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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 already has a...
18May
Up & Go Is A Worker-Owned Alternative To On-Demand Home Cleaning Services
via Fast Company The new web app is giving worker-owned cleaning cooperatives a much-needed tech boost to expand their reach–and hopefully paving the way for a more tech-savvy approach to winning new customers for more equitable businesses. by Eillie Anzilotti Rosario Jimenez is 28, and for the past...
12May
Amid “Constitutional Crisis,” Bernie Sanders Urges Workers To Seize Means of Production
via In These Times by Kate Aronoff The last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind, politically speaking. Most of it has to do with the onslaught of chaos that followed Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey—a move political scientists agree is...
30Jun
Interview: Mondragon Corporation: A Manufacturer of Equality
Josu Ugarte. Photo credit: Financial Times photos / Foter / CC BY. Article cross-posted from TooMuch. By Too Much June 26, 2015 - In the United States, top corporate execs sometimes make more in an hour than their workers can make in a...
23Apr
Texas Taxicab Drivers Rally for Worker-Owned Co-op
By Tyler WhitsonAustinMonitor.com April 22, 2015 - As Austin’s ground transportation service industry faces upheaval due to new competition, taxi drivers are using a looming expiration of the city’s taxicab franchises as an opportunity to push for, among other requests, a cooperative,...
16Apr
Economics From the Bottom Up: Designing Strategies, Making Alternatives
Springfield's Wellspring Collaborative worker-owned upholstery shop brings jobs, training Talking with Emily Kawano, Co-Director, Wellspring Cooperative Corporation Interviewed by Steve Dubb, Research Director, The Democracy Collaborative March 2015 Emily Kawano is Co-Director of the Wellspring Cooperative Corporation, which is seeking to create an engine for...
13Apr