Sam Toland @samtoland@social.coop

seeking #recommendations for an (app, system, document-format, whatever!) for doing local power mapping; i have a few different use cases in mind (political/solidarity-economy) and i'm hoping to find a reusable tool that is amenable to collaboration. open-source and privacy-minded are nice-to-haves but ease of use (both data entry and reading/consuming) is important.

Equity-Free Fundraising: Here are our Revenue-Share Term Sheets https://ioo.coop/2020/01/equity-free-fundraising-here-are-our-revenue-share-term-sheets/

Newly updated in the http://ioo.coop/directory: @Fairbnb_coop@twitter.com is open for business!

My goal is to read 30 non-fiction books this year.

Any recommendations?

Anyone has similar goals, should we revitalise the Social Coop reading group?

The protests in Chile and France are both about retirement benefits more than any single other issue.

Is this the beginning of the pension crisis we have all been warned about for a long time?

For the past few years, a (very minor) conflict in my relationship with my partner has been their use of all available bathroom surfaces. I'd repeatedly tried to asset ownership of 1/2 of 1 shelf in the vanity, but would find it overrun with in the month.

I'm 6'3", and she's 5'4", so it recently occurred to me that I could simply install a new shelf that she'd need a step stool to access.

Mischief managed... 😂

@samtoland It seems like USAmerican credit unions have a pretty good national network for ATMs and such. The one very convenient thing that the National Megabank offers is that deposits become available more quickly.

Message from Rojava to the International Co-operative Alliance conference in Rwanda and all co-operators around the world

https://mesopotamia.coop/message-to-the-ica/

Statements in support and calls for solidarity with Rojava are appearing across the internet
#coopsriseup4rojava
#coops4rojava
#riseup4rojava

International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives https://www.cicopa.coop/news/cicopa-congress-statement-on-peace-in-northern-syria/

Ripress / #solidarityeconomy Eurpoe
https://www.ripess.eu/rise-up-for-rojava/

What you can do -
https://www.solidarityeconomy.coop/2019/10/coops-rise-up-for-rojava

#coops

The Associated Press Retweeted:

Spanish authorities say that 80 people were injured and 33 arrested in Barcelona in overnight rioting over the imprisonment of Catalan separatist leaders. http://apne.ws/MUr2dIF

Original Tweet: https://www.twitter.com/AP/status/1184732957203992576

12:28 AM - 17 Oct 2019
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#News #AP

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Hi Fediverse 👋

let me sum up the situation around #switchingsocial

Around September 20th, the original (anonymous) author of switching.social shut down its website and all related Social Media accounts, including mastodon 🤔

This info reached me (@tobias ) the next day via my German version @swisode .

As there hasn't been any sign of life since then, I restored the website and created this new account. Right now I'm out of spare time to work on it, but that'll change in a few weeks 🙂

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is ‘time consuming, potentially distracting’

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/

Via @danslerush

"For the last year, employees at Kickstarter have been organizing with OPEIU Local 153, under the banner of Kickstarter United. On October 2, 2019, after garnering a majority of support within the company, Kickstarter United formally asked CEO Aziz Hasan to recognize the union. He has failed to do so."

https://www.coworker.org/petitions/it-s-time-to-recognize-the-kickstarter-union?akid=1828.496696.0Sj1Yb&rd=1&t=7&utm_source=email

#union #organizing #techworkers

A little late... but results from our second social.coop status check poll!

"What kinds of co-op enthusiasts/practitioners/scholars reside among us?"

Looks like most of us are co-op members and general co-op fans! Wahoo! Goooooo co-ops!

What is social.coop? Who are we (it's members)? How do we contribute?

We've started a thread on loomio, where we will post one question every couple of weeks that will help us to get to know each other as members, with the objective of using this understanding of each other, our motivations and expectations to launch the next phase of social.coop.

Third question: "I would be a bigger social.coop fan if..." (in 500 characters or less)

https://www.loomio.org/p/MjUZshCQ/-i-would-be-a-bigger-social-coop-fan-if-in-500-characters-or-less-

#coop fact of the day!

If you want your money to work for you instead of the bank CEO, use a credit union!

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Calling all PhD-students doing research on platform coops -- check-out this workshop in Utrecht, the Netherlands, 9 December 2019. Contact @Collectiveactio@twitter.com for details.
http://www.collective-action.info/2019-YSW-Platformcoops

I went to a credit union and opened an account today. I'll be Moving my Money over the course of the next month or so. I'm feeling good about getting away from the National Megabank. Benefit off the bat: a meaningful interest rate for the savings account.

Solidarity economy in action at my grocery coop, the Dill Pickle @Chicago