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22 May '13

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Global NewsUpstate New York Cooperatives Summit to be held March 31st

In celebration of the United Nation's 2012 declaration of the International Year of the Cooperative, we are organizing a summit of Upstate New York cooperatives - banking, ...

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Global News“Should Hired Labor Plantations Be Included in Fair Trade?” Webinar Coming February 14

Fair Trade Resource Network (FTRN) announces that Webinar #121 is coming February 14 to help inform a major issue in Fair Trade’s direction, “Should Hired Labor Plantations Be Included in Fair Trade?” The webinar is for the public to discuss implications and ask questions to 2 panelists: - Ed Canty, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Fair Trade Organic Coffee Buyer - Rodney North, Equal Exchange, The Answer Man – Information for the Public & ...

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Global News Big Idea Café in Pittsburgh Seeking Expansion Capital

The Big Idea Cooperative Bookstore and Cafe in Pittsburgh, which will celebrate its 11th anniversary this year, has expanded, growing into a bigger space and working to open a ...

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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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IndiaCoop movement can solve rural problems: Kalam

India needs to focus on rapid development of villages by providing   urban amenities in rural areas to become a developed nation by 2020, former President A P J Abdul Kalam said in here today in the capital while addressing the second global agri-business incubation conference. Small land holdings hamper farm growth in India and this problem can be remedied through the cooperative movement. The latter can help in mechanization of farms and marketing of agro-products, Dr. Kalam added. The ...

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Global NewsCooperation Texas Relaunches Cooperative Business Institute

The Cooperative Business Institute (CBI) is a comprehensive training program designed to equip participants with the skills and resources needed to establish and manage a ...

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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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Global NewsHaryana: Recovery of cooperative loans

Haryana contemplates introducing a new system for recovery of cooperative loan , Cooperation  Minister Satpal Sangwan said today in Chandigarh. The Cooperative banks excelling in the recovery of loans will be rewarded, Mr Sangwan said after laying the foundation-stone of a building of the Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank in Bhiwani in Haryana. The interest relief scheme for those who repay their loans regularly has been extended up to March 31, 2015, the minister ...

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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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