Issue 69: Cooperative Organizing From Coast To Coast
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CONNECTIONS CO-OPERATIVE: NOT YOUR ORDINARY TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICE by Hana Tauber
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MOVING FORWARD NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY by Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo and Ajamu Nangwaya
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GREEN WORKER COOPERATIVES The Future Green Republic of the South Bronx
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WESTERN WORKER COOPERATIVES CONFRONT CHANGE by Andrew McCloud
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CONNECTING WOMEN AND GLOBALIZATION by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone
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WORKER COOPERATIVE TRENDS IN N. AMERICA & EUROPE by Trent Craddock and Sarah Kennedy
Issue 68: Celebrating the 3rd Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy
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INTRODUCTION
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100 ATTEND CONFERENCE AT SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY By Jessica Gordon Nembhard
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WILLIAM GREIDER, THE ECWD KEYNOTE SPEAKER The Time Has Come for Workplace Democracy
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U.S. FEDERATION OF WORKER COOPERATIVES ANNUAL REPORT, 2005 GEO Special Report
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THE ECONOMY OF HOPE: BUILDING A NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY By Ethan Miller
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LONG ISLAND BUILDERS' CO-OP: WHERE TIME IS MONEY AND WORKERS ARE CAPITALISTS By Melissa Daniels
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EMPLOYEES BUY OUT NYC FRENCH RESTAURANT By John W. Lawrence and Ken Estey
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FIRE THE BOSS: RECUPERATED FACTORY WORKERS AND UNEMPLOYED WORKER MOVEMENTS IN ARGENTINA TO SHARE EXPERIENCES WITH WORKERS IN NORTH AMERICA Edited by Ajowa Ifateyo
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CO-OP RESPONSES TO KATRINA by Jane Livingston
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHERE TO SEND MONEY TO HURRICANE VICTIMS
Issue 67: Cooperative Growth Grows and Deepens, but towards what?
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INTRODUCTION
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BUILDING AN "AMERICA BEYOND CAPITALISM" Len Krimerman interviews Gar Alperovitz on his message to workplace pioneers in his new book.
NASCO section:
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LET THE COOPERATIVE COLLABORATION BEGIN! intro by Len Krimerman
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REFLECTIONS ON A COOPERATIVE JOURNEY WITHIN NASCO Steven Kelly
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PROPOSAL FOR NASCO-WORKER CO-OP JOINT MEMBERSHIP Steven Kelly
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SUMMER ACTION CAMP IN CALIFORNIA Steven Kelly
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COOPERATIVE FUND OF NEW ENGLAND CELEBRATES BEST YEAR EVER
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RIOTFOLK: "MAKING FOLK MUSIC A THREAT AGAIN!" Ethan Miller
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EQUAL EXCHANGE SWEETENS FAIR TRADE
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NO BOSSES HERE: MAY DAY BOOKS, NYC John Korber
Issue 66: Boycotts, Barter Clubs, Women's Collectives...
Paths of Promise to a World of Our Making
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INTRODUCTION
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EDITORIAL
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WAGING PEACE WITH OUR DOLLARS: BOYCOTT WAR PROFITEERS By Paul Rockwell (Condensed by GEO editors) CommonDreams.org
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BRAZIL’S GROWING BARTER GROUPS By Heloisa Primavera (condensed by GEO editors)
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WAGING PEACE WITH OUR DOLLARS: FAIR TRADE AND COOPERATIVES By John W. Lawrence
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LABOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP (GEO SPECIAL SDECTION: U.S. FEDERATION OF WORKER CO-OPS) by Ajamu Nangwaya*
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THE CASCADIA COLLECTIVE CONFERENCE (GEO SPECIAL SECTION: U.S. FEDERATION OF WORKER CO-OPS) by Ethan Miller
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The COOPERATIVE POWER OF WOMEN by Holly Yasui, Center for Global Justice
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BUY COOP: SHOPPING FOR A BETTER WORLD By Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone*
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WAGING PEACE WITH OUR DOLLARS:
BUY LESS, BUY LOCAL!
Issue 64-65: This is What Democracy Looks Like!
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The Elections Are Over, But Take
Heart…Grassroots Democracy Is Alive & Well! by Betsy Bowman
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Globalization with a human face: In Nicaragua, Worker Co-ops Triumph by Michael Woodard
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YouthGROW (Growing and Raising Organics in Worcester)
A Local Food System Grows an Alternative Economy by Matt Feinstein, YouthGROW
[print] Why the ‘Local Multiplier Effect’ Always Counts by Tricia Truit, Earth and Sky Collective
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Democracy Schools: On the path to ‘Consent of the Governed’by Adam D. Sacks
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Reclaiming Public Revenues: Brazil’s Participatory Budgetby Gianpaolo Baiocchi, University of Massachusetts, and Len Krimerman, GEO Newsletter
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Special Section -- US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Issue 63: Youth Organize!
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Knowing Rights from Wrong in India by Uchengamma
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NASCO and the Cooperative Education and Training Institute
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Summerhill: Is the Oldest School Based on Children's Rights a Cooperative Community? by Michael Newman
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The Barrington Collective: What Happens when "Cooperation among Co-ops" meets "Concern for Community" by Anjanette Bunce
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Her Today, GHANA Tomorrow by Dannie Danger
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Play Mountain Place: A Problem-Solving Place for Children and Families by Michelle Weiner Woolner
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"Other Economies are Possible": A Report from the Boston Social Forum by Ethan Miller
Issue 62: A National Federation, Part II
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Reawakening the Dream by Len Krimerman
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Land, Freedom and Cooperation! by Betsy Bowman
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(Co-) Operating from the Center of the Heart by Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo
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Childcare that Works for Everyone by Elayne Bender
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US Federation of Worker Co-ops and Democratic Workplaces by Livingston and Nembhard
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Discovering Workplace Democracy by Shirley F. Grigsby
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Worker Co-ops on the World Stage by Len Krimerman
Issue 61: A National Federation of Democratic Workplaces
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A Proposal: Let GEO Be the USFDW'S Print Newsletter
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Open Enterprise Cooperative: A Business With a Unique Message by Ajowa Ifateyo
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Possible Directions for the New Federation Abe Karl-Gruswitz Interviews Co-op Activists
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World Declaration on Cooperative Worker Ownership [excerpt]
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A National Federation of Democratic Workplaces Can Lay The Foundation for Historic Change by Gar Alperovitz
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A Cooperative Manifesto by Tim Huet
Issue 60: New Forms of Global-Wide Cooperation
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NYC Restaurant Opportunities Center by Fekkak Mamdou
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Loyalty Management by Daniel Côté
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Youth Empowerment Fuels Renewal in Tuzla, Bosnia by Monika Kleck
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On the Razor's Edge: Organize at all levels or Risk Extinction by Bruno Roelants
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A Week at the World Social Forum: Where are the Co-op Activists? by Isaac Ashton
Issue 59: The Many Faces of Grassroots Cooperation
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Introduction: Grassroots Cooperation
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The Kallari Handcraft Cooperative of Ecuador by Luci Latina Fernandes
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Building Genuine Campus-Community Partnerships by Mary Bombardier and Kiara Nagel
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Global Roundup: Building a Cooperative World
Issue 58: Workplace Democracy in the U.S.
[print] Another Successful Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy by John Lawrence
[print] Democratic Values and Accountability by Carol Haack, Susan Bob and Stephen Prieston
[print] Collective Copies Celebrates 20 Years! by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
[print] excerpt from: "Collective Copies: An Exercise in Workplace Democracy by Benjamin Turner
[print] The Madison Post-Capitalist business Association
[print] Cooperatives as a form of Socially Responsible Business by Tim Huet
[print] NCBA tells Congress: "Worker Co-ops Need Capital, Development Resources" by Richard Dines
[print] "Top Down vs. Bottom Up": Time to Reframe the debate? by Len Krimerman
[print] Time to Reframe the Debate: Make the Solution a Cross-Border One! by Bob Stone
Issue 57: Alternative Economy Networks
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Internet and Democracy by Michael W. Howard
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Mararikulam Experiment: Women-Owned Co-ops in Kerala, India by
Richard W. Franke
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First Midwest Worker Cooperative Conference by Jessica Gordon
Nembhard
[print] New
Orlean's Alternative Economy by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone
[print] The
Co-op Advantage: A Promising Tale in th U.K. by
Len Krimerman
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Youth Run Their Own Fair Trade Cooperatives by Kevin
McGrother
Issue
56: The Social and Solidarity Economy
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Argentina's Struggle: New Solidarity Economy Resists Corporate Globalization by
Bob Stone
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Resurgent World Organization of Producer Co-ops: CICOPA by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone
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Solidarity Economies and Cooperatives
by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone
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Europe's "Social and Solidarity Economy"
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The Global Cooperative Commonwealth
by Betsy Bowman
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A Plan to Bring Youth and Cooperatives Together by Jö:rn Hammerstrand
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The Impending War on Iraq: An Attack on Peace, Democracy and Security
by John W. Lawrence
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Statist vs. Solidarity Strategies in Latin America
by Bob Stone
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Is the Time Ripe for Creative Insurgency?
by Len Krimerman
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What is the "Social Forum" Movement?
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Underground Summits?
by Len Krimerman
Issue 55: Advancing the Cooperative Movement
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Moving Towards a National Worker Co-op Federation by Frank Lindenfeld
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A Proposal for a US Worker Co-op Federation
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A Report on the 2002 Western Worker Cooperative Conference
by Paul Fairchild
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Some Possible Elements of a Leadership Development Program
by Tim Huet
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Imagining a Cooperative Revolution with NASCO
by T.J. Lehman
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When Does a Proposal Reflect Group Consensus?
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Gung Ho in China
by Bob Ware
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Mapping Cooperative Studies in the New Millennium
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Letter from Tom Anderson - Self Directed IRAs
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Letter from Bill Ellis - Creating Learning Communities
Issue 53-54: Education for Economic Democracy
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The
UMass Student-RunBusinesses: A Community of Learning by David A. Lambert
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Education for Economic Democracy by Christina A. Clamp
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Education for and by Worker-Owners: The Vision of Frank Adams
by Bill Caspary
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Education for a People-Centered Democratic Economy
by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
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Report back from the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy
by John W. Lawrence
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History of the Oberlin Student Cooperative Association abridged from the OSCA website
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Book Review - Free Schools, Free People: Education and Democracy after the 1960's by
Ron Miller Reviewed by Frank Lindenfeld
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Book Review - After Capitalism: From Managerialism to Workplace Democracy by
Seymour Melman Reviewed by Bob Stone
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Letter
from Ken Freeland
Issue 52: Corporate Globalization, Peace, Sweatshops:
Connecting the Struggles
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Connecting
the Struggles by GEO Editors
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Discordant Reflections by Len Krimerman
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Cooperatives and Peace Activism
by Ken Estey
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A Global Non-Violent Peace Force
by Kate Rope
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TeamX:
A Worker Co-op Joins the Fight Against the Sweatshop Apparel Industry
by John W. Lawrence
Issue 51: From Enterprise Facilitation to Grassroots Globalization
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A
Different World is Possible by GEO Editors
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Enterprise Facilitation in Northeast Oregon by Peter Donovan
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Canada Funds Co-op Sector Initiative
by Brenda Heald
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Book Review:Sirolli's Ripples
from the Zambezi
by Peter Donovan
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Democratic Worker Co-ops and the Struggle for Economic Democracy
by John W. Lawrence
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Community
Based Solutions for a Sustainable, Democratic Future by Aaron G. Lehmer
Issue 50: Worker Ownership Worldwide and at Home: Constructive Responses
to Terrorism and Global Militarism
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What
Happens to Successful Cooperatives in Capitalist Globalization? by
Holm-Detlev Köhler
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Employee-Owned Companies in Eastern Europe, After Ten Years of Privatization by Iraj Hashi
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Self-Management in Sweden?
by Jöern Hammarstand
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IIS,
2002: in Teeside, England- on Community Informatics
by Pat Cook
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The Continuing Relevance of Social Ownership and Equality: A Reply to David Ellerman
by Michael W. Howard
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USAs
Only Worker Co-op Conference sets Participation Record by Bob Stone
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Flash! Eastern Conference of Democratic Firms! by
Bob Stone
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Shaping Our Future! The Tenth Annual Conference of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation by Blair Hamilton
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Worker
Co-ops Cooperate Globally: International Worker Cooperative Association
Issue 49: Cooperatives as a Response to Terrorism
Available as pdf only. Requires Acrobat Reader. Issue49.pdf
Issue
48: Inter-CooperationYouth and Student Style
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INTER-COOPERATIONYOUTH
AND STUDENT STYLE
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Responding to the September 11 Tragedy by Len Krimerman
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A
Different Teacher Training CollegeDenmarks DNS
by Beth Coleman
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Four kinds of Intercooperation among Cooperatives
by Bob Stone
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Youth Adelantando
by Jesse Gates-Chinoy
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Helping Graduates Launch Careers of Contribution by Melissa Everett
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Building
New Coalitions for a Democratic Economy by
Mike Prokosch
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Maine Passes Anti-Sweatshop Purchasing Bill
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Quebec Protests and Beyond: An Introduction
by Beth Coleman
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Quebec Protests: A Report from the Streets
by Roger Benham
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Decline
of Self Management in Yugoslavia: A Report on the May 2001 Conference of
the IIS in Dubrovnik
by Michael Howard
Issue 47: The New Paradigm Project
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The New Paradigm Project: Introduction
moderated by Jonathan Michael Feldman and Jessica Gordon Nembhard
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1. The Need for and Objectives of Economic Democracy
by Shipp, Engelen, and Ellerman
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2. Strategies for Supporting Cooperatives and Economic Democracy
by Krimerman, Pestoff, Emspak, and Benner
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3. Constraints on Economic Democracy by
DeFillipis, Széll, Feldman, and Nembhard
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4. Case Studies in Economic Democracy and Cooperative Economics by Hill, Mackin, Haynes, and Clamp
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NPP: Principle Researchers and Followup Information
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Related Publications and Organizations
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GEO
Plans On-Line Clearinghouse for Cooperative E-Commerce
by Alex Pukinskis
Unpublished Articles
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Citizen Ownership: A multi-stakeholder system that goes
beyond worker co-ops by A.D. Rowland
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A Contribution to the Forum on Cooperative Theory by Ken Freeland
Issue 46: Focus on Youth
Food from the 'Hood
by Haydee Vicedo
Training for Democracy
by Andrew McLeod
Youth Organizing Comes of Age
by Bill Alexander
Co-ops for Older Workers on the Rise in Japan by Richard Evanoff
Issue 45: Globalization from Below
Equal Exchange and Fair Trade Coffee
by Bob Stone.
Democratic Decision Making: Attentive Listening
by Bill Caspary.
Michael Howard, Self-Management and the Crisis of Socialism: The Rose in
the Fist of the Present.
Reviewed by Ken Estey
Building New Coalitions for a Democratic Economy: The Local Faces of Anti-(Corporate) Globalization
by Mike Prokosch
Finding Funding
Fundraising for the Long Haul and Guide to Proposal Writing
Reviewed by Frank Lindenfeld
Farmer Co-ops and the WTO
by Lynn Benander and Jane Livingston
Issue 44: Democracy within Co-ops
Democracy Makes Us Powerful
Count us In! An interim report on subscriber Responses
to GEOs survey and makeover plans
compiled by Len Krimerman
We Are All Leaders! Democratic leadership makes us more powerful
by Bill Caspary
Making Decisions Together: Collective Copies, a worker owned, union copy shop by Matt Grillo
Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc: A democratic ESOP
by Bill Caspary
Western Massachusetts Co-ops Form Network: Formation of the Valley Cooperative Network
by Matt Grillo
Co-op Solidarity Through Intercooperation
by Jenny Silverman
Mondragon and Valencia - Coops in the Global Economy
by David Freeburg
Bill Caspary,Dewey on Democracy
Reviewed by Len Krimerman
Related Articles
Australia.
Looting the Mutuals: The Ethics and Economics of Demutualisation
by Race Mathews
Australia.
Credit Unions in the New Millennium: A Paper Delivered at the Credit Union Historical Co-operative
Convention Dinner
by Race Mathews
USA.
What's a Co-op? Focus on Democratic ESOP's.
Restructuring
for the Long Term: South Mountain Company on Marthas Vineyard and Big
Timberworks, Inc. in Montana
by John Abrams and Merle Adams.
Issue 43: Intercooperation
The Scope of Canadian Co-ops
Intercooperation is Alive and Well in the Bay Area!
Intercooperation News from the Boston and Pioneer
Valley Areas
Worker Ownership and Co-Management at Algoma Steel in
Sault St. Marie, Canada
Canada's Government Funds Job Creation by Worker Co-ops
Democracy in the Workplace: Three Worker-Owned Businesses
in Action, a video
Sherbrooke Declaration from the Proceedings
of Global Meetings on Community Economic Development
Issue 42: Focus on Cuba
Co-operative Development in Cuba: Many
Questionmarks
La Guinera: A Model of Participatory Community Development
Organic Vegetable Farms Bloom in Havana
A Visit to One of Cuba's Democratic Sugar
Cane Cooperatives
Prijateljice-Humanitarian Aid and Economic Recovery in Bosnia
and Herzegovina
BUY CO-OP, BOYCOTT MULTI-NATIONALS
Book Review: People´s Power: Cuba´s Experience
with Representative
Government
Book Review: Cooperation Works!
Mexico City: The Hard Road From Successful Strike To
Successful
Cooperative
Mexico City: The T.U.Y.O. Cooperative
Over The Rainbow in Hungary-The Cooperative and Ecological
Work of Geza
Varga
Voices from the Ground: South African Cooperatives
Russian Workers Protest Movements
Forum on the Development of a Usable Theory
of
Cooperative Socio-Economics
Cooperatives as a Socio-Economic Alternative to the Mainsteam:
Are We Ready? by Jacques Kaswan
TheoryYes, What Sort of
Theory by Bill Caspary
Let's Make Cooperative
Theory by TalkingTo One Another! by Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone
And What Did Theory Ever Do for
Us? by Len Krimerman
"Cooperative Theory" Dialogue
Continues by Jacques Kaswan
First Things FirstJoins in
the dialogue by Ken Freeland
Education for Economic Democracy
An Invisible Revolution? Study Circles and the Renewal
of Democracy by Len Krimerman
Education for Cooperative Ownershipat UC Berkeley by Deb Goldberg Gray
Vision and Strategy
Beth Raps' Cooparcana: My Vison of the World
EconomyDreamtime of the Transitional Future
Cooperatives as a Socioeconomic Alternative to the Mainstream:
Are We
Ready? by Jacques Kaswan
Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Local
Age by Michael Shuman
Building
Bridges to the High Road by Dan Swinney
From Our Editors
My Vision for Economic Democracyby Frank Lindenfeld
Interview with Len
Krimerman: Building a Democratic Economy and Culture
Urban Agriculture
City Farms: The Big Apple's City-Wide Network of UrbanFood
Producers
Five food-related organizations collaborate to grow food for donation to
emergency food providers. Pilot gardens are hoped to be demonstation sites
and will ultimately produce food for cash as well as donation.
Food, Poverty, and Empowerment: Holyoke's Nuestres Raices
Holyoke's Puerto Rican community now hosts 4 community gardens, a youth program,
and more, thanks to Nuestres Raices and community support.
Nueva Esperanza (New Hope)
A fifteen year old community based organization renovates housing, coordinates
education, and plan economic development projects.
The Seattle Youth Gardenworks
This 2 year old organization employs homeless youth as well as "at risk" youth.
Participants may become eligible to be shareholders.
Cooperatives Around the World
Credit Unions and Demutualization in Australia by Race
Matthews
This article is about why and how demutualisation threatens to destroy Australia's
credit unions and what can be done about it. Credit unions are a lot like dinosaurs
grazing on prehistoric grasslands shortly before the impact of the asteroid
which wiped them out. The difference is that there is still time for their
extinction to be averted.
Italian Social Cooperatives by Wilda Vanek
Relief for the financial strain on the national system of social welfare
has been found in Italy
through an innovative new form of cooperative.
Chac Lol Cooperative: A Red Flower Bloom in the Yucatan by
Betsy Bowman
A Mondragon-type cooperative of Mayan peasants which makes corn tortillas.
Working on the Good Life at Twin Oaks Community by a Twin Oaks member
How labor is managed at this long-time American cooperative community
Tim Huet on Mondragon Tim Huet, director of The Center
for Democratic Solutions, shares the full report of his visit to Mondragon. The
New Cooperativism in Cuba
William Waterman on his experiences visiting Cuba cooperatives.
The Worker Cooperative: A Vehicle for Economic Development
John Cline reporting on his survey of 407 Canadian and U.S. worker cooperatives.
Raising Capital for Co-ops by Guy Major
Describing his plan for Non-voting Value-added Residual Sharing Renewable
Shares