Risabee ☸ @risabee@social.coop

Awesome news: thanks to the support of SolidFund we have 10 #free tickets available for low-income people in worker #coops to join our #UK workshops. 🎉

Please share with cooperators around #Manchester + #London.

https://www.thehum.org/events

The future is cooperative 🌶

'He's a political prisoner': Standing Rock activists face years in jail - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/22/standing-rock-jailed-activists-water-protect

Interesting article about the development of new natural yarns, necessary because most of the micro plastic pollution in the Ocean comes from synthetic fibres in our clothes.

https://fashnerd.com/2018/06/fashionforgood-sustainability-accelerator-innovators

Social democratic parties are standing on two pillars, trade unionism and cooperativism.

- Unions offer higher wages and working conditions.
- Coops offer cheaper goods and services.

These pillars enabled economic self-help for people. It's different (not better) than general uni activism or a NGO with equally or more noble cause.

Relevant article by @ntnsndr

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/solidarity/a-populism-of-hope-begins-when-people-feel-their-own-power-20180116

Lack of focus on economic self-help might help explain Pikettys findings below:

https://social.coop/media/rljj1Uj2Sc6ahxvU45o

Reality Winner is the textbook definition of a whistle blower, who helped the US public understand the state of our electoral system. It is unconscionable that she was not given an opportunity to defend herself & that her story has largely been forgotten.

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/26/reality-winner-plea-deal/

Only the NYT editorial board could be this deep in denial. What does it mean that #socialist Alexandria Ocasio Cortez unseated the #4 most powerful #liberal in the country with a dominating, 2-digit lead?
"The liberal base is fired up"
Sure, they think they are liberal and want to be the winners here, yet they are so far right they couldn't even bring themselves to print her key policy, to abolish ICE, euphemizing it as "more liberal immigration laws."
http://archive.is/1gc3I

Woo, this is quite a Twitter thread here about the Occasio-Cortez upset win in New York. The #Facebook mention toward the end is epic. This is the best news I've seen in a while.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1011786192210350081.html

This digital humanities, or as they call it, mobilized humanities, project uses web technology and research know-how to make the powerful point that our borders are everywhere.

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-everywhere-using-library-science-to-map-child-separation/

I've been working on this #coop brewery project in #BTV for coming up on 5 years, and I keep having realizations that bits of foundational #solidarityeconomy infrastructure are required to get us where we need to go.

A two years ago, it was the need for the co-op investment club to start building a friendly capital base. This morning, I realized we need to pull together a Real Estate Investment Co-op to potentially secure a desirable space.

We'll get there eventually... 😩

Co-ops, democratically run and emphasizing long-term sustainability over short-term profits, are a key part of the #SolidarityEconomy.

Earlier this month, Wired UK published a brief but interesting profile of "CoTech, a growing network of tech co-operatives in the UK. There are currently 30 tech businesses united under the CoTech banner, which range from filmmakers to programmers; they collectively employ more than 250 staff and have revenues of over £10.2 million."

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/cotech-tech-cooperatives-blake-house-outlandish