Hidden in plain sight: How do UK national newspapers report on co-operatives? Is there media bias & are co-ops neglected in mainstream journalism? Anita Mangan analyses coverage across UK national newspapers & points to continued need for co-operative journalism & journalism about co-ops. https://doi.org/10.61869/QZIR9898
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The economics of social care are highly problematic in terms of both quality of care and workers' rights. This paper argues co-operatively organised solutions based on an ethic of care, enhanced worker voice, & wider democratic participation in the sector as a way forward. https://doi.org/10.61869/CNBK4650
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Explore the perseverance and resilience of housing co-ops. In this 2024 paper Pfatteicher et al. trace the evolution of housing co-operatives in Germany from their beginning 160 years ago to the present against the backdrop of an ever-changing political, economic, social, and cultural environment. #coops #mutuals https://doi.org/10.61869/GCSP6342

Cooperative AI, the first global conference on cooperatives and artificial intelligence
November 11–14, 2025 | Istanbul
https://platform.coop/blog/call-for-practitioners-and-researchers/
#coop #coops #cooperative #AI

"In a joint letter to Congress, the coalition emphasized the critical role Section 199A plays in maintaining the competitiveness of farmer co-ops and their members against corporations that benefited from the permanently reduced corporate tax rate under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act."
#Agriculture #Coops

https://drgnews.com/2025/04/08/broad-agriculture-coalition-urges-congress-to-permanently-extend-section-199a-tax-provisions/

Demo video dropped for https://apply.coop

https://spectra.video/w/eXqrUXVRE91Z2y1SaxBq2t

Welcome @bunkcomputer to the worker-ownership movement! #coops

The fire's roaring

Our apply.coop repo finally got @WoodpeckerCI integration from @erkattak last night, while @blainsmith still pushes on features, and @jluther works on a teaser video and launch plan. We're getting very close!

Make sure you sign up at https://apply.coop to be notified and tell other co-ops (tech or not) you know about what we're trying to provide to the co-op movement!

Just read the transcript for the https://apply.coop teaser video @jluther wrote and it got me even more excited to get this thing into the wild soon. It is shaping up to be a very simple and direct app, but with a powerful purpose!

"It is important that we not collapse these differences even while recognizing a set of shared structural forces and logics. This is especially important as non-profits themselves are vulnerable to these structural forces. For example, non-profit organizations continue to feel impacts of the recession in both the increased demands for basic social services as well as the shrinking of government and foundation funding and individual donations. Many small organizations made up of poor and working-class members have dissolved or folded into larger non-profits. A lack of funding has led such groups to give up vital infrastructure and compensated staff positions, but the work continues through volunteer labor, in members' homes or donated space."

— Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, pp. xviii-xix

If non-profits are to serve as a tool for liberation and reconstruction, then they need their own productive forces to call upon for fueling their efforts. Subjugation to capital, be it directly through philanthropic foundations, indirectly through (capitalist) government funding, or even tortuously through individual donors --themselves dependent upon exchanging their labor to capital for the money they donate-- necessarily clips the non-profit's wings. It is always contorting itself upon the whims of capital. Perhaps a partnership between non-profits and co-ops, both worker owned and operated, could serve to foster such a development of productive forces beyond --or at least less hindered by-- the antagonistic ruling capitalist class's reach. In this model, non-profits could serve as a stabilizing foundation upon which less certain co-operative proletarian endeavors could build.

Hey! Are you interested in worker cooperatives and based in Ireland (North or South)?

I've just become a member with an organisation called SolidNetwork that helps support and educate on cooperative models and you should check them out too.

https://solidnetwork.ie/

'Algorithms have the character of a sticky jelly that seeps into every nook and cranny, and once it hardens, it’s hard to peel off.

Learning to control algorithms will ensure that they do not end up controlling us: our clicks, our tastes, our individual and collective thoughts and imagination. “We want to democratize knowledge of these tools and open them up to the public.”'

https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-03-23/why-everything-looks-the-same-everywhere.html

Video of our recent talk about our Limecast product at **Startup Tech Valley** is up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3MbUCWJsoQ

Chicken coup

#chickens #revolution #comics #coup #coops #coups #liberation #animalliberation

https://goodbearcomics.com/2021/09/23/chickens/

Continuing our habit (maybe not a good one) of writing toots based on Fediverse tech critique, just reiterating we have expertise in running git forges!

We've run https://git.autonomic.zone/ and https://git.coopcloud.tech/ (both with Drone) for many years.

There is however a new Gitlab @coopcloud recipe which is exciting - https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/gitlab

Feel free to reach out to us if you need Git hosting: https://autonomic.zone/

We can friendly provide hosting support for both Gitea and Gitlab. 100% worker controlled. No CEO. No reactionary bullshit.

We had another great call today. This time it was with a community land trust organization that's looking to provide a platform for fund seekers and fund providers to find each other and mutually benefit from a partnership.

How Co-Ops Are Building Stronger Communities, One Member At A Time
https://youtu.be/9CB29bjtlVE #Coops