Aaron Wagener @aaron@social.coop

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)

#wage #theft

found the ocean
[comic by @PDLComics@birdsite]

As someone who knows quite a bit about Burlington's political history, this article is a solid account of #BernieSanders' ideological origins and development in #vt: https://newrepublic.com/article/154086/bernies-red-vermont

#uspol #vtpol #vermont #murraybookchin #peterdiamondstone #bookchin

Off-grid #solar powered mosquito trap, mk-1, is operational! Justin time, too; the bloodsuckers are out today... 🦟

#diy #solarpunk

"I Oversaw the US Nuclear Power Industry. Now I Think It Should Be Banned." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/05/17/i-oversaw-us-nuclear-power-industry-now-i-think-it-should-be-banned

Just a stay-at-home mom rocking the world. And leading the fight to repair.

“Jones found the repair work satisfying, and repairing electronics became a new hobby. ... Then she listed herself on eBay as a mail-in motherboard repairperson – within months, repair shops across the country were sending her micro-soldering jobs that were too complex for them.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/08/sidestepping-apple-the-third-party-tinkerers-fighting-for-your-right-to-repair

I'm semi-regularly struck by how the relevance of #AnaisMitchell's #Hadestown has just continued to intensify over the past decade.

Her playing #WhyDoWeBuildTheWall solo in #Vermont in 2009: https://youtu.be/7TUfxx2JrqY?t=53s

Listening to a podcast on worker coops in USA. Pretty interesting.

This week Esteban Kelly of the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives joins us to talk about his experience with cooperatives and his perspective on how they fit into a movement for systemic change.

The Next System Podcast: Ep. 21: Worker Cooperatives & System Change (W/ Esteban Kelly) http://nextsystem.libsyn.com/ep-21-worker-cooperatives-system-change-w-esteban-kelly

Meet Mance, the #bunny who came home with us from the humane society to be Coady's new friend...
#bunposting #bunnies

Here's a thing I wrote. Check it out if you're into #coops, #recoveredbusinesses, or #argentina.

http://www.mcdcmadison.org/2019/04/23/for-worker-co-ops-in-argentina-the-struggle-goes-on

A mobile app for Loomio would be so nice.

Spanish cities make the case for how cooperatives can address urban ills - Shareable https://www.shareable.net/blog/spanish-cities-make-the-case-for-how-cooperatives-can-address-urban-ills
#coop #coops #spain #barcelona

From @brightneedle in https://sunbeam.city/@brightneedle/101779128566528955
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Kickstarter staff announce plans to unionize! ✊ They'll be joining the Office and Professional Employees International Union

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/19/18254995/kickstarter-unionizing-union-representation-inclusivity-transparency-tech-us-crowdfunding

Lots of great stuff on @geosocialcoop these days:

"We’re our own bosses here."
The Story of Colombia’s Cooperative Market Plazas
by @aaron Wagener

http://geo.coop/story/were-our-own-bosses-here

#SolidarityEconomy
#cooperativism
#LatinAmerica

Just posted a great article by @aaron about #Columbia's #Cooperative Market Plazas!

http://geo.coop/story/were-our-own-bosses-here