work together The global information bulletin for cooperatives and worker-owned enterprises in industry, services and crafts April 2009 - Issue N° 1
SUMMA RY Editorial
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Intercontinental
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Latin America
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Europe
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North America
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Asia
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The Cooperative Movement and the Economic Crisis, What Is the Way Out?
Editorial By Felice Scalvini, president of CECOP CICOPA-Europe What began as a financial crisis soon became an international
work together is a joint publication of CIC OPA and C ECOP Europe General coordination: Bruno Roelants Editors: Olivier Biron and Antonio Amato Graphics: jcse © CIC OPA 2009
economic crisis. When and how are we going to come out of it? Obviously nobody dares make a guess. However we must propose new ideas for the future. Although there is no definitive “solution,” it is necessary to understand what has happened, what has led us here, and see how to prevent mistakes without renouncing the process of global growth. Global development is still necessary if we want to eradicate
I nternational O rganis ation of I ndustrial, Artisanal and Service Producers ’ Cooperatives
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COOPSPACE: A new worldwide web system for entrepreneurial exchanges between cooperatives (page 3)
poverty and inequality once and for all from the face of the earth, and make it possible for our children to have a future with a wellbeing which is not too different from the one we have been enjoying over the past fifty years. (continued on next page)
Worker and social cooperatives are growing in Europe (page 9)
Worker cooperative organisations from South America meet and decide to build a process of integration among themselves (page 5)