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some notes and links related to intentional communities

cooperatives

A co-op, or cooperative, is an autonomous association of people who join
together to meet their common goals through a jointly owned and
democratically controlled organization. There are co-ops in almost every
sector of the economy: housing co-ops, worker co-ops, producer co-ops,
healthcare co-ops, financial co-ops, and many more.

— NASCO

values

Cooperatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility,
democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity. In the tradition of their
founders, cooperative members believe in the ethical values of honesty,
openness, social responsibility and caring for others.

- from [ica.coop]

principles

Cooperative Principles

1. Voluntary and Open Membership

2. Democratic Member Control

3. Member Economic Participation

4. Autonomy and Independence

5. Education, Training, and Information

6. Cooperation among Cooperatives

7. Concern for Community

student housing cooperatives

i spent the majority of college living in a [student housing cooperatative]

in santa barbara. i really enjoyed a lot of parts of living in

[non-market],

non-profit housing, with shared ownership, and responsibility of all the good

(and bad) things that happened there. while i don't think it was easy, or for

everyone, i feel that it helped me grow a lot and i cherish the experience. the

sb coops allowed member owners to serve on the board of directors, which was

great to learn more about the operation of a

[501c3] business. while i was acting as

treasurer on the board of directors, we were able to expand our coops to

include a new house, named "merton" - which houses just under 20 people or so.

cooperative conglomerates

mondragon

the [mondragon

corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mondragon_corporation) is one of the

world's larges cooperative federation, in the basque region of spain. it

operates across finance, industry, retail and knowledge sectors and employs

~75,000 people. it is a worker owned cooperative,, which [noam

chomsky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9sv6peqguk) called an example of

"partial" and "pieces" of [anarchism] enterprise, when

viewed as a type of worker owned syndicalist approach to organizing. coming out

of the spanish civil war, a catholic priest named josé maría arizmendiarrieta

help found the federation of cooperatives (see video

[here].

inspiration

one earth

[project kamp] is a group that are creating an

intentional community in portugal. i really like the organization and its very

neat to their focus on pragmatic environmentalism with an eye towards locality,

longevity, but also considering global processes. [project kamp]

is one component of a larger network called [one army].

one of the particularly cool aspects of their approach is that they film and

share their progress on youtube and also have "research modules" for sharing

what they've learned in the process towards a bunch of things. this ends up

creating a guide of sorts to follow in their footsteps. you can see more about

the general idea/plan [here].

Gemini Links:

index and recent changes

directory of all pages

anarchism

Web Links:

ica.coop

student housing cooperatative

non-market

501c3

here

project kamp

project kamp

one army

here