DisCO Wire

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

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 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 i…

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 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 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 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 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 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

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/

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/

🔥 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 …