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A Whole #EcoVillage fits inside a giant Greenhouse
#KirstenDirksen #Science #Poltics #SolidarityEconomics #CooperativeCapital #CommunityDevelopment #Ecocentrism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzKSKqjEmDA

One of the most counter-intuitive justifications for refusing to stop mindlessly competing and work co-operatively toward a shared common good is that it is more of a strain, takes more effort, with less return on investment than working alone.

The rationale most often heard is that the person is sick, disabled, tired, beaten down, overwhelmed, with the implication being that somehow a shared burden is heavier?

Based on that logic, extended families, communities, tribes, villages, towns would never form except by coercion.

It is a circle that cannot be squared.
#COOP #CooperativeCulture #CooperativeCapital #MutualAid to secure the #GneralWelfare and a shared #CommonGood #EconomicDemocracy for #SocialDemocracy

Astra Taylor, co-founder of the Debt Collective, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, co-founder of Way to Win and the Solidaire, discuss their recent book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.
#SolidarityEconomics #DEI #COOP #CooperativeCapital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyDPavbWEFw

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
https://geo.coop/articles/economy-hope-us-federation-worker-cooperatives

Black Capitalism Does Not Work!
#BlackMastodon #BlackCapitalism #Capitalism #BlackEconomics #SolidarityEconomics #CooperativeCapital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ8E9TVjnhg