The Power of the Collective

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As a warm-up event for the Impuls Academy and <a href="https://www.tippinpoints.life/programm">Tipping Points #13 (“Resistance Together”)</a> in November, we cordially invite you to an exciting evening and an in-depth workshop focusing on the resistance practices of the <strong>Cecosesola cooperative in Venezuela</strong>. After all, “together” also means drawing inspiration from one another and not always having to reinvent the wheel.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Come join us—over the course of two sessions, we’ll explore what we can learn from Cecosesola for our own contexts:</p>
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<li><strong>November 5 at 5:00 p.m. – Presentation & discussion at </strong>Café CI, Yppenplatz 1160, Vienna (wheelchair accessible). We welcome voluntary donations.</li>
<li><strong>November 6 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. – In-depth workshop</strong> at <a href="https://www.mila.wien/">MILA</a>, Viventogasse 29, 1120 Vienna,<br />
. Register at info@impuls-akademie.org</li>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Cecosesola was founded in 1967 in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, and is a nonprofit cooperative umbrella organization. It comprises over 50 community organizations and has more than 1,500 members.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Together, they take care of one another and provide each other with: health care, food markets, agriculture, funeral services, a school, a savings bank, and even more businesses, thereby supporting hundreds of thousands of people. Cecosesola deliberately operates without fixed hierarchies, with rotating responsibilities and consensus-based decision-making. In 2022, they were awarded the Right Livelihood Award (“alternative Nobel Prize”), in part for their long-standing resilience and strength, even during Venezuela’s economic crisis and hyperinflation: Instead of scaling back, Cecosesola organized additional supply runs and established new delivery partnerships, while maintaining a solidarity-based pricing model in which the total production costs are divided by the harvest volume to achieve a uniform, fair price per kilogram.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On November 5 and 6, Commons researchers Sigi and Luis will share their experiences and discuss their visits and conversations at Cecosesola’s facilities.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Please register for November 6 at info@impuls-akademie.org</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The event is being held in cooperation with the <strong><a href="https://www.impuls-akademie.org/">Impuls Academy</a> </strong>— save the date: <strong>April 4–10, 2027!</strong></p>