ckohtala @ckohtala@social.coop

I'd love to see a book written on getting started with the indieweb, aimed at people who don't have much experience with computers. Part course on tech literacy, part how-to guide on how to escape the grips of big tech companies. Anyone know if something like that already exists? If not, I'm kind of interested in writing one, so if you are too, send me a message.

Boosts appreciated, and also tagging this in #askfedi

Last year we participated in Pakhuis de Zwijger's series "Rights to the Blockchain City" that explored whether blockchains could be designed to support an alternative economic model, one that puts ecological concerns and solidarity central. ✨

You can watch the livecast here 💚: https://dezwijger.nl/programma/rights-to-the-blockchain-city-2

#DesignJustice for information science! Floegel & Costello. "Methods for a feminist technoscience of information practice: Design justice and speculative futurities." J of the Association for Information Science and Technology 73, no. 4 (2022): 625-634. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asi.24597?casa_token=LaChEktFqa4AAAAA%3AxacUO6V-7Vz1eBrWZsTizGjuy3WL6p2SAc0DL_8LFEQ8PYsnAv1sR5KPG-kUlV_10-AK3xsxhRZATxo

#DesignJustice pedagogy audits! Dasa, M., Ostrowskia, A. K., Ben-Davida, S., Roedera, G. J., Kimurab, K., D’Ignazioa, C., ... & Vermac, A. Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Renato-Bertao/publication/360247385_Identifying_inconveniences_in_daily_life_A_problem_finding_prompt_to_foster_non-designers'_engagement_in_design_thinking_training/links/626b29b305d79a3968aa746c/Identifying-inconveniences-in-daily-life-A-problem-finding-prompt-to-foster-non-designers-engagement-in-design-thinking-training.pdf#page=122

#DesignJustice and alternatives to policing

Chordia, I. (2022, April). Leveraging Transformative Justice in Organizing Collective Action Towards Community Safety. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (pp. 1-4).

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491101.3503820?casa_token=boWJ3GjP4icAAAAA:bBspBtJYJG2XG4Rsa73J9GrFRqTCFzSj-w22LzfF7tw24YTaUphSb9zCnW7USg7mbbvvxXLW2LXk

Are you wondering why so many people are excited about @enMONDRAGON@twitter.com? Watch this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwwq3ujkfkU

🎉🍾Wohoo!! We've reached over 7000 downloads of the DisCO Elements (whether if the EPUB, the printing-friendly MONO or the PDF version)! Thank you all for joining us in building a more distributed, diverse, cooperative, care-oriented future of work!

https://elements.disco.coop/index.html

🗓️ MAY 3rd!

Building Collective Futures: Economic Systems that Work for All 🌱

Join Thousand Currents for a conversation on the power and possibilities of solidarity economies. This webinar invites you to deepen your reflections on the individual and collective actions that move us toward building economic systems that make the equitable distribution of goods possible.

https://thousandcurrents.zoom.us/webinar/register/tZ0qdOupqDsvHNNgfgotB62jjoFlXHI7FAim

Our friends from @guerrillamediacollective have translated the first part of Bani Amor's series "Unnatural Disasters". Originally published on Bitch Media, it's now published on @ElSaltoDiario.

The Least Convenient Truth Part I—Climate Change and White Supremacy

Here's the original article in English 🧡:

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/least-convenient-truth/climate-change-and-white-supremacy

Contributors to the Earthbound Farmers Almanac speak about the book, food autonomy in Ndn Bayou Food Forest and Lobelia Commons in New Orleans, spectacle and community resilience.

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/04/24/earthbound-farmers-almanac-and-food-autonomy-in-bulbancha/

2) MAY 1st, THE MUNICIPALIST MOMENT (a panel via zoom webinar) with Kali Akuno.

Free on-line event happening tomorrow:

Canada’s Hidden Figures: The Story of Black Women Cooperators

#Canada #Cooperatives

Register here:
https://events.sfu.ca/event/26593-canadas-hidden-figures-the-story-of-black-women

Beautiful chat with Ouassima Laabich-Mansour on the Future of Memory by Superrr Network:

"we need to focus our decolonising on the present in order to move into the future without this amount of harmful, “infected” knowledge & perspectives of the world. If we leave that here, which tomorrow will be yesterday, if we move on with clarity, then we can start to scratch the surface of disrupting the many colonial continuities."

https://superrr.net/2022/03/10/on-the-future-of-memory-anja-saleh.html

One highlight from the brilliant conference of @DisruptionNetworkLab with Chantal Meloni, Khalil Dewan, Emran Feroz and John Goetz. This is part of The Kill Cloud programme, which challenges AI powered global military programmes & targeted killings through civic action and whistleblowing.

https://www.disruptionlab.org/the-kill-cloud

"The tireless work and innovation ideas of Black coop economics have proven that another world is possible by delivering justice, prosperity & security in a system that has denied Black communities privileged access in funding, ideas, leadership…" 💛👇

https://medium.com/postgrowth/three-things-i-learned-from-collaboratively-launching-the-2021-black-solidarity-economy-fund-f832cd801214

“If we don’t start practicing collective self care now, there’s no way to imagine, much less reach a time of freedom.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cHoL4vaBs