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Article topics are fairly random everything from African politics to punk album reviews.

I’ve been impressed by the quality of the writing so far. It’s clear writers have a ton of room to create as they see fit when writing their pieces

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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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Anyone know anything about Roostrent?

https://roostrent.com/

Seems lime a housing coop accelerator in the UK. But basically no info out there.

#coop #housing #housingcoop #london #uk

Say you wanted to spin up an internationalist, remote-first, tech-worker collective, but then you think about bureaucracy and The Fear stops you in your tracks.

Is there a procedural, flow-chart like resource out there?

#FLOSS #workercollective #coop #fedihire