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The Prime Produce guild hall is booked out for the last week of #March so we're going to do this month's #dance in the #dark on the 19th. Join us for an hour of #exercise at your own pace by #dancing in a dark room with others sharing out the stresses of the week.

If you know folks in #NYC please share this. We look forward to welcoming all to the #cooperative space in #HellsKitchen

I'm having a hard time understanding what is going on with the Kerrygold #Cooperative. It doesn't seem like a demutualization event, but people are getting big payouts? Kerry Group and the dairy co-op are splitting up and the big company is buying back its shares from the co-op, so that's where the cash is coming from? But non-dairy producing co-op members are also getting cashed out? Do you understand @ntnsndr

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/11/12/kerry-group-agrees-to-sell-dairy-division-to-kerry-co-op-in-500m-deal/

Kerry Group agrees to sell dairy division to Kerry Co-op in €500m deal

Co-op will take a 70% stake in Kerry Dairy Ireland, with an. option to buy remaining share by 2030

^{Joe Brennan (The Irish Times)}

"Community servers for interdependent #feminist trans*feminist free/libre self-hosted #federated autonomous collective #cooperative community and #art servers "

A thorough historic overview by @monoskop

https://monoskop.org/Community_servers

The Cosmos Co-op Indiegogo crowdfunder is LIVE. With 28 days left, we're up to 10% of our funding goal. Here's your opportunity to join our creative evolution.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmos-co-op/

#coop #cooperative #giving

Cosmos Co-op

visionary arts & literary community dedicated to catalyzing our creative evolution | Check out 'Cosmos Co-op' on Indiegogo.

^Indiegogo

The first speaker, Cedar Barstow, has worked on this issue for 27 years. In the 1990s she was caught living overoccupied and sentenced to community service (after having to kick out her housemates).

She used her community service hours to help start the Boulder Housing Coalition, a non-profit #cooperative #housing developer.

https://www.bhccoops.org/

Home - Boulder Housing Coalition

People-Centered Housing Providing affordable community living that fosters human connection, social justice, and sustainability. Learn More Apply Now Community Sharing skills, resources, time, growth, and governance.

^{Boulder Housing Coalition}

12 years ago my housing #cooperative invited #BoulderCouncil candidates over for tea and cakes to talk about repealing laws that make it illegal to share housing in #Boulder. Many years of advocacy to enable co-ops as a special case and multiple city ballot measures and lawsuits later, only now is it finally coming to a vote. In the meantime Boulder housing costs have more than doubled. A live stream of the public hearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA5JVdBVOQk

Boulder City Council Meeting 8-17-23

^YouTube

After the Etsy strike, crafting a cooperative alternative https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2023/05/30/issue-8/

Basically, Etsy enshittified, making an income on etsy is worse and worse, the company ignored the strike, now its time to move on to a cooperative alternative, @coopartisans

#LaborTech #cooperative

After the #EtsyStrike, Crafting a Co-op Alternative

Valerie, a leather artisan, talks about durable collective action

^{TWC Newsletter}