J'ai eu le privilège (le mot est faible) de lire 'Comment les coopératives créent de la prospérité pour toutes et tous', de Kathy Van der Elst, avant sa publication. Ce bouqun est salutaire et enthousiasmant. À la fois témoignage, document, récit de voyage et plaidoyer en faveur du modèle coopératif, ça donne une pêche incroyable.

Kathy lance une souscription pour sortir la version FR de son livre ➡️ https://zinaroundtheworld.com/petits-gestes-grandes-vagues-kathy-bruxelles-septembre-2025/

Si tu t'intéresses à d'autres modèles de travail et d'économie que la course au profit qui est en train de détruire nos vies et notre planète, ça devrait te plaire 😉

Chaque boost gifle le capitalisme.

#economie #cooperatives #ESS

J'ai eu le privilège (le mot est faible) de lire 'Comment les coopératives créent de la prospérité pour toutes et tous', de Kathy Van der Elst, avant sa publication. Ce bouqun est salutaire et enthousiasmant. À la fois témoignage, document, récit de voyage et plaidoyer en faveur du modèle coopératif, ça donne une pêche incroyable.

Kathy lance une souscription pour sortir la version FR de son livre ➡️ https://zinaroundtheworld.com/petits-gestes-grandes-vagues-kathy-bruxelles-septembre-2025/

Si tu t'intéresses à d'autres modèles de travail et d'économie que la course au profit qui est en train de détruire nos vies et notre planète, ça devrait te plaire 😉

Chaque boost gifle le capitalisme.

#economie #cooperatives #ESS

"Smart politicians aren't being sucked in by Musk's claim that he can billionaire his way out of the intractable laws of physics. They're pulling fiber, and lots of it. In Utah, the aptly named UTOPIA network is serving publicly owned fiber to 21 cities, and private businesses can offer service over that public system, which means that Utahans have their choice of 18 carriers."

@pluralistic, 2025

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/#were-the-phone-company

#ISP #cooperatives #MunicipalBroadband

Compare and contrast. I listened to both of these podcasts today and find the contrast illuminating.

Collaborative Farming Podcast
https://collaborativefarming.libsyn.com/website/perspectives-on-starting-different-cooperative-business-models-roundtable-at-the-tn-local-food-summit-live-recording

Frontiers of Commoning
https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/gustavo-salas-of-cecosesola-prioritizing-commoning-in-a-world-of-capitalist-markets

What do you think?

#sun_mountain_farm_club
#commoning
#cooperatives

🤝 Amb el nou conveni amb @opcions totes hi guanyem!

💚 Les sòcies de #SomEnergia podeu accedir a aquest projecte de #consumConscient en condicions més accessibles.

🧡 Les sòcies d'Opcions podeu gaudir d’avantatges per consumir de manera conscient i accedir a llum 100% renovable de forma fàcil.

🌱 Fem créixer la xarxa de l’#ESS.

🔗 https://somenergia.link/EnxarxadesOpcions

#Intercooperació#Cooperatives"

🤝 Amb el nou conveni amb @opcions totes hi guanyem!

💚 Les sòcies de #SomEnergia podeu accedir a aquest projecte de #consumConscient en condicions més accessibles.

🧡 Les sòcies d'Opcions podeu gaudir d’avantatges per consumir de manera conscient i accedir a llum 100% renovable de forma fàcil.

🌱 Fem créixer la xarxa de l’#ESS.

🔗 https://somenergia.link/EnxarxadesOpcions

#Intercooperació#Cooperatives"

FWD from Co-operatives UK
👩‍💻 Job insecurity and unfair working conditions define much of today’s tech sector – but there is another way.
🌿 Hear from:
- Richard Rowley, Agile Collective (worker-owned digital agency)
- Mollie Hanley, Open Data Services
📅 Tue 16 Sept, 10:30–12:00
🌏 Secure your place now: https://buff.ly/0w0I8oI

#cooperativesUK #cooperatives #techcoop #techcooperatives

FWD from Co-operatives UK
👩‍💻 Job insecurity and unfair working conditions define much of today’s tech sector – but there is another way.
🌿 Hear from:
- Richard Rowley, Agile Collective (worker-owned digital agency)
- Mollie Hanley, Open Data Services
📅 Tue 16 Sept, 10:30–12:00
🌏 Secure your place now: https://buff.ly/0w0I8oI

#cooperativesUK #cooperatives #techcoop #techcooperatives

Mujeres, cooperativas y colectivas solidarias. Una mirada feminista - Dra. Josefina Cendejas Guízar

https://lacoperacha.org.mx/mujeres-cooperativas-colectivas-solidarias-mirada-feminista-josefina-cendejas-2025/

"Si las reformas legislativas y las políticas no se hacen con una perspectiva de género, tampoco abonarán al avance de la igualdad sustantiva"

#cooperativas #mexico #feminista#CoopsYear#Cooperatives #rosalux

"The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and analysis on the emergence of worker-run production cooperatives in Argentina’s crisis-ridden industries. It highlights workers’ prominent role in occupying and self-managing factories that were either shut down or on the brink of closure following the economic crisis of the 1990s. The book also offers fascinating examples of how these worker-managed units were established. Argentina’s labour movement provides valuable lessons for understanding the complexities of workers’ self-management.

To better understand the economic and political conditions that led to these labour movements, it is crucial to briefly consider the historical context of labour organization in Argentina, as discussed in the book and other related sources, particularly its relationship with the state and capitalists. A special focus will be placed on ‘Peronism,’ which significantly shaped labour politics. After that, we will explore some key aspects of the book and conclude with reflections on the concept of workers’ control and its (in-)conceivability under capitalism."

https://socialistproject.ca/2025/08/workers-self-management-struggle-against-neoliberalism/

#Argentina#SelfManagement#Autogestion#Cooperatives#Cooperativism#Neoliberalism

"The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and analysis on the emergence of worker-run production cooperatives in Argentina’s crisis-ridden industries. It highlights workers’ prominent role in occupying and self-managing factories that were either shut down or on the brink of closure following the economic crisis of the 1990s. The book also offers fascinating examples of how these worker-managed units were established. Argentina’s labour movement provides valuable lessons for understanding the complexities of workers’ self-management.

To better understand the economic and political conditions that led to these labour movements, it is crucial to briefly consider the historical context of labour organization in Argentina, as discussed in the book and other related sources, particularly its relationship with the state and capitalists. A special focus will be placed on ‘Peronism,’ which significantly shaped labour politics. After that, we will explore some key aspects of the book and conclude with reflections on the concept of workers’ control and its (in-)conceivability under capitalism."

https://socialistproject.ca/2025/08/workers-self-management-struggle-against-neoliberalism/

#Argentina#SelfManagement#Autogestion#Cooperatives#Cooperativism#Neoliberalism

🌱 Solidarity Platform Cooperativism in
Latin America Report - FLACSO, Ecuador; GIZ; Fairwork 2025

🌏 https://www.ctslab.org/2025/07/01/solidarity-platform-cooperativism-in-latin-america-report/

This report analyzes the development of Platform Cooperatives in Latin America, understanding them as an alternative to the dominant corporate model in the platform economy.

#cooperatives #platformeconomy #solidarity #latinamerica #coopcycle

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

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

Cooperativismo y Tecnología
Software Libre y Telecomunicaciones, experiencias desde Brasil y México

🗓️ Miércoles 23 Julio 2025 a las 18:00

☕ En "Las 400 voces Chocolatería solidaria" - Filosofía y Letras 88, Copilco Universidad, Coyoacán, 04360 Ciudad de México, (cerca de Metro Copilco)

🌏 https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/12688748201

Coop Eita (Brasil) - Coop Tierra Común (México) - Mayfirst Coop (Int) - Tosepan - Wiki Katat (México)

#TechCoop#Mexico#Brasil#Cooperativas #cooperatives#SoftwareLibre

we're pleased to announce https://guixotic.coop, a new free software cooperative focused on gnu guix and guile cofounded by @podiki, maxim cournoyer and me. we offer services including training, commercial support, development, system administration (CI/CD, HPC), packaging -- in short, everything guix and guile.

our goal is to strengthen & expand the community, bringing in new people and organizations (our clients), supporting development work, and growing the network of organizations supporting these technologies.

could you or an organization you know of benefit from our services? email contact@guixotic.coop or contact us here!

full announcement: https://lists.gnu.org/r/guix-devel/2025-07/msg00113.html

#gnu #guix #guile #lisp #cooperatives

Thanks to @anaulin and @internetross for co-facilitating a conversation with the internal folks who facilitated the #unionization efforts at Exygy, a #Software#Consultancy.

We may publish some notes on the zinc.coop website; but my take-aways were:

- One on Ones are S-Tier Skill
- Work with the CWA! They know their shit!
- Take the time to build the Super Majority!
- Stay Positive
- Develop your understanding of Solidarity (Rec for #OnSolidarity by #HaymarketBooks - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2252-on-solidarity)

If you have recommendations for further conversations re: Organizing and Mobilizing towards Justice in Software Organizations, please send them my way!

#Union#Consulting#Cooperatives#ZincCoop

Thanks to @anaulin and @internetross for co-facilitating a conversation with the internal folks who facilitated the #unionization efforts at Exygy, a #Software#Consultancy.

We may publish some notes on the zinc.coop website; but my take-aways were:

- One on Ones are S-Tier Skill
- Work with the CWA! They know their shit!
- Take the time to build the Super Majority!
- Stay Positive
- Develop your understanding of Solidarity (Rec for #OnSolidarity by #HaymarketBooks - https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2252-on-solidarity)

If you have recommendations for further conversations re: Organizing and Mobilizing towards Justice in Software Organizations, please send them my way!

#Union#Consulting#Cooperatives#ZincCoop