Coop

This page exists to help May First understand the national and international coop and solidarity association landscape that might be relevant to our organization. It's not intended to be a comprehensive list of all coop associations, just the ones we may want to join.

General Associations

• ​International Cooperative Alliance - mainstream international organization
  • ​ICA discussion forum - Jamie is subscribed
• ​US Federation of worker coops - limited to worker coops in the US (we are members)
• ​US Solidarity Economy Network - International, focused on solidarity economy in general, Emily Kawano
• ​New Economy Coalition - network of orgs for deep change in economy
• ​National Cooperative Business Association - Does not seem movement focused at all
• ​NYC Network of Worker Coops - We are members.

Specifically Tech Related

• ​Platform Cooperativism Consortium - New School based consortium, Trebor Shortz, puts on NYC Platform Coop conference in November
• ​Internet of Ownership - runs several platform ​coop related projects, Nathan Schneider involved
  • ​email discussion lists - Jamie subscribed
• ​CoTech - tech related coops, based in UK, but seems to be international in scope
  • ​Forum - Jamie is subscribed
• ​Libre Host - Tech coops using free software, UK based
• ​https://npogroups.org/lists/info/tech-coop - Technology worker cooperatives - This list is about tech worker cooperatives: how to start them, how to sustain them, and how we

can help each other.

Others

• ​Open Coop seems to organize conferences but is UK based so not sure how relevant to us