GEO vol. II, #6: Inter-cooperation is Key!

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Weaving the Fabric of Solidarity Economies: Examples from across the Americas

The theme for this issue is inter-cooperation - between cooperatives and between cooperatives and other institutions.

• Editor's introduction

Cooperative Economies & Economic Struggle in Latin America

• Working Together to Achieve Economic Success: Argentine printing cooperatives transform social networks into economic ones by Traci Kuratomi, Fulbright Fellow in Argentina
• Cooperation Across Borders: El Salvador's Las Colinas is Hosted by a New England Food Co-op by Len Krimerman, GEO collective member
• A Poor American in Cuba by Sonia Pichardo, GEO collective member

Intercooperation in the U.S.

• Mondragon and the US Steelworkers Partnership: an Update by Christina Clamp, GEO collective member
• Engaging and Encouraging Future Cooperators through Education by Anastasia Wilson and Mark Paul, majoring in Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass)

Cooperative Theory

• Abolish Human Rentals: Inalienable Rights Revived by Mike Lueng, www.AbolishHumanRentals.org

Calls to Action

• The Third International Encuentro: THE WORKERS' ECONOMY - Analyzing & Debating a New Economy from the Perspective of Workers & Self-management a conference to be convened in June 2011 in Mexico City

Get involved with GEO! If you have articles, pictures, or graphics on worker cooperatives and solidarity economics that you'd like to contribute, we want to hear from you.

GEO 6, vol. 2 - December, 2010 

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