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We have an epic choice before us between platform coops and Death Star platforms, and the time to decide is now. 
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We'll know black lives matter when the capitalist system that enslaved our ancestors and is intent on disposing of our future is replaced by a new socio-economic system, based on economic democracy and self-determination....
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TIRBESPIYÊ – Agriculture Institution of Cizîre Canton has recently started establishin agriculture cooperatives in the canton. So far, 25 cooperatives were established and one of them, the Star Cooperative, belongs to women. The instituion also noted that only in Tirbespiyê 700 people became members in the cooperatives.
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Judge Gerardo Santicchia has disregarded the bankruptcy plea of printing company Donnelley Argentina, ruling that workers could keep running the business as part of the MadyGraf co-operative formed after the company closed down the Garín plant in Buenos Aires province.
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David Harvey and Gar Alperovitz dig into the failure of capitalism, the hope presented by worker cooperation, and what activists fighting for a just economy must do to get there.
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The Laura Flanders Show streams at www.grittv.org. What does it mean to fight for systemic economic change? What are the economic alternatives? This week, Laura speaks with two brilliant theorists of economic change, David Harvey and Gar Alperovitz. They urge activists not to be afraid of failure - real change takes time and multiple attempts.
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COOPERATIVE societies play an increasingly important part in the economic life of many countries. Cooperation has existed ever since the early human beings discovered that working together, they could accomplish their tasks much more easily and effectively. Thus the historical foundations of modern cooperatives can be traced to the ancient Egypt and Babylon, the ancient China, the Roman Empire, the activities of the Aztecs in South America before the Spanish advent and conquest, and those of the American Indians as well as to the traditional African notion of working together for mutual benefits.
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Not so long ago in these columns, I sang the praises of the Co-operative Bank for staying mutual and avoiding the financial crises that had afflicted other banks through greed, stupidity and dodgy property deals. The ethical bank has suffered a financial crisis through, er, greed, stupidity and dodgy property deals. It is set to post £2bn losses, according to reports, one of the largest annual losses banking history. The Co-op will have to undergo another asset fire-sale. It is hard to see how the co-operative philosophy can survive.
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New research from Cass Business School examines the data (How did employee owned businesses perform during and post-financial crisis?
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Most people don't know it, but today there are over 19,000 companies that collectively employ over 25 million workers that fit under a broad definition of employee ownership. That figure comprises nearly 16 percent of the American workforce. A related statistic from the University of Chicago's General Social Survey reports that about 18 percent of those who work for companies in this country own stock in their companies. This is progress of sufficient measure to qualify for a compelling new label put forward by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Center for American Progress. In a recent policy paper called "Growing the Wealth," they refer to these trends as constituting "inclusive capitalism."
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Organizers of the Occupy Money Financial Cooperative, the organization that some Occupy Wall Street activists say will offer affordable financial services to low-income people, will formally begin raising money next week.
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