Cooperation for liberation

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a New Orleans with a strong Solidarity Economy Movement:

where Black, Brown, and Indigenous New Orleanians–fueled by the inherent brilliance, bravery and audacity of our ancestors– sustainably own our own labor and mentor each other on the collective and equitable governance of resources such as: food, care, land, and culture.

Nuestra Historia

Quiénes somos y en qué creemos

Qué Hacemos

Nuestra misión y cómo trabajamos para conseguirla

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Crea una cooperativa, únete al movimiento, apoya nuestro trabajo

Las cooperativas provienen de la práctica Negra e Indígena del trabajo colectivo para satisfacer necesidades colectivas. La cooperación puede consistir en el cuidado de niñes comunitario, alimentarnos unes a otres, agrupar nuestros recursos para satisfacer nuestras necesidades, practicar la ayuda mutua en nuestra vida cotidiana o ante una catástrofe, ser propietaries de nuestro propio trabajo a través de una empresa cooperativa, etcétera. Ponemos en marcha prácticas cooperativas en nuestra vida cotidiana.

Como trabajadores, corremos continuamente el riesgo de ser aprovechades por nuestro actual sistema capitalista, que valora el fruto de nuestra labor por encima de nuestra humanidad como trabajadores, integrantes de una comunidad, integrantes de una familia y portadores de una cultura.

Los negocios y proyectos cooperativos utilizan prácticas que nuestras comunidades han venido utilizando durante siglos, junto con los 7 Principios Cooperativos para permitir a les trabajadores tener la propiedad de su trabajo, y al final, cuidar de sí mismes y de les demás.

Cooperación Nueva Orleans busca apoyar la creación y el apoyo continuo a las cooperativas propiedad de les trabajadores. Una cooperativa propiedad de les trabajadores es una empresa en la que las personas que trabajan para ella son les dueñes de la misma. A diferencia de un negocio no cooperativo, no hay une únique patróne a cargo de todas las decisiones. En su lugar, un grupo de trabajadores dueñes trabajan juntes para tomar decisiones y dirigir el negocio.

Haz clic a continuación para obtener más información y recursos recopilados por Cooperación Nueva Orleans.

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What We Do

Cooperation New Orleans is a movement working together to create programs, resources, and start conversations about the cooperative future of our city. Explore some of our offerings!

How can I join the Solidarity Economy Movement?

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Black Liberation Coop Academy

BLCA is our program for New Orleans’ Black workers, organizers, community leaders, entrepreneurs and families to explore cooperative economics as a path toward black liberation in New Orleans and beyond.

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Resources

Ongoing learning is central to our cooperative practice. As the solidarity economy grows, we continue to share our learnings with one another. These resources have been compiled by our organization’s working group members in collaboration with our movement partners.

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Events & Gatherings

Cooperation New Orleans is working to offer popular education, workshops, quarterly gatherings and decolonized learning practices to our ecosystem. Check out our events page for any upcoming gatherings, and see our public calendar to attend events hosted by other groups and organizations in New Orleans.

Interested in collaborating with us on an event, gathering, or workshop? email us at info@coopnola.org

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Cooperation Gumbo

Cooperation Gumbo is a collaboration between residents, cooperators, and artists to uplift the histories and ongoing presence of Black and Indigenous cooperation in New Orleans. Using decolonized research practices, we engage in listening practices with community members, story circles, walking tours, and other storytelling practices.

This research will contribute to a growing and accessible archive of Black cooperative economics in New Orleans.

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Worker-Ownership

Cooperation New Orleans seeks to support the creation and ongoing support of worker-owned cooperatives. A worker-owned cooperative is a business in which the people who work for the business are the owners of the business, guided by the 7 cooperative principles. Unlike a non-cooperative business, there is not a single boss making all the decisions. Instead, a group of worker-owners work together to make decisions and run the business.

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Nuestros Valores

"En realidad, las cooperativas Negras no son una estrategia nueva, fue en la cooperación como las personas antiguamente esclavizadas construyeron comunidad, y entonces no es de extrañar que muchas comunidades Negras sigan creando negocios cooperativos como una forma de hacer suyo el desarrollo que está ocurriendo en sus barrios. "

Tamah Yisrael, fundadora e integrante del Comité Directivo

Nuestro ecosistema está formado por varias personas, negocios cooperativos y proyectos de ayuda mutua que trabajan para satisfacer las necesidades de la gente. A continuación se detalla una lista de algunes de nuestres cooperadores y dónde puedes encontrarles en Nueva Orleans.

Las Cooperativas y la Comunidad

Nuestro ecosistema está formado por varias personas, negocios cooperativos y proyectos de ayuda mutua que trabajan para satisfacer las necesidades de la gente. A continuación se detalla una lista de algunes de nuestres cooperadores y dónde puedes encontrarles en Nueva Orleans.

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Bancha Lenguas

BanchaLenguas is a worker-owned collective based in New Orleans (also named Bulbancha by the original native peoples of this land and its descendants) that partners with communities to create multilingual spaces through high-quality and responsible in-person and virtual interpretation, translation, consulting and language justice training.

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Builders of the Highway

Builders of the Highway Foundation is a non-profit organization whose vision is for a world, functioning in truth, peace, and happiness. Our mission is to provide educational, economic, cultural, social, spiritual, and organizing resources for community advocacy to support the unification of good people.

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Lavendar Lounge

Lavender Lounge designs monthly events built to strengthen the BIPOC Lesbian community in NOLA

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Mycelium

Mycelium is a tech solutions co-op. We believe that technology can be liberatory when it is intentionally built with our peers in the solidarity economy. This is why we work with co-ops and other democratically-run organizations to align their digital infrastructure with their specific organizational needs. We co-design tech solutions to meet everyday practices such as inventory management, customer interactions, and collective decision-making. Our hope is to broaden the power of the solidarity economy to advance our shared vision today and into the future.

Birthmark Doula Collective

Birthmark is a New Orleans-based birth justice cooperative dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for pregnant and parenting people and their families, with a focus on increasing access to respectful services for communities facing barriers to care

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Civic Studio

Our co-op is a multi-disciplinary group with diverse cultural, economic, and educational backgrounds. Our skills and experiences include research, writing, planning, design, curation, fabrication, media, technology, environment, sociology, ecology, education, organizing, and strategy.

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Melegance

Founded by Jaleesa Jackson, Melegance LLC a communications consultancy that collaborates with changemakers to work toward collective liberation through storytelling.

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New Economy Coalition

NEC exists to support a just transition from an extractive to a regenerative economy by building the scale and power of the solidarity economy movement in Black, Indigenous, and working class communities in every region of the United States.

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