Notices by Matt Noyes (matt_noyes@social.coop)

The two editions of A Troublemaker's Handbook are full of useful tips for resisting and organizing. Good material for federal employees these days. Do you work for a non-profit? They're also useful for you. Plenty of ways to fight back and win.

https://www.labornotes.org/2024/04/free-download-shawn-fains-other-bible-troublemakers-handbook

@beckett @FreeScholar @ntnsndr @mako @dazinism @sam @Eliot_L @dmokreis @GiacomoSansoni @coopartisans @toddxy @JosephAndriano @BillySmith Hi all, am I right that crab fit does not specify dates? Not sure how to fill it in.

@ntnsndr Stay warm, friend!

@evan member owned and supported

@jackaponte @mayfirst Sorry, I meant that I have been frustrated to see co-ops and other movement orgs stick with Zoom when there are good, open source, cooperative platforms available.

Dang, 2025 may be the year for two co-op conversions and a new farm work commons-co-op!

#cooperatives #commoning

@beckett @FreeScholar @ntnsndr @mako @dazinism @sam @Eliot_L @dmokreis @GiacomoSansoni @coopartisans @toddxy @JosephAndriano @BillySmith I took it to be about a tool moderators and others might use for chat and coordination?

@ntnsndr Always eager to read a new piece of yours!

The On the Waterfront/Salt of the Earth contrast is not great. The collective struggle of ILA members against the mob, at great personal cost, was in no way anti-union. The "labor priests" who supported workers played a key, rebellious, role. And, as Bert Cochran detailed in his book Labor and Communism, the influence of Stalinism in unions like the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers was often harmful to democratic worker self-organization.

Smart animal soaking up the end of year sun.

@FreeScholar @ntnsndr @beckett @mako @dazinism @sam @Eliot_L @dmokreis @GiacomoSansoni @coopartisans @toddxy @JosephAndriano @BillySmith adding @flancian @dphiffer

I like this idea

How do cooperative enterprises differ?

A small example/anecdote: When I applied for a job at a big Japanese university I had to re-submit my CV. The problem? I had included my six years of "stay-at-home parent." That had to go in order for my CV to be accepted.

In our current co-op study/organizing circle, based on @luisrazeto 's How to Create a Solidarity Enterprise, we each prepared a CV, and then a combined collective CV that recognized the importance of parenting and other care work.

@evan there's more to elections than democracy...

Any recommended pixelfed instances out there? Cooperatively run, if possible.

Today was all about taking the plastic trellising clips off the tomatoes, then tearing up the plants. One of my goals for next season is to devise a viable no-plastic alternative. ( Another goal is to popularize consumption of lambs quarters.)

We harvested a few remaining tomatoes, eggplants, and basil, and had lots of conversation, especially about nutrition, since our newest member is a nutrition student.
#farm_club

@bhaugen haven't asked but I doubt she knows about them. How do you prepare them?

@bhaugen Maybe farmers would do well to include them in a bag of mixed greens? The stems make them look "weedy", I think.

@bhaugen I spoke with my purslane farmer (sic) about lambs quarters and the idea of selling a "native greens mix" including them. He's intrigued. They taste fine, not as good as purslane, but totally fine.

@bhaugen no extended explanation yet, but soon. The diagrams are intended to help us clarify our narrative.

#farm_club

Tuesday was all about harvesting: cherry tomatoes, various types of squash and peppers, green beans.

The poems we shared under the cottonwood tree: Langston Hughes "Morning After", Faiz Ahmed Faiz "Last Night", Ogden Nash "My Dream", Michael Ondaatje "Sweet Like a Crow", Dose One "The Pelt", and Edgar Allen Poe "Dream within a Dream". Theme for next week: shadows.

Does all that poetry make the peppers hotter?

@emi @dphiffer @flancian @sam @hollie @django @ansate Hi all, on Thursday I have to go to a planning meeting for co-op sessions at the upcoming Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Convention. The meeting was moved from 9am to 9:30. So I will come late to the Ops team mtg, if at all. I will send notes tomorrow about Org. Circle stuff. I can help Hollie prepare an agenda. ;-) Sorry to be MIA. m(_ _)m