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Join Collective REMAKE and the Co-op Community in Leimert Park
Saturday May 22, 2021
Collective REMAKE is co-sponsoring Worker Co-ops Day organized by
L.A.Co-op LAB and Ride ON! Bike Shop.
Please Join us! Meet our board members and colleagues in our Co-op Development Program. Team members from the Lived Experience Life Consulting Co-op and the The Art Co-op will be there.
The Art Co-op is testing new products. Come help us out! We are developing innovative products that are sustainable and made by people directly impacted by incarceration and working it out in the community.
Lived Experience Life Consulting Co-op wants to talk to you about your ideas and ways to eliminate trauma and racism inside organizational structures we work in every day.
Sign up for Collective REMAKE’s summer workshop series! More details at the event!
See you there!
Registration Still Open for Cooperative Education and Development Workshops
Registration for Collective REMAKE’s next Co-operative Education and Development series is now open to people who are directly impacted by incarceration and are navigating reentry. Family and loved ones are welcome.
Collective REMAKE is offering the next series of ten workshops. A stipend is offered to for people impacted by incarceration.
REGISTRATION for Saturday series and Tuesday series is still open.If you want to know more, you can join an orientation on January 27 and March 2, 2021 Please email us if you are interested.
2021.Collective REMAKE CEAD Workshop ApplicationDOWNLOAD
Moving Forward with Co-operative Education & Development Series
Registration for Collective REMAKE’s next Co-operative Education and Development series is now open to people who are directly impacted by incarceration and are navigating reentry. Family and loved ones are welcome.
Moving Forward with Co-operative Education & Development Series
Registration for Collective REMAKE’s next Co-operative Education and Development series is now open to people who are directly impacted by incarceration and are navigating reentry. Family and loved ones are welcome.
Stay Home & Stay Safe this Holiday Season
Collective REMAKE is supporting this campaign sponsored by Health Services, Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership LARRP, and Christ Centered Ministries , CCM
It is critical to get the word out on Covid Safety at this time, as cases grow in numbers by thousands. Poor communities and communities of color will continue to suffer the most. This holiday we must agree to do things differently for the good of the whole.
Please share out to your community.
Introduction to Co-operatives
One Member, One Vote
by Mary Sutton
GEO- Grassroots Economic Organization
In this exploratory case study, interviewed Tim Huet, co- founder of the Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives ( modeled by the Mondragon cooperative from Basque, Spain), and Dr. Carol Prejeaon Zippert, co-foounder of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives.
The article presents an in-depth analysis of two successful cases, two inspirational leaders in the emerging world of cooperative development, and a beautiful poem written by Dr. Carol Zippert.
Thank you GEO for publishing it!
Interview: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard on past lessons for economic empowerment
By Anca Voinea Co-op News 4 July 2020
Also See:The Association of Cooperative Educators, ACE, links researchers, trainers, developers and communicators interested in cooperatives and credit unions, primarily in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. It operates in English, French and Spanish. Featured as part of the ACE Webinar Series Marginalized populations and crises: how to get out of reinforced marginalization through cooperation? “If the global Covid-19 pandemic puts society at risk, it nevertheless affects the most vulnerable, such as women, refugees, migrants or racialized people, much more violently, due to economic and social inequalities. How can cooperatives help marginalized individuals and groups and ensure their long-term empowerment?” (ACE)
With Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and Claudia Arroyo
The Time is Now
A Time of Crisis: W. E. B. Dubois calls for a Co-operative Economy
In the September 1917 issue of The Crisis, W.E.B. Dubois, the founding editor, makes a call to the African American community to build a co-operative economy.* Dubois supported and promoted Cooperative Education and Development throughout his career. He often felt alone is his quest. His call was a response to a chain of events that took place the summer of 1917, and are recorded in the same issue.
On July 2, 1917, over 500 white people attacked the African American community in East Saint Louis, Illinois. They maimed, tortured, and killed men, women and children. They burned down the entire infrastructure of the community. W.E.B. Dubois and Martha Gruening went to East Saint Louis to cover the story in the aftermath of the devastation. The photographs and testimonials also published in The Crisis record the horrific violence, torture and total destruction wielded upon the African American community. The August 1917 issue, documents more details.
On July 28, 1917, over 1500 African American people held a silent march in New York City to stand up against the recent “race riots” in East Saint Louis, as well as other violent uprisings by white people in Waco, and Memphis. Dubois, was a participant in the march and was in awe at the numbers of people that came out to the peaceful protest. In his editorial he writes:
“Ten thousand of us marched the other day in New York City. Everbody said it could not be done. The ways were lined with rabbits, afraid even to walk for freedom, and yet, solemnly and simply, the Negroes of New York told the other citizens of New York their grief and resentment. That is but a little thing. We can do infinitely more. We can organize for industrial co-operation and we can begin with co-operation in distribution. In every large city where 10,000 or more Negroes live, the business of buying groceries, food, clothing and fuel can by a single determined effort, be put into the hands of colored people. This kind of distribution has been successful all over the world. Little is said about it because the leeches that have fattened on retail trade are too powerful with the newspapers. Distribution of the necessities of life, can be easily done with a tremendous saving to the people and the employment of colored men and women. The only thing necessary is for us to start; and to start we simply require that the same spirit of devotion and sacrifice, coupled with brains and training, that has sent young men and women to the ministry and the Y.M.C.A and Y.W.C.A work should be turned now among us Negroes and be put into business.
White people are not in business for their health. We should be in business for our health and for the health of the world”. W.E.B. Dubois, 1917