Grassroots Poetry Slam! GEO is hosting a Poetry Slam for the Worker Co-op and Solidarity Economy movements on May 4th, 2026!

Join us for an evening of #Poetry and #Solidarity!

May 4th, 6 pm ET

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Creative Worker Cooperatives - 2026 BRIC Summit YouTube video by BRIC Foundation

Members of four #WorkerCoops in the creative industries talk about their co-ops at the 2026 BRIC Summit.

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The Antidote to Despair Is Finding our Role in Community Building Hyperlocal organizing, mutual aid and community care can help transform political despair into collective action.

"In my daily life and organizing, I encounter people of various ages and backgrounds who feel stuck or unsure of what to do in this America. That’s when I recall Mr. Rogers’ wise words: “Look for the helpers”..."

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Coop Exchange, a project to create co-op funding platform, is closing up shop after failing to raise £14 million.

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 19 The author’s task here is to explain the functioning of a democratic market and how market democratization, actual perfect competition, might be achieved in the face of monopoly, oligopoly, centraliza...

"The author’s task here is to explain the functioning of a democratic market and how market democratization, actual perfect competition, might be achieved in the face of monopoly, oligopoly, centralization, and other anti-competitive phenomena." ~Matt Noyes, translator

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HEIST is a worker-owned online magazine, founded by writers and editors who spent years in Berlin’s media landscape and felt something essential was missing.

Launching soon.

How to Resolve Conflict Cooperatively w/ Paul Kahawatte YouTube video by workerscoop

How to Resolve Conflict Cooperatively: An Interview with Paul Kahawatte

This month Punchcard’s guest is Paul Kahawatte, a member of Navigate and an experienced mediator working with communities, cooperatives, and social movements.

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Grassroots Poetry Slam! GEO is hosting a Poetry Slam for the Worker Co-op and Solidarity Economy movements on May 4th, 2026!

Building a democratic economy is hard work! Sometimes it's good to recharge with some uplifting art.

Join GEO for an evening of sharing poetry with our #Cooperative and #SolidarityEconomy comrades!

May 4th, 6 pm Eastern

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Our Weekly Newsletter is out!
#CreativeCommons #SolidarityEconomy #Cooperatives #Poetry

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We Asked Tax Experts Everything About Mutual Aid - Racket Does the IRS want a piece of your fundraising dollars? Here's what we know.

⚠️ Important info for US Mutual Aid groups!

We Asked Tax Experts Everything About Mutual Aid
#MutualAid #Taxes

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LONG READ: Shared platforms strengthen grassroots, mutual aid work – yet funders know little about them – Future of Good Non-profits and groups without charitable numbers often need to find a 'legal home' in a charity to access grant funding. Shared platforms are a solution.

Shared Platforms Strengthen Canadian Mutual Aid Efforts
#MutualAid #Canada

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Get Ready for a Grassroots Poetry Slam find a (relatively) short poem to share and bring it to our May 4th virtual Solidarity Economy Poetry Slam!

Get Ready for a Grassroots Poetry Slam! #Poetry

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From Public Experiments to Field Formation: Lessons from Chicago Co-ops Join us for the launch and discussion about the first case study from the COLA Lab detailing housing co-ops in Chicago

#Cooperative #Housing Webinar April 2nd

"Community ownership of real estate is a powerful and increasingly popular approach to keeping land and property affordable, preventing displacement, and building wealth that stays local."

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The Best Creative Commons License for the Solidarity Economy If we want to expand the solidarity economy by building the knowledge commons, the best license to use is CC BY-SA.

What's the best #CreativeCommons license for building the #SolidarityEconomy? Steve Herrick makes a case for CC BY-SA.

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This week's newsletter features an interview with a the People's Plumbing #WorkerCoop about gift economics, and memories of a founding member of GEO, Len Krimerman.

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Cooperatives, labour processes and the mobilisation of the precarious : From injustice to strategic positioning in a “global world”? textabstractCooperatives are often seen as an effective and participative way of mobilizing workers, especially in times of crisis. In recent years many organisations have advocated cooperatives as me...

Cooperatives, labour processes and the mobilization of the precarious – from injustice to strategic positioning in a “global world”?

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Memories of Len Krimerman from the Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective Members of Grassroots Economic Organizing share memories of our dearly departed co-founder, Len Krimerman.

Memories of Len Krimerman from the Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective

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Repair x Share Summit 2026: Building a Care Economy

"Join your colleagues in the repair, share, and reuse community from near and far for 2 days of inspiration, peer-learning, and conversation!"

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How to Run a Business on Unconditional Love | Interview with People's Pluming Worker Co-op YouTube video by Grassroots Economic Organizing

We talked to People's Plumbing of Cleveland, who are running their #WorkerCoop on a #GiftEconomy model!

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Our weekly newsletter is out!
#Cooperative #SolidarityEconomy

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Remembering Len Krimerman Len Krimerman, co-founder of Grassroots Economic Organizing, as well as many other things, passed away this last December. A beloved and hard-working comrade, he will be greatly missed by those he lea...

Remembering GEO co-founder Len Krimerman

"Len lived a rich and pioneering life as a community-engaged professor and a leading light of the worker democracy and grassroots economic cooperative movement."

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The Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society Today, the ULCCS is Asia’s largest workers’ cooperative, and it was ranked second in the 2021 World Cooperative Monitor list of industry and utilities cooperatives.

The Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society

"Today, the ULCCS is Asia’s largest workers’ cooperative, and it was ranked second in the 2021 World Cooperative Monitor list of industry and utilities cooperatives."
#Cooperatives #India #WorkeCoops

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Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy: Chapter 18 In this chapter, Luis Razeto identifies the key to the democratic transformation of the market – “the formation of a new social block, a subject of transformational action, the bearer of a new structu...

"In this chapter, Luis Razeto identifies the key to the democratic transformation of the market – 'the formation of a new social block, a subject of transformational action, the bearer of a new structure of social action'..."
#Cooperatives #SolidarityEconomy #Economics
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A Gourmet for the People How a group of food writers is reviving a legendary magazine as a worker-owned cooperative.

How five foodie journalists revived a famous magazine as a #WorkerCoop

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Factory Occupation In Italy: Laid-Off Workers Organise As A Cooperative And Want To Set Up Their Own Business In a kind of permanent works council, the workers at the GKN factory take turns in eight-hour shifts. Under the name “Collettivo di Fabbrica,” they are fighting to keep their jobs and for the climate-...

Laid-Off Workers Organise As A #Cooperative And Want To Set Up Their Own Business

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Topia Coffee Co-Op Rebrands as Radical Bean Cooperative - Cincinnati Magazine Even with a name change, this worker-owned coffee shop still puts community first.

Topia Coffee Co-Op Rebrands as Radical Bean Cooperative

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India's co-ops minister officially launches driver-owned Bharat Taxi Bharat Taxi, a platform co-op designed as a driver-owned alternative to the likes of Uber, was launched this month in New Delhi

"Bharat Taxi, a platform co-op designed as a driver-owned alternative to capital-extractive models like Uber, was launched this month in New Delhi...The platform is run as a multi-state co-op, with drivers...joining as members, shareholders and co-owners."

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Comic panels with two women discussing a tech course being offered by the Homeless Workers Movement (in Brazil).

Other Tech Worlds are Possible - via Brazil's Homeless Workers' Movement (MTST)

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Berlin’s Worker Co-op for Migrants & Cleaners w/ Rupay Dahm YouTube video by workerscoop

"Rupay is an employment lawyer in Germany, fighting for workers’ rights. Frustrated, working in a system rigged against workers, he sought out more empowering alternatives and discovered worker cooperatives."
#WorkerCoops

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The Sahya Tea Cooperative Designed to process 15,000 kg of green leaves per day, the Sahya Tea Cooperative generates employment for more than 150 workers, most of them recruited from the agricultural working class and peasantr...

Small tea producers in Kerala, India came together to create their own branding and facilities as a way to avoid exploitative corporate tea factories. Now they are thriving!
#Cooperative #Tea

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