In April 2021, Radio Free Asia reported that “authorities in China are detaining Christians in secretive, mobile ‘transformation’ facilities to make them renounce their faith.”
Drive for co-op democracy from the members up
By Leo Sammallahti and Iwan Doherty
Big and old co-operatives are underutilised in two ways: as arenas for ordinary people to exercise democratic control over the economic system; and as vehicles to nurture new and small co-operatives to expand democratic control into more areas of the economy. Member participation is too often lacking; turnout in elections is low and member resolutions are rare. Meanwhile, smaller and newer co-operatives too often perceive the old giants as distant and uninterested.
While colleagues at established societies can do much to address this, we believe change should be sparked by grassroots member activity. For this reason, we (Iwan, Leo and a third co-founder, Christian Shaw) have launched Members For Cooperation, a global network to organise ordinary members within co-ops to campaign for increased cooperation between cooperatives – the sixth principle of the movement – especially between the larger/ol
Greece celebrates Orthodox Easter a day ahead of opening of F&B sector
Sunday, 02 May 2021 21:20
UPD:21:34
Predominately Orthodox Christian Greece celebrated Easter Sunday over the weekend with a budding optimism that the Covid-19 pandemic and related lockdowns will soon be a thing of the past, with an opening of the food and beverage sector set for Monday, in fact.
A prohibition on non-essential travel between regions was still in effect for the weekend, greatly limiting the annual exodus of city dwellers to the provinces and islands for Easter, albeit restrictions this year were much looser than last year, when even Church services were held without worshippers.