October is co-op month and we are fast approaching 2025, the International Year of the Cooperative. Find resources to share and plan your co-op celebrations and communications via NCBA CLUSA and ICA.
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CoMinnesota Visioning Session
Join us at Broken Clock Brewing Co-op Tuesday, November 19 from 4:30-6:30pm. Click here to register. At this gathering, we will have time for open networking and participation with a number of written prompts around the room that will gather your ideas for the future of CoMinnesota. Drop-in style event with a brief program at […]
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Friday May 12, 2023 Midland Hills Country Club2001 Fulham StRoseville, MN 55113 (map) Arrive at 1pm with service at 1:30. Dessert reception and conversation with friends will follow.(Plans to record and possibly livestream the service are pending.) Louie passed away on March 13 after a walk with his beloved spouse and fellow life adventurer, Jill […]
Continue readingMore TagThe (food) Co-op Wars documentary and bonus material
In the 1970s, young people in Minnesota radicalized by the Vietnam War created a unique alternative economy featuring dozens of food cooperatives, but a shadowy revolutionary group used conflicts over class and race to try to seize the movement. The ensuing clash pitted friends and comrades in a sometimes violent conflict over the future of […]
Continue readingMore Tag2021 Oct 3 Newsletter PBS broadcast of Co-op Wars Documentary
PBS to broadcast The Co-op Wars documentary. October 2021 THE CO-OP WARS tells the story of the idealistic youth who tried to build an alternative to corporate capitalism, the violent struggle that almost tore them apart, and their eventual success in ways they never foresaw. In the 1970s, young people in Minnesota radicalized by the […]
Continue readingMore TagThe Evolution of the Cooperative Identity
Democracy and Equity. Self-Help & Solidarity. Concern for Community Since 1844, co-operative enterprise been guided by the principles established by the Rochdale Pioneers in the North of England. Well, yes — but not quite. In founding their co-op, the Pioneers were building on many experiments that came before them. And while their model spread rapidly, it […]
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021 2:00 pm ET Register Here Working People and Business Owners. Weavers and Socialists. Democracy Activists and Abolitionists. Over 170 years ago, a small group of people founded a humble grocery co-op in the North of England with an ambitious vision for a better world. Building on earlier experiments in co-operative enterprise, their ideas […]
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Go here to see eNewsletter. Tuesday, April 13 2:00 pm ET Register Here Working People and Business Owners. Weavers and Socialists. Democracy Activists and Abolitionists. Over 170 years ago, a small group of people founded a humble grocery co-op in the North of England with an ambitious vision for a better world. Building on earlier experiments in co-operative enterprise, […]
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See online version of eNewsletter here. Rod Nilsestuen Legacy Event Far-Field Effects of Sea-Level Rise:We Are All Coastal Wednesday, March 31, 20214:30 – 6:00 PM CST ● Virtual Register Here What is the impact of climate change on wealth transfer in the Heartland? Rising sea level has immediate and obvious impacts to the coastal […]
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Arts Cooperative to open Thurs. Feb. 27 in Minneapolis Longfellow Neighborhood MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – A week from Thursday, a new cooperative will open in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis along Minnehaha Avenue. It will be the first time this group of Black artists will have a space to call their own. The Black Table Arts Cooperative, […]
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