Greetings, members and friends of CWCF,

By Bruce Reynolds (Rural Cooperatives Magazine, Jan/Feb 2012 - United States Department of Agriculture)

By Trudy Kelly Forsythe

The arrival of a new year is always a great reason to celebrate, but this year parents in the greater Moncton area have one more reason – the opening of the Downtown Daycare Co-op in the city’s new Peace Centre at 22 Church Street.

More than 1,300 people from some 65 countries attended the International Forum of the Social Economy (the Fiess) held during the week of October 17, 2011. Undoubtedly, the event was a unique moment for the actors of the social economy to discover the best practices and the opportunity to see...

WHEREAS we believe the best way to achieve the common good is through voluntary collective action and mutual self-help as described in the international principles of co-operation;

WHEREAS music and song are powerful forces for change in popular movements for collective well...

Dear members and friends of CWCF,

First of all, in our Quebec Conferences, we succeeded!

We have done something extraordinary. We came together. We formed CICOPA-North America, for all of Quebec, the rest of Canada and the US – at a minimum.

By Jessica Gordon Nembhard (Grassroots Economic Organizing, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, City University of New York – John Jay College)

OWN THE ZONE is an international fundraising campaign to secure the down payment for the tenants of 91 Albert Street in Winnipeg. The cooperative management and purchase of this building is a vital step to ensuring a permanent space for groups to organize, model progressive practices and provide...

Check out the latest CWCF newsletter: Updates on the Business Succession and Worker Co-operative Conference, the new COCO Cafe, Eastern United States Conference for Workplace Democracy Diary, Thailand's Dignity Returns, Robert Oakeshott and more!

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