WORCS:

RESOURCES

COOPS, ORGANIZATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS

The US Federation of Worker Cooperatives:
http://www.usworker.coop

California Center for Cooperative Development:
http://www.cccd.coop/http://cccd.coop
/publications/

The Labor Council of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives:
http://unioncoops.wikispaces.com

National Cooperative Business Association:
http://www.ncba.coop/

Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives:
http://nobawc.org/

International Cooperative Alliance for the Americas:
http://www.aciamericas.coop/?lang=en

International Cooperative Alliance (Worldwide):
http://www.ica.coop/al-ica/

American Worker Cooperatives:
http://american.coop/ Fabulous Resource!

UC Davis Co-op Extension:
http://sfp.ucdavis.edu/cooperatives

OCCUPY WALL STREET STARTED ONE BACK IN NOVEMBER CALLED OCCUCOPY AND BOTH OCCUPY SAN FRANCISCO AND OCCUPY OC ARE SETTING UP CREDIT UNIONS.

MISCELLANEOUS

Cooperative Teach-In:
http://teach-in.coop/

Tool Box for Education:
http://toolboxfored.org/

Survey, statistics, charts, etc…(Canadian) – not just worker cooperatives:
http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2011-11-15-BALTAA11ReportBCCoopSurvival.pdf

UN Year of Cooperatives:
http://social.un.org/coopsyear/

ONLINE RESOURCES ON FORMING A WORKER COOP

How to start a worker cooperative:
http://www.usworker.coop/education

ARTICLES

The Evergreen Coop Model (GEO Article):
http://www.geo.coop/node/515

The Economist:

Evergreen Cooperative initiative:

Apollo Alliance LOW:

The Nation

RICHMOND COOPERATIVE LOAN FUND:
http://richmondcooploans.net/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhY_UTwpatk&feature=youtu.be
WITH THE MAYOR OF RICHMOND CA

RECOMMENDED READINGS

FILMS & VIDEOS

TED Talk Ted Howard Evergreen Cooperatives:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlm0WFglgA8

International Cooperative Alliance (Worldwide):
http://www.ica.coop/al-ica/

WE THE OWNERS (film trailer):
http://www.wetheowners.com/the-film.html

SHIFT CHANGE (the film):
http://shiftchange.org/

THE TAKE – The story of Argentina’s occupied and recovered workplaces:
http://thetake.org/
Watch online:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-take/

WATCH THE MOVIE: INSIDE JOB:
http://vimeo.com/54817244

The Mondragon Experiment:
1980 BBC Documentary on Mondragon

THIS WAY OUT video – A Guide to Starting a Worker Cooperative from Mighty Small Films:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0g4Z8hhqDg&feature=youtu.be

Evergreen Project in Cleveland Evergreen video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt_ZHUDhKjs

TEDx Talk on the Cleveland model:
http://tedxcle.com/talks/2011/
ted_howard.html

TEDx Talk — Andrew Stachiw and Brian Van Slyke: Corporations Cause the Problems, Cooperatives Create the Solutions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFtt1_Kf9wc&utm_source=buffer
&buffer_share=c0144

“24/7 Democracy: Living AND Working Coop” trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/JJNoire

Italy’s Emilia Romagna RegionJohn Restakis, Exec Dir of British Columbia Cooperative Assn’s talk on the Emilia Romagna coop region in May:
http://youtu.be/bPpLaLcqz7E
http://www.uwcc.wisc.edu/info/
bologna.html

http://auspace.athabascau.ca/bitstream/
2149/1111/1/Emilia_Romagna_Model.pdf