I think legislation like this could be extremely helpful when it comes to employers changing hands as well. Employees ought to have the right of first refusal over their workplaces.
For anyone who may have missed it, NYC passed COPA, a Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, allowing orgs like community land trusts a right of first refusal when multifamily buildings are sold. Neat!
nyccli.org/copa/
Fun lil lit review on the topic of unions and worker-coops interacting, next up is learning more about this USW-Mondragón union coop model
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I just want an economy of coops, personally
What if unions bargained for ownership of their employers, became ESOPs, and slowly turned their companies into cooperatives?
Extremely cool recent happenings out of Fort Collins, CO!
To figure out how to rezone an old stadium, they convened a civic assembly, with some great results!
www.newamerica.org/political-re...
Yeah he posted about it
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“Bernie Blackout” is about the 2020 primary, but still worth a watch. It’s a Vice documentary showcasing how many stops the establishment pulled out to stop his run for the presidency.
“The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.”
Exactly! You might like this book 😄
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Right, part of my point is that the response of the left should be “we don’t think you should starve.” Rather than “we don’t think you should starve *as long as you work*”
Some, sure, but I’ve seen a lot of the (American, maybe) “left” with the take that automation is bad, because “how else will workers earn their living?” It lacks imagination.
Absolutely, I’m just wishing the left had more teeth 🫠
Force the conservative position to be “we think you should have to work for a living.”
The original position cedes this as a foregone conclusion, that we’re stuck under capitalism.
"[Trump's] agenda only works if there’s nothing else on offer.
Blue Bonds are the counter-offer."
It’s #bandcampfriday!
Go checkout subvert.fm 😄
Found it
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I did just see @bmann.ca talking about this the other day
This is the way to phrase it. That part should be in the headline
About 15 paragraphs in, here, for some detail.
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Closed source / corporate controlled algorithms are a large source of societal ills, ban them
It’s only been a few months and I’m already nostalgic hah
Currently cramming the protocol reader ahead of @protocolized.bsky.social’s symposium this week, feels like I’m back in grad school 😄
Zoning is mostly if not entirely at the city, maybe county level. The major exception is roads, which largely fall under the state’s jurisdiction (afaik)
It was a 2011 study so that checks out.
There’s also this, from Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality, (ostensibly more recently) claiming 1 3.5hp gas mower is equivalent to 11 new cars
deq.utah.gov/communicatio...
Fun fact, there is way less regulation on these things, so their efficiency and carbon output tends to be massively worse.
One study found that running a gas leaf blower for an hour is like driving an F150 from Texas to Alaska and back!
Forgot I wrote this thread too when I originally read that piece 😄
