“Just because you have a cooperative doesn’t mean that you have economic justice, but if we can talk honestly about this country’s wealth and the origins of that wealth, we can change that!” - @CincyUnionCoop Initiative to the Union Coop gathering #WCNC18

We are at #WCNC18 in LA this weekend. @Peterdakota@zhalehsays Anisha Desai and Marc Mascarenhas-Swan of@aortacoop are here. Any other facilitation or consulting coops here?

“What’s the biggest risk and what’s the most valuable thing you have achieved?” For A Yard and a Half, the financing was risky. Valuable? The people. It changed the lives of the worker-owners! Learn from The Democracy at Work Institute’s feature on this story: bit.ly/2Owhbak #WCNC18

Diving into many great and fun facilitation tools with AORTA Co-op friends here at #WCNC18

Thanks to everyone who attended AORTA Co-op Facilitation in Motion session this morning at #WCNC18 w/ @PeterDakota and Zhaleh Join Marc and Anisha this afternoon for our session Planning Best Done in Advance in room TE215

"What if we owned the farm labor contractor, or Accenture?....We would have aggregated resources....a way of negotiating with the employer and building that power...." Executive Director Melissa Hoover on how worker coops can transform the gig +freelancer economy #WCNC18 #gocoop

"What if we used ownership as a way to stabilize work? What if worker cooperatives were a way to organize labor in a time that's trying to split us all apart?" Melissa Hoover of The Democracy at Work Institute asking how we organize people to change the world! Meet the panelists. #WCNC18

#WCNC18 attendees: Last chance to get help from an expert at the Co-op Clinic! Sign up for a 20 minute consultation at 12 PM today. 📈✊🏽

.Esteban Kelly moderating the “Cooperative Connections to Movements for Liberation” this morning with panelists from Pilipino Workers Center, ROC United, CLEAN Carwash Worker Center, The Movement Center & SEIU. “How do we not only resist, but build for transformation?” #WCNC18

Join AORTA Co-op 's Anisha Desai for Time's Up: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in TE 120 at 11:15am storytelling and lessons learned with Rainbow Grocery Coop and Democratic Socialists of America #WCNC18

“No matter what happens on election day, we need to be ready to rebuild those systems in the weeks and years to come. We must organize forward, carrying with us the same tenacity and intelligence of our ancestors and the generations that came before us.” ndncollective.org/how-to-survive…

New workshops for folks who live or work in Portland! First up is Online Facilitation Through an Anti-Oppression Lens on Nov 19th. Register here: buff.ly/2I5n3sM Thanks Archived-Civic Life for making these workshops free!

Connect, prepare, and #CountEveryVote. Thank you MateoNube for sharing your story and reminding us that #wegotwe buff.ly/350ZESB

Sign up today for AORTA Co-op Love the People webinar series! Join us 1/31 w/ guest storytellers Kiyomi Fujikawa, Ejeris Dixon and Amita Swadhin, for a session on transformative interventions in our homes and neighborhoods. Register today: lovethepeople.bpt.me

TOMORROW: 2/14 Love the People: Defending Our Demonstrations Webinar! Join us for Episode #2 w/ guest storytellers Kriti Sharma of Ready the Ground, Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky of Rude Mechanical Orchestra and Shawn Fischer of About Face: Veterans Against the War Register at lovethepeople.bpt.me

In 45 min: Join us for AORTA Co-op's webinar #LoveThePeople 'Defending Our Demonstrations'! You can still register here: lovethepeople.bpt.me (choose the Feb. 28 date even for today) to join + for recordings if you can't join live!

Tomorrow - 2/28 Join AORTA Co-op for 'Sanctuary For All: Community Defense' Webinar with Ravi Ragbir of @NewSanctuaryNYC, Ana Martina Rivas of U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Jazmin Delgado of New Sanctuary Mvt, Nefertiti Asanti of CUAV and Martha Pierce of CRLN. Sign up now at lovethepeople.bpt.me