Save the date for the MN Co-op Summit, check out Cooperative Energy Futures, register for Saint Mary’s University and Nexus Webinars and more.
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February E-News: Upcoming Events + Winter Updates from CoMinnesota
Louis Doering Keynote Luncheon, Two New Minneapolis Credit Unions, 100 Years of Credit Unions in Minnesota, and Cooperative Scholars and Leaders Program
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Provide your ideas for the future of CoMinnesota, May Day Cafe, LOCAL Fund, shop co-op, and matching grant opportunity
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You are the future of CoMinnesota! To shape CoMinnesota’s vision and turn this potential into reality, we need you to join us.
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October is co-op month and we are fast approaching 2025, the International Year of the Cooperative. Find resources to share and plan your co-op celebrations and communications via NCBA CLUSA and ICA.
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Join us at Broken Clock Brewing Co-op Tuesday, November 19 from 4:30-6:30pm. Click here to register. At this gathering, we will have time for open networking and participation with a number of written prompts around the room that will gather your ideas for the future of CoMinnesota. Drop-in style event with a brief program at […]
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Friday May 12, 2023 Midland Hills Country Club2001 Fulham StRoseville, MN 55113 (map) Arrive at 1pm with service at 1:30. Dessert reception and conversation with friends will follow.(Plans to record and possibly livestream the service are pending.) Louie passed away on March 13 after a walk with his beloved spouse and fellow life adventurer, Jill […]
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In the 1970s, young people in Minnesota radicalized by the Vietnam War created a unique alternative economy featuring dozens of food cooperatives, but a shadowy revolutionary group used conflicts over class and race to try to seize the movement. The ensuing clash pitted friends and comrades in a sometimes violent conflict over the future of […]
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PBS to broadcast The Co-op Wars documentary. October 2021 THE CO-OP WARS tells the story of the idealistic youth who tried to build an alternative to corporate capitalism, the violent struggle that almost tore them apart, and their eventual success in ways they never foresaw. In the 1970s, young people in Minnesota radicalized by the […]
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Democracy and Equity. Self-Help & Solidarity. Concern for Community Since 1844, co-operative enterprise been guided by the principles established by the Rochdale Pioneers in the North of England. Well, yes — but not quite. In founding their co-op, the Pioneers were building on many experiments that came before them. And while their model spread rapidly, it […]
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