Subscribe to Dollars & Sense magazine. Recent articles related to the financial crisis. 2nd US Federation of Worker Cooperatives ConferenceD&S co-editor Chris Sturr and business manager Esther Cervantes spent the weekend in New York at the 2nd US Federation of Worker Cooperatives conference. Panel topics ranged from nuts-and-bolts—How to Make Your Co-op Loan-Ready—to big-picture—Unions and Worker Cooperatives: Is There Room for Collaboration?. And we got to meet tons of people who work in co-ops, to discuss their models of worker participation and ownership, and learn about the products and services they offer. There are small non-profit collectives like D&S, large, for-profit, employee-owned service providers like Cooperative Home Care Associates, and everything in between. And co-ops offer everything from publications and home health care to haute cuisine and web design, coffee, cheese, bike repairs, and car parts. (Check out the list of USFWC members.)Highlights for D&S included raising awareness about the magazine, especially through our special joint issue with Grassroots Economic Organizing on cooperatives and the solidarity economy, raising funds for USFWC by auctioning off a D&S subscription and books, and learning how D&S helps activists, organizers, and other co-ops. During the conference's opening reception at Colors restaurant, a manager came up to us and said that two diners in the past week told her they went to Colors because they heard about it in D&S. (coverage: 2006; 2004) Please consider donating to Dollars & Sense and/or subscribing to the magazine (both print and e-subscriptions now available!). |
