Live Zoom Event
Rupture vs Solidarity Economics
Canada and the United States
Wednesday, February 25
12pm Eastern | 11am Central | 9am Pacific
Equal Exchange and La Siembra have been sister co-ops and allies for 25 years, working across borders in cocoa and chocolate supply chains and alternative trade. A decade ago, when private equity came calling for La Siembra, Equal Exchange answered with our capital to keep the business in the hands of the Canadian worker-owners. Over the past year, in the face of the challenges to our business models and the abject disrespect of our government, we have been working on a merger of our organizations and our cooperative structures.
Come learn about how, as of January 1, 2026, Equal Exchange merged with La Siembra and how we have achieved a global worker-owned cooperative across borders. How we, in the words of Mark Carney, PM of Canada in his Davos speech, exercised our “capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength and to act together…to build something bigger, better, stronger and more just…as a middle power that has the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine cooperation.”
Read the press release: Equal Exchange and La Siembra Integrate
Photos above left: Kelly Storie, President of La Siembra, with Dary Goodrich, Equal Exchange Chocolate Products Manager, visiting Fundopo co-op in the Dominican Republic. Above right: Patricio Del Pozo Rodriguez of Fundopo co-op with La Siembra's Camino chocolate line.