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20 May '13

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United States Co-operative Leaders share success stories with White House officials
One hundred and fifty co-operative leaders from across America will be meeting with top policy...
United States Prize Drawing Organized by Fairtrade America for WFTD
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United States Fairtrade America Names First CEO – Hans Theyer
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Global NewsSALVADOR - CITY TOURS PERSONALIZADOS

HoráriosSaída: 10:30h (manhã)Chegada: 16h (tarde)Pontos turísticos a serem visitados: Mercado Modelo, Igreja do Bonfim, Elevador Lacerda, Pelourinho, Dique do Tororó, Farol da Barra.R$ 55,00 por pessoa. Iformações: 73 8106 6068/9156 0474E-mail: cooperbomturismo@hotmail.com

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Global NewsStartup: Black Coffee Worker's Cooperative, Seattle

"Black Coffee is a worker’s cooperative recently formed with the intention to create a café space & infoshop in Seattle. We are still in the initial organizing ...

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Global NewsOperation Cooperation Promotes the IYC in Massachusetts

"Operation Cooperation is a 2012 initiative promoting the cooperative economy in greater Boston and across Massachusetts, and is encouraged by the UN’s designation of 2012 ...

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Global NewsMadison cooperatives offer an alternative to a system of haves and have-nots

From isthmus.com Protesters flood the street, chants and song punctuated by drumming and the low, steady honk of a tuba. Sign after sign decries the attack against nurses, ...

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SpainOccupy Salem Hosts Workshop on Building the Cooperative Economy

From WickedLocal.com Occupy Salem Free University will host the forum “Building a Cooperative Economy: From Mondragon to Massachusetts” on Monday, Jan. 30, at 7 p.m. at 217 ...

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Global NewsShop Co-op February Discount at Worker-owned Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco

San Francisco's 250-member Rainbow Grocery is continuing their cross-cooperative marketing that began last year.  Rainbow Grocery is proud to partner with local Bay Area ...

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Global NewsBig Co-op Conversations #3: Co-operative Trust Schools - Community partnerships for stronger public education

07 February 2012 Mervyn Wilson, Principal and CE of The Co-operative College UK in conversation with Walkley winner and business journalist, Anne Lampe. Mervyn Wilson, Principal and CE of The Co-operative College UK in conversation with Walkley winner and business journalist, Anne Lampe. Co-operative schools are a rapidly growing area of state education in the UK with over 150 state schools converted to multi-stakeholder co-op models and another 100+ in the ...

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Global NewsA Manifesto for Economic Democracy

A manifesto by Costas Panayotakis, Michael McCabe, Jan Rehmann, Sohnya Sayres, David Van Arsdale, and Richard D. Wolff.  When workforce and residential ...

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Global NewsTwo Presentations on Principles and Practices of Worker Cooperatives

From the archives of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center, two 2009 slide presentations. from ICA Group president Newell Lessell and from and Erbin Crowell (then of the ...

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United StatesDemocratic Worker Cooperatives: An Organizational Strategy Reconsidered for the 21st Century

Professor John Lawrence, a member of the Grassroots Economic Organizing collective, writes in Baltimore's Indypendent Reader in 2007.  During the industrial revolution in ...

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