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2 months ago    |   Tags: collective zines portland or publishing   |   Notes: 1
As a not-for-profit*, collectively-run publisher and distributor of books and zines, Microcosm Publishing nurtures self-empowerment, shows hidden history, and fosters creativity. As a commitment to our ethics, our books are printed by union workers in the U.S. and we are moving towards all production using post-consumer papers, with vegan inks and bindings. The distro and then-record-label was started by Joe Biel in his bedroom in 1996 and is now based in Leavenworth, KS and Portland, OR. Since then it’s grown to become one of the largest zine distributors in the world, reaching an international audience through our website and distributors. * (We operate central to a mission statement and are financially not for profit, but we are not a 501c3 organization because it does not allow us to self- manage.)

As a not-for-profit*, collectively-run publisher and distributor of books and zines, Microcosm Publishing nurtures self-empowerment, shows hidden history, and fosters creativity. As a commitment to our ethics, our books are printed by union workers in the U.S. and we are moving towards all production using post-consumer papers, with vegan inks and bindings.

The distro and then-record-label was started by Joe Biel in his bedroom in 1996 and is now based in Leavenworth, KS and Portland, OR. Since then it’s grown to become one of the largest zine distributors in the world, reaching an international audience through our website and distributors.

* (We operate central to a mission statement and are financially not for profit, but we are not a 501c3 organization because it does not allow us to self- manage.)

Source: microcosmpublishing.com

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4 months ago    |   Tags: San Francisco Bay Area Mission Mission District Animated Gif Collective Collectives GIF GIFs books bookstores radical radicalism progressive collective ownership   |   Notes: 3
Modern Times Books - Collectively Owned and Operated Since 1971.

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Modern Times Books - Collectively Owned and Operated Since 1971.

Source: mtbs.com

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4 months ago    |   Tags: collectives cooperatives co-ops co-operatives capitalism anti-capitalism alternatives to capitalism books bookstores autonomy mutualism participation cooperation self-organizing worker-owners organizations labor space socialism feminism anarchy anarchism activism movements new york city nyc manhattan urban radical radicalism   |   Notes: 3

"As a worker-owned bookstore, the collective self-organizes within the principles of cooperation, mutualism, autonomy, and participation. While worker control does not inherently emancipate daily life, decoding the work relation nevertheless amounts to quite a bit organizationally. Without collective control and autonomy, it would not be possible for us to expand our vision and determine for ourselves the product of our labors and the direction of the space. The relative autonomy afforded to us by being a worker-owned business is not a goal, but a necessary precursor and premise."

- Malav Kanuga | Bluestockings Bookstore and Activist Center. From “Bluestockings Bookstore and New Institutions of Self Organized Work: The Space Between Common Notions and Common Institutions.” Uses of a Whirlwind - Movement, Movements and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States. Edited by Team Colors Collective
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4 months ago    |   Tags: workers worker-owners cooperatives capitalism socialism unions private-sector co-ops co-operatives cooperatives credit unions america nytimes quotes University of Maryland Gar Alperovitz   |   Notes: 5

"Some 130 million Americans, for example, now participate in the ownership of co-op businesses and credit unions. More than 13 million Americans have become worker-owners of more than 11,000 employee-owned companies, six million more than belong to private-sector unions."

- Gar Alperovitz in the New York Times, a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and a founder of the Democracy Collaborative, is the author of “America Beyond Capitalism.”
Source: The New York Times