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New Oakland Worker Cooperative Uses Profits to Create Jobs in Bay Area

Co-Soap Hopes Its Unique Business Model Will Spark Economic Growth and Justice.
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Mondragon and the US Steelworkers Partnership: an Update

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/584

By Christina Clamp, GEO collective member

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Co-ops and the Next Industrial Revolution...

In an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design...
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Mondragon Diaries: Day Five

Our first stop is another component allied with Mongragon University called SAIOLAN. It's an incubator project for helping to launch new coops and high-tech businesses as well as training new entrepreneurs.
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Mondragon Diaries: Day Three

Our topic this morning is the wider range of the cooperative movement, both in the Basque Country and Spain. Mondragon is a part of the Basque Cooperative Confederation. There are currently 755 cooperatives in the Basque Country, and only 80 of them are the worker-owned MCC coops. There are a total of 537,000 members of all the coops, but only 54,919 are worker members, and 37,860 of these are the MCC worker-owners. 

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Mondragon Diaries: Day Two

...As we left, many in our group were debating the pros and cons of global economic justice. I shared their concerns, but I also saw something else. Here was the beginnings of some of the most advanced productive forces in the world, the means of both economies of abundance and the means of clean and safe renewable energies and far lighter ecological footprints.
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Mondragon Diaries: Carl Davidson's Five Days Studying Cutting-Edge People and Tools for Change

I'm with a group of 25 social activists on a study tour organized by the Praxis Peace Project. Our focus is the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, a 50-year-old network of nearly 120 factories and agencies, involving nearly 100,000 workers in one way or another, and centered in the Basque Country but now spanning the globe. We're here to study the history of these unique worker-owned factories, how they work, why they have been successful, and how they might be expanded in various ways as instruments of social change.
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Senate committee holds hearing on employee ownership in Montpelier

Vermont Employee Ownership Center reports onthe field hearing of the Senate committee on Health, Education, Kabir, and Pensions (HELP) conerning worker-ownership legislation Sen Bernie Sanders has introduced.   http://www.veoc.org/hearing.html

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The John Logue ACE Award; other ACE Awards

The Association of Cooperative Educators established the John Logue ACE award at its 58th annual conference in Cleveland July27-30, 2010. Ohio Employee Ownership Center staff members, Bill McIntyre and Logue's wife, Olga Klepikova, talk about Logue's work, vision, "moxie" and his impact on Ohio and the U.S. Other ACE awardees for 2010 are also mentioned.
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Co-op Studies Go Global: The Master in Management - Cooperatives and Credit Unions

Permanent link to this article:  http://geo.coop/node/448

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