Notices by Josh Davis (guerillaontologist@social.coop)

A friend of mine is in the thick of getting starts going for her garden. Made me think about Richard Brautigan and how I should really steal this idea of his. I don't think he'd mind.

"Brautigan's 'Please Plant This Book' consisted of eight poems printed on seed packets. Four of the poems were about flowers. The other four were about vegetables."
http://www.brautigan.net/plant.html#8

Brautigan was the original #SolarPunk.

#poetry #gardening

Current Affairs gets it: we need #WorkerOwned #Media.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/10/the-urgent-need-for-worker-owned-media

Of course, because we're so f'cking cool, we've already got social.coop and GEO people working on this 😎

A really, really good interview with Bryce Detroit about #Cooperatives, #SolidarityEconomy, #Gentrification, #Philanthropy, and a lot more:

https://geo.coop/articles/bryce-detroit

We just posted a great interview with Tribe Co-create, a "co-creating space for Black and Brown small business owners, creatives and doers who are from, live in, or love the Bronx. Started by Queer Black/ Afro-Latinx womxn, TRIBE was created as a space for Bronx folx to create together, build community and care for themselves and others."

https://geo.coop/articles/tribe-co-create

#Coops #SolidarityEconomy #NYC

GEO is hosting an all-day Friday intensive at the upcoming Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy. The theme is building #grassroots peer-to-peer #WorkerCoop support networks. We've got a lot of long-time cooperators coming from all around the country. It's going to be good. :TwinPines:

Register here:

https://east.usworker.coop/friday-sessions/

There's a new #RideSharing #Coop in Montreal that's taking on Uber and Lyft:

https://eachforall.coop/co-operative-ride-sharing-with-eva-co-op/

This week's GEO newsletter is full of #Cooperative and #SolidarityEconomy goodness!

https://mailchi.mp/9101e80c1ce3/listening-and-democracy-seizing-the-means-of-production-geo-weekly-newsletter

So Firefox just removed everyone of my favorite add-ons. No more ad-blockers, no more dark theme, no more start-page. 😠 Guess it's back to Opera...

Just posted the video from the GEO Get-Together with @ntnsndr and @cadwellsocialcoop

Part two forthcoming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9SlrepRrcM

If you haven't read the story by @cadwellsocialcoop in The Verge yet, about a #Cooperative Commonwealth in the Virgin Islands that uses a publicly owned AI assistant to coordinate disaster relief, you should.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/23/18175285/cadwell-turnbull-sci-fi-story-common-ai-climate-change-better-worlds

No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must be More Generous
http://geo.coop/story/no-justice-without-love

Next time you're in Athens, don't miss the #anarchist paradise in Exarcheia
http://geo.coop/story/mecca-anarcho-tourism

Anybody know anything about FairBnB? Apparently it's a #cooperative version of AirBnB.
https://fairbnb.coop/

After listening to the latest episode of the Upstream Podcast about #Mondragon you can download the first section of 'The Cooperative Man: Arizmendiarrieta's Thought,' translated by @Steve
https://payhip.com/b/M0Ce

(Making a donation with your download is greatly appreciated!)

The GEO Weekly newsletter is here #coops #solidarityeconomy #depression #happiness https://mailchi.mp/7ec88668871d/drink-your-coffee-black-owned-creando-conciencia-y-felicidad-geo-weekly-newsletter?e=70701ccafc

Anybody here want to be part of a "fiction about cooperatives" writing group, to workshop eachother's stories? If so, let me know. GEO would love to help set one up (and we've already got at least two participants).

You can email us at editors@geo.coop

How to fix ratings in the "gig economy": put workers in control.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-fix-ratings-in-the-gig-economy/

Chip in a few bucks to help keep GEO going into the future. We've been documenting the worker co-op and solidarity economy movement for over 30 years, let's make sure we're around for another 30! Donations of up to $100 will be matched by F4DC until Dec. 31st:
http://www.geo.coop/donate