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Resilience: Co-ops 101: An Introduction to Cooperatives 3/3

Submitted by Gerrit on Thu, 05/12/2016 - 3:46pm

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The cooperative is a form of organization for business or for consumers that works for the betterment of the local community - its people, environment, and its economy.
This is Part 3 in a three-part series on co-ops.
Part 1 is here http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-co-ops-101-introduction-co...
Part 2 http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-co-ops-101-introduction-co...

If you haven't noticed by now, allow me to point out that in the Resilience Group we're building a resource base for political revolution at the local community level. (And at the personal level.)

* We have a four-part series on Democratic Socialism herehttp://caucus99percent.com/content/local-resilience-democratic-socialism...
* We have this three-part series on the basics of Cooperatives, with many more specific posts planned.
* We have the concrete examples of towns that have transformed themselves into flourishing local resilience:
Totnes, England, the most resilient town in the world and founder of the global Transition Town movement. See here http://caucus99percent.com/content/local-resilience-transition-town-totn...
Wilpoldsried, Germany, which used renewable energy to transform itself into a resilient social-democratic rural town. See here http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-democratic-socialism-appro...

If we keep at it, we will collect tons of resources on c99 for folks willing and able to do the work of transforming their local communities. The Community Page will continue to raise consciousness of the iniquities of our corporate-ruled world. And the Resilience Group will continue to build resources for building resilient local communities and resilient individuals to thrive despite the corporatist rule.

As for Part 3 of Co-ops 101, see below.

Is there any reason to hope?

Submitted by don mikulecky on Thu, 05/12/2016 - 2:40pm

I have virtually stopped writing and read less and less. I feel very alone. I am watching a system fall apart and as I watch the people in it seem to be engaged in even more theater than before.

This is not an election we are watching and maybe participating in. It does not even resemble an election. For years and years some of us have pointed out that our elections are a theater used by the oligarchy to narcotize a television watching audience.

Common Sense- Hillary's server issue

Submitted by Borkrom on Thu, 05/12/2016 - 2:28pm

Okay, I am going to try to use a little common sense to discuss why Hillary Clinton should get in trouble for your own private server. The type of trouble should range for government reprimand to potential criminal proceedings. I am not recommending a finding or ruling against her, my case to you is there is something wrong with her using a private server in the first place- lack of common sense.

A creepy obsession in New Hampshire

Submitted by Robyn on Thu, 05/12/2016 - 2:21pm

The New Hampshire Union Leader attacked Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the entire Obama Administration in an editorial for "creeping into bathrooms."

The Justice Department has filed a ridiculous lawsuit against North Carolina for its law overturning a Charlotte ordinance that told private businesses how to manage their bathrooms.

The eradication of any legal distinction between the sexes, even in terms of basic biological functions, is a creepy obsession on the left. Lynch’s attempt to abuse the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Violence Against Women Act in pursuit of this bit of social engineering undermines those landmark laws.

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