Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 66

We just finished a great discussion of #JacksonRising. Thanks all! @neil will post the notes on Loomio with a link here. We used #Riot.io for chat and etherpad (did not work for one person) and #Zoom for conference calling. Overall we were very impressed by the ambition and thoroughness of the strategy that #CooperationJackson organizers have mapped out. Click here to to join the working group to organize an online discussion with #cooperationjackson

https://www.loomio.org/p/cQxjHFJC/who-wants-to-join-the-cooperation-jackson-online-discussion-working-group-

reminder:
la #ZAD is calling. Take a trip if you aren't to far away.

A bit thank you to all who attended the #ReadingGroup call today! Great call, great vibe, great people!

Okay, starting in just under an hour -- the #socialcoop #readinggroup discussion of #JacksonRising.

Chat and Etherpad here: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#jacksonrising:matrix.org

Zoom meeting here: https://zoom.us/j/9598718901

(Thanks @neil for troubleshooting.)

There might not be a global revolution but there be pockets of revolution.

A common thread between the existing examples of autonomous spaces is yeah they grew following a collapse, but also they grew based on knowledge built pre-collapse. Rojava was Ocalan was Bookchin. Jackson was Malcolm X, Mondragon.

Documenting and sharing knowledge is vital. Networks are vital. Samizdat in hell.

Part of why Cooperation Jackson was able to get going was Mississippi was bypassed by traditional capitalism. Preston is economically depressed. Rojavan revolution grew in the vacuum of conflict. Puerto Rico is reorganising as a community after natural disaster.

There is 'the shock doctrine' and 'disaster capitalism'. We should have 'the cooperation doctrine', 'disaster anarchism'. Or, more poetically, as per Rebecca Solnit, paradises made in hell.

My #socialcoop story

Joined social.coop about 7 months ago (214 days ago to be precise).

I'd heard about Mastodon before & had a profile on mastodon.social that I wasn't really using.

Think I most probably heard about social.coop from the CoTech (a forum of UK tech coops.)

Since joining I've learned a lot more about co-ops, got more political, got involved in our reading group, and got a little involved in how our instance works through our Loomio.

It's been great!

#Anniversary

It's the 1 year anniversary of social.coop! 🎂🎉

A cooperatively-run corner of the fediverse.

Who can imagine what the next year will bring? Can't wait to find out!

#SocialCoop #Anniversary #coops

Interesting article on the tech choices behind CommonsCloud.

http://freeknowledge.eu/article/making-of-commonscloud-technical-choices

(CommonsCloud is a platform coop combining Discourse, NextCloud and Phabricator. They're trying to build an online collaboration platform for the solidarity economy.)

https://en.goteo.org/project/commonscloud

#platformcoops #coops #solidarityeconomy #commons

Goal: turn the Barbican in London into a permanent autonomous zone.

Goal completed so far: 0.01% (had idea)

#london #barbican #paz

https://social.coop/media/9RInWxYn7ZeZtwunAy4

@constructivejournalism Community repair is awesome. Loads of social and environment benefits simply from getting people together in a room and fixing things.

Shoutout also to https://openrepair.org, an alliance of community repair orgs around the world (including Repair Cafe Foundation).

(disclaimer: I work for The Restart Project :) https://therestartproject.org)

In general, how do you become a member of a housing coop? (And more specifically, how in the UK? Anyone with experience of doing so?)