This week, we have a short video from Mari Nishitani introducing the Green Halcones worker cooperative, based in Los Angeles, California.

Then David Bollier interviews English photographer, writer, and filmmaker Leah Gordon about a new book she has co-authored on the history of the English commons.

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Introducing Green Halcones

by Mari Nishitani

"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."

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English Land Commoners and Their Folk Culture

by David Bollier
It quickly becomes clear that Common People is not just a history of commons. It is also about how memory of the commons persists through a shared culture, shaping contemporary life and politics. The book contains a photo of the Travelly Well, which has been used to water livestock for thousands of years; it is near an ancient route used by travelers. In Longmead, England, commoners host a spectacular event twice a year in which herding dogs escort large flocks of sheep back from common fields in the highlands. 

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Learning From Recent Efforts to Create Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives

Center for Housing Studies — 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. Long a model most associated with a handful of Northeastern markets, this new interest spans an array of cities in many different parts of the country, with projects taking shape in places as diverse as Missoula, Nashville, Seattle, and Portland, Maine...

Ownership, Participation, and Leadership in Worker Cooperatives

Academia.edu — 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 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. Representatives of five cooperatives in Buenos Aires, Argentina and three in San Francisco, USA were interviewed...

Cooperate, or Perish

Manzanita Interactive (Steam) — Before Dandelion Void, the founding members of Manzanita Interactive were rank-and-file employees at different companies in the video game industry. After witnessing many of the biggest problems in the games industry – layoffs, crunch, loss of credits, and harassment to name a few – we realized that we deserved better.

Most of us met each other as members of the movement to unionize the game industry, through an organization called Game Workers of Southern California. Dara and Robin helped unionize the indie company they were working at, and eventually bargained our country’s first-ever union contract for game developers. Roland and Brian helped cofound the United Videogame Workers-CWA, an all-inclusive direct-join union spanning across all roles in the industry...

 

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This week, Caroline Hossein and Ilhaam Ladha write about a recent international symposium held in Toronto: Worlding Feminist Economics: Political Art, ROSCAs, and the Law. Hossein and Ladha argue that rotating savings associations (ROSCAS) are properly viewed as a type of cooperative organization — and one of the most common types of co-op in the world.

Then Cherry Haynes and Siôn Whellens of the Calverts worker cooperative in East London discuss how their co-op survived the collapse of the London print industry, their commitment to wage equality, and why they are happy to hire people who are skeptical of co-ops.

And finally, Josh Davis makes the case against using generative AI in cooperatives and solidarity economy projects.

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Wake Up World: ROSCAS are Part of the Co-op Family!

 

by Caroline Shenaz Hossein & Ilhaam Ladha

While bringing together a community of activists, scholars, community leaders, students, and artists, this symposium raised a crucial point: Formal cooperatives must recognize and protect informal membership institutions like ROSCAs as part of the core of the social economy, or risk compromising the entire solidarity economy movement. 

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The Worker Co-op that Outlasted the Collapse of London's Print Industry

by Changing the Narrative
Clerkenwell and the East End were once full of print shops. Most are long gone. Calverts is still standing — and it's a worker co-operative, founded in 1977, with no managers and complete pay parity: everyone earns the same, no matter the job. 

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The Cooperative Case Against AI

by Josh Davis 
This technology is burning vast amounts of resources, stealing work from artists, making up lies constantly, and promising to create mass unemployment: is it any wonder that everybody hates it? 

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The Workers’ Owned Sewing Company

Facing South — Six a.m. Already the women driving into the grassy field that is the parking lot for the Workers’ Owned Sewing Company can feel the 95-degree heat of August days in Windsor, North Carolina. Six had not always been the hour the day shift began, but the Workers’ Owned factory has no air conditioning. So, at the beginning of the summer, the board of directors “called a meeting” at which the workers voted to start their day early in order to finish when the heat of the day became unbearable...

A century of ULCCS: A worker co-op success story from Kerala

Co-op News — The Uralungal Labor Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS) is one of the most celebrated worker co-operatives in India. It’s also the oldest. Founded in Kerala in 1925 under the guidance of the social reformer Vagbhatananda, it began with 14 members and 36 paise (roughly US$0.13 in 1925 currency). Today, the co-op has 19,272 workers, 13,174 worker-members and a turnover of ₹2,400 crore (US$300m, £220m)...

Inside a Worker-Owned Business in Raleigh

City of Raleigh (YouTube) — Employee owners at Weaver Street Market share how employee ownership strengthens workplace culture, supports business continuity, and builds stronger community connections in Raleigh. Learn more:Employee owners at Weaver Street Market share how employee ownership strengthens workplace culture, supports business continuity, and builds stronger community connections in Raleigh...

 

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This week, Matt Noyes travels to Canada for a conversation with Heather Pritchard who shares a wealth of practical wisdom gleaned from her nearly 50 years as a co-op member (of several co-ops) and active participant in British Columbia's cooperative movement. 

Then, the Right Livelihood Center hosts cooperators from three continents to share the ways their cooperatives - all past recipients of the Right Livelihood Award - work to build community power through cooperation and solidarity. 

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“Start by forming a group.”

Heather Pritchard on fifty years of cooperation and commoning in British Columbia

by Heather Pritchard & Matt Noyes

Over the course of the conversation, Heather mentioned many cooperative organizations and key figures in the cooperative movement in British Columbia...Some of the key players are:

• Fraser Common Farm Cooperative...a 20 acre farm in Aldergrove, British Columbia that is home to several cooperatives...
• Community Alternatives Cooperative...a housing cooperative and urban garden in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver...
• FarmFolk/CityFolk, a non-profit organization created by Community Alternatives and Fraser Common Farm Cooperative to strengthen ties between farmers and city dwellers...
• Glen Valley Organic Farm Cooperative, a 50 acre farm cooperative in Abbotsford, BC, founded in 1999...
• Foodlands Cooperative of British Columbia, “a provincial, non-governmental, community-based land trust incubated and stewarded by FarmFolk/CityFolk.”

Thanks to the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union for supporting this research

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Cooperatives in Action

by Right Livelihood Center at UC Santa Cruz
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 economic model provides benefits both for employees and the communities they serve.

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4th Annual Accessible Virtual Pride 2026

San Francisco Disability Cultural Center — Accessible virtual pride was born from our disabled queer community members not being included in local in-person prides. Whether that was due to the lack of Covid precautions or inaccessible venues, many events let go of their accessible initiatives. We listened to our community members and decided to work together to put together this event. It has been a resounding success, with many saying it was the first Pride they had ever been able to attend!...

The 2026 Worker Co-op Conference will held on Sept 25-26, 2026 in Boston, MA

Worker Co-op Conference 2026 — We're excited to announce that the 2026 Worker Co-op Conference will be held at Roxbury Community College in Boston, Massachusetts! Get ready to join us on September 25th through 26th for new connections, inspiration, and collective learning...

US co-ops apex works with Arizona State University on co-op education

Co-op News — NCBA says the programme combines its co-operative expertise with the “academic excellence” and workforce education capabilities of Arizona State University, “creating a flexible learning experience that helps participants build practical knowledge while balancing the demands of their day-to-day responsibilities”...

Creation of a network of journalists to promote the social and solidarity economy

Seneweb — A new network of journalists and communicators dedicated to promoting the social, solidarity and environmental economy (SSE) was officially established this Saturday in Bambey, during a general assembly that brought together media professionals from several regions of Senegal...

Building Our Missing Care Infrastructure: Elevate's New "Coop of Coops"

Solidarity Hall — After several years in development, the ICA Group recently announced the launch of Elevate Cooperative, a national network and membership organization designed in partnership with caregiver-owned home care agencies and development partners in the field. Elevate aims to strengthen, scale, and unite home care cooperatives to build quality jobs and improve the lives of caregivers...

How Honduras coffee cooperatives are stepping up

International Trade Centre — When María Antonia Ponce Perdomo from the Honduran COCABEL coffee cooperative  boarded a flight from Honduras to Peru, she had never attended an international Fairtrade forum before. By the end of the week, she had walked through Peruvian coffee farms, watched two fellow Honduran cooperatives take home a Golden Cup award, and come home with ideas to bring back to COCABEL...

 

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This week, Mari Nishitani writes about the first time bank, Japan's Volunteer Labour Bank. Started by Teruko Mizushima in 1973 as a way to empower women and the elderly, the organization grew to over 200 branches exchanging hundreds of thousands of hours.

Then, Enrique Cal of Uruguay's Federation of Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM) shares the history of the federation and the lessons they've learned about successfully organizing cooperatives over the last half century. Enrique addresses how the larger political climate effects co-ops, the place of ideology in co-op organizing, and the many benefits of training children in cooperative practices and values.

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Japan's Volunteer Labour Bank

by Mari Nishitani
Mizushima’s Time Bank functioned in neighborhood-based branch units to ensure that each branch kept a small enough scale to maintain the convenience of members to travel to other members to provide or receive services, as well as to maintain the close-knit, trustworthy community. Each branch had staff who helped people with onboarding, troubleshooting, and matching their needs and resources.

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How Uruguay's Co-op Federation Tackles the Country's Housing Shortage

by Cooperative Development Institute
Uruguayan Federation of Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives (FUCVAM), founded in May 1970, embodies the spirit of community and support. Serving 35,000 families through 760 cooperatives...With a cooperative school for children and numerous consumer, distribution, and worker cooperatives linked to their vision, they are shaping a brighter future.

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Land deal aims to boost agricultural co-ops in Jordan

Co-op News — Jordanian agri co-ops will gain access to 4,000 dunams (400 hectares) of land under a new agreement between the Jordan Valley Authority and the Jordan Cooperative Corporation. The agreement marks one of the largest land allocations to co-operatives in Jordan in recent years, following a cabinet decision to designate land in the Ridan al-Aqiliya area of Aqaba Governorate for development projects led by agricultural co-operatives...

A Training with Dean Spade! Working Together Joyfully: Preventing and Addressing Patterns of Resentment in Collaborations

Sustainable Economies Law Center — Many collaborative relationships and group projects, as well as personal relationships, become mired in toxic resentment. In this session, we'll look a what resentment is, why it is so common, how it is formed, how it can masquerade as empowerment, and how we might work through it in order to reconnect to authentic choice in our work and relationships...

10 Lessons We’ve Learned in 10 Years of Creating Co-ops

Co-operatives First — In 2026, Co-operatives First turned 10! And over the past decade, our team has learned a lot about entrepreneurship, policy, governance, and so much more. In that time, we’ve worked with nearly 400 groups and helped create over 160 co-operatives. We’ve helped our clients overcome challenges and learned valuable lessons. We learn from each group we work with and create new tools and resources to help future co-ops learn from their peers. Thanks to all the people who have persevered and created co-ops with us, here are 10 things we’ve learned about the process...

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This week, Ebony Gustave writes about visiting some of the many cooperatives in New York City and the Hudson Valley as part of the Cooperative Leaders and Scholars Fellowship.

Then, Steve Dubb writes about how the city of Eugene, Oregon is considering adopting an act giving tenants right to collectively purchase their homes when multi-family rental properties are put on sale. The move comes as the city, like most places across the US, is struggling to maintain an adequate stock of affordable housing.

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A Glimpse Into New York’s Cooperative Ecosystem

by Ebony Gustave
In the Hudson Valley, we visited the workspace and showroom of Found and Fixed, a worker-owned cooperative that reclaims and repairs wooden furniture. We saw and listened to the behind the scenes of running their business. One of the challenges they shared was retaining members due to the physical strain and low margins. This hasn’t deterred them from their mission of diverting furniture from the landfill, they will be working with a reuse center to discern what furniture can be upcycled and refurbished on a larger scale.

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In Eugene, Housing Advocates Call for a Tenant Right to Purchase Act

by Steve Dubb
If adopted, a policy concept outlined by advocates would give tenants in multifamily buildings with five or more units that are up for sale 45 days to exercise a right of first refusal to purchase. Under the proposed provisions, if a tenant majority wished to acquire a building, they would need to form a tenants association, secure a financing letter of interest within 120 days, and close within 240 days...As is typical for TOPA, the purchase price would have to be consistent with market rates.

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Creating Place-Based Systems Change (w/Matt Biggar)

LIFT Economy — The conversation explores why awareness alone rarely changes behavior, and how physical infrastructure, social relationships, and cultural norms shape the choices people make every day. Matt and Kevin discuss the levers for systems change outlined in Matt’s book, including shifting power, transforming land use, resetting culture, and building collaboration across sectors. They also examine examples from cities like Paris and San Francisco that show how changes to streets, public space, and local infrastructure can influence broader social and economic transformation...

Draft Changes to Cooperative Identity Statement

International Cooperative Alliance — This second, and final, consultation phase is focused on the Identity Statement itself. To support it, the Cooperative Identity Advisory Group is releasing a series of discussion drafts setting out possible changes to the Statement. Comment on the drafts is invited from ICA Members and Associates at large, the ICA's Regions, Sectoral Organisations and Thematic Committees and any other interested parties...

Spring Forum 2026 Brings Members Together

Co-operative Housing Federation of BC — On May 24, co-op members, leaders, staff, and sector partners from across British Columbia gathered for CHF BC’s Spring Forum 2026. Guided by the theme Community Starts Next Door: Where neighbourly connections build community, the day explored how everyday connections between neighbours create stronger, more resilient co-op communities...

A Crushed 1891 Strike by Black Farmer Cooperatives Holds Keys to Economic Justice Today

Nonprofit Quarterly — Houston County, TX, December 11, 1886. Sixteen Black men gathered on a farm and started something that would grow into one of the most ambitious economic organizing efforts in US history. They called it the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union (CFNACU). Within five years, it had spread across the South and claimed 1.2 million members. Then, in 1891, it was violently destroyed...

 

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This week, Aasa Marshall of Co-operatives First, shares some important lessons from a decade of co-op education and development, and Marc-Andre Pigeon and Stan Yo of the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives present the results of their survey gauging the long-term impacts of co-operative youth education programs.

Then, David Bollier writes about the Italian community organization Brave New Alps, and interviews co-founder Bianca Elzenbaumer. Brave New Alps is using creative organizing methods in remote rural areas to create community projects that meet the needs of residents, often in unique and surprising ways. 

And if you are a member of a worker co-op, please take a few minutes to complete this anonymous survey about if and how your cooperative is us "AI" tools. 

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Engaging New Audiences In Co-operatives

by International Centre for Co-operative Management
Co-operatives First was founded in response to falling awareness about co-ops and how they can be used. They've learned some key lessons about how to reach people who could benefit from co-ops, but are not familiar with their structure and benefits. With useful, practical tips for practitioners and co-op leaders, this session will draw on lessons learned from years of helping new audiences discover the value of co-operatives. 

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New Forms of Rural Resurgence Through Commoning and Care

by David Bollier
While Elzenbaumer and Franz started their project in Franz’s parents’ home, they later found and co-created an improbable space for experimentation – the valley’s main railway station, Rovereto, in Vallagarina, Trentino. Stores and restaurants had already abandoned the station, but the building itself was sturdy and habitable, and indeed, lots of railway passengers still pass through it every day. With permission from the Italian rail service and a grant from the European Union, Brave New Alps converted the station’s spaces to host its many research and public-facing projects.

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How CLTs are Powering Co-op Growth in Canada

Shelterforce — The federation is also leading an innovation in the use of the CLT model by forming a land trust as a directly owned subsidiary. By pooling the land holdings of a group of co-ops, the land trust can borrow against the existing co-op housing equity, and leverage those funds to rapidly develop more co-op housing...

Rwandan cooperative helps members improve livelihoods

The Cooperator — “Before joining this cooperative, something was missing in my life and my life was not good. When I joined in 2015, we were trained on soil and water conservation and vegetable production. An idea came into my mind that I can grow vegetables for my family but also for selling,” Nyirabaligira says. “Now I have a vegetable garden business. Later I joined the village savings and loans association, and to be part of this group makes me happy because I managed to save money and buy a cow. I later got a loan and renovated my house...”

Dan’s Co-op Adventures – May 2026

Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada — The next stop was Fireweed Food Community Service Co‑operative Inc., where Ralf Sawatzky, Fireweed’s Market Coordinator, provided a tour and shared insights into the organization’s work. Established in 2016 as a multi‑stakeholder co-operative, Fireweed was created to address challenges within Manitoba’s food system, including supporting consumers in accessing food that reduces the overall ecological footprint...

Brazil's Largest Meat Co-op Argues Against Reduced Work Week

The Cooperator — Aurora Coop, considered the largest meat cooperative in Brazil, estimates it would need to hire an additional 11,000 workers on top of the current 51,000 just to produce slightly less than today, should Congress approve the end of the 6×1 schedule and the reduction of the workweek to 40 hours. This calculation comes from the cooperative’s president, Neivor Canton...

Before the State Showed Up: Black Mutual Aid as the Infrastructure of Our Democracy

Nonprofit Quarterly — During the nineteenth century, free Black communities built mutual aid societies across cities such as Philadelphia, New Orleans, Charleston, and Baltimore. Organizations like the Free African Society, founded in 1787 by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, collected dues from members and redistributed resources to widows, sick residents, unemployed workers, and formerly enslaved people trying to build stable lives...

 

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This week, Bernard Marszalek reviews the new book Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy: Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below by Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams, and details a few of the many cooperatives profiled in the book.

Then, P.J. Christabell and Caroline Shenaz Hossein write about the many types of informal member-owned institutions in India's Kerala state, based on surveys of over 1,200 members of such groups. Their findings underline the value of citizen engagement in improving social equity and creating inclusive economic development. 

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Book Review: Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy

by Bernard Marszalek
In their travels [Satgar and Williams] witnessed a diversity of projects that transformed extractive economics by creating a common benefit economics embedded with values of democratic participation, care, and ecological sensitivity. The insights of the participants arose from their real-world experiences, not from ideals promulgated by movements or political parties. A new subjectivity materialized in the daily lives in this way, that is, a new culture formed – one that contended with the old hierarchical and miserabilist one, and superseded it.

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What Kerala’s Member-Owned Institutions Can Teach the World about Social Economics

by P.J. Christabell & Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Informal MOIs, known as sanghas (collectives), along with mutual aid and self-help groups, have been at the core of women’s liberation across caste and class, with innovations such as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) known as panapayattu or kuri. We argue that localized membership institutions, especially informal MOIs, are at the root of the social and solidarity economy (SSE)—as the Kerala case shows.

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New York’s Park Slope Food Coop votes to boycott Israeli goods

Co-op News — Members of Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York City, have voted to boycott products from Israel and Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine after a contentious, decade-long debate. Of the co-op’s 17,000 members, 6,753 cast votes on the issue during a three-hour virtual meeting on 27 May, with 4,551 (67%) in favour, 2,083 (31%) against and 119 (2%) abstaining...

Where Do Dairy Cooperatives Stand Amidst Financial Crisis in India’s Cooperative Societies?

Local Samosa — A report by Grain highlights how, after a long-time dominance of the cooperatives, the private companies and premium dairy brands are now commanding a nearly 50% split in organised milk handling. The major reasons cited for their growth include brands focusing heavily on high-margin items like cheese, paneer, probiotic drinks, and yoghurt, which are seeing soaring consumer demand. Post the deregulation in the 1990s, it has been observed that they have also pressured cooperative margins by intensifying competition for raw milk and largely neglecting rural farmer support services, Grain highlights...

Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain

Lauar Flanders' Substack — I first went to the Basque region, during Donald Trump’s first term, to learn about the Mondragón Federation. Created in 1956, it’s now the world’s largest industrial co-op with about 70,000 employees, including thousands overseas. “Business became viewed, for a generation or more, as a place for progressive people to express their values,” explained Fred Freundlich, a professor at Mondragón University, a university funded by the Federation. “It’s not enough on its own as a response to fascism or authoritarianism anywhere, but it is a significant part.”...

A Co-operative Approach to End-of-Life Planning and Care

Co-operatives First — Across Canada, people have created both funeral co-ops and memorial societies, which play different roles in supporting loved ones. A funeral co-op is a member-owned business that operates its own funeral home and provides services. A memorial society negotiates fair funeral pricing with trusted providers and offers tools and guidance.  One successful example is the Cooperative Memorial Society in Alberta, which has been around since 1966...

 

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This week, retired USDA Economist Bruce Reynolds writes about two of  the main tactics that investor owned firms have historically employed to compete against cooperatives offering superior products and services: lobbying for policies unfavorable to co-ops, and undermining solidarity by targeting co-op members with selective pricing. Reynolds traces these practices from mid-19th century ag cooperatives up to the present day, and warns that non-agricultural co-ops should expect to face similar efforts whenever they gain significant market share.

Then, Penn Loh recounts the last fifteen years of solidarity economy organizing in Massachusetts, and shares some stories and lessons from the numerous projects that he has been a part of.

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How Investor Owned Firms Compete With Cooperatives

by Bruce J. Reynolds
In addition to the policy arena, IOFs [investor owned firms] have also used various marketing strategies in attempts to weaken solidarity and divide cooperative members. These tactics for weakening solidarity have persisted from the early period of farmer cooperatives to the present day. Two case studies demonstrate these strategies that were examined during recent decades by USDA/Cooperative Service.

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Solidarity Economy Movements in Massachusetts

by Cities@Tufts
Loh traced how these movements, many of which he has been involved with, have been fighting for and building over the past fifteen years, [finding] various ways of living in interdependence and collective care, around projects such as worker-owned cooperatives, community land trusts, community investment funds, mutual aid, and more.

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Quebec co-op members rally against Bill 20

The Montreal Gazette — Introduced in February by then housing minister Caroline Proulx, Bill 20 would overhaul the income thresholds generally used to determine who can enter affordable housing and co-operatives. Now, residents are not forced out if their financial situation later improves. But Bill 20 would change that, introducing financial penalties for some residents whose income rises above thresholds that have not yet been determined...

How LaSuite.coop Is Building a New Model for Digital Sovereignty

Free Knowledge Institute — LaSuite.coop is a multi-stakeholder cooperative being established in France by a consortium of long-standing cooperative actors in the digital space...The service is already operational (join as member and/or access their demo)....LaSuite.coop offers organisations a complete collaborative workspace built on the tools developed and integrated by DINUM...

REI Union workers launch boycott over dispute with co-op

Co-op News — The union claims that REI “failed to offer a single proposal until the final day of bargaining, and failed to send its own vice president of labor relations, or any key decision-maker, to the table”. Campaigners hit out at “outlandish, bad faith proposals” from the co-op, including a moratorium on the REI Union’s organising activity, which would prevent it from supporting workers at other REI stores hoping to unionise for the duration of the contract...

#CoopsDay highlights cooperatives as bridge builders

NCBA CLUSA — The theme also highlights the role of cooperatives as bridge-builders, bringing communities together, fostering dialogue and democratic decision-making, and strengthening stability and resilience in an increasingly fragmented world. At a time when many people are navigating conflict, deepening political divides, economic instability and growing distrust and loneliness, cooperatives can build bridges that rebuild trust and strengthen social cohesion...

Argentina’s co-operativas escolares: A case study in co-op education

Co-op News — The country’s cooperativas escolares (school co-operatives) have a long history, which can be traced to 1946 legislation that formally established the teaching of co-operativism and the creation of school co-operatives. Rather than being a fringe or extracurricular activity, these initiatives are recognised as a pedagogical tool integrated into the curriculum across subjects. The explicit goal is not profit or practical skills, but the development of citizens, democratic participation, and an education based on values. Students genuinely run these co-operatives, which can range from food production and recycling to technology, media, and community commerce. They elect boards, manage finances and hold assemblies, with teachers acting as advisors...

All Hands On Deck! Everyone Has a Role to Play in the Movement

Sustainable Economies Law Center — Help us raise $40,000 this month  to support this important work. 10% of your support  will go directly to our Solidarity Partner, Huitlaco Mushrooms – a worker-owned, agroecological mushroom and compost farm in North Richmond, CA that produces food, medicine, and soil amendments for community resilience. Huitlaco Mushrooms is an inspiring example of land stewards creating sustainable food systems, while also building people power through collective ownership...

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This week,the Punchcard Podcast talks with Rob Callender about Kin.Coop, a multi-stakeholder cooperative that runs an app for managing rotating savings clubs (also known as ROSCA, Susu, Hagbad, Pardna, etc.). Rob discusses what brought him to the cooperative movement, and how he sees savings clubs as a powerful tool for enabling a solidarity economy.

Then, the good folks over at CooperationWorks! have put together a virtual study group of cooperative organizers from across the country to explore the topic of cooperative movements in the US: their history, their struggles, and what we can take from those experiences to apply to our co-op organizing today.

And one last thing: we're trying to get a sense of the ways that worker cooperatives are (or aren't) using "GenAI" tools (like ChatGPT) in their business operations. If you are a member of a worker co-op, please take a few minutes to fill out this short survey (it should only take 5-7 minutes). Thanks.

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Replacing Banks with Savings Clubs

An Interview with Rob Callender

by Punchcard Podcast
Although it might sound similar, Kin isn't a building society or a credit union because its model is built around small, autonomous community savings clubs rather than a centralized institution. The vision is that the benefit of building these saving clubs is not only financial, but also social and cultural. This model was inspired by countless examples of saving clubs around the globe but by digitizing it, Kin aims to change our secretive and atomizing culture around money, and instead building a cooperative future where resources and assets are owned collectively, like Clapton CFC's Community Owned Football Grounds and Clubhouse, which is where we're recording this episode today.

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The History of US Cooperative Movements

by CooperationWorks!
This is the first of four videos in our Equity Hub! These free resources introduce cooperatives to the new enthusiast in an approachable and meaningful way.

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The Death and Renaissance of Milwaukee Food Co-ops

Shepherd Express — In September of 2025, Riverwest lost its eponymous food co-op on the corner of Clarke and Fratney. Covid had been the nail in the coffin to the Riverwest Co-op’s demise, yet its end could have been foreseen for several years...While Outpost, one of the country’s largest food co-ops, is thriving, seeing their highest active member owner numbers since they opened back in 1970. They are building out a 9,000 square foot industrial kitchen with 24,000 active member owners and over 350 employees...

3 Ways Co-ops Can Fit into Your Town’s Economic Development Strategy 

Co-operatives First — In some communities, establishing a co-operative is a formal goal set out in the town’s economic development strategy. This document sets out a town’s plan to support businesses, retain services, attract investment, and enhance overall community well-being. Including a co-operative in this strategy highlights a willingness to try something new, use the resources already available in your town, and take ownership over important services your town needs. So, how might a co-op fit into your town’s economic development strategy? Here are three examples of Western Canadian communities that did it...

House passes 2026 Farm Bill with key cooperative priorities

NCBA CLUSA — Notably, the bill would reauthorize and modernize the Rural Cooperative Development Grant program through FY2031. The provision, based on the Strengthening Rural Cooperatives and Communities Act, would streamline multi-year grants for cooperative development centers with a demonstrated track record of success. Other changes include allowing under-serviced and rural applicants to better compete within the program by removing barriers such as “scoring on a curve” within program match requirements, as well as directing the Interagency Working Groups on Cooperative Development to analyze data on co-ops from the Economic Census and submit annual reports on findings...

Meet the St. Paul Cooperatives Transforming Ownership with the LOCAL Fund

Nexus Community Partners (YouTube) — Over the past two years, one way Nexus Community Partners has bolstered a cooperative-ownership culture is through the LOCAL Fund: first-of-their-kind grants that keep local businesses local, support community-driven development, and empower employees in their workplaces. Our 2025 grantees—Twin Cities Impact Cooperative, Terra Firma Building and Remodeling Cooperative, Storehouse Grocers and Coffee Co-op,* and The Improve Group—share their stories here...

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This week, Matt Noyes writes about Solidarity Economic Circuits - a concept originated by Brazilian social theorist and organizer Euclides Mance - and considers how they might be applied in a US context.

Then, Patricia Serrano talks to the people behind an effort in North Carolina to start a textile worker cooperative. With help from Poder Emma, the Centro Cultural y Económico El Porvenir, and the Industrial Commons, a group of Latina women are hoping to help revitalize the areas once thriving textile trade.

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Reflections on Euclides Mance’s Solidarity Economic Circuits and Economic Liberation

by Matt Noyes
I was impressed by his broad scope of concern – from liberation philosophy to platform cooperativism and solidarity economy on a global scale – and his very practical engagement in developing grassroots organizing capacity and infrastructure. One practical approach stood out: the creation of local buying clubs as an initial step in community economic self-organization. This approach seemed modest and feasible, but also strategically audacious.

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The Dream of a Latino Textile Cooperative in Western North Carolina

by Patricia Serrano

For now, this is the learning stage. Most students are residents of Emma-Erwin, though some come from farther away. This group includes a 22-year-old woman with her own boutique at Mercado La Pulga in Fletcher; a woman with a small machine at home; and others seeking jobs in textile factories. “We’re figuring out what our industry will be. But it starts with knowing how to use a machine.”

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Solidarity with worker cooperators in Gaza

SolidFund — Early in 2024, Solidfund members responded decisively to Yalla Cooperative's crisis appeal, as the disaster unfolded in Gaza. While some of its workers stayed and fought to maintain themselves in the territory, others ended up as refugees in neighbouring countries. Supporting those workers by any means necessary had to take priority over building websites, apps and software for non-profit clients. We talked to Joe Friel, one of Yalla's founders, about what Solidfund's intervention meant to them at the time - and what's happened since...

We Are Composting

We Are Open Co-op (via Wayback Machine) — Earlier this year we announced that after ten years of creative collaboration, we would be closing We Are Open Co-op on May 1st. May 1st has arrived. We have spent the last few weeks archiving a decade of work and created a new website to link to our various GitHub repositories and assets around the web. The wonderful Bryan Mathers created some images for us to help us explain our journey and the decision to close...

How 9 Mechanics Built a Global Worker Co-op | The SACMI Story

Co-op Evolution (YouTube) — SACMI in Italy started with 9 unemployed mechanics after World War One and grew into one of the world’s leading industrial cooperatives. The cooperative survived political violence, war, occupation, and economic instability while remaining rooted in worker ownership and long-term reinvestment...

Viet Nam: Creating a Favourable Business Environment for Sustainable Co-operative Development

The Cooperator — In recent years, the State has introduced numerous mechanisms and policies to foster a favourable business environment and support the sustainable growth of cooperatives. Despite notable achievements, however, cooperatives continue to face limitations and challenges, one of the most pressing being restricted access to credit...

How a low-income renter found secure, affordable rental housing

ABC News (Australia) — The 16-dwelling apartment block Iain moved into last year is a rental cooperative. The newly constructed building in Brunswick, about 5 kilometres from Melbourne's CBD, is owned by non-profit housing provider Common Equity Housing Limited (CEHL). Residents' rent is capped at about 30 per cent of their income, and they have three-year leases. If they maintain their tenancy agreement, their leases should continue indefinitely — even if their financial situation improves...

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This week, Dylan Hatch shares the results of his research into union co-ops - worker co-ops with union representation - in the US, focusing on three in particular: Co-op Rhody, WorX Printing, and Gimme Coffee. Dylan highlights the differences in how each co-op came to be involved with a union, and differences between "union co-ops" and "unionized co-ops." 

Then, Marc Sweeney of the UK's Equal Care Co-op writes about a new academic paper that lauds organizations like Equal Care as 'laboratories of social innovation' - places where people "experiment with possible futures" and develop approaches that can be adapted by other communities.

And finally, we're trying to find out about the extent and manner of worker co-ops' use of "AI" tools. To that end, we have made a short survey that we're encouraging worker co-ops to take a moment and fill in. If you're a member of a worker co-op, please take a few minutes to let us know how you're approaching things.

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Building a Cooperative Labour Movement

by Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
How could labour unions and worker cooperatives work together to build a more democratic economy? Although distinct in their approaches and strategies, both unions and co-ops seek to center workers in an otherwise hierarchical economic system. Yet intersections between these movements have been historically rare, with only occasional moments of collaboration and conflict.

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Laboratories of Social Innovation

by Marc Sweeney
We've written before about how mainstream care provision increasingly resembles a 'Deliveroo model': workers allocated tasks based on availability, relationships sacrificed for efficiency, care reduced to bullet points on a rota. A compensatory approach might try to make that system slightly less dehumanising (perhaps adding a smiley face to an automated instruction?). A transformative approach essentially asks: what if we stopped treating workers like tools, and stopped reducing people to their care needs?

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ICA unveils theme for CoopsDay 2026: Cooperatives for a Peaceful World

The Cooperator — The International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] has unveiled “Cooperatives for a Peaceful World” as the theme for the 2026 International Day of Cooperatives [CoopsDay], underscoring the sector’s role in fostering unity and stability. The ICA said the theme reflects the cooperative model’s capacity to bring people together, strengthen social cohesion and advance inclusive, peaceful societies. It also serves as a call to action for cooperatives worldwide to play a more active role in peacebuilding...

Kenyan tea and coffee co-operatives tackle child labour

Co-op News — Kenyan co-operatives have joined a national push to address child labour in the tea and coffee value chain, as part of a wider effort by the country’s government and development agencies to eradicate the practice...Now in its second phase, Accel says it is adopting a systems-based approach to the root causes of child labour, such as poverty, low income, informality, and limited institutional capacity within agricultural value chains across the region...

The Case for Indivisible Reserves in Worker Co-ops

Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation (YouTube) — Cooperative developer and worker-owner Marty Frost makes the case for indivisible reserves in worker co-ops.

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This week, Bernard Marszalek writes about the Brazilian co-op movement's manifesto for a sustainable economy, issued during last year's UN COP30 Climate Summit.

Then, Vincent Emanuele writes about his experience organizing a community and cultural center in Michigan City, Indiana - and why you might want to do the same thing in your community. 

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Brazilian Cooperatives: The Path to a Green Economy

by Bernard Marszalek
Principle Four states unambiguously that cooperatives are the means to achieve climate change goals. Why? Because cooperatives have the ethical foundation for social inclusion, democratic social organization, and territorial development in the communities where they operate. 

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Open a Community Center: Reject Digital Culture

by Vincent Emanuele
For us, operating a physical space was crucial for building community and culture. More specifically, a space where people could go without having to spend money. We sold nothing. We expected nothing. Anyone could walk into the space, hang out, grab a cup of coffee or a beer (we kept the fridge stocked), and strike up a conversation. We hosted events—punk and hardcore shows, poetry slams, hip-hop shows, game nights, film screenings, lectures, art installations, debates, barbeques, and more—which connected people from different neighborhoods and socioeconomic statuses. Relationships formed across racial, age, and gender lines, with women participating in disproportionate numbers.

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‘You can’t buy a revolution, but you can support a paper fighting for one’

PubMed Central — This article explores journalism cooperatives...While other non-traditional ways of funding and producing news – such as non-profit media or crowdfunding initiatives – receive growing attention from journalism researchers, cooperative enterprises remain largely neglected. This study develops an inventory of 29 such news outlets in Europe, North America, and South America...

Historians Steve Strimer & Tom Goldscheider on Worker Co-ops in Florence

WHMP (SoundCloud) —  Local historians Steve Strimer and Tom Goldscheider discuss worker co-ops in Florence, MA in the 1840s and now...

Drivers Cooperative wants to treat drivers better, but faces one big challenge

Denverite — The cooperative handles about 2,000 rides each month, with around 90 to 100 drivers logged on and available for service at any given time. Its app has been downloaded roughly 20,000 times by passengers across the state. And yet, one big question remains: Can a grassroots operation like this become a meaningful part of Denver’s broader transportation system?...

California Center for Cooperative Development Seeks New Exec. Dir.

CCCD — This position requires a visionary leader with a passion for cooperative development, strong organizational management skills, and the ability to enhance our financial base, including the continued transition to increased funding from philanthropic grants and individual donors, as well as the maintenance and cultivation of organizational partnerships with diverse communities and sectors...

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This week, we wrap up Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy by Chilean social theorist Luis Razeto Migliaro, and translated by GEO's own Matt Noyes. In the final chapter Razeto makes some general observations about relationships between individual freedom, the state, and cooperativism.

Then, Steve Herrick writes about GEO's return to print publication, and why we would be doing such a thing in 2026.

And there's still time to grab a ticket for our upcoming Poetry Slam fundraising event on May 4th. Prices are on a sliding scale to fit every budget, so don't hesitate to pick one up and join us for an evening of poetry and solidarity. 

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 20

by Luis Razeto Migliaro, transl. by Matt Noyes
Cooperative economic organization creates, then, free individuals with a sense of social bonds and solidarity and provides opportunities for their growth. The bourgeois economic schema, in contrast, has a limited capacity for assimilation of free individuals, and, once saturated, expels more individuals than it integrates.

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GEO Returns to Print!

by Steve Herrick
We’ll continue publishing online, of course, but we’ve missed creating something tangible. A paper journal is a healthy alternative to doomscrolling. There’s no comment section, but maybe you’ll comment on it to a friend over coffee. There’s no Like button, but we hope you like it and find it informative. 

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Nominations now open for the Cooperative Cultural Heritage List

International Cooperative Alliance — Launched in 2025 at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, as part of the UN International Year of Cooperatives, the CCH programme celebrates places and traditions that embody the legacy, idea and practice of cooperation worldwide. The 2025 launch highlighted an inaugural list of tangible elements or sites connected to the birth and development of cooperative movements, institutions and practices that have shaped societies around the world...In 2026, the goal is to include around 35 additional sites from 25 countries – nominated by members and verified by the working group – amplifying the geographic and cultural representation of the cooperative movement. In addition to physical sites, ICA will also explore the inclusion of intangible cultural elements that reflect cooperative ideas, practices and traditions...

Solidarity Economies for Collective Power, with Jason Nardi

Local Futures (YouTube) — Jason Nardi is the European coordinator of RIPESS - the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy, president of RIES (Italian Solidarity Economy Network) and co-founder of Solidarius Italia. Jason is an active member of the International Council of the World Social Forum and promoter of the World Social Forum on Transformative Economies. 

CDI is Hiring an Executive Director

Cooperative Development Institute — Cooperative Development Institute is a regional 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1994 by co-op leaders in the Northeast. CDI’s mission is to create and sustain democratically owned cooperative enterprises and networks in the Northeast that grow a prosperous, equitable economy. We envision a world where every person can fulfill their needs and aspirations...

The True Origins of Mutual Aid and the Danger of Getting It Wrong

Zedé — My starting premise is simple: a community welfare system is not just moments of aid. It requires structure. I organize that structure around four pillars: a mutual aid resource pool, operational programs, shared leadership and long-term stewardship, and strong volunteer coordination. The goal is to make support consistent and reliable rather than episodic and heroic...

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This week, Samuel Comé writes about the waste sorting cooperatives of Maputo, Mozambique and how they provide a necessary source of income for women in the country's capital. 

Then, the Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives presents their annual workshop series, this year focused on best practices for effective governance in worker co-ops. Members of several Alliance member co-ops share their processes for accountability and democratic decision making. 

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Collaboration and Mutual Care

by Samuel Comé
Women in the cooperative earn between $100 and $150 monthly—modest amounts that keep 186 children in school and ensure minimally dignified lives, explained Yolanda Jorge, 39, the cooperative’s founder.

“We are not here just to separate plastic. We are creating a new way of living—one that restores our autonomy, supports our families, and shows that the economy can be built on collaboration and mutual care,” Jorge said.

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Effective Governance in Worker Co-ops

A workshop of best practices by and for worker co-ops

by VAWC
Topics include: Effective Meeting Design, Unlocking Productivity, Goal Creation and Task Assignments, Membership Agreements, and Collective Accountability.

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The cooperative media: independent, transparent and democratic

Voxeurop — As the first media outlet to be managed by a European Cooperative Society (SCE), Voxeurop was determined from the outset to place democratic governance at the heart of its business. In a cooperative, each member is entitled to one vote at the General Meeting, regardless of the share of capital he or she holds. Cooperative status also guarantees employees ownership of the publication for which they work, and gives them majority control. For Voxeurop, as for other cooperative media businesses, the purpose of their endeavour is not to generate profit but to serve a public interest: that of informing citizens...

2026 Equal Exchange Summit, June 12th

Equal Exchange — As we mark this 40th anniversary milestone, we do so amid real challenges: historically high coffee and cacao prices, unpredictable tariffs and trade policies, and increasing corporate consolidation in our food system. Join us for a dynamic gathering of farmers, worker-owners, customers, organizers, and partners as we reflect on four decades of impact, confront today’s realities, and chart the next chapter of our solidarity economy—because in a world that urgently needs alternatives, our movement matters more than ever...

Welcome to Ravenous: a new, worker-owned food culture site

Coop Exchange — We are a worker-owned co-op. We believe the best way forward for media and journalism is without generative AI, without VC money and investors to pay back, and without corporate overlords more concerned about posting endless profits than the actual writing that is supposedly their “product.” Instead, we will operate on a subscription model: you pay us directly for the work we make. You know, like how a business is supposed to work!

Co-op banking of the African diaspora has implications beyond finance

Co-op News — Drawing on decades of research and 443 interviews conducted in the Caribbean and Canada, Hossein’s book represents the experiences of an estimated 11,000 Rosca members. She describes her research as “unapologetically biased” toward the co-operative model,  especially co-ops that are informal, and specifically Black women co-operators, “who have been purposely sidelined and put down for what they do”...

 

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This week, we've got the penultimate chapter of Luis Razeto Migliaro's Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy, in which the author explains how a democratic market might function and how it can be achieved in spite of the forces of monopoly and centralization.

Then, members of four worker cooperatives in the creative arts field talk about why they choose the co-op model, and how cooperative business models benefit creative workers. 

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 19

by Luis Razeto Migliaro, transl. by Matt Noyes
The development of a broad cooperative sector has, from the standpoint of the dispersal necessary for the “perfecting” and democratization of the market, a double effect: by autonomizing the subordinated categories it reduces the capital’s extraordinary profit margins, counteracting the process of capitalist accumulation and concentration. At the same time, by creating new possibilities of development of cooperatively organized categories, it leads to their growing dispersal, thus rendering unnecessary their defensive subordinated organization.

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Creative Worker Co-ops

by BRIC Foundation

A worker cooperative is a business that is owned and controlled by its workers. It is an underused model in the cultural industry that channels the creative power and freedom of the workers to build a world grounded in solidarity. Join us in this discussion on how Creative Workers Cooperatives function and how you can make one too! 

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A Growing Market: Worker Cooperative Transitions For CPAs And Tax Advisors

K2 Enterprises — “You can stand out in a competitive market by specializing in a growing, niche field,” Bill said. “It also helps with client attraction and retention,” Rebecca added. “Coop clients are likely to refer other coops to you. You can also build long-term advisory relationships—unlike other exit strategies like selling to an outside buyer.” Bill explained that it’s also an opportunity to develop sustainable revenue streams, as you can monetize different aspects of a cooperative transition...

Emerging Themes From Conversations About Alternative Land Access

NOFA VT — NOFA-VT is deepening its support for collective land access and cooperative and alternative business models. After spending time in 2025 conducting dozens of one-on-one conversations with farmers around the state and holding conversations with partner organizations, this spring, we launched the Land Together Learning Network. This learning network is a ten-month-long cohort program designed to support land seekers and those with land to share in building financial, legal, and relational skills for successful collective projects...

Coop Exchange Announces Closure

Coop Exchange — Founded in 2020, Coop Exchange was established to build a regulated, technology-enabled capital-raising platform tailored to cooperatives and mutuals. The Company sought to address long-standing structural challenges in cooperative capital formation by combining regulatory approval, digital infrastructure and mission-aligned investment frameworks...The Company’s model required approximately £14 million of capital to meet regulatory, operational and market-entry requirements at a sustainable scale. This level of capitalisation proved beyond the mandate or allocation capacity of many mission-aligned investors, notwithstanding their recognition of the strategic value of the platform...

Quebec’s Bill 20 could impact access to housing co-ops

CBC News (YouTube) — Bill 20, tabled in February, is expected to make several changes affecting access to affordable housing in Quebec, including co-ops. It would make residents of housing co-operatives pay a penalty if their income rises past a certain threshold...

Worker cooperatives as an organizational alternative: Challenges, achievements and promise

Academia.edu — This special issue of Organization treats cooperatives as alternative forms of business and organization, focusing on worker-owned-and-governed forms. In reviewing extant research and considering the seven articles in this special issue, we treat five main challenges that workers' cooperatives face...

The Antidote to Despair Is Finding our Role in Community Building

Ms. Magazine — In my daily life and organizing, I encounter people of various ages and backgrounds who feel stuck or unsure of what to do in this America. That’s when I recall Mr. Rogers’ wise words: “Look for the helpers”—particularly, the helpers most impacted and closest to the issues...

 

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This week, the Punchcard podcast talks with Paul Kahawatte of UK mediators Navigate about how to handle conflict in cooperatives and community groups. 

Then we talk with two members of the Hammond Community Garden project in Hammond, Indiana.

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How to Resolve Conflict Cooperatively

by Punchcard
This month Punchcard’s guest is Paul Kahawatte, a member of Navigate and an experienced mediator working with communities, cooperatives, and social movements. In my interview with him, he shares the structures and processes he uses to ward off conflict, catch it early, and resolve it in ways that strengthen, rather than fracture.

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The Hammond Community Garden

by GEO Collective

Josh talks with Myke and Terran about the Hammond Community Garden - how it started, how it has developed over the last five years, and how the garden is managed. 

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We Asked Tax Experts Everything About Mutual Aid

Racket — Minnesotans like Bean have redistributed thousands of dollars—in some cases, tens or hundreds of thousands—to neighbors in need in recent months. Everyday people are adopting rent to help support families who have lost their primary earner or have been unable to go to work throughout Operation Metro Surge. But as the daughter of an accountant, one small fear has nagged at me since December: Are they going to owe taxes on that money?...

The hidden history of New York City housing co-ops

LSE — In the far northwest of New York City’s northernmost borough, the Bronx, just south of Van Cortlandt Park, the site of Revolutionary War battles, is the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative. It’s due to celebrate its centenary next year, making it the oldest surviving co-op of its kind in the US. It is one of 11 housing cooperatives dotted around the city, built between 1927 and the early 1970s, comprising 32,903 homes for people with moderate incomes, inspired and sponsored by NYC’s labor unions, particularly those organized in the clothing industry...

Mutual aid organizations step up when nonprofits no longer can

Times of San Diego — San Diegan Mariel Horner loves to help people. She works as a mental health professional, organizes for police accountability and participated in regular protests outside the Otay Mesa detention facility and raised money to contribute to the commissary costs of people held there. “I was one of the original five people who were sending money directly to detainees and communicating with them over the phone…and that was a very interesting experience,” she said...

Maine farmer trades monoculture for cooperative food farming

Cooperative Development Institute — Antonio and his partner Amara Watkin-Anson, who both come from farming backgrounds, moved to Maine in 2016 and purchased 15.4 acres of off-grid farmland in Porter. The property has a rich history of being used as a safe haven for artists and the LGBTQ community, the couple said. Antonio and Amara hope to continue that legacy. They aimed to start a farm that was mission based rather than money based. They wanted to expand fresh food access to communities and ownership opportunities for BIPOC farmers and workers...

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Many people and organizations in the cooperative and solidarity economy movements make use of Creative Commons (CC) licenses for their intellectual property. While CC licenses come in many different flavors, depending on how permissive the licensor wants to be with their content, Steve Herrick argues that one of them stands out as the superior choice for solidarity economy activists. 

And we're excited to announce that GEO will be hosting an evening of poetry reading on the 4th of May. While that's pretty far from our usual fare, we've found the practice of reading poems to each other to be immensely enjoyable and wanted to share it with more people. So grab a poem to share, and join us for a night of linguistic flare!  

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The Best Creative Commons License for the Solidarity Economy

by Steve Herrick
A knowledge commons is not geographic, but is still defined by the behaviors of those who contribute to it and benefit from it. Creative Commons licenses coordinate these behaviors in ways that are well understood. Or at least, that’s the idea. The fact that there are seven different CC licenses (not counting the ones that have been retired, like the ones that don’t include Attribution) does not help people to understand them. 

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Get Ready for a Grassroots Poetry Slam

by Josh Davis
We are bombarded by the bad and the ugly with every morning’s headlines; sometimes you need to force your gaze onto the beautiful, the sublime, the poetic. Not to distract yourself from the horrors of the human condition, but to remind yourself of the radiance of the human soul and why it is worth struggling to empower.

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From Public Experiments to Field Formation: Lessons from Chicago Co-ops

Center for Community Wealth (Eventbrite) — Across the country, communities are testing new ways to take back control of the places they call home. Community ownership of real estate is a powerful and increasingly popular approach to keeping land and property affordable, preventing displacement, and building wealth that stays local. It’s also a pathway to advancing racial and health equity while deepening local democracy. In short, community ownership prioritizes collective opportunity, voice, and well-being over private profit....

Cooperatives, labour processes and the mobilization of the precarious

Academia.edu — This paper uses two different examples of cooperatives to reflect on what might drive and what might maintain worker cooperatives. The first example is an older cooperative project (Nova Amafrutas – NAF) for the supply of fruit from the Brazilian Amazon, the form it took and challenges it faced in developing and maintaining structures and worker commitment for a new enterprise (but one tied to global production). The second is the VIOME workers mobilization in Greece and the challenges workers faced to reestablish hands-on management and organizational commitment to a family run national firm/cluster (Philkeram) within the context of sector uncertainty...

Theorising the vulnerability of online mutual aid communities

Taylor & Francis — This study addresses that gap by examining how solidarity is enacted, contested, and framed through the interactions among users and the platform. It asks: How do the multifaceted interactions within an online mutual aid community – among givers, requesters, moderators, and the digital platform – affect its ability to sustain the ethos of solidarity it was founded upon?...

South Korean Law on Social Solidarity Economy Moves Forward

Maeli Business Newspaper — The Basic Law on Social Solidarity Economy, which includes the legal foundation for the activities of social solidarity economic organizations such as social enterprises and cooperatives and the establishment of a government-level support system, passed the bill review subcommittee of the National Assembly's Public Administration and Security Committee on the 24th.

How Ownership Actually Works in a Worker Cooperative

Worker ownership can sound deceptively simple: employees become owners (check!), decisions are shared (check!), wealth stays local (check!). But the reality is, successful worker cooperatives don’t emerge from paperwork or ritual alone. They are intentionally designed — shaped through hard governance choices, financial insecurity, and assumed shared expectations...

Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul

Rest of the World — From medieval monks who banned tools to weavers burning looms in the 17th century, people have long resisted technologies that they thought would take their jobs or otherwise hurt them. More recently, there has been a wave of resignations at frontier artificial intelligence companies, and opposition to data centers. What do past resistances have in common with current movements?

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This week, we talk to three of the people behind People's Plumbing, a worker co-op based in Cleveland that operates on a "gift economy" model. The co-op is proving that it's possible to run a business that doesn't bill its clients, focuses on meeting needs rather than maximizing revenue, and puts unconditional love at the center of all that they do. 

Then, members of the GEO Collective remember Len Krimerman and his contributions not only to our organization but to the worker cooperative movement.

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Building Community with the Gift of Plumbing

by GEO Collective
Josh talks to Cristobal, Wren, and Dayle — three of the people behind People's Plumbing, a worker cooperative operating on the Gift Economy model in Cleveland, OH. That's right, when People's Plumbing does a job, there is no bill to be paid at the end, just a participation form and a flushing toilet. Despite this unconventional model, the co-op has been successful for two years, is providing a living for multiple people, and looks to continue growing into the future.

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Memories of Len Krimerman from the Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective

by GEO Collective
Len was a prolific writer and thinker in GEO, analyzing what the movement needed, and bringing these points out with different coverage: stories, editorials, and news articles. He understood the power of story telling and chronicling the worker co-op, workplace democracy, and solidarity economy movements.

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Repair x Share Summit: Building a Care Economy

Repair X Reuse Washington — Join your colleagues in the repair, share, and reuse community from near and far for 2 days of inspiration, peer-learning, and conversation! A free online event...

Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age

Common Wealth — By the end of 2027 the government is required to renew the BBC’s Royal Charter, which will set the terms of how the BBC operates for the next decade. The Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, has said she supports mutualising the BBC, with new structures for “genuine public representation and participation”. This briefing explains how to transform the BBC into a new kind of institution: a public service mutual. Mutual organisations are run for the benefit of their members, and members are actively and directly involved in its operations...

Challenging the Degeneration Thesis

Academia.edu — This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resisting degeneration. More specifically it argues that ongoing processes of individual-collective alignment, understood as central to the practice of democracy, help cooperatives to balance varying and at times conlicting needs and aims, and challenge the assumptions underpinning the degeneration thesis..

Just Leadership Fellowship Application 2026

CoFED (Google Docs) — The Just Leader Fellowship is designed for individuals who identify or have background with QTBIPOC either personally or in the community and are land and food justice leaders and stewards - people between 18–30 years old who have lived experience in land stewardship, cooperative economics, food sovereignty, or movement ecosystem-building and have an emerging or nascent project ready for incubation inside of an 8-month container...

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Late last year GEO lost our last founding member, Len Krimerman. Len was a great educator, mentor, and cooperator who will be greatly missed by all who were blessed to know him. This week, his wife Marian writes about Len's six decades or work dedicated to the ideals of social and economic justice  (later this week we'll be sharing GEO members' reflections on Len's life and work).

Then, Najeeb VR writes about Asia's largest workers' cooperative, the Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society (ULCCS). Founded in 1925 in Kerala, India, the co-op today has expanded their scope from construction labor to housing, education, arts and crafts, tech, and materials testing and research. 

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Remembering Len Krimerman

by Marian Vitali
Where does one begin to honor Leonard Krimerman, whose life’s work spanned six decades. He was dedicated to ideals of social and economic justice, the importance of human dignity, and the power of people from all walks of life to develop democratic capacities in shaping their own education, workplaces, and governance.  He helped put these building blocks in place to nurture imagination and grow the dreams of many.

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The Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society

by Najeeb VR
From its origins amongst a group of labourers, ULCCS, located in a rural part of Malabar in northern Kerala, now constructs roads and bridges, buildings, and software systems. The cooperative’s commitment to social harmony and inclusion as well as worker cooperation has allowed it to succeed in areas of social production that are often challenging for cooperatives.

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Integrating Healing Justice into Worker Cooperative Counseling

Fordham Urban Law Journal — Unaddressed trauma among workers negatively impacts their experience in the workplace, including the cooperative workplace. While lawyers who counsel worker cooperatives may develop conflict resolution tools, they far less commonly provide resources for responding to worker trauma that can, and often does, lead to conflict in the first place. Trauma has become an increasingly pervasive topic in the post-COVID-19 workplace...

Trust as the mechanism of voluntary coordination at scale

Global Ecovillage Network — We often speak of trust as something that develops over time: as a reward for reliability or a product of shared experience. And right there is the challenge that every movement for economic transformation faces: this kind of trust is intimate. It forms in small circles, between people who have shared meals. Work done in council circles, in conflict resolution processes, in transparent governance, all of this is trust-infrastructure. The architecture on which anything else can be built. And yet the economic systems that are destroying the world operate on a planetary scale. How do we translate the deep trust of a small community into a force that can reorganize a civilization?...

Commoning in the Basque Country

Growing the Commons — Interview with Unai Gaztelu of Txirrin (pronounced 'chirrin') - a group looking to launch a housing commons project in the Basque country, but first, they're practising with bicycles and cars!..

The Spotify AI Blues

Mirlo Co-op — In 2023 some of the Mirlo founders wrote this think piece about the future of AI in music and how Spotify and others will use it. We're re-posting it because two and a half years later it has held up surprisingly well...

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This week, Megan McGee profiles a new media cooperative that's operating under an old name. When the writers for the newly reborn Gourmet Magazine noticed that publishing conglomerate Condé Nast had let the trademark on the shuttered masthead expire, they snapped it up and restarted the storied publication as a worker cooperative.

Then, Luis Razeto thinks through what would be required to achieve a democratic transformation of the market, and analyzes the theoretical and practical obstacles to that goal that cooperators will need to overcome.

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A Gourmet for the People

by Megan McGee
On choosing the co-op model for their startup, Dean says, “It was both ideological in that we believe in co-ops as a good thing to do in the world, and also functionally, it doesn't seem like there is any other way to make things work.” The outside-investor profit motive, he says, has made newspapers into little more than capitalist products of profit generation, and the business model of trying to extract extra money through things like ad revenue seems to him “destructive to the creation of information.

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 18

by Luis Razeto Migliaro; transl. by Matt Noyes
Even in capitalism, other categories are economically active: the State, cooperatives, unions, etc., just as in socialism there remain cooperative enterprises and spaces of private property. The decisive thing, though, is that in capitalism the ruling economic category is capital and in socialism it is the State, while the other factors remain subordinated, and it is this difference that defines them as distinct and opposed economic systems.)

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Women-owned co-op works to bring good food to all with pay-as-you-can model

City Beat — Big Table Farm Cooperative today announced its official formation as a producer co-op, a move designed to strengthen local agriculture through farm businesses banding together. Founded by a group of three women farmers, the co-op aims to offer fresh, seasonal local produce to its Cincinnati area farm subscription members through a democratically run, producer-owned business model, according to a press release...

Topia Coffee Co-Op Rebrands as Radical Bean Cooperative

Cincinnati Magazine — “We were changing the vision a little bit,” says Kennelly-Gaither. “The prices of the old pour-overs were too expensive for the area. Our focus being more community-driven, we felt that rebranding would help the community be reintroduced to us.”...“What we’re trying to do is create a third space that is realistically meeting the needs of the community as well as an affordable place,” Kennelly-Gaither says...

Building a solidarity economy, even in authoritarian times

Laura Flanders — The People’s Network for Land & Liberation consortium includes six community-based organizations that are doing politics and economics differently. That looks like a Black cooperatively-owned sea moss business in Atlanta, or a digital fabrication lab where people can 3-D print the things they need. “We can stop feeding the monster that’s consuming us, and actually disconnect from that process and use what we have,” says PNLL Network Member Blair Evans...

Review of 'Cooperatives in the Global Economy'

Academia.edu — After a foundational chapter on the meaning of cooperative enterprise and its distinction among the endless models and forms of economic activity, the rest of the book essentially looks at geographic profiles. Readers learn about the thriving cooperative movement in Tanzania, India, Philippines, Argentina, South Africa, Armenia, ‘Post-Yugoslav Space’ and others. Some of the chapter contributions are historical and qualitative, while others implement fresh quantitative research on a particular aspect of cooperative economics...

Co-ops: Pledge your commitment to labor neutrality

USFWC —  In 2025, the USFWC membership voted unanimously to endorse labor neutrality as a standard for the cooperative sector...Labor neutrality is when an employer commits to taking no position for or against their workers organizing and to voluntary recognize a labor union without requiring an election facilitated by a third party (commonly through a “card check” process)....We are now calling on USFWC members and the broader cooperative sector to take the next step and make a public commitment to labor neutrality in their organization. This is a call to action for all types of co-op businesses, nonprofits, support organizations, and networks alike. Pledges will be made publicly and listed on the USFWC’s website. By publicly committing to respect workers’ rights, we are proudly demonstrating the cooperative difference to workers and leaders across the US...

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