"In 2017 the union set up Top Manta, a co-op that sells clothes, accessories and sportswear made by migrants. In doing so, it aims to improve the living conditions of the vendors and take them off the streets. Getting started was difficult, particularly due to the lack of access to capital but the co-op was able to raise €77,000 to launch its clothing brand through a crowdfunding campaign."
#Cooperatives

https://www.thenews.coop/how-top-manta-co-op-helps-barcelonas-street-vendors-formalise/

Love what we do? Consider donating to support our work. Every contribution makes a difference, and it's perfect for those who live outside #Leicester & #Leicestershire:

https://www.leicester.news/donate/

Co-ops UK is the UK's trade association for #Cooperatives Together, we believe in the power of cooperation and community ownership:

https://www.uk.coop/directory/leicester-gazette

We just sent out a newsletter with a bunch of stories from the cooperative ecosystem that caught our attention—find the web version here: https://www.village.one/garden/newsletter/039-bits-bobs-and-co-ops

Mentioned in it: @fontstand @limeleaf @101lab @GenoDigital @Greenheart @demnext @bocoup @hostsharing @subvertworld @workers_coop @tazgetroete and more

The photo is from a documentary about the Liberated Broom cooperative, also linked in the newsletter.

How worker co-ops can help restore social trust

https://lemmy.ca/post/41339209

Midway Dairy cooperative, near Santa Ana, California

Friends who are interested in #cooperatives, #commons, and #solidarityeconomy, please make a donation to GEO.coop. I found GEO when I was first learning about solidarity economy, submitted an article or two, and ended up joining the collective. A look at the website shows what a unique independent resource GEO is, covering organizing efforts around the world, sharing the work of leading theorist-practitioners like Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and @luisrazeto .

https://givebutter.com/PpQwWi

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗹𝗱—𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬.

Independent media. Community schools. Worker co-ops. Public banks. Mutual aid networks. Tech commons.

These aren’t utopian dreams—𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.

Turning off a memory today; we shut down the server a few hours ago as part of saying farewell to the Tau Ceti co-operative, which provided affordable web-hosting and email to hundreds of punters for twenty-something years. We hosted various famous and not-so-famous sites through those years, and moved our server through various Melbourne data centres - sometimes at almost no notice! I made some fabulous friends through helping out, but I can’t deny my shoulders feel a little lighter now that it’s over.

My lessons from this experience are these:

- there’ll be no shortage of people with opinions about what you should do, but look for the ones who’ll pitch in to help
- it’s ok for responsibilities to shift over time - indeed, it’s better if they do
- you don’t have to serve everyone - sometimes it’s far more helpful to help people move on if they’ve outgrown your co-op’s mission

https://robsnarski.bandcamp.com/track/turning-off-a-memory-merle-haggard

'Algorithms have the character of a sticky jelly that seeps into every nook and cranny, and once it hardens, it’s hard to peel off.

Learning to control algorithms will ensure that they do not end up controlling us: our clicks, our tastes, our individual and collective thoughts and imagination. “We want to democratize knowledge of these tools and open them up to the public.”'

https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-03-23/why-everything-looks-the-same-everywhere.html

As a proud member of Social Enterprise UK, we’re dedicated to making a positive impact in our community

https://directory.socialenterprise.org.uk/s/detail/001PK000006u7pmYAA

Economic democracy in action: cooperatives. #Cooperatives #democracy #humanity

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/liberated-broom-documentary-cleaners-belgium

Does anyone have any good resources for learning how to convert an existing US #501c3 #nonprofit into a nonprofit #CoOp? Also any general resources for starting and running a local community Co-Op (with a tech focus) would be appreciated!

#cooperatives #SocialCoop

/cc @GEO_Collective

Ets soci/a de @La_Directa?

Idò ja pots pujar a Ecotxe!

Gràcies al nostre acord de col·laboració, pots començar a utilitzar el servei de #carsharing de la cooperativa sense haver d'associar-t'hi.

Vos saber com? Molt fàcil! Segurix les passes aquí:

https://url.pangea.org/m2503cde

I’m in Thailand for a conference starting on Monday. I will prepare my presentation soon. I may include a 101 on #cooperatives and a 101 on #communityscience and relate them back to #solidarityEconomics. If you recommend resources right now, I’ll use them.

Alehop!

@bancaetica abandona #X