Brink
@brink@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Thanks to the social.coop admins for all the help in getting us up and running on here at last! As an #introduction, we're a brand-new initiative from social enterprise Libre Digital, we’re going to be utilising multimedia to shed light on issues, spaces, and people from the margins, where insight can be found to help us all choose a different – better – way. We're also working on becoming a #cooperative in our own right. #safety #sustainability #democracy #cooperation #CovidIsNotOver
Ethical Revolution
@betterworld@ethicalrevolution.co.uk  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Year of the Co-ops

[Read on Ethical Revolution]

Did you know the UN has made 2025 ‘International year of co-operatives’?

Co-ops are democratically owned businesses or organisations, with the co-op’s members in control to meet their shared needs. The members may be customers, employees, residents or suppliers.

All co-ops the world over shares the same 7 principles and 10 values.

Around 40% of the UK’s 7000 co-ops are consumer owned – think credit unions, high street Co-op supermarkets and Your Co-op, while over 350 are worker owned e.g. Essential (Food & Household specialists), Footprint Workers Co-op (Riso printers), Go Free Range (Software development revolutionaries: @freerange), Suma (Food, household, toiletries), Veggies (Catering company: @Veggies) and workers.coop (Federation of worker-led cooperatives: @workers_coop). Others can be multi-stakeholder owned such as Webarchitects (Cloud hosting services).

Examples of international co-ops are cosocial (Non profit social media platform: @coop – Canada), Limeleaf (Software developers: @limeleaf – USA), Nubo (Ethical mail & cloud services: @nubo_coop – Belgium), Ouvaton (Hosting & software services: @ouvaton – France) and Society (Digital technologies: @sociality – Greece).

The Labour government did say in its pre-election manifesto that it would double the size of the co-op sector and mutual economy in the UK, but as with many manifesto pledges I wouldn’t hold your breath.

The 10 official co-operative ‘values’ are:

  1. Caring for others
  2. Democracy
  3. Equity
  4. Equality
  5. Honesty
  6. Openness
  7. Self help
  8. Self responsibility
  9. Solidarity
  10. Social responsibility

[Via Ethical Revolution]

#Coop #cooperative #Cooperatives #coops #democracy #equality #honesty #solidarity
Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last week

⁂ Article

Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy

Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd:

You pay to eat food grown on land you don’t own,

Pay to sleep under a roof that someone profits from,

Pay to drink water privatized by corporations,

Pay to breathe, because the air is poisoned by industries that sell you both the problem and the solution.

And if you miss a payment? Game over. That’s not a […]

Neil Brown
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Amgine
@Amgine@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#DYK Did you know one of the first Online Dispute Resolution #ODR system incorporated into a public justice system is the Civil Resolution Tribunal #CRT in #BritishColumbia, #Canada? It was implemented in 2015, and its jurisdiction has been enlarged in small increments. It now adjudicates for 6 statutes, and lists others on its website.

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Resolution_Tribunal

https://civilresolutionbc.ca/

#LawFedi#BCPoli#CdnPoli #strata#SPA #societies#SA #cooperative#CAA
Pada
@pada@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@sebsauvage
Dans le même genre, dans ma #cooperative @ouvaton il y a le logiciel signature pdf : https://pdf.ouvaton.coop/
Cooperativa Tierra Común
@tierra_comun@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

del IG de #coopamericas

🙋‍♂️ ¡Postúlate para participar en el foro internacional We, The Youth en San Pablo🇧🇷 este mes de julio!​

5️⃣0️⃣ jóvenes (19 a 35 años) de América Latina y el Caribe serán seleccionados para esta experiencia.

✈️ Para esta actividad se cubrirían los gastos: vuelo, hotel y alimentación.​

⏰️ Tienes tiempo hasta el 5 de julio para postular en 👉 https://www.ifwy.org

#cooperativas #coops #youth #saopaulo #cooperative
Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Ok #Fediverse: if I was keen to bootstrap an Aotearoa-based tech services #cooperative, what coop models would people suggest I look at - looking for good descriptions of how they'd be set up, especially to recognise the contributions of those involved. All insights appreciated! I'd rather learn from others' experiences rather than unwittingly replicating their mistakes trying to reinvent the wheel...
Tommi 🤯
@tommi@pan.rent  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Looking for advice from coop housing lovers! 🏘️

Do you know any cooperative housing initiatives in #Rotterdam? Do you know how to start one (is it too utopistic?)

I will be moving there in August/September to attend @xpub 🤩

Considering the current housing crisis, I want to be prepared and to start looking for a place as soon as possible!

Boosts in NL are welcome 💕

#CoOp #cooperative #cooperativeHousing #help #advice#mastoTips#fediTips #rent