colombene @colombene@social.coop

I wish there was a restaurant called Hey Food

feelin' the byrds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSr4pIq_taE&t=47m39s

can relate to this answer... "If you want to find your mission, look to your desired future and ask what's missing in the present."

RT @RichDecibels@twitter.com

To me the most obvious "missing" is not a transformation of consciousness, decentralised tech tools, or political revolution, but a reliable methodology that supports small groups in many different contexts to reliably settle into a pattern of deep collaboration.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RichDecibels/status/1230555517916860416

RT @open_coop@twitter.com

"The most effective way to enable the new economy is to empower people to set up and develop decentralised groups via a centralised, cooperative platform” says @DefactoDesign@twitter.com - thanks to @dilgreen@twitter.com for links - nod to @xdamman@twitter.com & @RichDecibels@twitter.com https://open.coop/2020/02/20/making-groups-work/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/open_coop/status/1230528352206888966

design ethics

everyone in my house now sings the platform co-op theme song (at 12:15) https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformcoop2019/videos/198756065

Emma Kinema from Game Workers Unite on creative/tech worker organizing at XOXO https://youtu.be/dHp_DwVm2EA

the future of labor is better than the future of work, sign-up for the assembly by this Friday 9/27, details: https://navel.la/news/assembliesq2signup/

Vote for these pro-worker panels @ SXSW Interactive! (before 8/23) Tech Workers of the World, Unite! https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/95807, The Rise of Contracting In Tech: Underground Story https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/104459, Meetup: Organize for Power in Your Workplace https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/94112, Turning the Tech Backlash into a Plan of Action https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/96618

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISN T ANY WORK

Austin Software Co-ops is having an online discussion with authors of Enspiral's 'Better Work Together' book on 7/3 7p CT https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Software-Co-operatives/events/gzxfglyzkbfb/

Tech Workers Coalition is in Los Angeles! Intro meeting Thur. 5/30 at 6:30p, Peace Center, 3916 Sepulveda Bl, Culver City. Learn about TWC, recent tech + local labor action, and discuss what we want for our workplaces + for tech in LA https://www.meetup.com/Tech-Workers-Coalition-LA/events/261434369/

zeynep tufekci on rare but much-needed sociological storytelling https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/

Back at work? Try Workers' Happy Hour, 1st Wednesdays 6-8pm at Mandrake (LA) starting tonite! plotting, strategizing, organizing, networking, ranting...

The 3rd ep of The New Constructivist podcast features Zen Buddhist priest & author Karen Maezen Miller. She goes into how she went from running a "successful" business out of sync with her values to a fuller life guided by a spiritual practice she never expected to find. http://bit.ly/2zk7V3H

there's a 4-Part Workshop Series on Developing Worker Cooperative Businesses starting tonight in Long Beach, CA...
10/19/18 - Business Model Overview
11/2/18 - Co-Op Governance
11/16/18 - Legal Frameworks
12/7/18 - Financing a Co-Op and Developing Your Story

more info: https://www.facebook.com/EconDemocracy/

Inspired and honored to be part of the SolidarityLA project mapping the people & places that point to a better LA with Solidarity Research Center, Llano del Rio Collective, Data Commons Coop. Presentation: http://tiny.cc/slapresents #WCNC18

2 episodes of The New Constructivist, the podcast about ethical work, are up with more to come... The Rational Dress Society: Constructing Clothing (E1) on making a utopian uniform for the future... And Vyki Englert: Constructing Civic Services (E2) talking with a local (LA) civic tech data strategist & product mgr... http://thenewconstructivist.org