Week 3

From digmovements

[edit] What is the “campaign” of your movement?

The campaign of cooperative movements is the cooperative leaders, supporters, and the members of all available cooperatives.

• "A cooperative is an enterprise in which individuals voluntarily organize to provide themselves and others with goods and services via democratic control and for mutually shared benefit. Members generally contribute to, and control via a democratic process, the cooperative's capital." http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Con-Cos/Cooperatives.html April 15, 2008.

[edit] What is the over all goal it wishes to accomplish?

A cooperative seeks to create a socially responsible, equal, healthy, economically resourceful, democratically run association.

Example: OLYMPIA FOOD CO-OP MISSION STATEMENT:

The purpose of the Cooperative is to contribute to the health and well-being of people by providing wholesome foods and other goods and services, accessible to all, through a locally-oriented, collectively managed, not-for-profit cooperative organization that relies on consensus decision making. We strive to make human effects on the earth and its inhabitants positive and renewing and to encourage economic and social justice. Our goals are to:

A. Provide information about food;

B. Make good food accessible to more people;

C. Support efforts to increase democratic process;

D. Support efforts to foster a socially and economically egalitarian society;

E. Provide information about collective process and consensus decision making;

F. Support local production;

G. See to the long-term health of the business;

H. Assist in the development of local community resources.

[edit] What is the campaign plan to achieve this goal?

The plan is to create and unite cooperatives when and where they are needed to accomplish its goals.

• "A cooperative is an enterprise in which individuals voluntarily organize to provide themselves and others with goods and services via democratic control and for mutually shared benefit. Members generally contribute to, and control via a democratic process, the cooperative's capital. Moreover, cooperatives often provide education and training to their members. Over the years the cooperative form has extended to credit unions, wholesale and/or retail consumer groups, residential organizations, producer enterprises, and marketing associations. In the late 1990s, some 470,000 cooperatives in the United States claimed over 100 million members (mostly individuals, but also some businesses) and provided nearly every type of good and service imaginable: from health care to housing, insurance to agriculture, and childcare to manufacturing."

http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Con-Cos/Cooperatives.html