Some people here may be familiar with the model of worker's cooperatives, where the people who work in a business own the business. In Spain, despite the economic problem that country faces, the Mondragon Cooperative, with 83,869 people working in 256 companies, has a particular resilience which is attracting attention. On Monday a representative of the cooperative will be speaking in Melbourne. For those interested in alternative structures - which have been used very successfully in IT - you may wish to attend this event and perhaps even the dinner afterwards. Resilience to the Euro Zone Crisis: The Unique Advantages of the Mondragon Cooperative When: Monday, 22 October 2012 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST) Where: Sunderland Theatre, Medical Building - Corner of Berkeley and Grattan Street - Carlton - Melbourne, Victoria 3010 - Australia Employee Ownership Australia and New Zealand Monday, 22 October 2012 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST) Melbourne, Victoria http://www.eventbrite.com.au/event/4470958758/ Free lecture and (not free) dinner afterwards with Mikel Lezamiz, the Director of Cooperative Dissemination at the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation. c.f., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt