It’s now just 10 days until Boston welcomes the 2012 National Worker Cooperative Conference, being hosted at MIT and Northeastern.  The schedule looks fantastic, with a strong focus on learning about co-ops, how they can improve their operation and the expanded role they can play in a fairer more democratic economy.
Red Sun Press is sending me to the conference to speak as part of a panel on Saturday morning entitled Regional Experiments in Principle 6 about cooperation among cooperatives.  I will be talking about efforts here in the Boston area and plans for www.operation.coop.
The Friday sessions have all sold out, but there are still tickets available for the workshops on Saturday and Sunday.  I hope you can join us.  If you can’t make the main conference, there is still the party on Saturday night at Spontaneous Celebration in Jamaica Plain.  There will be bands, DJs and a cash bar upstairs.  Downstairs there will be a Games Room, with a game of Co-opoly being my highlight. Kids are welcome, and admission is free with a donation to the scholarship fund encouraged.  Come hangout with the cooperative movement!
And finally, to welcome all conference attendees, here is the Boston City Council Resolution proclaiming the conference and the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). With special thanks to Councilor Felix G. Arroyo for sponsoring the resolution.
Best wishes from Red Sun Press, Boston’s Cooperative Printer