M-x describe-key
to find out what the name is of the command that is performed by a particular key binding.
Episode 21: Worker Cooperatives & System Change with Esteban Kelly
from TheNextSystem.orgWhat role can worker coops play as part of a movement for system change?
Really enjoyed this interview with Esteban Kelly of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives.
Hits some great points like common misconceptions of worker coops (e.g. totally flat structure); the question of ‘get big’ vs ‘replicate’; how coops avoid boom bust cycles.
Interesting distinction of anti-capitalist and acapitalist, that’s a new one on me.
https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/episode-21-worker-cooperatives-system-change-esteban-kelly
Also on:Nathan Schneider on social.coop
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Nathan Schneider(social.coop)"Happily, the Web is so huge that there's no way any one company can dominate it." - @timberners_lee, _Weaving the Web_ (1999)
The Broken Spoke bike coop in Oxford is fundraising to move to a new home – send some solidarity their way if you can spare anything!
They do DIY workshops, mechanics courses, cycle training, events for underrepresented groups, and lots more great stuff.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/keep-broken-spoke-pedalling/
Also on:Worker Cooperatives Part 2: Islands Within a Sea of Capitalism
by from Upstream PodcastThe second episode in our Worker Cooperative series takes a deep dive into the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, the largest network of federated cooperatives in the world.
Another great episode of Upstream. It discusses the coops of Mondragon, and the challenges they faced as they got bigger and brushed up against the global capitalist system. And discusses Cooperation Jackson and their learnings from Mondragon. Emphasises the need for strong political direction in addition to forming coops.
I like the metaphor of islands of coops forming in the sea of capitalism, and eventually they all join up.
https://www.upstreampodcast.org/workercoops2
#coops #mondragon #cooperationjackson
Also on:My parents met in a library, working as librarians.
I like that.
kobo-nightmode patch that works for me on the Glo HD: https://github.com/gtalusan/kobo-nightmode/
“It was not an accidental occurrence or for flippant reasons that Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin saw cooperative economics and labor self-management as useful tools in the struggle for socialism and the undermining of capitalism.”
“Cooperative economics and labor self-management provide the members of the laboring classes who experience class exploitation and domination and non-class forms of oppression with practical economic tools to challenge the economic and political power of the economic and political elite.”
a post
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Adam Harvey(Mastodon)real-time map of "where your electricity comes from and how much CO2 was emitted to produce it" https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=map&solar=false&remote=true&wind=false
If anyone wants 3.9 points (= 3 books you can mooch), send me a message, you can donate your points to anyone.
Nice, I still have 3.9 points!
Who remembers bookmooch? (http://bookmooch.com/)
You basically just swapped second-hand books with people by post. I used it loads like 10/15 years ago. Got some great books off there back in the day, from all around the world.
It even had it’s own alternative currency, in a way. You got points for book you gave away, to then request books you wanted.
Looks like it’s still going.
Does inventaire.io do a similar thing?
syncthing was killing my battery on Android. When I finally got around to looking into it, turns out there’s a github issue, a month’s worth of debugging and discussion, and a fix that dropped about 10 days ago.
Love how you can see all this out in the open.
Part of why Cooperation Jackson was able to get going was Mississippi was bypassed by traditional capitalism. Preston is economically depressed. Rojavan revolution grew in the vacuum of conflict. Puerto Rico is reorganising as a community after natural disaster.
There is ‘the shock doctrine’ and ‘disaster capitalism’. We should have ‘the cooperation doctrine’, ‘disaster anarchism’. Or, more poetically, as per Rebecca Solnit, paradises made in hell.
Help out the tightshift coop get to their fundraising goal.
“Tightshift Laboring Cooperative’s mission is to model a just, equitable economy, where workers profit from their labor through cooperative ownership.”
https://www.gofundme.com/tightshift
Also on:Thoughts on Matomo (formerly Piwik)? Any site owners using it?
It’s a free/libre, open-source analytics alternative to Google Analytics. It’s not Google, so that’s a plus, but it’s still analytics, so will people just block it regardless?
Brixton Pound presents Accidental Anarchist | Friday Film Club @ The Brixton Pound Cafe - Friday, April 20, 2018 at Brixton Pound Cafe, London, England.
Accidental Anarchist is a gripping documentary charting a British diplomat’s unexpected journey from Whitehall’s corridors of power to northern Syria, where in a frontline in the war against ISIS a new model of democracy is being pioneered.
Mondragón and the System Problem
(Truthout)The bankruptcy declaration of Mondragón Corporation's major subsidiary, Fagor Electrodomésticos Group, illustrates the need for large-scale cooperatives to go beyond competition in the existing economic system and begin to address system design.
Interesting read about some of the issues faced at the system level as cooperatives get large and embedded in global markets. As experienced by Mondragon.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19704-mondragon-and-the-system-problem
Also on:US friends – just so you know:
it is bullshit and illegal under federal law for electronics manufacturers to put “Warranty Void if Removed” stickers on their gadgets, and it’s also illegal for companies to void your warranty if you fix your device yourself or via a third party
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ne9qdq/warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-illegal-ftc
Also on:My #socialcoop story
Joined social.coop about 7 months ago (214 days ago to be precise).
I’d heard about Mastodon before & had a profile on mastodon.social that I wasn’t really using.
Think I most probably heard about social.coop from the CoTech (a forum of UK tech coops.)
Since joining I’ve learned a lot more about co-ops, got more political, got involved in our reading group, and got a little involved in how our instance works through our Loomio.
It’s been great!
It’s the 1 year anniversary of social.coop! 🎂 🎉
A cooperatively-run corner of the fediverse.
Who can imagine what the next year will bring? Can’t wait to find out!
The making of the CommonsCloud - technical choices
(freeknowledge.eu)Interesting article on the tech choices behind CommonsCloud.
http://freeknowledge.eu/article/making-of-commonscloud-technical-choices
(CommonsCloud is a platform coop combining Discourse, NextCloud and Phabricator. They’re trying to build an online collaboration platform for the solidarity economy.)