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At a cooperative school in Campos dos Goytacazes, the teachers are the owners. In Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil, an educational cooperative allows teachers to own the school where they teach. The teachers join forces to start the business, take part in decisions and build the business together, generating a sense of belonging that sets this cooperative model apart

"The new research findings show that the human brain consists of two ancestrally ingeniously integrated nervous systems: a more primitive part that regulates heartbeat, breathing and other functions, and another that makes us distinctively human, capable of poetry, mathematics and reflection on our own origins.

This discovery could help explain why scientists have struggled for decades to grow certain types of brain cells in the lab, and opens new avenues for the study of devastating diseases affecting the brainstem, such as spinal muscular atrophy (also known as SMA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease)."

In Tremp, the Alba Jussà project becomes the worker cooperative La Teia to strengthen its own identity. The initiative adopts the cooperative model, consolidating a collective and participatory project in the area

Red Feather Industries will open and install a housing module plant in Walsenburg, Colorado (United States), whose ownership will fall to its workers, a shared ownership model that seeks to create local jobs and revitalize the economy of Huerfano County

In Spain, the cooperative and social economy model employs 2.5 million people, according to the article. Against the focus on startups and venture capital, it defends a business model based on worker ownership, participatory governance and territorial roots

The «workers buyout» model and the future of cooperatives. The article analyzes in Italy the model of companies being bought by their employees (workers buyout) and the role of worker cooperatives in rescuing companies in crisis, preserving employment and consolidating governance based on collective ownership by the workers

From the first BBS to Amodei's first manifesto, the shadow of an abundance poem ("Machines of loving grace") appears again and again, incidentally revealing the tension of AI between enabling generalized abundance and fusion with Nature, and being the vanguard of an unbridled and destructive accumulation.

The International Cooperative Development Fund (FICD) invites cooperatives from around the world to apply for its solidarity fund. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, it will allocate 68,000 dollars in its first year of operation to support international cooperation projects between cooperatives

The United States military has acknowledged for the first time that it has placed weapons in space. There is not much more information, but it is a historic leap... Toward the abyss.

In El Bolsón, Argentina, three women sustain the Mailén cooperative, created in 2017 to generate work. They make jams with Patagonian fruits, transforming the need for jobs into a collective project

The United States House of Representatives, in Washington D.C., passed the Retirement Through Ownership Act, historic ESOP legislation, with strong bipartisan support. It now heads to the president for his signature and enactment into law

The supposedly modern model of French SCOPs, another ICA invention, is full of examples. An SCOP that lays off workers: what future for its values? The employees of the brickyard in Colomiers, France, are protesting against the dismissal of 43 jobs. They denounce that a workers' cooperative resorts to layoffs and demand alternatives to preserve jobs and cooperative values

Forbes: Coceta renews its representation of Spain on the board of directors of the International Cooperative Alliance. The Confederation of Worker Cooperatives of Spain (Coceta), based in Madrid, Spain, keeps its seat on the board of directors of the International Cooperative Alliance. The decision strengthens the presence of Spanish worker cooperativism on the global stage

In April 2026, the employees of Ludovic Hayes traiteur took over ownership of the company by forming a workers' cooperative (Scop) in Mouilleron-le-Captif, in the Vendée, France, after successfully meeting the challenge of a worker buyout

The Xunta is promoting in Baiona, Galicia (Spain), a pioneering social economy initiative that seeks entrepreneurship opportunities developed in community, the launch of cooperatives to build affordable housing and leisure activities for all ages, with the aim of generating employment in the territory

MaMa Jean's Natural Market, in Springfield, Missouri, United States, implemented an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), becoming 100% employee-owned. The company, with about 150 employees, announced it via press release

The worker cooperative Carte Blanche, in France, supplies eight municipalities. It has won the national prize of the chambers of commerce and industry, a recognition of its model of a worker cooperative with social and environmental impact

The Government of Argentina extended in Buenos Aires the deadline to draft and define the regulatory rules that will govern the worker cooperative sector, according to reports. The measure postpones the definition of the legal framework applicable to these worker-owned companies

The Sicle cooperative, specialized in bicycle gardening, has acquired 450 square meters of garden on the rooftop of a building in Angers, France. The project, worth almost one million euros, seeks to boost its urban gardening activity

Stout published its second annual analysis of investment returns among private companies with employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), based in Chicago, United States. The index recorded an 18.1% one-year return, outperforming the S&P 500

In Montreuil, a cooperative and activist space runs thanks to the dedication of volunteers. It is called Darna (formerly a Syrian soup kitchen), a "house of peoples and exiles." Darna is at once a cooperative soup kitchen, a café, and a space for meeting and welcoming