“I believe water is for everyone — it should be free,” he says from the roof of his building, which is full of solar panels to run the water pump.
( Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk — often compared to #Gaza was founded in 1957 by Palestinians displaced by the #Nakba )
https://jacobin.com/2025/12/syria-palestinian-refugees-water-thirst
#Cooperatives #Diaspora #MigrantWorkers #MutualAid #Palestine #Refugees #Solidarity #Syria #Yarmouk
RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115727830173127696
How to take back our world from the oligarchs!
Exploring a region in Italy where coops are protected and thrive, and how the people living there prosper because of it | More Perfect Union
📺 "We Found A Solution To America's Inequality. It's Not Where You'd Expect."
🗒 "Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy. "
“Co-operatives are not utopias — they are, after all, run by humans — but they do provide a structure for democratic decision-making, fairness and security. None of us is an island unto ourselves.
We need each other to ensure we all have the necessities of life — and the co-operative structures — to grapple with the existential threats we all face including climate change, the rise of disinformation and authoritarianism.”
#Cooperatives #Coops #DemocraticGovernance #Economics #EmpowerPeople
Yes, social enterprises and co-ops have to operate within a state-corporate system, they're not magically immune from the effects of this just because they have non-corporate or even anti-corporate ways of working, or legal structures. Their mere existence can't and won't solve all the problems our societies face.
But the more we can build the solidarity economy, the more resources we have to do the other work that's needed.
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Gorgeous corners and people in @sostrecivic’s Cireres (see post above)
#BancaEtica #Spain #Catalunya #cooperativeHousing #Winterrail #Winterrail2526 #GenEtica #cooperatives #coops #coop #cooperative #housingCoop #housing
Currently enjoying the sunset in #Barcelona from the rooftop of Cireres, a building built and owned by @sostrecivic, also thanks to a loan by Fiare Banca Etica.
(Housing) cooperatives will save the world! 💕
#BancaEtica #Spain #Catalunya #cooperativeHousing #Winterrail #Winterrail2526 #GenEtica #cooperatives #coops #coop #cooperative #housingCoop #housing
“The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.” - Socrates https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/quote-of-the-day-by-socrates-the-perfect-human-being-is-all-human-beings-put-together-it-is-a-/articleshow/125786932.cms?from=mdr #cooperatives #humanity
What Billionaires Don't Want You to Know about Italy's Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQMZR64G_eM
Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy...
#Italy #DemocraticEconomy #Cooperatives #Parma #Richest #Investigation
La Biblioteca de la Barceloneta activa una enquesta per decidir el logo del seu 25è aniversari
#Comunicaci #Cultura #Barris #Biblioteques #Cooperatives #Equipaments #Llibres #btvnoticies #Barcelona #beteve https://beteve.cat/cultura/biblioteca-barceloneta-busca-logo-25-anys/
Quick reminder that we’re still collecting applications for the web developer position at our worker-owned cooperative – you have until the end of Dec 15 to apply! 💁
Details in the quoted post, or of course also in the full job posting: https://www.village.one/garden/open-positions/web-dev
Still looking forward to hear from you! 💛
#GetFediHired #CraftCMS @CraftCMS #Cooperative #Cooperatives #WorkerCoop #WebDev
https://toot.village.one/@VillageOneCoop/115564826621883648
Employee ownership is growing. Strong local food systems benefit even more from local invested ownership. https://foodtank.com/news/2025/10/want-a-stronger-food-system-start-with-who-owns-it/ #foodsystems #ownership #cooperatives
@projectgus Nice. We at #MajavanTila also have such a double majority voting system for bigger changes.
Bylaws only in Finnish unfortunately (it's 7§).
https://www.majavantila.fi/fi/bylaws/
It's briefly mentioned in https://www.majavantila.fi/en/posts/2025/membership-benefits-2026/
Future Co-ops to explore community building to defeat the far right
(2) Human Right’s Day 2025
Check out also the ICA Declaration on Decent Work and Against Harassment here: https://ica.coop/en/media/library/ica-declaration-decent-work-and-against-harassment
#cooperation #cooperatives #humanrights
(1) Human Rights day 2025
This year’s theme, “Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials,” comes amid widening global inequalities: the richest 10% still capture over half of global income, while billions face barriers to decent work, education, and social protection.
Cooperatives contribute to this work
Visit the ICA conversation on human rights in value chains, featuring insights on fair recruitment, due diligence, and ethical supply chains: https://ica.coop/en/newsroom/news/human-rights-value-chains-cooperative-contributions
#humanrights #cooperatives
