MickyMetts @FreeScholar@social.coop
Hacktivist, Cooperator, Drupal person.
1 Million dollar grant! Fantastic news from @trebors for the Platform Cooperativism Movement - Google grant - http://bit.ly/2sTf9s6 - New School Announcement - http://bit.ly/2MkYd60 and https://platform.coop/consortium/new-initiative-to-support-platform-co-ops
Join us at CommonBound in St. Louis Saturday the 23rd - https://commonbound2018.sched.com/event/F6RJ/technology-for-the-new-economy Come to an open discussion on the MayFirst Technolgy Statement
1 Million dollar grant! Fantastic news from @trebors for the Platform Cooperativism Movement - Google grant - http://bit.ly/2sTf9s6 - New School Announcement - http://bit.ly/2MkYd60 and https://platform.coop/consortium/new-initiative-to-support-platform-co-ops
Seeking grantwriters
Re-Entry Illinois - a program to assist persons formerly detained,
locate the services and housing necessary to develop alternatives to re-incarceration.
http://www.reentryillinois.net/
Illinois is not prioritizing funding for this site, but States like Michigan are.
We have 2 proposals ready to for review, 1 for consulting and 1 for building out a template for Re-Entry Illinois.
Potential grants -
* https://www.drupal.org/association/community-cultivation-grants
* http://cct.org/
Amazing what individuals can do.
3D Printing limbs to give people for FREE. Liberation for people born without hands and arms - all done in a small shed by 2 people... http://www.teamunlimbited.org/
I am on a panel at LeftForum June 2nd talking about communications and the workers economy. How does it effect us if we are tracked and using other peoples software to connect? Are there ways to own our personal data? http://bit.ly/workereconomy
Quote from Emily Kawano of SEN http://ussen.org - Worker cooperatives tend to have a low ratio of highest to lowest paid—in the neighborhood of 4:1—compared to a US
average of 295:1.35
Pay is generally comparable or better in worker cooperatives,
and job security is better. In tough times, worker owners tend to take a pay cut rather than lay off workers.
The Mass. Mesh Net weekly tech meetups are every Tuesday, 7-9pm at Industry Lab
https://masspirates.org/crew/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=1874&qid=46785,
288 Norfolk St, Cambridge. The Mass. MeshNet General Meeting will be on June 7th
at Industry Labs. You can find them at https://massmesh.org/
Thursday, May 24, 2018...3:00 pm EST.
Join Stop LAPD Spying Coalitions's Hamid Khan; Myaisha Hayes, National Organizer on Criminal Justice and Technology for the Center for Media Justice; and Jude Ortiz of National Lawyers Guild's Mass Defense Steering Committee as they share information and converse with you on the government's use of technology to arrest, imprison and use arrest records to repress people and keep us from struggling.
https://outreach.mayfirst.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=284&qid=501476
Just launched the new https://www.drutopia.org ! which runs on ... #Drutopia
🙃
a #cms for grassroots movements, organized as a #platformcoop
#dogfooding
#latenightdeployments
#freesoftware
#opensource
#Drupal
Asian American Solidarity Economies Project presents
2018 Solidarity Economy Webinar Series
In our third of five webinars, our speakers will introduce the steps involved in forming a cooperative including deciding on its legal entity, cooperative finances, and governance and decision making.
Date: Monday, May 21st 2018
Time: 10:00-11:00 am PT/1:00-2:00 pm ET
RSVP: http://tiny.cc/forming
They use OUR technology -- the technology we created -- to make bad things happen.
Three million people in jail with as many as 10 million lives battered by arrest, incarceration and parole. The absolutely worst, by far, in the world! All made possible by technology.
It's a major issue for our movement. What should we do? How bad is it? Can it be reversed?
We have three speakers who know these issues inside outThursday, May 24, 2018. At 3:00 pm Eastern U.S.A.
register:
https://outreach.mayfirst.org/civicrm/event/info?id=25&reset=1
Who shot the sheriff?
Rock against Racism movement in the UK - late 70's
part 1 - https://vimeo.com/11494489
part 2 - https://vimeo.com/11501491
part 3 - https://vimeo.com/11503501
3 parts - all are excellent! The soundtrack kicks!!!
The Sustainable Economies Law Center, which does great work on supporting the design and dissemination of #coop structures, is having a spring fundraising drive with matching donations today. I just kicked them $25, and would encourage others to consider supporting their important work on the #SolidarityEconomy!
I just heard that AT&T was just caught paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to President Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, and the payments stop right after his FCC Chairman appointee Ajit Pai repealed net neutrality. Anyone got any more details on this one???
MayFirst/PeopleLink
$25 bux a year for membership that includes use of AMAZING FREE TOOLS.
Live video streaming
Up until now, however, we have been dependent on the biggest corporations to access this service.
Today, MF/PL is launching a beta version of our own member live video streaming service. Do you have an existing MF/PL username and password? Then you are ready to stream!
You can just log in and hit the STREAM button - how easy and cool is that????????????
Almost free from Gmail - please do not send me anything at a gmail.com address - YAY
Have you read and signed the MayFirst Tech Statement? Here it is >>>
Now hearing from the great @niloufar_s on how workers can transform tech at #may2uwo! Imagine tech with trust at the center.
Just in from MayFirst --
> Apparently, Mexico has now passed a law allowing judges to order the removal any on-line content that the judge deems violate author's rights or copyright. There's now discussion if possible penalties which include
physical seizure and "detention" of equipment and servers.
Remember that these people try out stuff in Mexico before bringing it to the U.S. so this is important for ALL. Take a look at the piece if you can.