The Co-operative Movement

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!).

Register here!

In which we are joined by Gemma and Alex from Common Knowledge, a cooperative "designing digital tools that make radical change possible".

"The most important aspect of the democratic ownership agenda is the battle against the class tyranny of property"

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.

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.

A worker-owned bicycle courier service. The software they use is open source, under an interesting licence that only allows use by co-operatives.

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

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/

Talk by Benoît Molineaux. A really inspiring story of entrepreneurship and cooperation that has created a wonderful community from nothing.