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Canadian Cooperative Association sponsored lists: WICEN (Women in Co- operatives Electronic Network), YouthYac, and CoopDev

Subscribe and unsubscribe to the three lists the same way still (i.e. send an e-mail to: listserver@coopcca.com and in the body of the message type:  subscribe wicen (or, subscribe youthyac, subscribe coopdev).

Post comments to the same e-mail (i.e.wicen@coopcca.com; or youthyac@coopcca.com; or coopdev@coopcca.com).

Co-op Net -- Co-opNet, is an electronic mailing list run by the Southampton Co-op Network to promote co-ops and co-operation, and to encourage constructive and diverse discussion on co-operative and related issues.

Cooperative-bus -- An e-mail discussion group for cooperative managers, volunteers and members worldwide. Sponsored by the UW Center for Cooperatives. If your subscription efforts fail please email mgrinnell@wisc.edu with your name and email address where you want your mail sent along with instructions to add you to the coop bus listserv manually.

CGIN Listserv -- Cooperative Grocers' Information Network. The purpose of this list is to help encourage and facilitate the exchange of information among CGIN members.

Regional Community Economic Development
This group will seek to discuss and work to foster, faciltate, educate, and develop regional cooperative community development corporations (i.e. socialist or cooperative communitarian business entities) based on the principles of:

  • ecology
  • sustainability
  • cooperation (economic democracy)
  • equity
  • community stewardship
  • conservation
  • peace and tranquility
  • sufficiency
  • production and access to essential goods and services
  • primacy of the pedestrian
  • economy and humanity of scale
  • risk diversification
  • life long education

Worker Cooperative discussion group Discussion group focusing worker cooperatives. Goals of group are:

  1. To discuss the worker cooperative as a practical alternative to employment in the corporate world.
  2. To provide a place where people interested in worker coops can network and find partners with whom to start a coop.
  3. As a place where business ideas for coops can be discussed and coop founders can get feedback on their ideas.

YoungCo-op -- The purpose of this list is to help young co-operators. To subscribe, e- mail YoungCo-op- on@totalcoverage.co.uk.

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