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...garb for cheap cotton dresses, and it was feared the unique craft of the mola would be lost, along with the cash it earned the Indians. The volunteers organized a Cooperativa de Productos de Mola. By the time I arrived to organize the eager women on Playon Chico, the co-op had grown to 200 women on seven islands...
...Panama in 1971. Instead, it had blossomed into a cottage industry that brings substantial cash into an economy formerly based on coconuts. Today, 1,365 women on 17 islands turn out thousands of dollars' worth of mola products each year, from pillows and purses to the traditional squares. The co-op runs a store in Panama City that sells wholesale to tourist shops in town and even exports to the U.S. Like everything else in the co-op, the store is run by Kuna women only...
...success of the tribe-wide co-op has taught the Kuna how to apply the same principles to even larger matters. Spurred by the construction of a road into their territory and the threat of forced development from outside, the Kuna men have formed a second tribal cooperative to manage the land and water resources of their nearly autonomous homeland. Their efforts have been impressive enough to win international support, including a $225,000 grant . from the MacArthur Foundation. "The Indians have made it into the 20th century intact," says Ann Wenzel, an American friend in Panama...
Also on Thursday, a man was found in a Jordan Co-op room, going through the resident's belongings. The suspect, a black male of about 25 years, escaped down Shepherd Street toward Massachusetts Avenue. No arrest was made...
Cambridge Food Co-op's Tenth Birthday Celebration Concert: Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, Friday...