ENG: Visionary essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on End of Times Fascism and how to combat it. What follows link are extracts translated to spanish.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

ESP: "Nos enfrentamos a una ideología que ha renunciado no solo a la premisa y la promesa de la democracia liberal, sino también a la habitabilidad de nuestro mundo compartido: a su belleza, a su gente, a nuestros hijos, a otras especies. Las fuerzas a las que nos enfrentamos han hecho las paces con la muerte masiva. Son traicioneras para este mundo y sus habitantes, humanos y no humanos." (...)

"Contrarrestamos sus narrativas apocalípticas con una historia mucho mejor sobre cómo sobrevivir a los tiempos difíciles que se avecinan sin dejar a nadie atrás. Una historia capaz de despojar al fascismo del fin de los tiempos de su poder gótico y galvanizar un movimiento dispuesto a arriesgarlo todo por nuestra supervivencia colectiva. Una historia no de fin de los tiempos, sino de tiempos mejores; no de separación y supremacía, sino de interdependencia y pertenencia; no de escapar, sino de permanecer en el lugar y ser fieles a la problemática realidad terrenal en la que estamos atrapados y atados.

Ese sentimiento básico, por supuesto, no es nuevo. Es central en las cosmologías indígenas y se encuentra en la esencia del animismo. Si nos remontamos lo suficiente, cada cultura y fe tiene su propia tradición de respetar la santidad del aquí, y no de buscar a Sión en una tierra prometida esquiva y lejana."

Enlace autotraducido: https://www-theguardian-com.translate.goog/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=wapp

#antifa #solarpunk #RegenerativeAgriculture
#sostenibilidad #solidaridad #solidarityeconomy #sustainability #antitrump
#TrumpDepression #trump
#ElonMusk #cristianzionism
#ecology #ecología #FuckElonMusk

The GEO Collective has been covering #WorkerCoops and the #SolidarityEconomy for nearly 40 years. Help make sure we can keep it up for another 40 with a one-time or recurring contribution. Thank you!

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We just sent out a newsletter with a bunch of stories from the cooperative ecosystem that caught our attention—find the web version here: https://www.village.one/garden/newsletter/039-bits-bobs-and-co-ops

Mentioned in it: @fontstand @limeleaf @101lab @GenoDigital @Greenheart @demnext @bocoup @hostsharing @subvertworld @workers_coop @tazgetroete and more

The photo is from a documentary about the Liberated Broom cooperative, also linked in the newsletter.

Friends who are interested in #cooperatives, #commons, and #solidarityeconomy, please make a donation to GEO.coop. I found GEO when I was first learning about solidarity economy, submitted an article or two, and ended up joining the collective. A look at the website shows what a unique independent resource GEO is, covering organizing efforts around the world, sharing the work of leading theorist-practitioners like Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and @luisrazeto .

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𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗹𝗱—𝙗𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬.

Independent media. Community schools. Worker co-ops. Public banks. Mutual aid networks. Tech commons.

These aren’t utopian dreams—𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.

"Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think that talking to your friends on social media without being spied on is impossible. It's like asking for water that's not wet." - @pluralistic

Capitalist Realism vs. Science Fiction ft. Cory Doctorow | Moneyless Society

https://youtu.be/Zz-iHWzqGK0

Live now! Cooperation Jackson discussing the Build And Fight Formula. Part of a monthly series addressing the most critical questions in building an ecosocialist movement from below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7x1jUZo7Y

Found out about The Music Venue Trust today and it's really pretty cool

The model of a community land trust, but for music venues, to make sure they stay affordable in perpetuity (rent sucks).

https://www.musicvenuetrust.com/

It's been such a busy year! We feel like it's time to take stock of some things you can do on Mirlo!

We added a new layer to the Agroecology Map with data from the Mapa de Feiras Orgânicas (Organic Fairs Map) in Brazil

Find out more about the "Mapa de Feiras Orgânicas"
https://feirasorganicas.org.br/

And visit
https://agroecologymap.org

#Cooperatives #Coops #Socialism #SolidarityEconomy #WorkerOwnedFirms: "Fast forward to 2024. Once again, the Left is discussing strategies for political advance. It is clear that electoral campaigns on their own and short-lived protests are not enough to win durable victories. But unlike socialists of the past, the contemporary left’s discussions have largely ignored the strategic role that cooperatives — and the solidarity economy more generally, i.e., enterprises geared to serving the needs of workers and achieving broader social goals — can play in building up the Left’s power.

This is a mistake. History shows that a flourishing solidarity economy can provide a distinctive set of material and social benefits for the Left, benefits that can play a key role in socialism’s broader political revival. This is not to say that supporting cooperatives and other kinds of worker-owned firms should supplant our other political tactics — but neither should they be ignored. Rather, cooperatives can and should complement the Left’s other strategic efforts, as the Second International recognized long ago."

https://jacobin.com/2024/05/cooperatives-dsa-left-strategy-solidarity

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/05/14/growing-communities-in-waltham-forest/

I have a proposal for a Europe-wide* experiment, that aims to bring together the movements around solidarity and ecology in order to build up the material infrastructure.

I'm looking for collaborators, please DM me, and please boost this toot!

Here it is briefly:

We try to raise 50 000 000€ over about 5-10 years and give that money as 1000 gifts of 50k€ each to new collectives for setting up housing cooperatives and land communes. The main vehicle for the fundraiser would be crowdfunding with focus on a high volume of small, recurring donations.

For example, this could be achieved with 200 000 donors, donating 5€/month on average for 50 months, or 4,17 years. That's 250€/person over four years.

Each recipient collective would make a legal pact with us or a trusted third party to ensure that the property will not be sold back to the market for financial gain. Additionally collectives would go through screening to ensure alignment with a shared vision.

*Even though internationalism on a global scale is important, I believe it makes sense to focus this effort geographically, to be able to have location-connected synergies between collectives.

In the end we would have boosted the 'ecosystem' with a network of maybe 10-30k members and created 1000 hubs for social and ecological organizing. Additionally, we would have built up a network of Commons, that can help us gain a better understanding of this new, old, paradigm.

The leftist space is full of ideas and people with motivation to work and organize together, to try new forms of living and care, to grow food and to steward the land. I want to see this potential realized, but I'm afraid most of it will not happen unless we cooperate on a broader, international scale to push things forward.

Hi Ten Forward! New user here. Thought I'd give an #introduction:

I have loved Star Trek for as long as I can remember. I am a web developer who is very #anticapitalist and interested in #ecovillages, #communes, #solarpunk & #scifi, #workerowned #cooperatives, and the #solidarityeconomy just to name a few.

I am very grateful for Gene's vision of the future of humanity. He saw the potential and opportunity for us all, if only we could grow beyond our complacency, fear, and lack of imagination.

As everyone has been experiencing lately, we on planet Earth are at a turning point. We can either continue along with the status quo and passively watch fascism rise, the billionaires take everything, and watch them pollute the air and boil our oceans, or we can make real changes and put ourselves back on the path of a brighter future.

The billionaires we cede our sovereignty to are so few in number, and we are so many. We *can* change the world for the better, for all of us. We *must*.

We are developing an #opensource, #map based, web platform (social network) to foster #solidarity #mutualaid through gifting, free lending, requests for help, free events, public free resources. Not using any money/currency. #gifteconomy #diverseeconomies #generalizedexchange #indirectreciprocity #postcapitalism #care
#solidarityeconomy
Free research server: https://shareish.org
Communities & Technologies 2023 Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3593743.3593790

Hello, we’re new here! #introduction

Village One is a somewhat utopian design + tech cooperative, creating purposeful digital products and infrastructure with joy and integrity!

Founded in 2022, distributed team, async communication, female-led, deliberately small, four day workweek, democratically governed and owned by its workers.

You can hire us to create digital things together. Project wish/blocklist: https://www.village.one/garden/how-we-work/clients-wishlist-blocklist