Staying grounded in the local community will help deter a coop from the excesses and exploitations that commonly afflict investor-owned companies, as the interests of the coop will be the interests of the members which will be the interests of the community.
Read MoreCooperation among cooperatives is a crucial way to gain the advantages of scale and effectively compete against other types of business entities.
Read MoreCooperatives can mitigate against the worst excesses of wealth disparity, climate crises, and the collapse of democracy… but only if people know how coops work. So, educate yourself and educate others.
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Read MoreCo-operatives are autonomous, self-help organizations controlled by their members. If they enter into agreements with other organizations, including governments, or raise capital from external sources they do so on terms that ensure democratic control by their members and maintain their co-operative autonomy.
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Read MoreThere is a relationship between the purpose of an enterprise, the sources of its capital, and the disposal of its gains.
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Read MoreCooperative businesses are a great way to enact the values of freedom, democracy, justice, and equality in a world that is desperately in need of such things.
Read MoreCo-ops are based on the idea that the people who either work at, or use, the business are the owners. The owners get the profits and they get to make decisions about how the business operates. We here at Uproot think there are many opportunities for creative cannabis (and hemp!) entrepreneurs who care about equity and democracy to use the Co-op model for success.
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