GEO HOME | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZINGLOG INGEO VOL. II, #6GET INVOLVEDCONTACTTECH CO-OPS ARE ON THE RISETHE NGUZO SABA Black Co-ops Were A Method of Economic Survival. Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo.

April 30, 2014.

THE IDEAS THAT ARE LYING AROUND Hence, we get this priceless graphic from Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show: If that doesn’t perfectly sum up the irrationality of the status quo economic system, I don’t know what does. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying

around.”.

HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT-RUN COOPERATIVES Highlighting the Importance of Student-Run Cooperatives. by Meghan McDonough, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst student) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an original report written for GEO.) At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, approximately 145 full-time undergraduate students work as co-managers at seven different student-run cooperatives across campus. LEGAL ENTITY OPTIONS FOR WORKER COOPERATIVES Depending on the laws of the state, or states, where the cooperative is operating, more or fewer options may be available. This section discusses two major types of legal entity options that are available to worker co-ops: the Limited Liability Company (LLC) and the Worker Cooperative Corporation. TINY HOMES, CO-OPS, AND LAND TRUSTS That, topped off with stagnant wages, has resulted in a lack of housing many people can afford either to rent or buy. The average wage for a non-managerial employee at the beginning of 1979 was $22.51 per hour in 2018 dollars. In March 2018, it was $22.44 per hour,

essentially flat.

ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. BLACK FARMING, SELF DETERMINATION AND RESILIENCE Monica M. White earned a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University in Sociology. She is an assistant professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and is a former Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of PARADISE RIDGE COOPERATIVE BECOMES 135TH ROC IN NH RAYMOND, N.H. — Homeowners in Paradise Ridge Mobile Home Park have purchased their 40-unit manufactured home community, making it New Hampshire’s 135th resident-owned community (ROC) and the 268th ROC nationwide. Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH™ team, homeowners organized and formed Paradise Ridge Cooperative last WHY THE 'LOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECT' ALWAYS COUNTS A Valuable, but Hidden Economic Reality. The Local Multiplier Effect (LME) is a very valuable, hidden feature of our economies. The term refers to how many times dollars are recirculated within a local economy before leaving through the purchase of an import. Famed economist John Maynard Keynes first coined the term "Local Multiplier

Effect" in

GEO HOME | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZINGLOG INGEO VOL. II, #6GET INVOLVEDCONTACTTECH CO-OPS ARE ON THE RISETHE NGUZO SABA Black Co-ops Were A Method of Economic Survival. Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo.

April 30, 2014.

THE IDEAS THAT ARE LYING AROUND Hence, we get this priceless graphic from Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show: If that doesn’t perfectly sum up the irrationality of the status quo economic system, I don’t know what does. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying

around.”.

HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT-RUN COOPERATIVES Highlighting the Importance of Student-Run Cooperatives. by Meghan McDonough, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst student) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an original report written for GEO.) At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, approximately 145 full-time undergraduate students work as co-managers at seven different student-run cooperatives across campus. LEGAL ENTITY OPTIONS FOR WORKER COOPERATIVES Depending on the laws of the state, or states, where the cooperative is operating, more or fewer options may be available. This section discusses two major types of legal entity options that are available to worker co-ops: the Limited Liability Company (LLC) and the Worker Cooperative Corporation. TINY HOMES, CO-OPS, AND LAND TRUSTS That, topped off with stagnant wages, has resulted in a lack of housing many people can afford either to rent or buy. The average wage for a non-managerial employee at the beginning of 1979 was $22.51 per hour in 2018 dollars. In March 2018, it was $22.44 per hour,

essentially flat.

ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. BLACK FARMING, SELF DETERMINATION AND RESILIENCE Monica M. White earned a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University in Sociology. She is an assistant professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and is a former Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of PARADISE RIDGE COOPERATIVE BECOMES 135TH ROC IN NH RAYMOND, N.H. — Homeowners in Paradise Ridge Mobile Home Park have purchased their 40-unit manufactured home community, making it New Hampshire’s 135th resident-owned community (ROC) and the 268th ROC nationwide. Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH™ team, homeowners organized and formed Paradise Ridge Cooperative last WHY THE 'LOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECT' ALWAYS COUNTS A Valuable, but Hidden Economic Reality. The Local Multiplier Effect (LME) is a very valuable, hidden feature of our economies. The term refers to how many times dollars are recirculated within a local economy before leaving through the purchase of an import. Famed economist John Maynard Keynes first coined the term "Local Multiplier

Effect" in

ABOUT GEO | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZING About GEO. Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) is a decentralized collective of educators, researchers and grassroots activists working to promote an economy based on democratic participation, worker and community ownership, social and economic justice, and ecological sustainability--a "solidarity economy"--through grassroots journalism WHAT IS MUTUAL AID & HOW TO GET INVOLVED Mutual aid firmly believes that everyone has something to contribute, though these resources may differ, and everyone has something they need, creating symbiotic relationships. It’s volunteer-run, decentralised, organised without top-down authority, transparent, and

driven

ELIZABETH HEYRICK'S CONSUMER CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH SLAVERY In 1824, the English Quaker abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick published the pamphlet “Immediate, not Gradual, Abolition”.Britain had already passed an 1807 act abolishing direct involvement in the slave trade itself, following a mass pressure campaign and petitioning of Parliament, led by William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. HOW TO TURN YOUR NON-PROFIT INTO A WORKER CO-OP All of us workers had cubes in there. So the people who still work for our co-op, they each have a cube in that bureau. It's cube land, they call it, because it's all the DNR employees. This is a huge building with big floors and lots and lots of cubes, and that's where they reside and do their work, usually. ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPS, LAND TRUSTS, AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING But community land trusts are not only a means to homeownership. Even in the most expensive cities, they increasingly support affordable rentals in multifamily buildings, said Tom Angotti, a professor emeritus of urban planning at Hunter College. Mr. Angotti has long advocated for the model in New York City, where he heads the board of a large multifamily site at Cooper Square. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. THE BENEFITS AND IMPACTS OF COOPERATIVES [Editor's Note: the following is excerpted from Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 2014, Benefits and Impacts of Cooperatives.White Paper, February 2014. You can find the full report here.. Cooperative businesses are community-owned private enterprises that combine consumers with owners, and buyers with sellers in a democratic governance structure. SEVEN KEY ELEMENTS OF AN ECONOMY OF ABUNDANCE by Wolfgang Hoeschele. Our present economy is an economy of scarcity – only scarce commodities have economic value. Therefore there are strong incentives to make everything into a scarce commodity - first by making it into a commodity, and then by assuring that the demand for that commodity exceeds its supply, either by controlling supplies or by inflating demand, or doing both at COOPERATIVES AND WORKERS-OWNED ENTERPRISES AS The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) hosted a historic international conference on cooperatives and worker owned enterprises in Berlin in early November, bringing together leading activists, labor officials, and academics from throughout the world. GEO HOME | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZINGLOG INGEO VOL. II, #6GET INVOLVEDCONTACTTECH CO-OPS ARE ON THE RISETHE NGUZO SABALIST OF SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUESSOCIO ECONOMIC INEQUALITYSOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUES Black Co-ops Were A Method of Economic Survival. Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo.

April 30, 2014.

THE IDEAS THAT ARE LYING AROUND Hence, we get this priceless graphic from Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show: If that doesn’t perfectly sum up the irrationality of the status quo economic system, I don’t know what does. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying

around.”.

HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT-RUN COOPERATIVES Highlighting the Importance of Student-Run Cooperatives. by Meghan McDonough, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst student) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an original report written for GEO.) At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, approximately 145 full-time undergraduate students work as co-managers at seven different student-run cooperatives across campus. LEGAL ENTITY OPTIONS FOR WORKER COOPERATIVES Depending on the laws of the state, or states, where the cooperative is operating, more or fewer options may be available. This section discusses two major types of legal entity options that are available to worker co-ops: the Limited Liability Company (LLC) and the Worker Cooperative Corporation. TINY HOMES, CO-OPS, AND LAND TRUSTS That, topped off with stagnant wages, has resulted in a lack of housing many people can afford either to rent or buy. The average wage for a non-managerial employee at the beginning of 1979 was $22.51 per hour in 2018 dollars. In March 2018, it was $22.44 per hour,

essentially flat.

ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. BLACK FARMING, SELF DETERMINATION AND RESILIENCE Monica M. White earned a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University in Sociology. She is an assistant professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and is a former Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of PARADISE RIDGE COOPERATIVE BECOMES 135TH ROC IN NH RAYMOND, N.H. — Homeowners in Paradise Ridge Mobile Home Park have purchased their 40-unit manufactured home community, making it New Hampshire’s 135th resident-owned community (ROC) and the 268th ROC nationwide. Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH™ team, homeowners organized and formed Paradise Ridge Cooperative last WHY THE 'LOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECT' ALWAYS COUNTSBUSINESS MULTIPLIER CHARTBUSINESS SALE MULTIPLIERECONOMICS MULTIPLIER EFFECTLOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECTMULTIPLIER EFFECT CALCULATORMULTIPLIER EFFECT TOURISM A Valuable, but Hidden Economic Reality. The Local Multiplier Effect (LME) is a very valuable, hidden feature of our economies. The term refers to how many times dollars are recirculated within a local economy before leaving through the purchase of an import. Famed economist John Maynard Keynes first coined the term "Local Multiplier

Effect" in

GEO HOME | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZINGLOG INGEO VOL. II, #6GET INVOLVEDCONTACTTECH CO-OPS ARE ON THE RISETHE NGUZO SABALIST OF SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUESSOCIO ECONOMIC INEQUALITYSOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUES Black Co-ops Were A Method of Economic Survival. Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo.

April 30, 2014.

THE IDEAS THAT ARE LYING AROUND Hence, we get this priceless graphic from Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show: If that doesn’t perfectly sum up the irrationality of the status quo economic system, I don’t know what does. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying

around.”.

HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT-RUN COOPERATIVES Highlighting the Importance of Student-Run Cooperatives. by Meghan McDonough, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst student) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an original report written for GEO.) At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, approximately 145 full-time undergraduate students work as co-managers at seven different student-run cooperatives across campus. LEGAL ENTITY OPTIONS FOR WORKER COOPERATIVES Depending on the laws of the state, or states, where the cooperative is operating, more or fewer options may be available. This section discusses two major types of legal entity options that are available to worker co-ops: the Limited Liability Company (LLC) and the Worker Cooperative Corporation. TINY HOMES, CO-OPS, AND LAND TRUSTS That, topped off with stagnant wages, has resulted in a lack of housing many people can afford either to rent or buy. The average wage for a non-managerial employee at the beginning of 1979 was $22.51 per hour in 2018 dollars. In March 2018, it was $22.44 per hour,

essentially flat.

ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. BLACK FARMING, SELF DETERMINATION AND RESILIENCE Monica M. White earned a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University in Sociology. She is an assistant professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and is a former Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of PARADISE RIDGE COOPERATIVE BECOMES 135TH ROC IN NH RAYMOND, N.H. — Homeowners in Paradise Ridge Mobile Home Park have purchased their 40-unit manufactured home community, making it New Hampshire’s 135th resident-owned community (ROC) and the 268th ROC nationwide. Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH™ team, homeowners organized and formed Paradise Ridge Cooperative last WHY THE 'LOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECT' ALWAYS COUNTSBUSINESS MULTIPLIER CHARTBUSINESS SALE MULTIPLIERECONOMICS MULTIPLIER EFFECTLOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECTMULTIPLIER EFFECT CALCULATORMULTIPLIER EFFECT TOURISM A Valuable, but Hidden Economic Reality. The Local Multiplier Effect (LME) is a very valuable, hidden feature of our economies. The term refers to how many times dollars are recirculated within a local economy before leaving through the purchase of an import. Famed economist John Maynard Keynes first coined the term "Local Multiplier

Effect" in

ABOUT GEO | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZING About GEO. Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) is a decentralized collective of educators, researchers and grassroots activists working to promote an economy based on democratic participation, worker and community ownership, social and economic justice, and ecological sustainability--a "solidarity economy"--through grassroots journalism WHAT IS MUTUAL AID & HOW TO GET INVOLVED Mutual aid firmly believes that everyone has something to contribute, though these resources may differ, and everyone has something they need, creating symbiotic relationships. It’s volunteer-run, decentralised, organised without top-down authority, transparent, and

driven

ELIZABETH HEYRICK'S CONSUMER CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH SLAVERY In 1824, the English Quaker abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick published the pamphlet “Immediate, not Gradual, Abolition”.Britain had already passed an 1807 act abolishing direct involvement in the slave trade itself, following a mass pressure campaign and petitioning of Parliament, led by William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. HOW TO TURN YOUR NON-PROFIT INTO A WORKER CO-OP All of us workers had cubes in there. So the people who still work for our co-op, they each have a cube in that bureau. It's cube land, they call it, because it's all the DNR employees. This is a huge building with big floors and lots and lots of cubes, and that's where they reside and do their work, usually. ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPS, LAND TRUSTS, AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING But community land trusts are not only a means to homeownership. Even in the most expensive cities, they increasingly support affordable rentals in multifamily buildings, said Tom Angotti, a professor emeritus of urban planning at Hunter College. Mr. Angotti has long advocated for the model in New York City, where he heads the board of a large multifamily site at Cooper Square. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. THE BENEFITS AND IMPACTS OF COOPERATIVES [Editor's Note: the following is excerpted from Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 2014, Benefits and Impacts of Cooperatives.White Paper, February 2014. You can find the full report here.. Cooperative businesses are community-owned private enterprises that combine consumers with owners, and buyers with sellers in a democratic governance structure. SEVEN KEY ELEMENTS OF AN ECONOMY OF ABUNDANCE by Wolfgang Hoeschele. Our present economy is an economy of scarcity – only scarce commodities have economic value. Therefore there are strong incentives to make everything into a scarce commodity - first by making it into a commodity, and then by assuring that the demand for that commodity exceeds its supply, either by controlling supplies or by inflating demand, or doing both at COOPERATIVES AND WORKERS-OWNED ENTERPRISES AS The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) hosted a historic international conference on cooperatives and worker owned enterprises in Berlin in early November, bringing together leading activists, labor officials, and academics from throughout the world. GEO HOME | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZINGLOG INGEO VOL. II, #6GET INVOLVEDCONTACTTECH CO-OPS ARE ON THE RISETHE NGUZO SABALIST OF SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUESSOCIO ECONOMIC INEQUALITYSOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUES Black Co-ops Were A Method of Economic Survival. Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo.

April 30, 2014.

THE IDEAS THAT ARE LYING AROUND Hence, we get this priceless graphic from Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show: If that doesn’t perfectly sum up the irrationality of the status quo economic system, I don’t know what does. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying

around.”.

HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT-RUN COOPERATIVES Highlighting the Importance of Student-Run Cooperatives. by Meghan McDonough, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst student) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an original report written for GEO.) At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, approximately 145 full-time undergraduate students work as co-managers at seven different student-run cooperatives across campus. LEGAL ENTITY OPTIONS FOR WORKER COOPERATIVES Depending on the laws of the state, or states, where the cooperative is operating, more or fewer options may be available. This section discusses two major types of legal entity options that are available to worker co-ops: the Limited Liability Company (LLC) and the Worker Cooperative Corporation. TINY HOMES, CO-OPS, AND LAND TRUSTS That, topped off with stagnant wages, has resulted in a lack of housing many people can afford either to rent or buy. The average wage for a non-managerial employee at the beginning of 1979 was $22.51 per hour in 2018 dollars. In March 2018, it was $22.44 per hour,

essentially flat.

ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. BLACK FARMING, SELF DETERMINATION AND RESILIENCE Monica M. White earned a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University in Sociology. She is an assistant professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and is a former Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of PARADISE RIDGE COOPERATIVE BECOMES 135TH ROC IN NH RAYMOND, N.H. — Homeowners in Paradise Ridge Mobile Home Park have purchased their 40-unit manufactured home community, making it New Hampshire’s 135th resident-owned community (ROC) and the 268th ROC nationwide. Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH™ team, homeowners organized and formed Paradise Ridge Cooperative last WHY THE 'LOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECT' ALWAYS COUNTSBUSINESS MULTIPLIER CHARTBUSINESS SALE MULTIPLIERECONOMICS MULTIPLIER EFFECTLOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECTMULTIPLIER EFFECT CALCULATORMULTIPLIER EFFECT TOURISM A Valuable, but Hidden Economic Reality. The Local Multiplier Effect (LME) is a very valuable, hidden feature of our economies. The term refers to how many times dollars are recirculated within a local economy before leaving through the purchase of an import. Famed economist John Maynard Keynes first coined the term "Local Multiplier

Effect" in

GEO HOME | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZINGLOG INGEO VOL. II, #6GET INVOLVEDCONTACTTECH CO-OPS ARE ON THE RISETHE NGUZO SABALIST OF SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUESSOCIO ECONOMIC INEQUALITYSOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUES Black Co-ops Were A Method of Economic Survival. Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo.

April 30, 2014.

THE IDEAS THAT ARE LYING AROUND Hence, we get this priceless graphic from Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show: If that doesn’t perfectly sum up the irrationality of the status quo economic system, I don’t know what does. “Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying

around.”.

HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDENT-RUN COOPERATIVES Highlighting the Importance of Student-Run Cooperatives. by Meghan McDonough, (University of Massachusetts, Amherst student) (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an original report written for GEO.) At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, approximately 145 full-time undergraduate students work as co-managers at seven different student-run cooperatives across campus. LEGAL ENTITY OPTIONS FOR WORKER COOPERATIVES Depending on the laws of the state, or states, where the cooperative is operating, more or fewer options may be available. This section discusses two major types of legal entity options that are available to worker co-ops: the Limited Liability Company (LLC) and the Worker Cooperative Corporation. TINY HOMES, CO-OPS, AND LAND TRUSTS That, topped off with stagnant wages, has resulted in a lack of housing many people can afford either to rent or buy. The average wage for a non-managerial employee at the beginning of 1979 was $22.51 per hour in 2018 dollars. In March 2018, it was $22.44 per hour,

essentially flat.

ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. BLACK FARMING, SELF DETERMINATION AND RESILIENCE Monica M. White earned a Ph.D. from Western Michigan University in Sociology. She is an assistant professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a joint appointment in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology and is a former Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of PARADISE RIDGE COOPERATIVE BECOMES 135TH ROC IN NH RAYMOND, N.H. — Homeowners in Paradise Ridge Mobile Home Park have purchased their 40-unit manufactured home community, making it New Hampshire’s 135th resident-owned community (ROC) and the 268th ROC nationwide. Using training and technical assistance from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s ROC-NH™ team, homeowners organized and formed Paradise Ridge Cooperative last WHY THE 'LOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECT' ALWAYS COUNTSBUSINESS MULTIPLIER CHARTBUSINESS SALE MULTIPLIERECONOMICS MULTIPLIER EFFECTLOCAL MULTIPLIER EFFECTMULTIPLIER EFFECT CALCULATORMULTIPLIER EFFECT TOURISM A Valuable, but Hidden Economic Reality. The Local Multiplier Effect (LME) is a very valuable, hidden feature of our economies. The term refers to how many times dollars are recirculated within a local economy before leaving through the purchase of an import. Famed economist John Maynard Keynes first coined the term "Local Multiplier

Effect" in

ABOUT GEO | GRASSROOTS ECONOMIC ORGANIZING About GEO. Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) is a decentralized collective of educators, researchers and grassroots activists working to promote an economy based on democratic participation, worker and community ownership, social and economic justice, and ecological sustainability--a "solidarity economy"--through grassroots journalism WHAT IS MUTUAL AID & HOW TO GET INVOLVED Mutual aid firmly believes that everyone has something to contribute, though these resources may differ, and everyone has something they need, creating symbiotic relationships. It’s volunteer-run, decentralised, organised without top-down authority, transparent, and

driven

ELIZABETH HEYRICK'S CONSUMER CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH SLAVERY In 1824, the English Quaker abolitionist Elizabeth Heyrick published the pamphlet “Immediate, not Gradual, Abolition”.Britain had already passed an 1807 act abolishing direct involvement in the slave trade itself, following a mass pressure campaign and petitioning of Parliament, led by William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. HOW TO TURN YOUR NON-PROFIT INTO A WORKER CO-OP All of us workers had cubes in there. So the people who still work for our co-op, they each have a cube in that bureau. It's cube land, they call it, because it's all the DNR employees. This is a huge building with big floors and lots and lots of cubes, and that's where they reside and do their work, usually. ACTIVISM GUIDED BY STILL-POINT CONSCIOUSNESS: EARLY Grace Gershuny: "The Inner Landscapes Community of Practice message to the progressive left is that we need to change ‘divisive, us vs. them’ patterns of thought and the idea that our way of thinking is the ‘correct thinking.’This is what holds back the left. Yet it’s hard for people to grasp the idea of non-duality, ‘all is one,’ because it seems anti-intellectual. CO-OPS, LAND TRUSTS, AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING But community land trusts are not only a means to homeownership. Even in the most expensive cities, they increasingly support affordable rentals in multifamily buildings, said Tom Angotti, a professor emeritus of urban planning at Hunter College. Mr. Angotti has long advocated for the model in New York City, where he heads the board of a large multifamily site at Cooper Square. CO-OPERATIVE RIDE-SHARING WITH EVA CO-OP Eva ride sharing co-operative launched just 10 weeks ago in Montréal, directly trying to challenge the Uber and Lyft status quo. Unique to Eva is its basis on blockchain and the co-operative model. We had a talk with Dardan Isufi, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, about what these innovative co-operators are trying to achieve. THE BENEFITS AND IMPACTS OF COOPERATIVES [Editor's Note: the following is excerpted from Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 2014, Benefits and Impacts of Cooperatives.White Paper, February 2014. You can find the full report here.. Cooperative businesses are community-owned private enterprises that combine consumers with owners, and buyers with sellers in a democratic governance structure. SEVEN KEY ELEMENTS OF AN ECONOMY OF ABUNDANCE by Wolfgang Hoeschele. Our present economy is an economy of scarcity – only scarce commodities have economic value. Therefore there are strong incentives to make everything into a scarce commodity - first by making it into a commodity, and then by assuring that the demand for that commodity exceeds its supply, either by controlling supplies or by inflating demand, or doing both at COOPERATIVES AND WORKERS-OWNED ENTERPRISES AS The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) hosted a historic international conference on cooperatives and worker owned enterprises in Berlin in early November, bringing together leading activists, labor officials, and academics from throughout the world. Skip to main content Grassroots Economic Organizing

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