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From a poem by Gregory Hobbs, father of #RMFU co-op developer Dan,
...A flow so powerful it seeps rhythmically
From within,
Alive to each of us,
To drink, to swim, to grow corn ears
To listen to our children, float the streams
Of their own magnificence,
Out of their seeping dreams,
Out of their useful silliness,
Out of their source mouths,
High and pure,
The Great Divide
You and I, all that lives
And floats and flies and passes through
All we know of why." -
Nice to see this interview with my friend Dan Hobbs, farmer, deadhead, and director of the Cooperative Development Center of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union.
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CW: Shameless self-promotion
Nice note from #RMFU Co-op Development Director Dan Hobbs: "In the formation of mutually owned businesses, usually long before incorporation, there is a moment when the question is asked whether to continue towards the pursuit of a common goal. Today fellow cooperator Matt Noyes
and I participated in one of those moments. The first cooperative association I am aware of in Colorado since COVID. May there be many more. #cooperationworks" -
CW: preaching
Love the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union (#RMFU) but on multiple occasions I've heard them define cooperatives as "businesses that operate to benefit their members."
Is it just me or does this suggest narrow collective self-interest?Mondragon's Arizmendiarrieta denounced this kind of lack of solidarity as an "unforgivable myopia" and a "betrayal of the workers movement."
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via #RMFU co-op developer #DanHobbs:
"Many in the co-op community are unaware of just how dire the situation [in the USDA cooperative department] is. As of this writing, a
program that numbered about 75 cooperative specialists in the mid-1990s is now down to three
professionals. For many, the agency lost visibility when USDA abruptly killed Rural Cooperatives magazine about a year ago, ending its 84 years in production without a word of explanation to the public." -
Nice development in Southern Colorado: a new cooperative-ish organization of farmers, millers, bakers, brewers/distillers, consumers all along the local "grain chain." If you all know of any other grain chain coops, let me know.
#RMFU
#GrainChain
#cooperativism
#Colorado