Month: March 2019

Introduction to Cooperatives & the Cooperative Principles and Values – Sat., March 30, 2019 plus “The Legal Aspects of Starting a Co-op” on April 6, both events from 1 to 4pm in South Los Angeles

Come get an overview, meet other like-minded friends, and learn about upcoming opportunities.      Both workshops will be held at the Community Healing and Trauma Prevention Center • MLK Center for Public Health 11833 Wilmington Ave • Los Angeles, CA 90059 Location: Right off the Green Line Metro Stop, Willowbrook/Rosa Parks. 

Sponsored by Collective Remake.   

Presenters/Facilitators:
Niki Okuk founded Rco Tires in 2012. Between 2012 and 2018 RCO recycled more than 300 million pounds of rubber, diverting 70 million gallons of oil from landfills with 16 employees, making it one of southern California’s largest sustainability plants. Rco created alternative uses for trash tires, turning them into new products. Okuk believe in holding up progressive hiring and management practices, to provide jobs for local black and Latino residents who struggle to find employment because of past criminal convictions or legal status.

Okuk grew up in Los Angeles and majored in economics at Columbia University. After working in development with the office of Joseph Stiglitz and working in finance in Korea and Singapore, Okuk completed her MBA with Nanyang University in Singapore, including a sustainability certificate at Sloan School of Business at MIT.

Collective REMAKE: Art, Business, Education, Jobs, News, People, and Recycling for Sustainability is a unique social enterprise—in Los Angeles County—designed to support the creation of worker-owned businesses and other kinds of cooperatives with people who have been incarcerated and other individuals who are marginalized socially and economically due to race, sex, class, gender identity, age or ability.

A worker cooperative is a for-profit business that is owned and managed by the people that work there. Workers come together to meet common financial, social and cultural needs for themselves, their community and future generations.

There are not enough economic opportunities for people in South Los Angeles, especially for people when they come home from prison or jail. The lack of housing, job opportunities, and services make re-entry extremely difficult. Worker cooperatives are a real option for people who historically experience life-long discrimination in the workforce as the workers are their own boss and they decide the hiring criteria.

PLEASE DONATE TO COLLECTIVE REMAKE Your Donation is Tax Deductible #83-0769986

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California Co-op Conference – Sunday and Monday April 28-29, 2019 in Sacramento

Keynote: Nathan Schneider will draw from his recent book, Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy, as well as his two previous books, God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet and Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse, in his keynote address: “The Hidden Consensus of Cooperative Business: In a time of political polarization”. More about Nathan here

CONFERENCE BREAKOUT SESSIONS cater to the needs and interests of cooperators along a continuum of experience–from the novice to the co-op expert. Workshop Descriptions are organized by topic category:

CLE: Continuing Legal Education Credit, CA State Bar
ALL: Applicable to all types of co-ops
Food: Mostly relevant to Consumer Food Cooperatives
Housing: Mostly relevant to Housing Cooperatives
Worker: Mostly relevant to Worker Cooperatives

See workshops here

See speakers here

Register here

Lots more info: https://cccd.coop/events/2019-california-co-op-conference

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What’s going on in the world of intentional community? with Sky Blue from FIC – Friday, March 22, 2019 at 8:00 pm (veggie potluck at 7pm)

The intentional communities movement is growing and evolving. New, innovative communities are expanding our conception of what they can look like and why they matter. Communities that have been around for decades are helping us articulate the lessons learned and how they can be applied. A growing number of organizations supporting a range of regenerative communities are coming together to collaborate, and intentional communities are increasingly finding their place in a much larger movement of movements working towards a cooperative, just, and sustainable world. Come for a presentation, Q&A, and discussion with Sky Blue, Executive Director of the Fellowship of Intentional Community.

EVENT DETAILS:

Sky Blue

Date:
Friday, March 22, 2019

Time:
Veggie potluck 7:00 to 8:00pm
(please bring your own non-throw-away eating ware to make this a zero waste event)
Talk, discussion, Q&A: 8:00 to 10:00pm

Location:
117 Bimini Place
Community Room
L.A. Eco-Village
Los Angeles 90004

Fee:
$5 to $10 sliding scale (no one turned away)

Reservations please:
213-738-1254 or crsp@igc.org

About Sky
Sky Blue has spent the last 20 years living in, working for, and networking and organizing intentional communities, cooperatives, and community organizations. He works as the Executive Director for the Fellowship for Intentional Community and is a founder and core steward of the Global Ecovillage Network of North America Alliance. He’s visited dozens of communities and cooperatives, in the US and in Europe, consulted with a variety of groups, and has helped organize Communities Conferences at Twin Oaks, on the West Coast, and in the Southwest.

See Sky’s blog here

Green City: The Best Climate Change Remedy You Haven’t Heard About – Thursday, March 23, 2019 at Silver Lake Library

Dr. John Odell will discuss Climate Change Solutions on the national and international stage.


John Odell is Professor Emeritus and Former Director, School of International Relations, USC.  Earlier he served as an officer in the US Army in Vietnam and member of the Harvard University faculty.  He is the author or co-author of 3 books and many articles and editor of 3 more books.   He has specialized on the governance of the world economy and the process of negotiating agreements over trade, finance, and climate.   He has conducted field research in Europe, Asia, and Latin America as well as the United States, and has been invited to give lectures in many countries.  Today he concentrates his work on improving US policy and global governance of climate change and international trade. He co-directs the Fixing Climate Governance Project at the Centre for International Governance Innovation  He attended the 2015 UN conference in Paris that produced a historic climate agreement.  His latest publications are Our Alarming Climate Crisis Demands Border Adjustments Now. February 2018. Geneva: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development and How the United States Can Do Much More on Climate and Jobs. 2016. Policy Brief 7, Fixing Climate Governance Series, Centre for International Governance Innovation


Location: Silver Lake Branch Library

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