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M. Ní Sídach

I'm seeing an uptick in video essays under the guise of "just asking questions" attempting to claim there is a conspiracy to destroy #OpenSource, #OpenHardware, #FOSS projects and culture by Far-Left Extremists, #Wokeism, and the #DEI agenda.

None of this is new. They only exploit a new sense of entitlement to more openly speak and act as they long have, emboldened by the spread of anti-democratic, authoritarian, irrational, emotion-driven, ethnocentric rhetoric and assaults on liberty by #Trump and the #TrumpRegime
#Culture #Identity #Poltics #SolidarityEconomics #Coop #BIPOC #LGBTQ #BlackMastodon

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M. Ní Sídach

I regularly run into people who struggle with housing and meeting basic needs of survival.

LGBTQ+ BIPoC disproportionately face unemployment, under employment, food insecurity, living with unstable housing or are chronically unhoused.

Yet every time I ask to discuss cooperative strategies I'm either ghosted or attacked personally.

That makes sense among those who believe in class competition, that dog eat dog capitalism defines life, but I often face off with people who promote themselves as advocates for Anarchism and or Marxist/Leninists Communism.

They frequently attack with easy to disprove claims, often identical to Faux Free Market Capitalists — that Co-operatives:
• have been "proven" not to work,
• steal support from "real" activism,
• are popular with hipsters who extract while contributing nothing to local communities,
• only create a few low paying jobs with no benefits before failing and leaving communities worse than before.
#BlackMastodon, #LGBTQ, #Trans, #SolidarityEconomics, #COOP

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Caitlin Waddick

"Muslims for Just Futures is developing a new policy agenda focused on solidarity economies to address the economic divestment faced by Muslim communities due to structural Islamophobia and intersecting forms of oppression."

PDF: The Muslim Abolitionist Futures Divest/Reinvest Agenda on abolition of the War on Terror.

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#SolidarityEconomics #EconomicJustice #JustFutures #Muslims #Islamaphobia #Abolition. #AbolitionistFutures #Divest #WarOnTerror #CommunitiesOfCare

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M. Ní Sídach

While I am deeply committed to economic democracy for social democracy, my correspondence with Professor Gordon-Nembhard and futile attempts to join and gain support from the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, headquartered in Oakland, reveal their antipathy towards Black Trans Women.

They are not allies.

Moving on

This week, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard writes about how the first nationwide directory of worker co-ops - compiled by GEO and titled An Economy of Hope - sowed the seeds for what would eventually become the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives.
#COOP #SolidarityEconomics #MutualAid #CooperativeCapital
geo.coop/articles/economy-hope

geo.coopFrom “An Economy of Hope” to the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives | Grassroots Economic Organizing
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T. O.

Applications close on 21 January for the for the 2024-2025 Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (#ICDE) fellowship programme. Fellows, typically PhD students or junior academics, receive a one-time $2,000 for travel expenses to the next conference in Kenya to present an academic report on a topic of their choosing within the ICDE's areas of interest. #cooperatives #CooperativeEconomics #SolidarityEconomics

More here: platform.coop/blog/open-call-f

Platform Cooperativism Consortium · Open Call for Applications for the 2024-2025 ICDE Fellowship Program | Platform Cooperativism ConsortiumAre you a Ph.D. student or junior academic engaged in research related to cooperative principles within the digital economy? If so, the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy at The New School…
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T. O.

Also: "In a world on fire – facing threats to multiracial democracy, tensions from rising economic #inequality, and even the existential threat of #climatechange, can we build an alternative economics based on cooperation?"

Manuel Pastor thinks so. He will deliver the 2024 #AtlanticFellows at LSE Keynote on 24 January. Pastor, with Chris Benner, is the author of #SolidarityEconomics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter.

I serve as discussant. Hybrid event in London: lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/01/20240

London School of Economics and Political ScienceSolidarity economics: why mutuality and movements matter6.30pm Tues 23 Jan | T.O. Molefe, Manuel Pastor | Registration Required | Free public event at LSE
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Steve Dustcircle 🌹

#Solidarity #Economics
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How do we transform #societal structures and pave the way to #economic #democracy?
Professor Jessica Gordon-Nembhard explores the potential of #cooperatives and #solidarityeconomics as pathways towards #economicdemocracy and #justice. Nembhard demonstrates how cooperative economics can counteract the #exploitation inherent in #capitalist systems.
youtube.com/watch?v=zTSMDGZB3n

geo.coopSolidarity Economics | Grassroots Economic Organizing
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