{"id":2916,"date":"2008-02-16T08:24:27","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T14:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2008-02-16T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T14:24:27","slug":"building-autonomy-one-co-op-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"Building Autonomy, One Co-op at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Michael Fox, yes!, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/article.asp?id=2100\">Winter 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" width=\"220\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana\" align=\"left\"><font size=\"1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/44fox_coop1.jpg?w=640\" \/>Vicente Addiego in front of his home in the BANREP cooperative, where he has lived for 35 years.<br \/>\nPhoto by Silvia Leindecker<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It&#8217;s a social movement and a housing cooperative. A massive self-help program for the poor and a new way of life for thousands. With 20,000 member-families living in cooperatively owned homes in 400 communities across the country, it is one of the largest and most radical housing cooperative federations in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The Uruguayan Federation of Housing for Mutual-Support Cooperatives (FUCVAM) is also one of the most organized social movements in Uruguay. Last March, Federation members led the demonstrations against President George W. Bush&#8217;s visit to the country, marching for five days to cover the nearly 125 miles from the nation&#8217;s capital, Montevideo, to the presidential estate where the U.S. President met with his Uruguayan counterpart, President Tabar\u00e9 V\u00e1zquez.<\/p>\n<p>The two concepts\u2014housing and political activism\u2014may not seem like natural partners. But FUCVAM&#8217;s principle of promoting autonomy in its member organizations translates into broader social engagement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/article.asp?id=2100\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michael Fox, yes!, Winter 2008 Vicente Addiego in front of his home in the BANREP cooperative, where he has lived for 35 years. Photo by Silvia Leindecker It&#8217;s a social movement and a housing cooperative. A massive self-help program &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2916\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-L2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}