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Let's Share Co-op Stories

It’s an exciting time for the co-operative movement and we’ve been busy sharing stories from the International Year of Co-operatives (IYC) launch.

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Home Grown Banks Around the World

The reason that banking is in crisis is because high street banks operate in the interests of their shareholders, not their customers. The positive alternative are co-operative and mutual banks, building societies and credit unions. These are owned by their customers, operate at more of a local level and stand or fall by how well they serve them.

Shaun Tarbuck

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U.K. Leads the World in Co-operative Legislation Reform
Can ‘Popular Capitalism’ Go Global?

On Jan. 26 I had the great privilege of being amongst a select group of co-operative leaders, including the International Co-operative Alliance's (ICA) Dame Pauline Green, who witnessed U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron admit to the failures of the capitalist model and announce long-awaited reform of co-operative legislation.

Jennifer Neutel

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Sharing the Best Kept Secret of Co-ops

With 2012 being the UN-declared International Year of Co-operatives (IYC) Axiom News has been continuing our commitment to the movement through sharing stories highlighting the unique and real contributions the co-op model makes to society.

Workplace Democracy

Co-op Model Makes Sense for Calgary Farmers’ Market
Vendors involved in ownership, guidance of organization

With more than 100 vendors selling their produce and goods at the Calgary Farmers’ Market, general manager Ken Aylesworth says being a co-operative makes sense as all the vendors have a way to work towards a common goal.

Timing Right for International Year of Co-operatives, says Kathy Bardswick
Understanding Credit Unions’ Unique Offerings
Sri Lanka Trip Demonstrates Co-ops’ Impact
Albertans Celebrate Co-ops, Look to Raise Awareness
Co-op Launch Events ‘Just the Beginning’
Strengths of Co-op Model Highlighted at IYC Launch

Stakeholder News

Social Media Innovation Day to Advance #Inclusion
13 different organizations who support people who have a disability attending day’s events

What’s a hashtag? Well, if you’re attending an upcoming social media workshop to advance the inclusion of people who have a disability, it’s not only a valid question but a tagline that will allow you to follow the events remotely via Twitter.

Stakeholder News

Axiom News Journalist Invited to Judge Social Business Competition
News Articles Offer Motivation to ‘Pay it Forward’
Advance Strategic and Communication Goals with Curation

Editorial

What Assets for Thriving Communities?

The outlook for many communities is increasingly bleak. In recent decades, commercial downturns have been buffered by the ability of our governments to provide stimuli, or even to simply keep our civil services healthy and employing people. This is no longer the case.

What if Co-ops and Appreciative Inquiry Connected?
Finding News in the Co-operative Story
Looking Ahead to Key Events

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Economist Predicts Co-op Capitalism Era

Economist professor Noreena Hertz has named Co-op Capitalism as the next economic era. Hertz wrote a paper, published by Co-operatives UK, which states: “Co-op Capitalism offers a new way forward that reconnects the economy with society and puts collaboration, community and the collective first.” Click here to read more in Co-operatives UK. Hertz is presenting on the subject in a keynote at The Co-operative Opportunity in London, England, Feb. 15.

Co-ops are Big

Read this Shareable Magazine blog highlighting an interview with director-general of the International Cooperative Association Charles Gould, who shares about Global 300, why 2012 is the right time for co-ops and how the average person can get involved.

Briefs

A Poem for International Year of Co-operatives

Storyteller Mary Pinkoski wrote and read a poem during the International Year of Co-operatives launch in Edmonton. The poem salutes those who founded the co-operative movement in Canada, for “the dairy farmers and the grocers, the insurance brokers and the bankers, all those who stand in community before wealth who value democracy and volunteers.” Read the poem in full here.

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