MickyMetts @FreeScholar@social.coop

Call to dialogue Encuentro Mexico City 2018 http://bit.ly/2y9xtjm
Novembre 8-10th 2018
Social and labour movements and indigenous groups are organizing self-determined alternatives.

From FSF.org - Hospitals need to repair ventilators. Manufacturers are making that impossible
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) on medical equipment is a threat to human health and lives learn more about the fight against DRM at https://www.defectivebydesign.org

Agaric is reaching out to cities and communities about our platform Resource Locator. Groups are using the Find It platform for COVID-19 resources and for programs that aggregate resources. http://finditcambridge.org You can write to us to get a site up quickly. ask@agaric.com

Again it is shown that rich people in my home-town of Westport, CT can be cruelly ignorant - https://bit.ly/3anmOmf This is exactly the type of behavior I spoke to in my keynote at MIT http://bit.ly/2JW8vdW

Agaric's awesome client, The National Institute of Children's Health Quality (NICHq) thanks us for the work we have done on their website. They have been helping to stop a lot of diseases from spreading rapidly. https://nichq.org We thank them for their work!

If you are looking for alternatives to meeting face to face, MayFirst has several of them for you to use.

Need to Know webinar on Free software in the age of Corona Virus on Thursday March 26th, 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm ET - Register for free - https://tinyurl.com/rdj6a3g

Like horror movies? this one will have you under your couch...

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8238-retail_surveillance_retail_countersurveillance

If you're working from home and using Zoom, you probably want to read this. Zoom talks to your BOSS.
https://t.co/INyZb5hqNi?amp=1

http://meet.jit.si

Needs and wants database - http://citizencommandcenter.org/

Needs and wants database for anyone to use -

http://citizencommandcenter.org/

NERDsummit 2020 is happening tomorrow (3/21) too! https://ti.to/nerd/nerd-summit-2020 Support your developer friends by showing up for the online event!

Encrypt your communications. See https://prism-break.org/ for a list of tools you can use.

http://bit.ly/3d3yhZU Under the motto 'connecting solidarity,' it allows people to search for co-op providers of goods and services. Co-ops in Argentina can now connect with customers and other social and solidarity economy businesses

LibrePlanet is FREE and ONLINE this weekend - The conference will be streamed online at https://fsf.org starting at 9:30am ET. Agaric hosts a discussion at 4:20 ET on 3/14 - Platform Cooperativism, Surveillance Capitalism, Predictive Analysis and YOU.

Capitalism is rooted in robbery - https://marxedproject.org/event/capitalism-and-robbery-the-planetary-mine/2020-03-26/

LibrePlanet is coming up and Agaric will be hosting a lecture /discussion on Platform cooperativism, surveillance capitalism, predictive analysis, and you, Saturday March 14th - http://bit.ly/agaricLibre AWWWWW, Come to Boston in the winter for a good reason!

JOB ALERT! From Trebor Scholz:
Come and work with me at the PCC at The New School in New York City!
This is a rare professional opportunity to help build a democratic Internet and advance the cooperative movement.
Please spread the word!
https://careers.newschool.edu/postings/18802

MS - Right-Wing 'Review Boards' Would Pave Way for Arresting Librarians Over Books Deemed 'Inappropriate:
"Every reader and writer in the country should be horrified, absolutely horrified, at this bill."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/16/right-wing-review-boards-missouri-would-pave-way-arresting-librarians-over-books

Many people have watched The Twilight Zone or know of it. Not many people know about the activism of Rod Serling during the civil rights movement, or the price he paid for it. https://youtu.be/q8sT6nz7VUM