Songtradrs actions at firing the #Bandcamp staff are outrageous. They are destroying the only independent music platform left, starting with the people who make it work. Please follow and support @bandcampunited if you care about independent music.
@bandcampunited has there been any talk of making your own platform without the bosses? I’d pay a subscription for access/weekly. I bet a lot of artists would join. #cooperatives#SolidarityEconomy
📝 New solo paper out in Socio-Economic Review that analyses member participation patterns in #platformcoops, which is crucial considering that governance issues have historically been a pitfall for worker-owned #cooperatives: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad058
This is a little shop in Rochdale, near Manchester in the UK. It’s a special place because it was here that the Rochdale Pioneers went into business in 1844, kickstarting the modern cooperative movement. They were 28 working-class people, put their savings together and started selling essential products like butter and flour at fair prices to other folks. Ridiculed at first, their business quickly expanded and the rest is history: Today a billion people worldwide are members of cooperatives and 100 million are employed by them. The Rochdale Pioneers didn’t start the first cooperative, but they were one of the first successful ones, inspiring people (myself included) to this day. Today the shop is a museum and I was lucky to visit it last week! #GameBoyCamera#Cooperatives
Have you heard the news? Artisans Cooperative is now open with over 70 artisan shops and 1,200 handmade products and counting!
We are so thrilled to celebrate our launch during National Co-op Month, a time when cooperatives around the world are raising awareness of the cooperative business model.
Explore the marketplace and join our vibrant handmade community at https://artisans.coop.
#FossilFuel industries are deviant private businesses.
They should be democratically accountable. The people have the right to know the business's aims (what are their plans?)
Imagine if a fossil fuel company & all its downstream #business subsidiaries were #cooperatives. Cooperatives' internal business operations must be public knowledge.
Not private, behind-closed-doors deals, in which the public only has access to the business's marketing claims & advertising. Not crony capitalism!
🗣 The call for papers for the #Commoning congress is ongoing.
The online congress will focus on the practice of commoning throughout history with the primary objective to present innovative research informed by critical interculturality.
Proposal: stop saying stuff like "we're destroying the planet" and change it to "they're destroying the planet", to pivot away from self blame when most of us don't have the power to change things and definitely would if we could, and towards laying the blame squarely on the elites propping up the fossil fuel industry so we can focus our collective anger on those actually responsible
Whereas #cooperatives are also bound to their members/shareholders but with the demand to be sustainable.
Same goes with #subsidies for unsustaonable #agriculture.
Happy that a local project I've been involved with is gathering steam: Forming a co-operative to try and purchase a local community hub here in Castlemaine.
If you are into #datacooperatives like we are then there is still time to join us this afternoon (23rd August) at 15.00BST, 10.00EST, 19.30IST For the Data Cooperative Working Group. It is an international group of practitioners and academics all with an interest in data cooperation https://bit.ly/ODM-DCWG11#cooperatives#datagovernance#empowerment
We host a bi-monthly meeting for those interested in the development of data cooperatives as a means data empowerment. Next meeting is this Wednesday 15.00 BST and looks at the legal environment for the setting up of agricultural data cooperatives. Join us https://bit.ly/ODM-DCWG11#datacooperative#datagovernance#cooperatives
What are some of the harms caused by capitalism? Can these harms be addressed by replacing for-profit corporations with cooperatives? What are some of the benefits of capitalism? Can these benefits be preserved if for-profit corporations are replaced with cooperatives?
I'd love to discuss this with folks who are interested. Please boost & reply if you are.
Have you considered using the property to explore living condition scenarios from "Decent living with minimum energy"? That's something I've frequently thought about since reading that paper (I just did a measurement now, to compare a 15 m² per capita benchmark.)
It could go hand-in-hand with a transfer to cooperative ownership, for people who could be interested in trying this.
From @andy: a firsthand account of needing to evacuate from #wildfires while travelling.
I am glad he & his family are safe, and appreciate him writing this because "I want people to be aware of what it’s actually like being involved in a #climate disaster event like this."
Worker/artist owned cooperative — with distribution, to tell their own stories. Images below.
Workers, writers, and artists start a cooperative production company
They license/option existing stories to the company (which they own together!) and put stories on a website where audiences can access them
Stories can be scripts, treatments, readings, storyboards — it's great material in those formats, and people will dive into those stories just the same
Share the website (distribution!) with followings, along with a way to subscribe
You now have a worker/writer/artist owned cooperative, with distribution, stories, and an audience!
More details in the images below, made as a guide/resource to be helpful.
I've been a customer to my #cooperative#bank for like ever and I think that cooperatives are inherently better than (public) corporations because they're legally forced to care about sustainability and the interests of their member-owners, and not be beholden to the ideas of a few big hedgefunds.
I started my software/ML career in earnest back in 2006, working in business automation -- office workers' boring, software-only answer to the field of robotics. One of our main company-internal clients was the bookkeeping department. I still remember the day we heard that the bookkeeping department was literally being laid off and going away for good because we had automated their jobs completely. It was this weird feeling of pride and guilt all mixed together. Proud that we made a type of work obsolete, so nobody had to do it anymore. Guilty that in the process, we made a job obsolete, so nobody got to do it anymore.