Notices by Matt Noyes (mattnoyes@social.coop)

What does it mean to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals into the work of your cooperative? Japan's #SeikatsuClub takes the challenge seriously:

https://www.seikatsuclub.coop/excludes/rengou/img/about/vision/2018thinkandact_e.pdf

(in English)
#SDGs

http://wealthofthecommons.org/essay/feminism-and-politics-commons

"in this essay I look at the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective where “feminist” refers to a standpoint shaped by the struggle against sexual discrimination and over reproductive work... This intervention is necessary, in my view, to better define this politics and clarify the conditions under which the principle of the common/s can become the foundation of an anti-capitalist program."

#SilviaFederici
#commons
#feminism

https://labornotes.org/2020

I'll be organizing a worker co-op track, anyone want to collaborate?

#LaborNotes

Chicago, April 17-19

Recommended by #KevinLin:

https://lausan.hk/

"#Lausan #流傘 is a collective of writers, researchers, activists and artists from #HongKong and its diasporas, engaging with the city’s political struggle. Through translation, creation, and education, Lausan 流傘 aims to build solidarity on the international left with Hong Kongers’ unfinished fight to imagine emancipatory futures after colonialism, against both Chinese and Western imperialism."

"We are 100% independent and volunteer-run."

Check out the #Belabored podcast on the recent #LaborNotes Asian conference in #Taipei.

"Our friends at Labor Notes held their first ever conference in Asia in August, bringing together labor organizers and activists from across the continent in Taipei. They discussed everything from the Hong Kong strikes to gender discrimination to the challenges of organizing across global supply chains...Two of the organizers of the event Kevin Lin and Saurav Sarkar"

starts at 21:40

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/belabored-podcast-183-troublemaking-in-asia

@luisrazeto

On the need to distance oneself from Left political groups, as an anti-capitalist.

"Ahora planteo con claridad y más ampliamente, que es necesario tomar distancia de las izquierdas políticas. Hacerlo en forma neta, decidida, transparente. Se lo digo especialmente a quienes participamos e impulsamos la economía solidaria y el cooperativismo..."

https://luisrazeto.blogspot.com/2019/07/tomar-distancia-de-las-izquierdas.html?spref=fb

Nearly 15 years old but still some good ideas. I wonder what I would write now?

https://www.uniondemocracy.org/AUDLinks/website%20guide/buildawebsite.htm#c1

#UnionDemocracy #WebsiteDesign

#LuisRazeto's Facebook banning story gets more interesting. First FB said people have objected. Now they say his content violates their community standards ("El contenido infringe nuestras normas comunitarias".). I looked -- it is a series of slides, each presenting a different concept, such as
"Humanizing the Economy" or "Elites and Masses"

Razeto is asking people to upload slides that they like to whatever social media seem appropriate to them. I will upload some here and on FB...

@emi is quoted in this piece about cooperatives and other forms of sharing economy.

https://www.shareable.net/blog/how-Japan-is-working-towards-creating-a-true-sharing-economy

Great idea, you only get the free drink if you visit five other independent local coffee shops. #disloyalty

I feel like Nathan Schneider's publicist... great to see him on Democracy Now!

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/18/ten_years_since_economic_collapse_sparked

@ntnsndr #democracynow

The Community Working Group has approved the Code of Conduct & Reporting Guidelines rc 1 by a unanimous vote of more than 50% of CWG members (others did not vote).

Now, the proposal goes to the Social.Coop membership. Please read the two documents, and vote/comment. The proposal is open for 6 days.

For more background you can explore the git repository for previous versions and Loomio for discussion threads.

https://www.loomio.org/d/SuHPnjvh/code-of-conduct-and-reporting-guidelines-rc1-membership-vote-

Glad to see the Code of Conduct/Reporting Guidelines getting positive feedback, understanding that it is imperfect and will remain a work in progress as we implement it. It is the product of a long collaborative process of revision, discussion, editing. You can see the record on Loomio, in Social.Coop, and in the multiple drafts. @mattcropp @Manuela @mayel @jakebeamish @emi @wolftune @fabianhjr @asimong and many others carried it through many iterations.
#coc
#codeofconduct

@clayton @Antanicus

This is good. I like the dashboard of invest/divest! Sort of like the platform capitalism footprint idea I had.

https://incarceratedworkers.org/resources/iwoc-technology-policy

Anyone in NYC area who can do Spanish-Japanese interpreting for coop folks? Please send me a direct message.

Code of Conduct Call tomorrow, Monday 30th July, 30/07/2018 at:
08:00 MDT, 10:00 EDT, 14:00 UTC, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CET, 23:00 JPN

https://zoom.us/j/9237018313

Feel free to participate via the chat box on Zoom, if you prefer that to video/audio.

You can also comment on the documents (see thread in CWG on Loomio).

@rbenjamin @mattcropp @meltheadorable @nev @emi @Manuela @ntnsndr @fabianhjr @clhendricksbc @edsu @h @stephaniejokent @gilscottfitzgerald @richdecibels @wakest @wulee @Antanicus @megan

Two thoughts on the #socialcoop #CodeofConduct:

Our goal at this point should be, as in sociocracy, "seeking to produce a good enough CoC and process that can then be tried out, tested, and improved over time."

Better to think in terms of "referees" than judges/jurors, one implies reminding people of the rules of the game and calling infractions so we can continue to play, the other coming to a definitive conclusion about an incident after a fair and thorough investigation, etc.

Done: Microsoft/Apple OS --> Ubuntu Linux (decades ago)
Done: Google Search --> DuckDuckGo/Searx/StartPage
Done: Google Maps --> Open Street Map
Done: Google Hangouts --> Jitsi/Zoom
Done: Whats App --> Riot.im
Done: Dropbox/Drive --> Nextcloud/Disroot
In process: Google Docs --> Etherpad/Disroot
In process: Google Calendar --> Nextcloud calendar & Etar app on phone
In process: Facebook Events --> GetTogether.community
In process: Facebook --> social.coop plus???

#degooglisons
@switchingsocial

"...when the social economy is obliged to coexist with capitalism, as it is today, the game is rigged. The logic of capital, which devours everything, drives it to crush or trivialize any alternative experience that is not comprehensive. Social economy must operate in a framework of postcapitalist transition." - Emilio Santiago Muiño

https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2018/06/14/la-economia-social-en-el-marco-de-la-transicion-socioecologica/

#solidarityeconomy
#postcapitalism

"We find ourselves in a stage of history in which technical progress has prodigiously multiplied human productivity. We now have available to us the means to fully satisfy our aspirations. If those aspirations remain unsatisfied for the immense majority, it is not for lack of means, but due to a defective social organization that no longer corresponds to the level of the technical means in our possession."

#Arizmendiarrieta
#longtimegone