Tag: Associations

  • Traditional Forms of Cooperation Basis for Modern Cooperatives in Sudan

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    In a recent editorial, the Sudan Vision supports using traditional forms of cooperation in their country as the basis for forming modern cooperatives: The cooperatives have been developed in a local context to solve problems that beset ordinary people, based on the traditional mutual work in the specific local environment. Cooperatives movement has its deep-rooted…

  • GRITtv Spotlights Cooperatives in the Month of July

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    For the month of July, GRITtv will spotlight a few cooperatives that are growing an alternative economy. This week they are airing Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young of the documentary Shift Change which explores existing cooperatives in the U.S.  “Cooperatives in the United States have existed more or less under the radar. Taking many forms: worker cooperatives, housing…