tobiasfdl @tobiasfdl@social.coop

Colleague, mentor, and friend, Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard has been sued by a former member of the cooperative community. She is the author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. Even a baseless lawsuit inflicts great harm. Please donate to defray her substantial legal expenses.

And please pass the link.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/defend-jessica

At the end of the day, the phone in your pocket, whether it’s a #Fairphone or not, is going to follow a simple law of nature: the longer you use it, the more lightly it will have stepped upon the Earth. So, this #InternationalEwaste day, fix & celebrate what you already own. 🌍

People are dying from poverty and lack of education in the shadow of Harvard University - right outside the gates:
In its most recent financial report, released 10/14/21, it also reported a 33.6 percent return on its endowment, which has now grown to $53.2 billion. (Boston Globe)

Let's see if this works (posted on FB):

I am turning 60 on Monday, so I'd like to use the occasion to raise some money to help out a few of the grassroots movements for social transformation that I support and encourage people to try out a cooperative alternative to GAFAM. So,

Option A: make a donation to Labor Notes (https://labornotes.org/donate), GEO (https://geo.coop/donate), or OFN (https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/ODY2MDM=).

Option B: join Social.Coop and sign up for a free Meet.Coop acct.

Option C: Both!"

To improve my mental state, I printed out some photos of places I've been over the years.

I then picked the best 8 that gave me the sense of deep peace/warmth/joy.

This feeling is my memory of the state I was in when I took the photo, not the photo itself, so you get to have your own unique experience when looking at them, but maybe they bring you a something also nice.

Here there are! 1/2

today's #blackhistorymonth spotlight is on comrade Fred Moten, one of the foremost theorists of blackness of our time and a dazzling poet

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Cooperation and Chocolate
https://geo.coop/articles/cooperation-and-chocolate

A New Landscape for Skill-Sharing
https://geo.coop/articles/new-landscape-skill-sharing

Meet the Boston Ujima Project
https://www.shareable.net/boston-ujima-project-racism-in-finance-has-sparked-a-grassroots-response/

The gig is up
https://this.org/2021/01/07/the-gig-is-up/

Do worker cooperatives pay a price for equality?
https://thesocialistentrepreneur.com/2021/01/04/do-worker-cooperatives-pay-a-price-for-equality/

On growing a cooperative
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/designer-architect-teacher-and-learner-dan-taeyoung-on-growing-a-cooperative-like-youd-grow-a-garden/

Debunking the Myth of Homo economicus
https://www.upstreampodcast.org/homoeconomicus

Game Workers Unite!
https://www.gameworkersunite.org/worker-co-op-resource

Just donated to @riseup

feels good to support movement tech

😊 ✊

Movie Night on CommunityBridge.com - Tuesday January
26th at 7pm ET - Please pass it on!

Title: "When white supremacists overthrew a government" - The hidden
history of an American coup in 1898. (12 mins.)

https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/movie/

Airbnb has just announced that it is setting up:

* an advisory board of host-users to the execs
* an endowment of company stock for host-user advised distribution

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/airbnb-creates-endowment-advisory-board-for-hosts-ahead-of-ipo h/t @MannanMorshed

There are some things to say about this. Small but significant.

Full thread on birdsite: https://twitter.com/ntnsndr/status/1335392632348897281

Trump didn't start new wars directly. But he invited Turkey to invade and destroy the fledgling feminist cooperative economy development among the US's military allies against ISIS. This is heartbreaking. https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2020/11/explainer-cooperatives-in-north-and-east-syria-developing-a-new-economy/

Saw Van Jones cry on TV. I understand that feeling of release. Four long years of stress. Of course, Trump's loss does not mean the end of the age of exploitation, but it is a joy to see him lose.

Winter cycling workshop will be live on youtube Sat Nov 14th 1pm EST!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Fda_QxNQw&feature=emb_title

Sunrise is organizing a planning meeting tonight. We might not take the Senate but the #greennewdeal is still alive. Join at 9pm ET. https://smvmt.org/next