Back in September, C2BE hosted a series of speaking events around Detroit featuring Mikel Lezamiz of the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation of Spain, the largest cooperative corporation in the world. He presented the MCC as a model which could be followed in Detroit, describing how they went from having nothing in the aftermath of WWII to generating billions of Euros in sales per year, all owned by the workers in the company. We received some very good press coverage for the series of events, including:
- A Detroit Today interview with C2BE Chair Deborah Groban Olson (9/21/09)
- Model D Media’s C2BE focuses on creative job creation with events (9/22/09)
- The Metro Times’ Co-ops to the Rescue? (9/23/09)