Our Mission
Cooperation Milwaukee is an egalitarian community-based organization committed to education, resources and building of cooperative economic enterprises in a federated ecosystem of solidarity economy, the social practice of mutual aid, neighborhood councils, community assemblies, and other counter-institutions in the greater Milwaukee area. Cooperation Milwaukee is directly democratically controlled and is organized to fulfill this mission.
If you would like to get involved, please email us at cooperationmke@protonmail.com
direct democracy
We believe that all people should have equal voice in determining our common future. We organize for self-determination by having decision-making power from the bottom up. All power to the people.
Non-hierarchy
We oppose all systems of domination. We fight against capitalism, patriarchy, imperialism, white supremacy, and all other forms of oppression, and lift up the voices of the most marginalized. We embrace Martin Luther King’s call for revolution of values, and indigenous values against colonial, capitalist and hierarchal values.
Ecology
The fate of humanity is intertwined with all other life on Earth. We embrace the holistic and reconstructive dimensions of indeignous knowledge and ecological science. Capitalism is killing life on our planet,and we are fighting to sustain life by reharmonizing human societies with the rest of the natural world.
Solidarity Economy
Economic democracy is essential for the preservation of our ecosystems and the self-determination of our communities. We seek to abolish the profit system and place economic decision-making in the hands of communities and workers through communal, cooperative economics and an ethic of mutual aid.
From The Ground Up
Our Movement seeks to transform our oppressive society through collective resistance to the destructive capitalist system, together with the creation of living alternatives. We organize for dual power in our communities by building democracy and mutual aid outside the state, to confront the present system while creating the future that will replace it. We are building the new world in the shell of the old
Unity in diversity
We celebrate the fullest range of human identities and experiences in our movement. Our diversity and our relationships with one another are our greatest strengths. We believe that this whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and that our interdependence and common humanity unite us. The road is long, and we must walk it together.