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29Jan

2017 Was a Good Year for Worker Cooperatives

via Next City by Rachel Dovey Promising as the worker cooperative model is, on-the-ground businesses tend to have a difficult time growing, as Next City has covered. In 2014, the city of New York announced a $1.2 million Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (WCBDI) to...
22Jan

Co-ops: A Tool For Community Organizing

via The Uptake by Cirien Saadeh Co-ops are not just for grocery stores anymore.  Member and worker-owned co-ops for housing, farming, rural electricity, and other big projects that have societal benefits — including sustainable businesses and living wages— are on the rise in Minnesota. Minnesota...
19Jan

The Catalan Integral Cooperative

via Resilience.org by Ted Trainer This is a remarkable and inspiring movement in Spain, now involving hundreds of people in what I regard as an example of The Simpler Way transition strategy … which is primarily about going underneath the conventional economy to build...
18Jan

The call for proposals for GSEF 2018 is open until February 28th

via RIPESS The call for proposals for the 4th edition of the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF) is open until February 28th, 2018. RIPESS, as a close partner of GSEF, warmly encourage you to participate. The Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF) is an international network that...
07Jul

20th Anniversary of Lima Declaration

RIPESS is celebrating the 20th birthday of our movement! The first meeting of the globalization of solidarity was held in Lima, Peru, from the 1st to the 4th of July 1997, as an initiative of GRESP, the Peruvian network for solidarity economy. Following this meeting and declaration, the desire...
27Jun

Fighting for the Sanctuary Workplace

via Truthout

Unions Mobilize to Protect Undocumented Workers

by David Bacon Sanctuary churches. Sanctuary schools. Sanctuary cities. Sanctuary workplaces? Albeit far from its intentions, the Trump administration has put the idea of sanctuaries on steroids -- spaces free from the threat of raids and deportations. As immigrant...
08Jun

A Charter for Data and Mapping Commons

via RIPESS by Alexane Heredia One of the earliest such maps was TransforMap, a project with origins in Austria and Germany that is using OpenStreetMap as a platform for helping people identify and connect with alternative economic projects. In the US, CommonSpark assembled...
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