Build Co-operatives Not Prisons Not Jails: A Pathway to Sustainable Economies and Community Empowerment

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Join Collective REMAKE and partners in a convivial participatory symposium: Learn, Share, Reflect, and Strategize!

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Collective REMAKE and community partners are holding an interactive symposium to inform community leaders and stakeholders about the co-operatives as a sustainable solution. Co-operative businesses offer a social and economic alternative in communities that have been impacted by high rates of incarceration and economic disenfranchisement.

Co-operative businesses are democratically run and owned by the people that work there. Co-operatives operate on the values of democracy, equality, equity, self-responsibility, self-help, and solidarity.

Please join USC Partners, Reentry Leaders, LA County Agencies, systems impacted community members, and co-operative developers to explore sustainable solutions that can address the complex needs of returning citizens and local communities.

  • How can co-operatives support people coming home from prison and jail?
  • What can co-operatives offer economically marginalized communities?
  • What are the most critical needs of people who are systems impacted?

Thank YOU to the LATTC ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN PROGRAM

To date sponsors of this event include:

  • Collaborate to Liberate, USC
  • Professor Marcela Oliva, LATTC Architecture and Environmental Design Program
  • Nearby Consulting
  • Trauma Informed LA
  • Unchained Scholars

For more Info contact msutton@collectiveremake.com, 310.709.8602

GO GREEN For Mother’s Day

Heirloom Tomatoes donated by Laurel’s Heirloom Tomato Plants

T-Shirts Donated by Kristal Graphics

Business Development Support and Coaching provided by Nearby Consulting

The Green Halcones is a social co-operative working to make neighborhoods beautiful, grow healthy food, and protect the environment for future generations.

The Green Halcones are
developing 3 programs:

• A local recycling project 

• An Urban beautification project

• A street/neighborhood clean-up project 

Be OUR Guest
May 12, 2023
1 pm – 5pm
5356 8th Avenue

Sponsors of this event include:
• Kristal Graphics
• Laurel’s Heirloom Tomatoes
• Nearby Consulting
• Timelist Group

Meet the Green Halocones!

The Green Halcones are working to build a social co-operative to make neighborhoods beautiful, grow healthy food, and protect the environment for future generations.

The Green Halcones are
developing 3 programs:

• A local recycling project 

• An Urban beautification project

• A street/neighborhood clean-up project 

Co-operative Education and Development: Towards “Abolition Democracy”

Co-operative Education and Development: Towards Abolition Democracy

Collective REMAKE members discuss co-operatives and how co-operative education and development can provide a sustainable economic solution.

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January 23, 2023, 6pm.

Co-operative Education and Development: Towards “Abolition Democracy”

Collective REMAKE members will discuss co-operatives and how co-operative education and development can provide a sustainable economic solution.

We will also give an overview of our Co-operative Education and Development Programming and upcoming workshops.

We hope to engage you, your clients, students, particularly individuals that you work with that are impacted by the carceral system.

Thank You

Mary Sutton

LA ECO ARTs Juneteenth Sale!

June 19, 20229 am – 3 pm

Leimert Park

find us in front of Ride ON! Bike Coop

LA ECO ARTS is a worker-owned art co-op in development and supported by Collective REMAKE. Member-owners are directly impacted by incarceration and economic marginalization

We are reclaiming lives and protecting the environment. We use sustainable or reused materials to build something useful while we use our hands and our hearts to build new lives.

Summer Workshops—ONLINE Application

Co-operative Education and Development (CEAD)
Summer Workshops—ONLINE Application

Six online workshops will be held:
Saturdays 11 am – 1 pm
July 10 – August 14, 2021
(workshops in process)

Introduction to Co-operatives: The Principles and Values
• History of Co-operatives Around the World
• Practicing Democracy: Consensus and Participatory Practices
• Just Transition: Moving Away from Extractive Economies
• Envisioning a Co-op Community: The Co-operative Business Model Canvas
• Steps to Starting a Co-operativ
e

These workshops are held for people who have been impacted by incarceration.
A small stipend is available per workshop.

If you work in the reentry community and are interested in the workshops please contact Mary Sutton: msutton@collectiveremake.com

Collective REMAKE Celebrates with LA Coop LAB and Cooperative Partners at Leimert Park – May 22, 2021

Collective REMAKE joined cooperative partners in Leimert in the first in person gathering since March 2020. Start-up teams for The Art Coop (to be named) and Lived Experience Life Consulting Co-op were there in force to sell their wears and survey the public as part of their feasability studies.

Also, colleagues celebrated their recent completion of the Cooperative Education and Development (CEAD) workshops series, many meeting each other for the first time in person.