GEO_Collective

GEO_Collective, 25 days ago to music

:TwinPines: Here's our interview with @arod of Mirlo, a #cooperative platform for musicians and music lovers.
#WorkerCoops #Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjumzWRTR7U

GEO_Collective, 1 month ago to cooperatives

:TwinPines: "People do not know about cooperatives because of two things. First, a lack of information concerning cooperation, and second, the fact that its principles are opposed to privilege. Cooperatives have two things working against them; ignorance and selfishness." ~James Peter Warbasse (quoted by Cathy Statz).
#cooperatives #coops

https://geo.coop/articles/cathy-statz-education-director-wisconsin-farmers-union

GEO_Collective, 2 months ago to cooperatives

:TwinPines: Should #Cooperatives Aim for Growth?

"Internal growth is not an absolute and universal imperative for entities in the SSE. There is an appropriate size for every market and every business model. Internal upsizing may sometimes be needed, as is the case with many small worker cooperatives or large supply cooperatives (energy, telecommunications, credit, etc.), while in other instances it is merely an option, and an often dangerous one at that."

https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/should-cooperatives-aim-for-growth/

GEO_Collective, 4 months ago to random

Commons and Commoning: A Progressive Vision of a Good Society - an address by David Bollier at the Oxford Real Farming Conference.

https://geo.coop/articles/commons-and-commoning-progressive-vision-good-society

GEO_Collective, 4 months ago to random

:TwinPines: Inside Igalia: Scaling a Co-op Beyond 100 Members

Igalia is a tech co-op with 140 members living all over the world. Everyone makes an equal wage, no one is a boss or manager, and the goal is for everyone to be a partner. Also they've been in business for 22 years. How do they do it? Find out in this great talk by Valerie Young. [video with transcript]

https://geo.coop/articles/scaling-co-op-beyond-100-members

GEO_Collective, 4 months ago to Venezuela

:TwinPines: Voices from #Venezuela's Indorca Cooperative
#WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy #Socialism

"Worker control goes against the grain and questions the logic of capital. It teaches society that workers not only produce value, but can also run a factory. Here, at Indorca, we have collectively identified five obstacles shared by all worker-run enterprises..." ~Jose Cedeño, Indorca

https://geo.coop/articles/worker-control-capitalist-environment-voices-indorca-part-ii

GEO_Collective, 5 months ago to random

:TwinPines: Italian car workers fight for alternative green production plan

Workers at an Italian car parts factory that the multinational GKN corporation closed have launched an international appeal to support their idea to start a co-op producing cargo bikes and solar panels.
#Coops #SolidarityEconomy

https://anticapitalistresistance.org/italian-car-workers-fight-for-alternative-green-production-plan/

GEO_Collective, 5 months ago to random

:TwinPines: Thinking of starting a #WorkerCoop? Here's a good place to start to get your head around the business aspects (shout out to CWCF for making this excellent series!)

https://geo.coop/articles/steps-starting-worker-co-op

GEO_Collective, 6 months ago to cooperatives

:TwinPines: 75% of Canadians say they'd rather do business with #Cooperatives than with investor-owned businesses.
#CoopAdvantage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVgOdU6QWRI

GEO_Collective, 7 months ago to random

Hello Fedi! Glad to finally be here! 🥳

:TwinPines: Grassroots Economic Organizing is a collective of #cooperative educators, advocates, developers, and practitioners. We created the first directory of #WorkerCoops in the US (An Economy of Hope), were founding members of the Eastern Conf. for Workplace Democracy and the US Federation of Worker Co-ops. :TwinPines:

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