January 31, 2005 Dear Members and Friends, Warm Greetings! The Fair Trade Alliance (FTA) in partnership with the Union Network International-Phil. Liaison...
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Hello, The Kibbutz in Israel is quite known in the world as a rural community where standards of common life are kept for many years. The first Kibbutz was...
***Job Announcement*** Staff Position for the 2005 Western Worker Cooperative Conference The Board of Directors of the Western Worker Cooperative Conference is...
Hello, For those who are interested, new papers to download: English: 1. Letter to the Editor of the Review of International Cooperation: What is a Real...
Ministry of Education Prohibits Foreign Teachers and English Learning on Taiwan In a pair of published orders, http://www.tealit.com/tn.october12003.htm the...
thank you. taiwan teacher <taiwanteacher2002@...> wrote: Ministry of Education Prohibits Foreign Teachers and English Learning on Taiwan In a pair of...
Failures of Cooperatives. Zvi Galor www.coopgalor.com A. Reasons to the failures of Coops in Africa When discussing the failure of cooperatives in Africa and...
William, IMO, it's premature to start a new worker cooperative yahoo group. I'd first try and take this group in the direction you want to go -- which is...
Is there a message board anywhere for discussion of worker co-ops? Although mailing lists are good for getting announcements, I don't find them very conducive...
I agree with Doug... Let's make this group work for you, William. What are the areas that you're most interested in sharing or learning about? Are you...
I agree. I am starting a business with some other people that will offer hosted forums. These forums can also act as mailing list archives, which means that...
Hello: I want to thank Doug and David for their kind invitation to stay in this group. Here is what I would like to see. I would like this group to NOT have...
... I think there is a lot of similarity to dating. We want to find partners with similar goals, abilities and whom we can trust. So how do we meet such...
You mention avoiding theoretical discussions, but wouldn't that preclude discussions of coop principles and ethics and accounting methods and anything like...
I want to thank David Chilcott for his challenging and interesting questions. Here are my answers, in this moment. I encourage others to post their answers as...
Prospective cooperators have to be in approximately the same business. Maybe it doesn't have to be exactly the same, but obviously a computer programmer needs...
I personally would like to see practical hands-on discussion of principles and ethics of with a heavy focus on democratic worker coops. I also would like to...
... Gosh, I hope that this is not like dating!!! <snip> The problem is that before you jump into anything with partners you have to know quite a bit about them...
Hi, This post came to the workercoop Yahoo group. I think it is an important piece. Susan Halevi Verran, Steiker, Fischer, Edwards & Greenapple, P.C. Writes in...
... On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:23:18 -0800 (PST), Doug ... Thanks, Franklin. I didn't look at the links which you did a good job setting up. I immediately clicked...
I have tried using meetup.org a few times for other kinds of groups and it only seems to work when there are a very large number of people involved in that...
How many different groups are working on coop-related sites at the moment? I'm working on a portal/discussion site with one goal being to connect potential...
Practical: Don't start a coop, start a business which is organized as a coop. To be viable you have to be able to make a living. First and foremost, understand...
Dear Workerownedcoop group, I think its great there is so much activity in the group right now. I think it would be useful to know how many people, from which...
... What will your site offer that this one doesn't? I took over this site when it was abandoned because there was no other open worker coop forum that I knew...