Notices by Grassroots Economic Organizing (geo_collective@social.coop)

How can mutual aid work as a strategic response to the present political moment, alongside direct action and other tactics?

https://geo.coop/gleanings/mutual-aid-strategic-response

How the employee ownership model could be expanded to potentially build a truly democratic worker-owned economy
#workercoops

https://geo.coop/articles/adapting-employee-ownership-truly-democratic-businesses

Don't miss this webinar with @ntnsndr and Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, happening in 45 minutes!

How Has Structural Racism Held Back the Co-op Movement?
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/07/how-has-structural-racism-held-back-co-op-movement

@luis_in_brief @ntnsndr If the members decide they want the co-op to provide clean power, the leadership needs to work to make that happen. If the members want clean power generation and the leadership acts to subvert that desire, it is a failure of the cooperative structure, not it working as intended. Here's one example of co-op members taking (back) control of their electric co-op to rectify failures of this sort 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJHRMCxbrM