An op-ed on Al Jazeera looks at how the Occupy Wall Street movement could revive interest in cooperative businesses.
Head into Liberty Plaza in Lower Manhattan, and one is immediately struck by the self-governing nature of the “Occupy” encampment.
A community which adheres to non-hierarchical decision making, Occupy conducts General Assembly meetings which are transparent and open to the public. Meals too are prepared communally, and there’s even a public library. On the other hand, it’s not as if Occupy is putting novel ideas into practice, since the encampment harks back historically to the co-operative movement.
via Time for OWS to embrace the co-op movement? – Opinion – Al Jazeera English.