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wellejonathan.bsky.social
Building co-ops and the solidarity economy in Cleveland. www.clevelandowns.coop
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One of the best parts of #ResistandBuild today: we were hosted at the beautiful Morehouse College. What an honor!

Next up at #resistandbuild - a world cafe on building strategy together focused on Build Politics and policy Resist Art, culture, and care

Excited to check out Cooperation New Orleans’ new video, ‘What the bleep is a co-op?’ youtu.be/XcL8hj_h_HQ

In the Mapping Solidarity Economies breakout at Resist and Build, @msafri.bsky.social + @craigborowiak.bsky.social describe how maps reflect and also create the world (eg, redlining maps). They wrote a great book, ‘Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation.’

Today’s first session at Resist and Build is Scaling Solidarity Economies, where folks from the Peoples Network for Land and Liberation, Wellspring Cooperative, Cooperation Jackson, and others are sharing their strategies. Some day 1 highlights: bsky.app/profile/well...

This weekend I’m at Resist and Build with solidarity economy folks from around the US. Can’t wait to learn and share

Happy 92nd birthday to the iconic radical anarchist catholic newspaper the Catholic Worker!!!! Dorothy Day started it in part to combat the rise of fascism in the United States and to hold religious folks accountable to the doctrine they supposedly followed that prioritized taking care of the poor.

Go off, GCRTA

AI = climate arson

Real abundance is moderating collective demand to match supply, rather than the other way around.

@oscarthinks.bsky.social and speaks! His first trip to Cleveland includes a book talk with @mcargill28.bsky.social at ThirdSpace in Glenville to share more about his new book ‘The Banks we Deserve.’ @nextcity.org

Atrocious

Ronayne calls public subsidy for renovating Browns stadium more ‘fiscally prudent’ than a larger public subsidy for a new stadium. That’s like calling a moldy piece of bread ‘more delicious’ than a rotten one. They both belong in the compost pile.

This is phenomenal, a great step towards building out a robust policy vision of worker-ownership, and ensuring that policy is in any serious national political platform. Some highlights below:

It's gonna be a nope from me dude