Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op | P2P Foundation - 0 views
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Candidate Donald Trump made a campaign stop in February 2016 hosted by South Carolina’s Broad River Electric Cooperative.
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By the onset of the Great Depression, few people in the rural United States had electricity at home—about 10 percent. The power companies that had lit up the cities simply didn’t see enough profit in serving far-flung farmers. But gradually some of those farmers started forming electric cooperatives—utility companies owned and governed by their customers—and strung up their own lines.
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We typically think of our democratic institutions as having to do with politicians and governments. But there are democratic businesses, too—not just these electric co-ops, but also hulking credit unions, mutual-insurance companies, and ubiquitous cooperative brands from Land O’Lakes to the Associated Press. Their democracy is fragile. When it’s not exercised or noticed, these creatures act on their own volition.
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EU agreement on sustainable development highlights role of co-ops - Co-operative News - 0 views
Fearless Cities: the new urban movements | Red Pepper - 0 views
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‘Fearless Cities’, a gathering of over 700 people, representing dozens of experiments in taking power at city level, to empower citizens’ movements worldwide. More than a coming together of a series of local experiments, it marked the ‘coming out’ party for a new global social movement.
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A wave of new municipalist movements has been experimenting with how to take – and transform – power in cities large and small.
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it became necessary to change who the movement made demands of.
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Catalan co-ops express support for independence referendum - Co-operative News - 0 views
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