With the aim of reaching as many people as possible, we have activated the new communication channel at https://telegram.me/faircoop. Being aware that these new applications are becoming more and more an essential tool for our daily communication, as well as a fast and personal way to have access to information of interest, we think this will be a great means …
We start a series of posts with the aim of showing you what local nodes, the territorial extension of FairCoop, are doing. This is for two reasons: After a year and a half of hard work, we are extending our presence through new places and it has been an amazing experience that we want to share with all of you. …
Summoning to a meeting for Integral Cooperatives and Solidarity Economy Mouzaki, Karditsa, 5-6-7-8 of May 2016 We live in an era in which it is becoming clearer to everyone just how cruel and inhumane the centralized power and economic establishment system is. Moral values, democratic achievements and lives are being lost in chaotic turns of events, both locally and globally. …
Fairmarket opens its doors with a beta version It’s here! After a lot of intense work, at last we can open the virtual doors of our long-awaited online FairCoop market. It’s a beta version, with basic features, but that allows you to do the most important thing: to buy and sell products and services. With this new tool we are …
As on every third Thursday of each month, on February 18 the sixth open global assembly FairCoop took place, and as each month we publish a summary of what was discussed and decided on it, highlighting the increasingly high participation, which is a clear sign that we are going in the right direction and more and more people are joining …
It’s here! After a lot of intense work, at last we can open the virtual doors of our long-awaited online FairCoop market. It’s a beta version, with basic features, but that allows you to do the most important thing: to buy and sell products and services. With this new tool we are taking our next step towards economic independence and …
Almost a year has passed since we last did a call-out for testing (/fairmarket-alpha-testing/) and a lot has changed with FairMarket. First we had internal problems because the first small FairMarket devteam disbanded and it was months until in autumn a new one came into being; now more participative and stronger for the challenges at hand: to became a crucial …
The 5th Global Assembly took place last January 21th with greater participation than previously. Here is a summary of the issues and what was decided: 1. Fairmarket Update The work is going fine and we presume we can have the beta version ready at the begining of March. We talked about technical improvements, the payment processor we are implementing, a …
Against the inhumanity of governments, the solidarity of the people. During 2015, more than 3,000 people drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe safely, and of the nearly a million people got it, only about 300 have the refugee status and was resettled. The rest are wandering through different border countries in Europe, trying to get to a safe …
Last Saturday January 16th the winner of the Self-Sustaining Creative Economy Award was anounced as being ‘Freedom Coop‘, the latest project with which FairCoop is involved. The prize of €9,500 will be a great help towards the implemention of the final project. This award was launched by the artists Nuria Güell and Levi Orta as part of their project “Degenerated …