Link to Writings On The Wall
Let's Co-opefy OUR Economy to Decenter Corporatocracy
Let's:
- Disrupt the systemic concentration of economic power towards Corporations & the 1%
- Bypass gatekeeping political parties & politicians serving the 1%
- Re-distribute economic & thus political power to everyone directly
All We Have To Do:
1) Affirm that We the 99.99% are:
- Free beings - not slaves nor serfs
- Here for Humanity+Earth
- Here to co-operate for solutions
And Do not need corporations & the 1%
2) Unshackle ourselves & just walk away from the 1%
3) Appeal to the humanity of the Order Executors
4) DirectChange:
Co-opefy the Economy
- Here's How:
1. List down Our Targets i.e. 1%-owned Corporations
2. Setup Co-op(s) against each Target Corporation
3. CrowdFund the Co-ops
4. ** Shift All Our Tim€+Effort$+Mone¥ from 1%-owned Corporations to Co-ops**
5. Continue until all Corporations defunded
Imagine...
If everyone committed to Co-opefy The Economy
We would flip the economy into our hands in no time
To reclaim control over our own lives
& create leverage against the 1%
Co-operatives are Political Parties with benefits
Everyone joining a co-op gets
- wages - decided jointly & locally
- medical insurance
- immunity against the Corporatocracy
- economic & political leverage for further changes
Co-operatives
= Unions 2.0 (minus the Brinkmanship)
= Corporations 2.0 (minus the Exploitation)
= Political Parties 2.0 (minus the Corruption)
A Co-opefied Economy
= Socialism 2.0 (minus the Totalitarians)
= Capitalism 2.0 (minus the Oligarchs)
= Democracy Reimagined
In a Corporation-dominated Economy:
Income goes to Corporations & ultimately the 1%
Economic & political power exponentially concentrated
In a Co-opefied Economy:
Income circulates within Local Communities
Total community income multiplies
Economic & political leverage distributed
Local Communities can create & circulate their own Community Currency
- To provide a Community Currency Basic Income (CCBI)
e.g. Tenino wooden money
- To jumpstart & co-opefy their community economy
- To generate & distribute abundance & leverage
- To protect their people against State inaction / tyranny
Here's perhaps a way that Local Communities could organize to bootstrap themselves - beginning with community-owned land & property put into Community Land Trusts (CLTs)
i.e.
CLTs for:
(A) Affordable Housing
(B) Food Producing & Carbon Sequestering Syntropic AgroForestry
(C) backing Community Currency for
(1) Basic Income
(2) Credit Unions
(3) to Co-opefy the Local Economy
for
(a) Wages
(b) Medical Insurance
(ci) Economic & Political Leverage against the Corporatocracy
Here's How To Co-opefy The Economy:
Existing Co-ops - Join / Expand Them
https://usworker.coop/directory/
https://fci.coop/co-op-directories/
Existing Businesses - Convert Them
https://co-oplaw.org/knowledge-base/conversion/
Existing Workers (of Oligarchs' Corporations) - "Unionize" Them (ie form Co-ops) to compete against the Corporations
Consider The Mondragon Corporation
Watch this TEDtalk by Melanie Shellito:
Why The Cooperative Model Is A Revolution
Let's Move From A Top Down Paradigm to A Self Organizing Paradigm
(Note: the GIF clip is that of a torus, from the movie "Thrive")
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