Rivista Anarchica Focuses on American Cooperatives

An Italian online jounal focuses on cooperatives in the United States.

 

"In the Unites States of America, socialism and communism are considered by many to be bad, taboo words, but cooperation exists, and "worker-owned cooperatives" existed and prospered for many years to this day, thanks also to the spirit of enterpreneurship that is widespread and to the practice of democracy, practice that is tought at school, starting from the elementary grade. Cooperatives are part of the self-help tradition of America. Cooperatives are businesses organized by people to provide needed goods and services." 

 

The journal has overviews of about a dozen cooperatives, including

An Architectural and construction firm

Big TimberWorks Homes, Gallatin Gateway, MT

 A chain of three copy and print centers

CollectiveCopies, Amherst, MA

A co-op of 1,600 Home care providers

Cooperative Home Care Associates, New York, NY

A Chain of 4 (soon to be 6) bakeries and a cheese store

Arizmendi Bakeries, San Francisco Bay area, CA

A health food supermarket and general store

Rainbow Grocery Co-op, San Francisco, CA

A Bicycle store

Broadway Bicycle School, Cambridge, MA

A Wool spinnery

The Green Mountain Spinnery, Putney, VT

A new and used bicycle and repair store

Citybikes, Portland, OR

Installation and maintenance of food-producing gardens

C'Ville Foodscapes, Charlottesville, VA

A house and office cleaning cooperative

We can do it! Si se puede!, Brooklin, NY

A Housing Collective

Portland Collective Housing, Portland, OR

A Café

Red and Black Café, Portland, OR

Recycling drop-off centers across Central Texas

Ecology Action, Austin, TX

A Café and Bookstore

Firestorm Café and Books, Asheville, NC

A Inn & Hostel

Alexander House Inn & Hostel, Charlottesville, VA

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