By Pat Conaty (Associate, Co-ops UK), Dr. Julian Manley (Chair, Preston Cooperative Development Network), Ed Mayo (Secretary General, Co-ops UK), and Dr. Cilla Ross (Vice Principal, Co-operative College, UK) A transatlantic consensus and two-way thought leadership transfer is emerging between the U.S. 1worker1vote and U.K. union co-op movements, with Cincinnati, Ohio, and Preston in the U.K. serving as models for social…
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To Solve Food Access Problem, Cincy Neighborhood Looks to Model from Spain | NextCity
Zoe Sullivan writes about the Apple Street Market and Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative for NextCity: CUCI’s seeds were planted in 2009 following conversations between U.S. Steelworkers and representatives of Spain’s Mondragon cooperative business network, according to Kristen Barker, CUCI’s Executive Director. Mondragon’s network includes 120 worker cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain, employing over 70,000 worker-owners. The union cooperative model…
Healing America’s Regressive Gene
Mortality is universal and bipartisan: black lives do matter and lower economic class, middle-aged white lives with a high school diploma or less are driving actuarial chart curves downward by dying off more quickly than they should. Causes are also bipartisan: disintegrating family cohesion, worsening job prospects in a rapidly decaying, inequality-driven culture that commoditizes the people who work, and inferior…
Ohio Women’s Leadership Summit
Kristen Barker will be speaking about union co-ops at Senator Sherrod Brown’s Ohio Women’s Leadership Summit in Cincinnati on Nov. 7th. Registration is free, but an RSVP is required: http://www.brown.senate.gov/ohio-womens-leadership-summit
The Role of Food Hubs in Supporting a Local Food System | Perennia Discussion
Kristen Barker will be in Nova Scotia to discuss how Our Harvest and CUCI are creating a more sustainable food system as part of a facilitated discussion about food initiatives such as food hubs. WHEN: Sunday, November 9th at 10AM – 1PM (with a light lunch provided) WHERE: Just Us! Centre for Small Farms (14 Lower Grand Pré near exit 10…
