cooperative educator and “recovering farmer” Emi Do and I visited Heather Pritchard at her home on Fraser Common Cooperative Farm, near Aldergrove, British Columbia. After a brief ...
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Japan's Volunteer Labour Bank was founded in 1973. Mari Nishitani writes about the history and the legacy of world's first time bank. #TimeBanking #SolidarityEconomy #Japan geo.coop/articles/jap...
Japan's Volunteer Labour Bank
In 1973, Teruko Mizushima started the Volunteer Labor Bank in Japan - the world's first time bank. This article tells the history of the Volunteer Labour Bank and looks at the legacy of Mizushima's pr...
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"Members of Koperative Abizerwa Byumba [KAB], based in Ruvune Sector in Gicumbi district, have continued implementing agricultural and financial initiatives that have helped boost household incomes and strengthen food security." #Cooperatives #Rwanda thecooperator.news/rwandan-coop...
Rwandan cooperative helps members improve livelihoods despite effects of Covid-19 - The Cooperator News
Cooperative leaders said the initiative was introduced after recognising the potential of macadamia farming
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"With the November 2024 decision of the ICA Members to convene a World Cooperative Congress, the global Cooperative Identity consultation has moved from reflection to action." coopidentity.ica.coop/draft-change...
Cooperative Identity Consultation | Draft Changes to Identity Statement
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