Vote for us in the Hackernoon Noonies Awards 2021!

DisCOs can be a useful tool for the precariat in self-organizing into purpose-oriented collectives to foster economic counterpowers against predatory capitalism! 💚

https://www.noonies.tech/award/2021-hackernoon-contributor-of-the-year-economics

Our very dear DisCOnauts Natalia Avlona and Stacco Troncoso were interviewed on The Blockchain Socialist podcast about the differences between the politics of DisCOs and DAOs, and their experience with working in designing this governance model.

https://theblockchainsocialist.com/dancing-with-radical-economics-at-the-disco-a-feminist-cooperative-alternative-to-daos/

The playlist of last month's conference #TheNewCommonSense "Forging the Cooperative Digital Economy" by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and all its contributions is now complete on youtube!

Can you find the DisCOnauts? ✨

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc4gf7AbmXmAQDcIPLrQocQBJ0ClXG3FV

We're so honored to be included in David Bollier's newly released book "The Commoner's Catalog for Changemaking: Tools for the Transitions Ahead" along with our pilot model Guerrilla Media Collective ✨

You can read it online here 🌱: https://www.commonerscatalog.org/books/the-commoners-catalog-for-changemaking?page=-3

Today's the last day you can vote for us at Hackernoon's Noonies Awards (as Contributor of the Year in the category of Economics, meow!). It only takes a second! We are really longing for that .tech domain registration! 💚
https://www.noonies.tech/award/2021-hackernoon-contributor-of-the-year-economics

Even the DisCO CAT granted an interview for the cause! 😼
https://hackernoon.com/an-intro-to-disco-distributed-cooperative-organizations

Stay tuned 'cause we're rekindling this channel! 🔥 We're embarking on several simultaneous and exciting processes, and have a bunch of tools, news and resources that want to share, test and co-design with you. ✨ Glad to be back! Please feel free to tell us in the comments what have you been up to! 💖

Our friends from the original DisCO LAB Guerrilla Media Collective have launched a second Lovework Open Call, and they're looking for this!👇 ✨

- Works in Spanish, French, Catalan or German to be translated into English.
- Something a bit out of the ordinary – poetry, science fiction, experimental writing, radical manifestos… They’re open to any genre, but highly encourage submissions of fiction and creative writing.
- Texts up to 5000 words – there’s some flexibility with this but there are bills to pay and they need to be realistic with how much time they can dedicate to pro-bono work until our post-capitalist utopia takes hold.

Spread the word or send a piece of text in any of the above languages that you would like to see translated into English!

All the info here 👇💚:

https://guerrillamedia.coop/en/love-work-open-call-round-2/

🔥 Rural Radicals is the first platform dedicated to the field of culture-led rural development. They believe in the transformative power of creative spaces to foster the regeneration of underpopulated areas. In a time when thousands of rural villages fall into decay, leaving empty properties behind with isolation of the elderly, we need social and cultural pioneers that use these abandoned buildings to benefit local communities and nature centered innovation overall; ‘using property for good’.

The team is formed by a passionate group of idealists, futurists, and experts, dedicated to the mission of non-urban regeneration. They seek to build a deeper connection with nature, ourselves, and the communities around us by using creative spaces in non-urban areas to express artistic creativity, promote natural healing, foster social innovation, and support sustainable entrepreneurship. Times of transition require radical change and by creating more creative spaces outside cities, they can contribute to a more sustainable and balanced society.

Learn more about this amazing project at https://ruralradicals.com 💚

Our new snazzy DisCO website is here! ✨

Lots of new content to learn and understand how DisCO combines feminist economics, cooperativism, the commons and P2P practices to open paths towards a fairer, more distributed future of work!

Check it out! 👇


https://www.disco.coop/2023/11/all-aboard-the-new-disco-website-is-live/

For those who have expressed that it is hard to figure out what DisCO is about, here's ✨the DisCO BASICS✨ a much more accesible overview of the world of Distributed Cooperative Organizations, peppered with TL;DRs and supporting media!

Have a look and let us know what you think in the comments! 💖

https://basics.disco.coop/

The first stop of the ✨DisCO Basics✨ ride is dedicated to answer the question "What is DisCO?"

DisCO is a living, evolving framework that lets us choose how we want to spend our energy and creativity together to reignite the power of the commons.🔥

https://basics.disco.coop/1-what-is-disco.html

The second stop of the ✨DisCO Basics✨ ride takes us through the 7 DisCO Principles, a self-reinforcing framework to ensure the creation of transnational networked coops and social-solidarity orgs working for social and planetary restoration.

https://basics.disco.coop/2-disco-principles.html

The third stop of the ✨DisCO Basics✨ ride revisits the origins of DisCO as a set of organizational practices and tools emerged from the conversations & lived experience of the members of Guerrilla Media Collective, the DisCO pilot model. It's been a long way since then! 👇

https://basics.disco.coop/3-disco-origins.html

The fourth stop of the ✨DisCO Basics✨introduces us to the frontline communities that are implementing the model through the DisCO Journey, joining a network of federated DisCO LABS to create distributed economic counterpower. 👇

https://basics.disco.coop/4-disco-journey-and-labs.html

The fifth stop of the ✨DisCO Basics✨ ride envisions a distributed future with care at the core, a systemic change led by federated groups creating economic counterpower to meet human and environmental needs at the point of access.👇

https://basics.disco.coop/5-disco-futures.html

The sixth stop of the ✨DisCO Basics✨ ride explains the 4 DisCO pillars:

- DisCO FLOOR: Comprehensive online educational resources and legal tools.
- DisCO DECK: Governance Modeling and Value Tracking Platform.
- DisCO STACK: FLOSS collaborative tools for DisCO practices.
- The DisCO Experience: DisCO LABS, research events and outreach.

Learn more about it! 👇

https://basics.disco.coop/6-disco-project.html

"The world grows hotter, as land and oceans choke with plastic and poison and people are forced to migrate as their homes become uninhabitable. Fascism makes a comeback worldwide, as militarized police utilize new tactics and technologies to clamp down on dissent. Genocides and vicious civil wars are liberally sanctioned and paid for by powerful nations and industries. The power of capitalism is alive and well, and its power seeps into network technology. Deliberate programs of misinformation and surveillance have amplified greed and alienation.

People have a fundamental desire and inclination to care for each other in the face of catastrophe. So what does it look like for organizations — the building blocks of societies — to prioritize care and liberation for all?"

Read Mai Ishikawa Sutton's beautiful recollection of what happened during the DisCO Remastered do👇:


https://www.disco.coop/2023/12/strategizing-with-love-intentionality-and-presence-disco-remastered-2023/

The seventh stop of the✨DisCO Basics✨ride proposes several ways of getting involved with the project: commonifying your life, creating a DisCO with like-minded companions, engaging with us online, sharing our resources and basically, staying tuned! 👇

https://basics.disco.coop/7-how-do-i-get-involved.html

The eighth stop of the✨DisCO Basics✨ ride delves into the terminology we use.

After 40 years of bullshit neoliberal language why not rebel, and revel in the magic of coining a glossary that transcend this dystopian reality. Take this language and use it well - it will open up new worlds for you.👇🏼

https://basics.disco.coop/8-disco-terminology.html