PS_Kumar
@ps-kumar.bsky.social
Delhi-raised, Brussels-based.
Exploring law, cooperatives, and the spaces in between.
👨🏭 at International Cooperative Alliance
⚖️ and 💌 in 🇮🇳 and 🇮🇹
💭 and 🐾 for a better world
Exploring law, cooperatives, and the spaces in between.
👨🏭 at International Cooperative Alliance
⚖️ and 💌 in 🇮🇳 and 🇮🇹
💭 and 🐾 for a better world
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📢 Don't miss today's #booktalk with Cory Doctorow on his new book ENSHITTIFICATION.
Join us & Authors Alliance to learn why the internet broke & how we can fix it.
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
#enshittification
Join us & Authors Alliance to learn why the internet broke & how we can fix it.
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
#enshittification
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📢 Don't miss today's #booktalk with Cory Doctorow on his new book ENSHITTIFICATION.
Join us & Authors Alliance to learn why the internet broke & how we can fix it.
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
#enshittification
Join us & Authors Alliance to learn why the internet broke & how we can fix it.
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
#enshittification
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🌍 What is the Cultural Heritage of Cooperativism?
It’s the shared traditions, places, and practices that show how cooperation has shaped communities, knowledge, and livelihoods across generations.
Swipe through the visuals ↓ and explore the global story of cooperation.
It’s the shared traditions, places, and practices that show how cooperation has shaped communities, knowledge, and livelihoods across generations.
Swipe through the visuals ↓ and explore the global story of cooperation.
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🌍 What is the Cultural Heritage of Cooperativism?
It’s the shared traditions, places, and practices that show how cooperation has shaped communities, knowledge, and livelihoods across generations.
Swipe through the visuals ↓ and explore the global story of cooperation.
It’s the shared traditions, places, and practices that show how cooperation has shaped communities, knowledge, and livelihoods across generations.
Swipe through the visuals ↓ and explore the global story of cooperation.
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In our latest In Conversation, Geoffrey Muldoon, director of program delivery at #GlobalFishingWatch, shares how transparency and open data are helping Pacific nations protect fisheries, strengthen enforcement and collaborate across borders.
🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3Xa5FXu
#WorldFisheriesDay
🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3Xa5FXu
#WorldFisheriesDay
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
In our latest In Conversation, Geoffrey Muldoon, director of program delivery at #GlobalFishingWatch, shares how transparency and open data are helping Pacific nations protect fisheries, strengthen enforcement and collaborate across borders.
🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3Xa5FXu
#WorldFisheriesDay
🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3Xa5FXu
#WorldFisheriesDay
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🔴 Today CECOP GA (CICOPA's European organization) elected Monica Fantini (IT) as new President.
Fantini is President of Conscoop, and Vice-President of Legacoop Produzione e Servizi.
She succeeds Giuseppe Guerini, who has led CECOP with dedication since 2016.
www.cicopa.coop/news/monica-...
Fantini is President of Conscoop, and Vice-President of Legacoop Produzione e Servizi.
She succeeds Giuseppe Guerini, who has led CECOP with dedication since 2016.
www.cicopa.coop/news/monica-...
October 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🔴 Today CECOP GA (CICOPA's European organization) elected Monica Fantini (IT) as new President.
Fantini is President of Conscoop, and Vice-President of Legacoop Produzione e Servizi.
She succeeds Giuseppe Guerini, who has led CECOP with dedication since 2016.
www.cicopa.coop/news/monica-...
Fantini is President of Conscoop, and Vice-President of Legacoop Produzione e Servizi.
She succeeds Giuseppe Guerini, who has led CECOP with dedication since 2016.
www.cicopa.coop/news/monica-...
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⏰ Last chance to register!
The #YECN is hosting its General Assembly 2025 in Porto 🇵🇹 on 5–7 Nov.
A big step for the cooperative youth movement, the YECN is becoming an official network!
🗓️ Register by 17 Oct: coopseurope.coop/news_article...
#CoopYouth
The #YECN is hosting its General Assembly 2025 in Porto 🇵🇹 on 5–7 Nov.
A big step for the cooperative youth movement, the YECN is becoming an official network!
🗓️ Register by 17 Oct: coopseurope.coop/news_article...
#CoopYouth
October 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
⏰ Last chance to register!
The #YECN is hosting its General Assembly 2025 in Porto 🇵🇹 on 5–7 Nov.
A big step for the cooperative youth movement, the YECN is becoming an official network!
🗓️ Register by 17 Oct: coopseurope.coop/news_article...
#CoopYouth
The #YECN is hosting its General Assembly 2025 in Porto 🇵🇹 on 5–7 Nov.
A big step for the cooperative youth movement, the YECN is becoming an official network!
🗓️ Register by 17 Oct: coopseurope.coop/news_article...
#CoopYouth
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Eco-friendly housing co-op near Stirling, Scotland, gains funding from Co-operative and Community Finance and Co-op Loan Fund
#coops #sustainability #housing
#coops #sustainability #housing
Eco-friendly housing co-op gains funding from CCF and Co-op Loan Fund
The family and friends behind Big Step Housing Co-op say they want to create a space where wealth, skills and resources can be redistributed
www.thenews.coop
October 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Eco-friendly housing co-op near Stirling, Scotland, gains funding from Co-operative and Community Finance and Co-op Loan Fund
#coops #sustainability #housing
#coops #sustainability #housing
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Our President @giuseppeguerini.bsky.social closed today’s online event “Social Economy & Coops: The Backbone of an Inclusive Answer to the Housing Crisis” with MEP Abadía Jover.
He called on the EU to recognise housing as a right & empower #coops to deliver fair, affordable homes for all.
He called on the EU to recognise housing as a right & empower #coops to deliver fair, affordable homes for all.
October 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Our President @giuseppeguerini.bsky.social closed today’s online event “Social Economy & Coops: The Backbone of an Inclusive Answer to the Housing Crisis” with MEP Abadía Jover.
He called on the EU to recognise housing as a right & empower #coops to deliver fair, affordable homes for all.
He called on the EU to recognise housing as a right & empower #coops to deliver fair, affordable homes for all.
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🤝 We have engaged in a strategic partnership with FEBEA, the European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers.
💡Through joint networking, advocacy, and capacity building work, we will connect our members to provide concrete funding solutions for community energy projects.
#ACCE
💡Through joint networking, advocacy, and capacity building work, we will connect our members to provide concrete funding solutions for community energy projects.
#ACCE
October 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
🤝 We have engaged in a strategic partnership with FEBEA, the European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks and Financiers.
💡Through joint networking, advocacy, and capacity building work, we will connect our members to provide concrete funding solutions for community energy projects.
#ACCE
💡Through joint networking, advocacy, and capacity building work, we will connect our members to provide concrete funding solutions for community energy projects.
#ACCE
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‘Hate divides communities, co-operation builds them’
UK's Co-op Group leads campaign to drive awareness of #coops in post-conflict reconstruction
UK's Co-op Group leads campaign to drive awareness of #coops in post-conflict reconstruction
‘Hate divides communities, co-operation builds them’
New campaign to drive awareness of co-ops in post-conflict reconstruction
www.thenews.coop
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
‘Hate divides communities, co-operation builds them’
UK's Co-op Group leads campaign to drive awareness of #coops in post-conflict reconstruction
UK's Co-op Group leads campaign to drive awareness of #coops in post-conflict reconstruction
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📢 Ahead of tomorrow’s plenary vote in the European Parliament, CECOP, as a member of the Sustainable Public Procurement Network, calls on MEPs to endorse the Public Procurement report as adopted by the IMCO Committee.
September 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
📢 Ahead of tomorrow’s plenary vote in the European Parliament, CECOP, as a member of the Sustainable Public Procurement Network, calls on MEPs to endorse the Public Procurement report as adopted by the IMCO Committee.
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To build more #cooperative societies and economies, #education is vital, from schools through to business studies. We talk to Jacqui Thomasen from the Co-operative College about the campaign to put #coops on the curriculum
The fight to get co-operation on the curriculum
With education vital for a more co-operative future, Co-op College CEO Jacqui Thomasen talks about the campaign to get co-ops in the classroom
www.thenews.coop
September 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
To build more #cooperative societies and economies, #education is vital, from schools through to business studies. We talk to Jacqui Thomasen from the Co-operative College about the campaign to put #coops on the curriculum
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cool that 'enshittification' is going mainstream but this is not what Cory Doctorow meant when coining the term
ie, not a general "things get worse because $$" but a sequence of events: platform lures users in, abuses users for enterprise customers, then abuses the enterprise customers, all for $$
ie, not a general "things get worse because $$" but a sequence of events: platform lures users in, abuses users for enterprise customers, then abuses the enterprise customers, all for $$
September 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
cool that 'enshittification' is going mainstream but this is not what Cory Doctorow meant when coining the term
ie, not a general "things get worse because $$" but a sequence of events: platform lures users in, abuses users for enterprise customers, then abuses the enterprise customers, all for $$
ie, not a general "things get worse because $$" but a sequence of events: platform lures users in, abuses users for enterprise customers, then abuses the enterprise customers, all for $$
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US dairy giant Land O'Lakes partners with local #coops on AgRogue Partners, a $7m project to drive agri-tech innovation
www.thenews.coop
September 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
US dairy giant Land O'Lakes partners with local #coops on AgRogue Partners, a $7m project to drive agri-tech innovation
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25 years after its adoption, the Cooperative Identity Statement — setting out the shared definition, values & principles of cooperatives — is being reviewed.
📜A 2nd draft is open for consultation until 31 Oct.
Share your input now!👉 coopidentity.ica.coop/consultation
#CoopIdentity
📜A 2nd draft is open for consultation until 31 Oct.
Share your input now!👉 coopidentity.ica.coop/consultation
#CoopIdentity
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
25 years after its adoption, the Cooperative Identity Statement — setting out the shared definition, values & principles of cooperatives — is being reviewed.
📜A 2nd draft is open for consultation until 31 Oct.
Share your input now!👉 coopidentity.ica.coop/consultation
#CoopIdentity
📜A 2nd draft is open for consultation until 31 Oct.
Share your input now!👉 coopidentity.ica.coop/consultation
#CoopIdentity
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📢 New Policy Brief released!
FAO, ICA-Africa & ICA-AP, under the ICA-EU Partnership, facilitated a Strategic Dialogue in the NENA region on cooperative development for rural & agrifood systems transformation.
🔗 doi.org/10.4060/cd59...
#Coops4Dev #AgrifoodSystems #Cooperatives
FAO, ICA-Africa & ICA-AP, under the ICA-EU Partnership, facilitated a Strategic Dialogue in the NENA region on cooperative development for rural & agrifood systems transformation.
🔗 doi.org/10.4060/cd59...
#Coops4Dev #AgrifoodSystems #Cooperatives
August 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📢 New Policy Brief released!
FAO, ICA-Africa & ICA-AP, under the ICA-EU Partnership, facilitated a Strategic Dialogue in the NENA region on cooperative development for rural & agrifood systems transformation.
🔗 doi.org/10.4060/cd59...
#Coops4Dev #AgrifoodSystems #Cooperatives
FAO, ICA-Africa & ICA-AP, under the ICA-EU Partnership, facilitated a Strategic Dialogue in the NENA region on cooperative development for rural & agrifood systems transformation.
🔗 doi.org/10.4060/cd59...
#Coops4Dev #AgrifoodSystems #Cooperatives
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Did you know? The ICA has carried its story through its flags and symbols for 100 years!
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August 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Did you know? The ICA has carried its story through its flags and symbols for 100 years!
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We wrapped up #CoopColloquium15 by ICA-AP’s CCR & APCDP under the ICA-EU Partnership.
Highlights: cross-border coop development, insights from DGRV, case studies from India & Cambodia, and reflections on Asia’s cooperative journey.
📌 Next colloquium in October.
#coops4dev
Highlights: cross-border coop development, insights from DGRV, case studies from India & Cambodia, and reflections on Asia’s cooperative journey.
📌 Next colloquium in October.
#coops4dev
August 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We wrapped up #CoopColloquium15 by ICA-AP’s CCR & APCDP under the ICA-EU Partnership.
Highlights: cross-border coop development, insights from DGRV, case studies from India & Cambodia, and reflections on Asia’s cooperative journey.
📌 Next colloquium in October.
#coops4dev
Highlights: cross-border coop development, insights from DGRV, case studies from India & Cambodia, and reflections on Asia’s cooperative journey.
📌 Next colloquium in October.
#coops4dev
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🎉 ICA turns 130!
Founded on 19 Aug 1895 with 13 countries in London, the ICA now represents 316 members in 106 nations.
130 years of cooperation, identity & global impact
Read more 👉 ica.coop/en/newsroom/...
#ICA130 #IYC2025 #CoopsYear #CooperativesBuildABetterWorld
Founded on 19 Aug 1895 with 13 countries in London, the ICA now represents 316 members in 106 nations.
130 years of cooperation, identity & global impact
Read more 👉 ica.coop/en/newsroom/...
#ICA130 #IYC2025 #CoopsYear #CooperativesBuildABetterWorld
ICA at 130: Honouring a rich heritage while shaping the future | ICA
On 19 August 1895 cooperators from 13 countries came together for the first International Cooperative Congress in London, where they established the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). “We have ...
ica.coop
August 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🎉 ICA turns 130!
Founded on 19 Aug 1895 with 13 countries in London, the ICA now represents 316 members in 106 nations.
130 years of cooperation, identity & global impact
Read more 👉 ica.coop/en/newsroom/...
#ICA130 #IYC2025 #CoopsYear #CooperativesBuildABetterWorld
Founded on 19 Aug 1895 with 13 countries in London, the ICA now represents 316 members in 106 nations.
130 years of cooperation, identity & global impact
Read more 👉 ica.coop/en/newsroom/...
#ICA130 #IYC2025 #CoopsYear #CooperativesBuildABetterWorld
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❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin.
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
August 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
❤️ Books Upstairs, Dublin.
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
#SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
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