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.”
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