Cooperatives

Indonesia Red And White Villages Cooperatives

July 20, 2025 Memesita. Create! Cooperatives, Indonesia, Jakarta, Rural Development

Jakarta, Indonesia – Forget the pastel farmhouses of your grandma’s Pinterest board. Indonesia’s ambitious “Red and White Village Cooperatives” (KDMP) program – named after the nation’s flag – is a surprisingly complex and potentially game-changing initiative aimed at revitalizing rural economies. Officially launching next week with a nationwide rollout, the program’s initial success hinges on a handful of pilot villages, most notably Namang in Bangka Belitung, and it’s already sparking debate about whether it’s a genuine solution or just another government buzzword.

What It’s Like To Farm As A Cooperative

July 15, 2025 Growing for Market Magazine, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Canada, Cooperatives, Farming, Food and Agriculture

“Oh, I remember when I was young and I wanted to start a farm co-op with my friends, too!” This was the common refrain my friends and I heard back in 2004 when we’d tell established farmers about the farm co-op we were starting. Our group met studying agriculture at McGill University’s MacDonald campus. We had gone our own ways for a few years to work on and manage other farms. Now, we were to run our own farm. We decided to do this together as a worker co-op. A lot of what we were talking about excited established farmers, but then they followed up with, “But then I started a real farm on my own.” No one directly told us not to start a co-op, but there didn’t seem to be a lot of faith that this was a real project.

UHAB Launches National Map Of Limited-Equity Housing Cooperatives

July 6, 2025 Urban Homesteading Assistance Board. Create! Affordable Housing, Cooperatives, Housing, Mapping

UHAB is thrilled to announce the launch of the National Co-op Map, the most comprehensive online tool tracking limited-equity housing cooperatives across the United States. After years of research, development, and community input, this highly anticipated relaunch features a cleaner design and more detailed, up to date data. Housing organizers, residents, and advocates have consistently expressed the need for a centralized resource like this—one that reflects the true scale and reach of the cooperative housing movement. This interactive, community-powered resource allows users to explore housing co-ops, submit updates, and access resources to support cooperative housing development, preservation, and organizing.

Cecosesola And The Art Of Commoning Within Capitalist Markets

July 1, 2025 David Bollier. Create! Commoning, Cooperatives, Enterprises, Poverty, Venezuela

One of the most singular and accomplished commons I’ve ever encountered is Cecosesola, a federation of Venezuelan cooperatives. The remarkable federation artfully manages multiple ventures as commons while deeply immersed within a system of capitalist markets. Founded in 1967 in the state of Lara in Venezuela, Cecosesola got its start when working-class people in poorest barrios of the region organized to set aside money every month to build their own cooperatives. G Nearly sixty years later, Cecosesola now coordinates a wide variety of enterprises. It works with farmers to supply 800 tons of vegetables to large urban produce markets serving 100,000 people a week.

Tenants Take Ownership Of Their Building, Run It As A Cooperative

June 29, 2025 Andrew Oliphant, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Landlords, Tenant Union, Tenants

Emily Power was living in her apartment at 272 Caroline Street in Hamilton for less than a year when the owner put the 21-unit building up for sale. The sale took many residents by surprise. Even the superintendent didn’t receive a notice from the owner. Power braced for the worst. She was wary that an investment company would purchase the building and raise rents, either through Cash-for-Keys offers, where landlords offer cash for tenants to vacate the rental unit, or another type of pressure or harassment, since many residents were longstanding, rent-controlled tenants. Power, a born-and-raised Hamiltonian, was friendly with a number of tenants in her building, so she began organizing and eventually started a tenant association at 272 Caroline.

Trade Agreements Must Prioritize People Over Profits

June 19, 2025 Kenzie Love, Canadian Worker Co-op Federation. Create! Canada, Cooperatives, Trade Agreements, Worker Cooperatives, Worker Rights and Jobs

The Trump administration’s recent actions on international trade have destabilized the global economy, and co-ops have felt the impact. The old economic order as it pertained to trade may be a thing of the past. But instead of pining for the supposed stability and prosperity of a bygone era, it’s important to recognize that even pre-Trump, the global economy wasn’t working that well for most of the world’s inhabitants or the planet itself, based in part on trade agreements that favoured profits over people. As economist Angella McEwen asks rhetorically, “If we are outraged that Donald Trump is flouting free trade deals that he himself negotiated, does that mean we have to defend free trade now?”

ILO And Partners Advance Statistical Standards For Cooperatives

May 28, 2025 International Labour Organization. Organize! Cooperatives, Data, Economic Impact, International Labour Organization, Solidarity Economy

Following the joint kick-off meeting on 12 March 2025, the two Technical Working Groups held their first technical sessions on 28 and 29 April 2025. These meetings marked the beginning of their in-depth work to develop globally relevant statistical frameworks for cooperatives and the broader social and solidarity economy. The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) Technical Working Group on Measuring the Economic Contribution of Cooperatives (TWG MECC)convened on 28 April for its first technical meeting. Olivier Frey, lead author on measuring the economic contribution of cooperatives, presented the rationale for a global measurement framework, emphasizing the need for conceptual clarity, relevant indicators, and a modular methodology adaptable across countries.

REI Members Reject All Three Board Candidates In Election

May 17, 2025 Alice Toomer-Mcalpine, Co-operative News. Resist! Cooperatives, Democracy, REI, Worker Rights

Members of US outdoor retail co-op REI have voted to reject board candidates following a worker-led campaign. The election result was announced yesterday at REI’s online annual member’s meeting. The three candidates, made up of two incumbents up for re-election and one new director, had been selected by REI’s existing board, and were running unopposed, meaning members were given the choice to vote either for or against the candidates. A campaign led by the REI union had encouraged members to vote ‘no’ to the co-op’s slate of candidates, after REI refused to include two union-backed candidates on the original election ballot, despite the nominees receiving over 10,000 signatures of support.

Argentina’s Worker Co-ops Under Attack

May 15, 2025 Josh Davis, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Educate! Argentina, Cooperatives, Javier Milei, Neoliberalism

There was some extremely troubling news out of Argentina last week. On March 28th, the Melei administration Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni announced that the government would be suspending all worker co-ops created between 2020 and 2022 and auditing all those formed last year. While this official statement was quickly gainsayed by other government agencies, what had happened was just as bad: the National Institute of Associativism and Social Economy (INAES) – the agency responsible for registering co-ops – had voted to suspend 11,000 co-ops for lack of documentation and other alleged non-compliance.

Report: Co-ops Outpace Traditional Grocers In Sales

April 19, 2025 Eric Davis, National Cooperative Business Association. Educate! Cooperatives, Grocery Stores, Local Economy, Organic Farming

Member food co-ops that belong to National Co+op Grocers (NCG) last year achieved same-store sales growth of 4.7 percent, compared to the overall U.S. retail food market of less than 3 percent in 2024. NCG member co-ops also outperformed traditional retailers in shares of local, organic and Fair Trade product sales. In their just-released 2024 Food Co-op Impact Report, NCG credits food co-ops’ community ownership model and commitment to building local supply chains among the factors contributing to their success. The annual report analyzes the collective economic, social and environmental impacts and achievements of its community-owned member food co-ops.

Beyond Community Currencies

April 12, 2025 Alex Lopez, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Local Economy, Money, Renewable Energy Communities (REC)

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Renewable Energy Communities (REC), legal entities that collectively manage energy, promoting economic, social, and environmental benefits for their community. This model of citizen management over an essential resource has been widely accepted — so could a similar principle be applied to money? Ekhilur, a nonprofit citizen cooperative, is pioneering an innovative approach to strengthening the local economy. Instead of creating a new currency, it operates its own payment system — regulated by the Bank of Spain — to maximize the circulation of the existing euro within the community for as long as possible.

Top Manta Co-op Helps Barcelona’s Street Vendors Formalise

April 6, 2025 Anca Voinea, Coop News. Create! Cooperatives, Local Economy, Migrants, Spain

Undocumented migrants arriving in Spain with hopes for a better life get trapped into a life of informality. Their undocumented status prevents them from accessing jobs in the formal economy, and, as a result, they cannot get healthcare or contribute to the social security system. According to the International Labour Organization’s Recommendation 204 on the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy, “most people enter the informal economy not by choice but as a consequence of a lack of opportunities in the formal economy and in the absence of other means of livelihood.”

Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing The Media Industry

April 1, 2025 Damon Orion, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, COVID-19, Employee Ownership, Journalism, Media, Worker Cooperatives, Worker Rights and Jobs

The arrival of COVID-19 in the United States kicked off an ongoing period of job insecurity within the media industry. In April 2020, the New York Times reported that about 37,000 news company employees had been laid off, furloughed, or had their salaries reduced since March of that year. This instability was still evident in 2024, with media outlets like the Los Angeles Times, the Messenger, and HuffPost undergoing major layoffs and closures. An October 2024 report from the executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, Inc. found that 13,279 media jobs had been cut that year. This included 3,520 cuts in the broadcast, digital, and print news industry—the most since 2020. Job insecurity has helped spur the rise of worker-owned journalism cooperatives like Flaming Hydra, Aftermath, Racket, and RANGE. According to the Poynter Institute, “[a]t least six worker-centered [news] outlets launched in 2024 alone.”

Sociocracy: A ‘Light In Our Path Towards A Co-operative Society’

March 23, 2025 Alice Toomer-McAlpine, The News.Coop. Create! Collective Wisdom, Cooperatives, New Economy, Sociocracy

When it comes to collective leadership, simply having the willingness to work in this way is not always enough, and trying to ensure everyone is heard without systems and structures to support this aim can become messy and unworkable. A growing number of co-ops are exploring how the governance system of sociocracy can help them to ensure those involved have a say while still getting things done. Sociocratic organisations are made up of small, semi-autonomous working groups called circles, connected by members who ensure the flow of information between them. Roles within circles are selected via an open, transparent selection process rather than a secret ballot.

Arizmendi: A Co-Op Of Co-Ops

March 15, 2025 Transition Bus, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Democracy, New Economy, Solidarity, Worker Rights

I like everything all together. I like the fact that it's a cooperative. I like working with my hands and I like physical labor. Everybody's paid the same wage no matter how long you've been working at the Cheeseboard. Even though I'm one of the newest people there - I've only been there two years - I still have all of the rights, responsibilities and privileges as somebody who's been there for 30 or 40 years. Everybody is valued equally and we operate by consensus, but we all make decisions collectively. We're always trying to work together to make the decision work for everybody. So we reach unanimity on almost every decision.

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