Open Movements

Workers in Greece occupy and reopen the Vio.Me factory! Please share in solidarity!

This morning, the Vio.Me factory in Greece began production under worker control. Today marks one more step we are all taking together towards a world with no exploitation, hierarchy, or inequality. Please share in solidarity as the workers fight for a better world.

Our community partner in Argentina, The Working World, is campaigning to raise $20,000 before Dec. 31st, to take their model of finance and bring it to scale.

TWW invests in democratically managed, worker-owned businesses such as the recovered businesses in Argentina. They are taking this revolutionary movement and making it worldwide. Please share this video and their campaign to bring democracy to workplaces across the US!

Donate here: http://bit.ly/Xgondo2

Create the New Economy Create the New Economy today. Give to our campaign to scale our model. Since 2005, we have helped workers from hundreds of factories across Argentina, Nicara...

The cooperative Cintoplom's engineer Daniel doing quality control.

Pruebas de calidad por el químico Daniel

"The cooperative impulse seeks, if anything, to reestablish democracy..."

Want to know the two key traits that workers at La Cacerola, a cooperative bakery in Buenos Aires, think are most important in doing this? Find out here!

http://www.openmovements.org/la-cacerola-walter/

"...in a cooperative, every duty must be completed, and it doesn’t matter by whom..."

Read about how La Cacerola runs as a cooperative, the problems they face, and their ideology in Matthew French's blog.

http://www.openmovements.org/la-cacerola-santiago/

"La Cacerola is not a recovered business like the Hotel Bauen, but instead a cooperative built out of a larger community of people."

Read about the differences and similarities between a cooperative and a Recovered Business through the lens of La Cacerola, a small cooperative bakery in Almagro, Buenos Aires.

http://www.openmovements.org/la-cacerola-observations/

"...Guillermo wants to change the world; he is tired of all the damage humans have caused to the concept of humanity..."

Hotel BAUEN has a unique relationship with artist/pianist Guillermo; read about how it started and where it's going through Matthew French's blog!

David Graeber on Occupy, Social Movements, and Police Repression. http://bit.ly/QfBwAS

For those in Argentina, join the debate. "Recovered Businesses in Argentina" Tuesday July 31st at 7PM. Uriburu 950 6° piso

CHARLA-DEBATE: Las empresas recuperadas en la Argentina En el marco del 2º Fórum Internacional de Sociología: “Justicia social y democratización” el Cómite de Investigación 44: Movimientos Laborales (RC-44) invita -a una década de iniciado el ciclo de recuperación de empresas- a debatir sobre los logros y dificultades que han tenido estas experiencias en...

Hotel BAUEN has a very innovative "process of career development within the enterprise, as the worker begins to take on more and more responsibilities." There's quite a bit to learn from this process; start by reading this blog entry!

"...the founders of the Hotel Bauen cooperative today are determined never to sway from their collective history and the ideology that drove it."

Check out Matthew's inspirational interview with Arminda, a founder of Hotel BAUEN.

Check out this great article about La Cacerola, a cooperative bakery in Buenos Aires! And if you want to know more, keep up with the OM Blog and read about the experiences of our participants at La Cacerola.

http://buenosairesdelivery.com/blog/politics-in-the-kitchen/

Politics in the Kitchen | Buenos Aires Delivery Food Blog In 2001 an economic crisis shook Argentina, leaving many businesses bankrupt and workers without jobs. In response, some of the unemployed took over former businesses and recovered them to form cooperative enterprises. Few know that here in Buenos Aires, this cooperative movement has reached busines...