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22 May '12

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Global Newsfairtrade: Horacio Enrique Ruiz is a coffee farmer and...

Horacio Enrique Ruiz is a coffee farmer and president of the Fairtrade certified cooperative San Marqueña in Honduras. He had this to share with our followers. Members ...

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The OWS Screenprinters Cooperative has set up a print shop in the former Amalgamated Bank, owned by the United Federation of Teachers

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United StatesThe printing co-operative that emerged from Occupy Wall Street

This past week, the OWS Screenprinters Cooperative had a table set up at Hunter College’s Women’s Day Fair, screenprinting and selling tee-shirts, or as they call it ...

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Global NewsCheyenna Weber of SolidarityNYC on Occupying Workplace Democracy

Dru Oja Jay of the Media Co-op interviews Cheyenna Weber of SolidarityNYC on organizing, Occupy, and emergent worker cooperatives in New York City.  Part one: Cooperating ...

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PeruFinding Common Ground in Peru

This article first appeared in The Exchange on February 6, 2012. By Jessica Jones-Hughes, Equal Exchange Bananas You may have heard about food co-op general managers, employees, ...

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Global NewsTapeshwer Babu remembered

The 22nd death anniversary of freedom fighter and legendary leader of the Indian cooperative movement late Shri Tapeshwar Singh was observed in Delhi on Monday. His admirers had turned up in strength to remember and pay respects to their leader. A large number of people associated with the cooperative movement attended the function. His family members were also present on the occasion. The function began with paying of  floral tributes followed by a rendering of devotional songs. One of the ...

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Global NewsDigital Strategies

When ICA developed its plans for the 2012 International Year of Co-operatives, we knew that an important component would need to be our digital strategy. This results from the ...

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Mondragon’s Otalora Management and Co-operative Development Centre in the Basque region of Spain

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Global NewsVital stories bring together a world of co-operation

In harsh economic and political times, the Co-operative College has produced a book giving reasons for hope with authors Tony Webster, Linda Shaw and other academics.

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Global NewsPeter Watkins' Docudrama: La Commune, Paris 1871

As a tangental nod to the emergence of the Occupy protests and their spontaneous democratic structures, here's Peter Watkins' epic (5 hour) docudrama, popular education ensemble ...

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Global NewsAnticipate Members’ Needs to Get There First

Back in 1908, when Monsignor Pierre Hevey was setting up America’s first modern-day credit union in his Manchester, N.H. home, he probably wasn’t concerned with ...

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SpainFrom Adversity Comes Opportunity: Shareable in 2011

Create post In Shareable's second year, we investigated the challenges facing us all—the worldwide recession, increased control of the Internet, urban design problems, the changing economic and technological landscape for creators of all stripes, the decline of public spaces—and featured the people and organizations that are building a more cooperative and shareable world, from collaborative consumption entrepreneurs to innovative designers to the ...

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