Cooperative Integrated Catalans Coop is a good example of a work/consume collective with its own credit system. Its  a working tool and use and  buying collective proposing solidarity, a social currency and  building  homes in the middle of the European crisis.

(ANSOL.) – About 70 kilometers from Barcelona, ​​850 Spanish formed a year ago Cooperativa Integral Catalana (CIC), a structure that proposes cooperative thinking and lifestyle combining work and consumption into a single entity.

“The  comprehensive cooperative is a step beyond consumer cooperatives, it seeks also to provide services, creating a network of trust between the people associated that will cover many aspects of his life and a desire to transform” explained legal team responsible for CIC, Gema Palamos, according to the newspaper Diagonal. Continue reading “A mutual aid network that yearns to transform.”