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	<title>The Company We Keep &#187; economic crisis</title>
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		<title>CO-OPS ON THE RISE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m still excited about the budding alliance between the United Steelworkers (USW) and the Mondragon Cooperatives – and the general awakening consciousness about worker co-operatives and co-operative business in general that I wrote about last month. And there’s more. Rodney North of Equal Exchange (the Massachusetts-based worker owned co op fair trade coffee company)   made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AN HISTORIC ALLIANCE</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend David Smathers of the TeamWorks Cooperative Network in California writes: “The Mondragon cooperatives and the United Steelworkers have announced an historic partnership through which they will buy or start manufacturing businesses in the U.S. and Canada that will combine Mondragon&#8217;s democratic structure of ownership and governance with collective bargaining. It will take many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Minefield</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading my last post, Values and Principles, Ross Chapin (www.rosschapin.com.) wrote to me.  Ross is an architect in the Northwest who has pioneered in the design and development of small “Pocket Neighborhoods” and is currently writing a book on the subject. Ross wrote, “On my end, we’ve somehow managed to get to this day without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Values and Principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of friends was here for a post-Labor Day vacation, enjoying the last harmonies of Vineyard summer – warm water, cool breezes, and empty roads.  Devon Hartman runs a design/build company in L.A. and Jamie Wolfe is a design/builder from Connecticut.  Dennis Allen runs a building company in Santa Barbara, CA.  Sal Alfano is [...]]]></description>
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