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"Unfortunately not everybody's experience of cooperatives is positive. For Elle, their time in co-operatives was both transformative, but also painful, marred by classism that often goes unnamed."

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Classism in Cooperatives w/ Elle Glenny
YouTube video by workerscoop
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December 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"In 2024, rent for a three-bedroom apartment in the co-op was $828 a month, a very affordable price compared to the $1,687 for a much smaller one-bedroom apartment listed on kijiji.ca in the same city."

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Kijiji Canada
Visit Kijiji Classifieds to buy, sell, or trade almost anything! New and used items, cars, real estate, jobs, services, vacation rentals, and more virtually anywhere in Canada.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"The workers of Abundance Food Co-op in Rochester, New York recently voted to form a union with Workers United following a recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election."

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Food Co-op Staff Win Union Vote
These co-op workers voted to form a union with strong support from staff and leadership.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We just publised Chapter 13 of Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy, by Luis Razeto Migliaro, tranlated by Matt Noyes
#cooperatives #economics #SolidarityEconomy

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 13
The new approach that Razeto proposes here is made up not through federation of cooperative businesses but association of individuals in small groups or base communities. This is his movement-building...
geo.coop
December 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
GEO is in print for the first time in 18 years!

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December 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"Learn about the power of Los Angeles’s Measure ULA, New York City’s take on a shared services model, cooperation between conservationists and affordable housing development in New York’s Hudson Valley, and more."

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Fueling the Future of Community Ownership
This webinar, moderated by Shelterforce's Miriam Axel-Lute, caps off our most recent Under the Lens series “Innovations in Community Ownership.” Learn about the power of Los Angeles’s Measure ULA, New...
geo.coop
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Union Worker Cooperatives: Stronger Together 💪
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Union Worker Cooperatives: Stronger Together
YouTube video by Lisabeth Ryder
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November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Congratulations to the 2025 Cooperative Hall of Fame Inductees!
#Coops

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2025 Cooperative Hall of Fame Inductees
Four videos celebrating the life and works of this year's Cooperative Hall of Fame inductees.
geo.coop
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“We’ve kind of determined that our broad vision is to build grassroots networks of community care through group problem-solving, decision-making and action,” she said. “We’re trying to do this through two main ideas, which is mutual aid and assembly.”

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Local mutual aid group looks to strengthen community, reframe problem solving
Emily “Kimmy” Kim and Mary Ellen Wood have a shared vision to bring grassroots community networks to the Stanwood-Camano area.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
We just published Chapter 12 of Luis Razeto Migliaro's "Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy" (translated by our own Matt Noyes).
#Cooperatives #Economics

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 12
In this chapter, we emerge from the microeconomic analysis of equilibrium in the cooperative firm into a scene peopled with “extra-economic” figures like ethics, society, and politics.
geo.coop
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Kigro Recyclers is a new youth-led waste management cooperative in Nairobi, whose success demonstrates the worker cooperative model’s potential in Kenya and Africa for job creation, poverty reduction and environmental improvement."
#WorkerCoops #Kenya

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Kigro Recyclers Worker Cooperative, Nairobi, Kenya
YouTube video by Cooperativism at Work
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November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Building a Solidarity Economy: Miami Care Worker Cooperative
#Miami #WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy

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Building a Solidarity Economy: Miami Care Worker Cooperative
YouTube video by Miami Workers Center
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November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Listen to inspiring stories of housing co-ops overcoming challenges, building resilient communities, and shaping local economies."

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Inspiring Stories and Impact: Housing Co-ops and Beyond
YouTube video by Cooperative Maine Business Alliance
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November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?

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What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
Part 2 of our Sunday launch series introducing the Commons.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"With the US federal shutdown entering its second month, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund has set out its effort to support people suffering food insecurity..."

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Federation of Southern Co-ops sets out shutdown support measures
The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund has set out efforts to support people in food insecurity during the shutdown
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November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Local co-op and solidarity economy initiatives were in evidence at last month’s World Transformed festival...to strategise and organise around principles of socialist utopianism, creativity and collaboration."
#Cooperatives #SolidarityEconomy

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Co-ops looking to change the world, town by town
Report from the World Transformed festival in Manchester, which looked at social and solidarity economy initiatives
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November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"The 2025 issue of the World Cooperative Monitor report explores the economic and social impact of the largest cooperatives and mutuals worldwide, providing rankings of the Top 300, sector rankings, and employment data."

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World Cooperative Monitor 2025 edition | ICA Monitor
The 2025 issue of the World Cooperative Monitor report explores the economic and social impact of the largest cooperatives and mutuals worldwide, providing rankings of the Top 300, sector rankings, an...
monitor.coop
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Learn about the Westchester Cooperative Network is educating the public about worker co-ops and connecting budding cooperators with professional technical assistance providers (+ how Green Mountain Graphics converted to a worker co-op).
#WorkerCoops
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Westchester Cooperative Network: What Are Worker-Owned Cooperatives?
YouTube video by Progressive News Network
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November 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This interview with Delia Marx or Westchester Cooperative Network contains a short video on a worker co-op transition in Manhattan. If you need signs in NYC, call Green Mountain Graphics (now a worker co-op).
#WorkerCoops #CoopConversion

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The Westchester Cooperative Network
Chuck Bell interviews Delia Marx of Westchester Cooperative Network about the organization's work to promote the development of worker-owned cooperatives in Westchester, County, NY
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November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM