🗣 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.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/commoning-2024/

@histodons
@anthropology
#Histodons #CallForPapers #CFP #Commons #Grassroots #Networking #Cooperatives #SocialMovements #Reciprocity #ChamadaParaComunicações #Comunizar #Cooperação #Associativismo

@passenger @bencourtice @deflarerOfClouds @eniko

The.core problem is #capitalism and that it incentivizes #unsustainability & #profits over #sustainability and #society because that's what the laws incentivize.
In fact #public #corporations have to maximize profits ba all means legally possible or risk getting sued by shareholders.

Whereas #cooperatives are also bound to their members/shareholders but with the demand to be sustainable.
Same goes with #subsidies for unsustaonable #agriculture.

Sooooo, 98by30 then? Time to dissolve the nation states, unionise the corporations, turn them into massive coops, and expand autonomus mutual aid networks, methinks.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/climate-action-un-global-emissions-report

#ClimateCrisis #Environment #BiodiversityCrisis #UN #Earth #LifeOnEarth #ABetterWorldIsPossible #Anarchism #Socialism #Cooperatives #UnionPower #AntiState #NoGovernment #SolarPunk

Skate, not State
Once it is completed, the co-op plans to coordinate anti-prison campaigning and a whole host of other activities from their anarchist library and info-centre.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/10/skate-not-state/
#cooperatives #Doncaster #Skating #WarrenDraper

Strasbourg. Prestigieux #soutien pour les recherches de la #sociologue Ada Reichhart sur le #travail et le #genre

https://www.dna.fr/science-et-technologie/2023/09/09/un-soutien-prestigieux-pour-les-recherches-d-ada-reichhart-sur-le-travail-et-le-genre

> #Docteure en sociologie, la Strasbourgeoise #Ada #Reichhart a décroché une bourse européenne de 1,4 million d’euros pour poursuivre ses #recherches sur le travail des femmes dans les #coopératives de #production.

South East London Community Energy, #SELCE , are recruiting https://selce.org.uk/about-us/jobsvolunteering/

#Cooperatives #EnergyTransition #JobSearch #Retrofit #RenewableEnergy

Just sent Chapter 7 "The power to govern and manage in a workers enterprise" of Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy by @luisrazeto to the indefatigable GEO.Coop web editor @GuerillaOntologist

This one should be controversial -- Razeto questions a key co-op principle: one member, one vote, and proposes a weighted system...

#cooperatives #OMOV

If it were up to me, the federal government would embark on a multi-year program to condemn the property of all the corporate landlords like #VinebrookHomes, and stand up local housing #cooperatives to run them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/corporate-landlord-tactics-rcna48373

#landlords

A dictatorship is an autocratic form of organization that is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold powers over a majority with few to no limitations

The majority of people work in dictatorships. Most workers have no decision in how their workplace is managed. The workplace, where most people spend the majority of their adult working life, is not a democracy

#Cooperatives are a #business driven by values, not just profit https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/what-is-a-cooperative

#politics #economics

"La desaparició d'una antiga #cooperativa, a Nules, però també arreu de la terra valenciana, és una desgràcia més afegida a la nostra escassa consistència de l'economia popular. Mentre que la de les grans corporacions, eixa, està garantida."

@diarilaveu_bot #Cooperatives #Coop #PaísValencià #Castelló #Economia #Empresa
https://www.diarilaveu.cat/opinio/16980/cooperatives

#Capitalism vs. #Socialism: A Soho Forum Debate https://youtu.be/YJQSuUZdcV4?si=H0_4kDeGGUkUgyL3

I constructive debate in which both "sides" of the argument were maturely considered (Although with a touch of the usual melodrama)

#politics #economics #degrowth #cooperatives #CronyCapitalism

La #cooperativa de Nules va quedar enmig, sense prou volum per ser competitiva i sense diversificació de serveis.

La cooperativa d'Atzeneta del Maestrat és un exemple de model diversificat: benzinera, supermercat, altres serveis i fins i tot amb un projecte d'energia solar compartida.

És segurament el model a seguir per les #cooperatives, el de crear una comunitat a través de la qual obtenir serveis diferents.

"No fa tants anys a Nules hi havia 6 #cooperatives agrícoles, però és que a Castelló n'hi havia 4, a Vila-real 5 i, fins i tot a un poble de la mida de Les Alqueries, amb només 4.500 habitants, n'hi havia 4. Hui soles en queden 6 en tot el conjunt de comarques."

Interessant anàlisi dels diferents models comercials de les cooperatives agràries:

a) Per volum
b) Per diversificació de serveis i qualitat: caixa rural, assegurances, electricitat, telefonia, etc.

https://www.diarilaveu.cat/noticia/16973/mes-enlla-del-tancament-de-la-cooperativa-de-nules-un-model-en-crisi

Is anyone at #Socialism2023 in #Chicago? The in-person speaker schedule looked great. I wasn’t as inspired by the virtual conference program, but I’ll take another look: it starts tomorrow. More #socialists are considering “non-reformist reforms”, such as #PublicBanking and #ParticipatoryBudgeting and even —gasp! — #Cooperatives. Cheers to the #SolidarityEconomy and all the ways we can do #PeopleCare and #FutureCare and #EarthCare. #Love #BoundlessRegenerativeCulture #permaculture

Are you interested in #data #cooperatives? Do you dream of better ways of #mapping the #solidarity #economy? Run for the board of the Data Commons Cooperative! Contact us to share about your interest. Our election will take place at our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on November 3, 2023, so we need to hear from you about your interest by Friday October 6, 2023.

And if you would like to join us for the next Data Cooperative Working Group on Tuesday 24th October 16.00BST, 11.00EST 20.30IST you can sign up here: https://bit.ly/ODM-DCWG12 #datacooperatives #data #cooperatives

At Tuesday's Data Cooperative Working Group, legal counsel, Paul Bodenham gave a presentation on how existing and upcoming EU data legislation affects the creation of agricultural data cooperatives. A recording of the presentation can be found here: https://vimeo.com/opendatamcr/dcwg11 #datacooperatives #cooperatives #opendata #democracy #EU

Does anyone out there in social.coop land (or my wider network) have experience/links/examples of #HomeEducation #cooperatives (particularly, but not essentially in a UK context)?

Context:

We have a lovely local group of #HomeEd families here, kids currently from 0-10yo, various approaches but quite a strong skew towards #UnSchooling/ #SelfDirectedLearning. Centred around a weekly session in a local community hall.

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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

Dirk Vansintjan, cooperativista energético: “Los ciudadanos deben tener en propiedad parte de las #renovables”

"Tal vegada a ningú li agradi tenir un aerogenerador a prop de casa seva, però la cosa canvia bastant quan el generador és d'un i dona beneficis".

En Dirk és soci fundador de la #cooperativa belga Ecopower, inscpiració de @somenergia i president de la federació europea #REScoop.

Via @eldiarioes
#Energia #Renovable #Coop #Cooperativisme #Cooperatives
https://www.eldiario.es/ballenablanca/transicion_energetica/dirk-vansintjan-cooperativista-energetico-ciudadanos-deben-propiedad-parte-renovables_128_10234870.html