This week, the Maine Cooperative Business Alliance wraps up its three part series on housing co-ops with stories from Maine housing co-ops about how they have gotten over the inevitable hurdles to create successful cooperatives (and in one case a community land trust).
Then Kenzie Love writes about Ludovic Viger's new book, The Great Canadian Reset. Viger sees co-ops, and worker co-ops specifically, as an answer to many of the interlocking economic, political, and environmental crises that Canadians are now facing.Â
Inspiring Stories and Impact: Housing Co-ops and Beyond
by Cooperative Maine Business Alliance
Listen to inspiring stories of housing co-ops overcoming challenges, building resilient communities, and shaping local economies. This session zooms out to explore how co-ops fit into the broader landscape of affordable housing and solidarity economy movements.Â
Ludovic Viger Envisions a Co-operative Reset for Canada
by Kenzie Love
Worker co-ops play a key role in Viger’s vision for the future, based on their track record of resilience in tough economic times, egalitarian structure, and ability to appeal across the political spectrum, based on the control it offers members over their own labour.
Federation of Southern Co-ops sets out shutdown support measures
Co-op News — With the US federal shutdown entering its second month, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund has set out its effort to support people suffering food insecurity...The Federation has pointed to the ”urgency” of the situation and its impact on programmes like SNAP, “which millions depend on for food access”, and says it has “built infrastructure to address crises like this”...
Cooperative leaders unveil manifesto for new global economy at Doha Summit
Vulcan Post — A global network of cooperative and mutual leaders launched at the World Summit for Social Development – and its first action was to publish a Contract for a New Global Economy...
Building a Solidarity Economy: Miami Care Worker Cooperative
Miami Workers Center (YouTube) — Miami Workers Center is in process of developing a care worker cooperative, and collaborating with workers to define a truly democratic, entrepreneurial and community-driven economy that centers workers’ voices, grows worker wealth, and builds worker power in Miami-Dade...
World Cooperative Monitor 2025 edition
World Cooperative Monitor — The 2025 issue of the World Cooperative Monitor report explores the economic and social impact of the largest cooperatives and mutuals worldwide, providing rankings of the Top 300, sector rankings, and employment data. The World Cooperative Monitor is produced by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) with the scientific and technical support of the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (EURICSE)...
Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town
Co-op News — Local co-op and solidarity economy initiatives were in evidence at last month’s World Transformed festival, which gathered more 3,000 people from left-wing movements to strategise and organise around principles of socialist utopianism, creativity and collaboration...
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
Growing the Commons — If the Commons is such a compelling alternative, why is it still so marginal in public discourse? Ask around, and you’ll likely get one of three reactions:...
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