There’s a deep multi-cultural history of integrating social and economic co-operation with agricultural systems via a pattern widely referred to as “mutual aid”. Some examples of historical mutual aid societies that explicitly help farmers include The Grange, Via Campesina, Italian farming co-ops, and Cherokee Gadugi. Since land is the basis of all survival and of wealth, communities who manage landscapes together over long periods of time develop trust and co-operative resource sharing as survival strategies. Zev Friedman will share about his co-operative experience living at Earthaven Ecovillage and founding/participating in many co-op organizations, the intensive research he’s been engaged in for the last 4 years around mutual aid history, and the progress made so far to establish Co-operate WNC, a regional mutual aid organization. We’ll emphasize how to apply lessons from Mondragon and other co-operative endeavors to our own region in practical ways and give you clues to begin mutual aid in your own life and community as well as get engaged in Co-operate WNC. In part 9, a participant asks about a visioning process of cooperative economic models that address society on a larger scale.
VIDEO: Cooperative Economic Models for Our Region Part 9
There’s a deep multi-cultural history of integrating social and economic co-operation with agricultural systems via a pattern widely referred to as “mutual aid”. Some examples of historical mutual aid societies that explicitly help farmers include The Grange, Via Campesina, Italian farming co-ops, and Cherokee Gadugi. Since land is the basis of all survival and of wealth, communities who manage landscapes together over long periods of time develop trust and co-operative resource sharing as survival strategies. Zev Friedman will share about his co-operative experience living at Earthaven Ecovillage and founding/participating in many co-op organizations, the intensive research he’s been engaged in for the last 4 years around mutual aid history, and the progress made so far to establish Co-operate WNC, a regional mutual aid organization. We’ll emphasize how to apply lessons from Mondragon and other co-operative endeavors to our own region in practical ways and give you clues to begin mutual aid in your own life and community as well as get engaged in Co-operate WNC. In part 9, a participant asks about a visioning process of cooperative economic models that address society on a larger scale.
Thank you
Wears coveralls to give a talk, can you say costume…
im 10 mins in, is this a political rally?
omg these people struggle and fight, stumble over words, just to say anything, like they are creating none bombs… just comes off as cringy
one less subscriber for globalism
Answer to the opening question: a global Co-operative Commonweal where Co-operative Careship is the norm.
Thus a global Co-operative Commonweal composed of national and local Co-operative Commonwealths.
All achievable through the implementation of the living plan for Co-operative Socialism.
See You Tuble videos and radio interview on "Co-operative Socialism".
And the CCPA Reader on Co-operative Socialism in the papers' section at http://www.interestfreemoney.org
Btw, the hyphen in co-op and co-operative is important: very important: co-ops are not coops, cooperation is not co-operation . . .