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Are you a member of a co-op?

  • Strong yes (34%, 97 votes)
  • Qualified yes (20%, 57 votes)
  • Qualified no (26%, 74 votes)
  • Strong no (20%, 57 votes)
285 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

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James M.
James M.  
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Co-op household? Co-op business? Co-op store?
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@jamesmarshall Harlan Pepper, stop naming nuts
@James M.
aeva
aeva  
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🤔 how do I tell
aeva
aeva  
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i voted "qualified no" because i'm pretty sure the answer is no but I'm not sure how this is not a binary yes/no question so maybe i'm missing something important but i still think my answer is probably no
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@aeva people have nuanced responses, like "I'm a member of a credit union but I mostly use it like any other bank so it doesn't feel like a cooperative so qualified yes" or "My insurance company used to be mutual insurance but now it's mixed model so qualified no."
@aeva
aeva
aeva  
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ah ok that makes sense
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@aeva I like fuzzy logic; nothing's ever entirely true or false.
@aeva
aeva
aeva  
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gödel has entered the chat
Rhea
Rhea  
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former housing co-op member.
Bill Plein🌶
Bill Plein🌶  
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Our electrical utility is a co-op.

Anyone remember Co-op stores in the SF Bay in the late 60s/early 70s? My mom would drop me off at the kids play/care center while shopping.
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@bplein they were the biggest food coops in the US! I used to shop at the one on Ashby and Telegraph, where the Whole Foods is now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers%27_Cooperative_of_Berkeley?wprov=sfla1

consumers' cooperative based in Berkeley, California

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@Bill Plein🌶
Bill Plein🌶
Bill Plein🌶  
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“Tell me you are an over 50 year old American, likely from the San Francisco Bay Area, without telling me your age or where you grew up”
Bill Plein🌶
Bill Plein🌶  
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Interesting Wikipedia article which it erroneous: there were Co-ops in the east bay “over the hills” (eat least one!!) and they are written out of the history which claims a maximum of 12 stores and lists the 12.

I’m pissed. My pre-K history is being erased. 😅
John Goerzen
John Goerzen  
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I get my electricity from a Rural Electric Cooperative, which are somewhat common in rural USA.
Eliot Lash
Eliot Lash  
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I suppose my handle is a dead giveaway! 😄
Steffen Voß
Steffen Voß  
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housing co-op & carsharing co-op
Tane Piper ⁂
Tane Piper ⁂  
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I haven't answered but a Co-Op is exactly how I've described the org I'm trying to form across multiple teams - we're all working to one goal, and can share knowledge.

It's a slow but growing movement.
Tane Piper ⁂
Tane Piper ⁂  
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Yes (I actually used to work for the Co-Op - the chain of UK supermarkets many years back).

There's no option to form a legal structure here, but there are options to lean on and share (say one part of the org has a tool - let us try to use theirs, rather than buy a whole new licence for our part of the org, etc)

But also let's stop duplication and rebuilding, share knowledge, etc.

It's a good structure to build that org change on
stephen ✊ ✪ 🍞 &🌹🌹🌹
stephen ✊ ✪ 🍞 &🌹🌹🌹  
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the food coop closed, no thanks to wholefoods. Was a member of a worker run coop at one point
Brett Peary
Brett Peary  
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any kind of co-op? There are so many. I once read a newspaper at the co-op on Capitol Hill in Seattle and there was a 90 something year old man talking about all the different co-ops he was a part of after World War II. And one of them was a funeral co-op. Blew my mind. Incidentally, co-ops in Japan are often just very normal grocery stores.
CyberSpook
CyberSpook  
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There's a gradation?
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@cyberspook there's a gradation to everything
@CyberSpook
🚀 🧠 yerald
🚀 🧠 yerald  
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#SocialCoop for #Mastodon, Two local grocery coops, & REI. Maybe more than I’m forgetting. & I’ve lived in housing coops, but don’t currently.
#mastodon #socialcoop
Dr. Matt Lee
Dr. Matt Lee  
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I was, but I lapsed when I moved away. I would happily rejoin if I found myself able to again.
mpoletiek
mpoletiek  
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REI customer count? Lol. I voted qualified no, but I wish there was an option for "I wish I was"
…might work for coffee…
…might work for coffee…  
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Member of Housing Coop, Banking, and @HackerGeno
+ various smaller local stuff.

So stron yep.
@WTF Kooperative eG
Nelson Chu Pavlosky
Nelson Chu Pavlosky  
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I'm a member of two grocery store co-ops, an energy co-op, and REI.

Qualified yes, because:
- I haven't done co-op stuff with them, I just give them money for goods and services
- I think customer-owned co-ops are kind of weak. Without strong representation for the workers who rely on the business to live, I fear we may just be replicating the same injustices common elsewhere. REI seems like an example of this.
Dave Neary
Dave Neary  
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I don't understand the middle options on a yes/no question.
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@dneary a few people mentioned shopping at REI. Or being former members of a co-op, or being members of an informal collective.
@Dave Neary
Dave Neary
Dave Neary  
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Ah, I see. Apologies for my polarization.
Dave Neary
Dave Neary  
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I am good! Working on some math stuff in preparation for pi day 😀
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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Cool! This is really a lot of people.

We're starting https://cosocial.ca/ as a co-op, and I was wondering how many people were familiar with the model.

#CoSocial

Cosocial.ca – Canada's Mastodon co-op

cosocial.ca
#CoSocial
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@Br3nda that's the end
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Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@Br3nda oh, I forgot to give my own answer! I was a member of https://mec.ca/ am now a member of https://cooptel.ca/ and will be a member of https://cosocial.ca/

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John Abbe (aka Slow)
John Abbe (aka Slow)  
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Oh, you wanted specifics? I've lived at Walnut Street Co-op for a few years now, and before from 2006-2014. http://walnutstreetco-op.org/ (Yeah, aged website. We'll be repointing that to our blog soon enough: http://walnutstcoop.wordpress.com/ )

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A social change oriented cooperative household in Eugene, Oregon
walnutstcoop.wordpress.com
Fifi Lamoura
Fifi Lamoura  
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@Br3nda I've been a client of coops like MEC (I almost don't think of them like coops because there's no work requirement or other coop type stuff required if you're a client) and ages ago I was an active member of Miel Mtl (a beekeeping coop, it was mainly about serving and coordinating urban beekeepers and thinking about urban beekeeping issues) and my community garden is a non-profit with an elected board (I'm president, which sounds much fancier than it actually is, we're pretty relaxed and it's small potatoes organizationally but we do coordinate and deal with the city, which is less relaxed).
@Potato ENTHUSIAST
Wendell Bell
Wendell Bell  
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You should be able to round up @cafreeland…
Evan Prodromou
Evan Prodromou  
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@mhcat yes, it's a big inspiration!
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