Members of MEC are reacting to a proposal to give its board control over the co-op's elections.
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Democracy and the value of co-operation: An open letter to MEC members
The board of directors of Mountain Equipment Co-op has introduced a Special Resolution, requiring approval by at least 75 per cent of voting members, that seeks to give the board power to choose which candidates appear on the nomination ballot according to criteria that the board itself defines. We are writing on behalf of scores of concerned MEC members across Canada, and we ask that all MEC members please read the following before deciding how to vote.
Why we care
Precarious labour: Interview with San Precario Connection organizer Alessandro Delfanti
| September 11, 2010The Toronto anarchist assembly and bookfair
Apr 9 2010 - 12:00am
Apr 11 2010 - 12:00am
Location
Toronto
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TorontoCanada
43° 40' 12.8388" N, 79° 23' 12.318" W
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THE TORONTO ANARCHIST ASSEMBLY AND BOOKFAIR
April 9, 10, 11 2010
**SCHEDULE**
FRIDAY APRIL 9, 7 to 9 p.m.
Contact name:
the anarchist group
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A book launch with a panel discussion on cooperatives in a changing economy
Dec 3 2009 - 3:00pm
Dec 3 2009 - 4:30pm
Location
Conference Room, 5th Floor, York Research Tower
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 46' 26.4288" N, 79° 29' 37.7124" W
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Books:
Cooperatives in a Global Economy: The Challenges of Cooperation Across Borders.
Living Economics: Canadian Perspectives on the Social Economy, Cooperatives, & Community Economic Development.
Panel discussion:
Jack Craig, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology at York University.
Jack Quarter, Professor, OISE, and Director, Social Economy Centre at the University of Toronto.
Sally Miller, Director, West End Food Coop, and author of Edible Action.
Union co-ops the future of labour?
A new collaboration between North America's largest industrial union and the world's largest worker-owned co-operative has reinvigorated proponents of an alternative to top-down business models. Unions and co-ops also look to such partnerships as a way to strengthen their respective memberships.
West End Food Co-op Launch Event
Nov 2 2009 - 7:00pm
Nov 2 2009 - 9:00pm
Location
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON Canada
Phone:
(416) 533 6363
43° 38' 33.2952" N, 79° 25' 36.66" W
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LOCAL FOOD FOR LOCAL TASTES
The launch of the West End Food Co-op's bond campaign on November 2nd
Join the West End Food Co-op for music, food and discussion at our upcoming launch event with community members, supporters and partners! Food activists, farmers, artisans, non-profit organizations and others have come together to create the West End Food Co-op: an innovative non-profit cooperative of multiple stakeholders, which plans to open a community owned food store in late 2010 or early 2011.
Contact name:
Hannah Lewis
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The cure for layoffs: Fire the boss
In 2004 we made a documentary called The Take about Argentina's movement of worker-run businesses. In the wake of the country's dramatic economic collapse in 2001, thousands of workers walked into their shuttered factories and put them back into production as worker cooperatives. Abandoned by bosses and politicians, they regained unpaid wages and severance while reclaiming their jobs.
As we toured Europe and North America with the film, every Q&A ended up with the question, That's all very well in Argentina, but could that ever happen here?
