cooperatives

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A cooperative (“coop“) or co-operative (“co-op“) is an autonomous association of people who voluntarily cooperate for their mutual social, economic, and cultural benefit. Cooperatives include non-profit community organizations and businesses that are owned and managed by the people who use their services (a consumer cooperative) or by the people who work there (a worker cooperative) or by the people who live there (a housing cooperative), hybrids such as worker cooperatives that are also consumer cooperatives or credit unions, multi-stakeholder cooperatives such as those that bring together civil society and local actors to deliver community needs, and second and third tier cooperatives whose members are other cooperatives.

_____________ diy downtown investment coop (sounds like Heather‘s thinking) http://ilsr.org/do-it-yourselves-downtown-investment-cooperative-model/ ______________ haven’t watched this.. posted on fb by david h – watch this video to learn how to start a worker coop: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3042716/change-generation/watch-this-video-to-learn-how-to-start-a-worker-cooperative?partner=rss ______________ feb 2015 – 3 fold economy in Rojava – coops http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php/kurdistan/west-kurdistan/rojava-s-threefold-economy.html

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______________ Michel Bauwens (@mbauwens) 3/3/15 7:00 AM Young people are setting up workers’ co-operatives to fight against inequality | Gabriel Bristow The Guardian ow.ly/JS1zB ______________ great.. but today we have the means to go beyond work.. for pay.. we have the means to let go of money.. so why not change beyond a system/coop.. that continues to measure/validate transactions/people.. et al ________________

we are not an alternative to capitalism, we are in capitalism’ is a very good one sentence answer to the question of workers co-ops within capitalist society. Shame AJ+ social media person can’t get anarcho-communist the right way ’round. https://t.co/Djd9DMYx0P Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1307983505390010368

didn’t read article.. just like the statement.. coop.. ness.. not something different.. we need a legit alt _______________ from murray bookchin‘s toward an eco society:

61 do factories, mines and large scale agri enterprises become domains of freedom because their operations are now managed by workers’ collective.. by eliminating econ exploitation have we actually eliminated social domination.. by removing class rule have we removed hierarchical rule.. to state this issue bluntly: can present day technics remain substantially the way it is while the men/women who operate it are expected to undergo significant transformation as human beings?

huge to why ie: cooperatives and platform coop ness et al.. not enough.. still sea world.. any form of m\a\p keeps us chained there ______________ ________________ platform coops commons city ness

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