The Co-operative Movement
- www.hamiltonnolan.com Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry
An organizer explains how to make drivers cooperatives a reality.
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Free Webinar: Embracing Uncertainty through Participation
My worker coop, Round Sky Solutions, is offering this free webinar: Embracing Uncertainty through Participation. Come learn meeting frameworks to support your team and your facilitation to embrace the unexpected WITH your team (you don't need to have all the answers!).
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Jobs open at one of the world's biggest media cooperatives
newint.org Jobs: Work in one of the largest media co-ops in the world!Jobs Job notifications If you want to receive notifications about jobs at New Internationalist, please join our fortnightly e-newsletter, where all of our positions are posted.
- web.archive.org Worker-Owned Cooperatives Are Creating Their Own Funding Networks
Because of their unorthodox ownership structures, cooperatively owned businesses don’t fit neatly into most lenders’ boxes. So one group decided to build their own source of funding.
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Resonate – the ethical music streaming co-op
resonate.is Play fair.Resonate is the world’s first co-operative music streaming service — a multi-stakeholder platform co-operative, democratically governed by its members: artists, listeners and workers.
https://github.com/resonatecoop
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/81992
> Resonate is a really cool co-op and they could really use some volunteers & users. > > I've been looking for a more ethical music streaming service since I discovered Spotify and other streaming platforms are terrible for small artists. Only the top 3% of artists make $1000/yr and only the top 1% make more than $5000/yr. You'd have to be in the top 0.2% to actually earn a living of $50,000/yr on Spotify. > > Resonate is the only platform I've found that's doing something radically different. They have a stream to own model in which listeners pay artists directly about 1/4 of one cent for their first stream then the price increases exponentially with each stream until the 9th stream at which point the listener has paid ~$1.50usd. At that point the user can download the song for offline listening and never has to pay to stream that song again. > > Perhaps the coolest part is they are a co-op, 45% of governance weight is reserved for artist shares, 35% for listener shares, and only 20% for staff. > > Resonate is a small project that could use all the help it can get. If anyone knows of any other cool music platforms, I'd love to know about them, too!
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Thoughts on mixed-use development housing co-ops?
Mixed use development is the technical term for a building with residences and store fronts and/or office spaces combined. For example, an apartment with the first floor being shops and restaurants. While co-ops consisting of these buildings are more rare, as far as I know there are some.
What are your thoughts? Is the idea of a housing co-op compatible with a commercial building that rents spaces to traditional capitalist businesses? Do you think the businesses should also have stakes in the co-op or should that be reserved for residents?
What would you thinking of a co-op mixed use building only allowing other co-ops to rent the commercial spaces? Would that work?
Going a step further, do you think a full commercial office building can ever be cooperatively owned by different businesses?
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068 - Interview with Common Knowledge worker coop
generalintellectunit.net 068 - Common Knowledge | General Intellect UnitIn which we are joined by Gemma and Alex from Common Knowledge, a cooperative "designing digital tools that make radical change possible". If you like the show, consider supporting us on Patreon. Links: Common Knowledge Co-Tech Enspiral Rules for Revolutionaries Sociocracy - Basic Concepts and Princ...
In which we are joined by Gemma and Alex from Common Knowledge, a cooperative "designing digital tools that make radical change possible".
- tribunemag.co.uk How Corbyn-Style ‘Democratic Ownership’ Is Taking off in Denmark
This month's Danish budget promised more state spending, but also to help workers take control of their workplaces. The democratic ownership agenda might be dying in Labour – but it lives on elsewhere.
"The most important aspect of the democratic ownership agenda is the battle against the class tyranny of property"
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Collective Courage: A Short History of Black Co-operatives in America
The long tradition of African American cooperation is not well known, and in her book Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, Jessica Gordon Nemhard sets out to remedy that gap in our knowledge.
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New York taxi drivers launch fundraiser for platform co-op
www.thenews.coop New York taxi drivers launch fundraiser for platform co-op - Co-operative NewsDrivers Cooperative wants to offer a fairer alternative to platforms such as Uber and Lyft
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How employee ownership helped Phoenix Coffee survive Covid-19 — The Land
www.thelandcle.org How employee ownership helped Phoenix Coffee survive Covid-19 – The LandThreatened with shuttering in 2020, co-op conversions are helping small businesses old and new brave the global recession head-on.
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DisCO Elements: Groove is in the Heart
elements.disco.coop DisCO ElementsDistributed Cooperative Organisations for radical workplace democracy
The DisCO Project is a friendly and carefully planned approach for organizations that want to create and share value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in feminist economics.
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Co-ops in Spain’s Basque Region Soften Capitalism’s Rough Edges
www.nytimes.com Co-ops in Spain’s Basque Region Soften Capitalism’s Rough Edges (Published 2020)A group of worker-owned businesses may present an alternative model to economies dominated by the interests of shareholders.
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How do ownership housing co-ops work?
Non-ownership housing co-ops are simple enough to imagine: basically you're renting the house, but instead of paying a for-profit land lord, you pay a nonprofit designed to benefit everyone who lives in the apartment complex. But how would ownership housing co-ops work? Does the initial price of buying the house go to the co-op and then they collect monthly fees from you and anyone you sell to like a homeowner's association? Are there mixed ownership and non-ownership housing co-ops where you can either rent or own?
Finally, do you personally prefer housing co-ops to be ownership or non-ownership?
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CoopCycle - A co-operative courier service federation
A worker-owned bicycle courier service. The software they use is open source, under an interesting licence that only allows use by co-operatives.
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Co-operative Student Housing
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A video by Co-operatives UK on housing co-ops for students as an alternative to renting off landlords, who often treat their tenants pretty poorly
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Inspiring Housing Co-operative in Yorkshire, UK
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Learn about the fantastic and beautiful community that has been created by a housing co-operative in the UK. This could be the future of housing for everyone, and this is something that is demonstrably possible today. Check out LILAC's website here: http://www.lilac.coop/
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Tech coops list
github.com GitHub - hng/tech-coops: A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general.A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker owned cooperatives in general. - GitHub - hng/tech-coops: A list of tech coops and resources concerning tech coops and worker own...
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Let's create our own cooperative economy
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Talk by Benoît Molineaux. A really inspiring story of entrepreneurship and cooperation that has created a wonderful community from nothing.
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What is a Co-operative?
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A nice video by Co-operatives UK about what co-operatives actually are.