Here comes #DrupalCon! There's no trainings as part of #DrupalConGlobal but don't forget to check out the offerings from the many Drupal community approved organizations on https://drupal.org/training
@agaric is taking our #DrupalCon
#Drupal trainings online so no one has to miss out. Get fully into #Drupal9 by migrating your content into it!
https://agaric.coop/blog/online-trainings-drupal-migration-and-upgrades
If you or someone you know has been affected by layoffs at #mozilla, please know that 1) you/the person are brilliant and valuable regardless of employment status and 2) we are hiring for lotsa roles here at Nylas https://boards.greenhouse.io/nylas
Your GEO Weekly Newsletter is hot off the presses, so fresh the pixels are still warm!
#Cooperatives #FoodSecurity #Detroit #Accountability #SolidarityEconomy
In praise of Ella Jo Baker:
https://geo.coop/blog/praise-ella-josephine-baker-and-barbara-ransby
Yesterday, @pcc_global@twitter.com launched the course Who Owns the World? https://www.whoownstheworld.org/
Next week's lecture by New York Times labor correspondent @greenhouseny@twitter.com will be about unions!
Watch the live stream on January 29, 6 pm ET.
https://www.whoownstheworld.org/live-stream-1
We want to help as many people as possible upgrade from #Drupal 7 to 8 this year, which is why we have five upcoming trainings (with more to be scheduled!) and a list of free resources to help people get started.
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https://agaric.coop/blog/make-2020-year-you-begin-upgrade-drupal-8-upcoming-trainings-and-resources
We're helping PortsideOrg@twitter.com
deepen their coverage of #Labor and social justice movements in 2020 by improving their issue pages and related content algorithm.
All work is done as #FreeSoftware, free for others to use and benefit from.
https://agaric.coop/blog/support-independent-labor-journalism-and-free-software-tools
Current Affairs gets it: we need #WorkerOwned #Media.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/10/the-urgent-need-for-worker-owned-media
Of course, because we're so f'cking cool, we've already got social.coop and GEO people working on this 😎
RT WeAreOpenCoop: Our members have thought and tinkered for organizations like mozilla, creativecommons, greenpeace, bbc and many more. See what our #coop can do for you - Schedule a thinkathon
https://weareopen.coop/thinkathon/
The nonprofit that managed the .org top level domain sold out to a private equity firm.
It should have become a #platformcoop
https://agaric.coop/blog/private-equity-firm-bought-nonprofit-managed-org-top-level-domain
Just finished translating the final chapter of @luisrazeto's #SolidarityEconomyRoads.
"Razeto turns [here] to the economic, political, and cultural crisis of contemporary civilization... The analysis is rooted in Latin-American history and informed by Razeto’s study of ... Gramsci which began in his years of exile after the 1973 coup, and has particular relevance today in the context of the climate crisis, ... and crises of governability in country after country."
Coming to #GEO next month
Today at the Union Coop Symposium we heard from the Mexico Electrical Union (SME) about their decade long struggle to save jobs destroyed by the Calderon administration. it was an incredibly moving story and they continue to fight the government to uphold the agreement that includes 13 electrical plants and 50 buildings. I didn't take as complete notes as I had hoped due to being so enthralled.
the .org domain, once managed by a nonprofit, has now been bought by a private equity firm.
https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/13/breaking-private-equity-company-acquires-org-registry/
I was only able to attend one session of the #platformcoop conference but I was glad it was the superpanel facilitated by @FreeScholar of @agaric . Osamu Nakano of Japan Workers Cooperative Union was a particular standout asking about the contradiction between the anti-trade position of platforms and the worker enpowerment that is meant to be central to worker-owned coops.
A cool social justice × media-making conference coming up: the Allied Media Conference, June 25-28, Detroit https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc
You can check out programs from previous years to get a feel for it: https://www.alliedmedia.org/amc/previous-years
Latest Chapter of #SolidarityEconomyRoads by @luisrazeto is on the new, @agaric made GEO website!
Chapter 10 - The Road of Ancient Peoples. In this chapter Razeto seeks paths to solidarity economy in traditional indigenous economic and cultural practices, especially those of Andean peoples.
https://geo.coop/articles/solidarity-economy-roads-chapter-10
Thanks to @luisrazeto, @GuerillaOntologist, @emi, @LeoSammallahti , and @Steve
GEO's kicking off a fundraiser to help us pay for our spiffy new website (built by @agaric ).
Pitch in $35 and get an ebook copy of "Building Cooperative Power"
Contribute $50 and you get the ebook and the print edition!
$12 or more gets your name on our contributors page.
Many thanks to all our supporters!
https://mailchi.mp/fa7306a88a0f/your-contribution-to-building-a-collective-world
Our cooperative voted to participate in the digital #ClimateStrike on September 20th.
We encourage fellow tech coops and shops to participate and stand in solidarity with students across the world walking out of school to demand #ClimateJustice.
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Empowering the web through #freesoftware and #cooperative principles.