Ciclo de Cinema Cooperativista "Empire Me - Der Staat bin ich!"

Rizoma, sexta-feira, 20 de fevereiro às 18:00 GMT

PT:

É já no próximo dia 20 de fevereiro que estreamos o Ciclo de Cinema Cooperativista da Rizoma. Todas as terceiras sextas-feiras do mês, passamos um filme sobre cooperativismo.
 
Nesta primeira sessão teremos a visualização do filme "Empire Me - Der Staat bin ich!" de Paul Poet. Um documentário onde o leva os espectadores a uma viagem global ao estilo "road movie" para explorar a ascensão de micronações e ecovilas, onde indivíduos diversos contornam as restrições de um mundo globalizado para estabelecer os seus próprios territórios e sistemas sociais autogovernados.
Ao documentar esses "contramundos", o filme revela que o escape moderno tem menos que ver com esconder-se e mais com a gestão política complexa de novas sociedades, desafiando, em última análise, o público a reivindicar o seu poder e criar as suas próprias realidades.
 
Juntam-se a nós?

🎟️ Entrada livre
 
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EN:
 
Next Friday, the 20th, we will premiere the Rizoma Cooperative Film Series. Every third Friday of the month, we will screen a film about cooperativism.
 
In this session we will be showing the film "Empire Me - Der Staat bin ich!" by Paul Poet. In his documentary the filmmaker takes viewers on a global "road movie" journey to explore the rise of micronations and eco-villages, where diverse individuals bypass the constraints of a globalized world to establish their own self-governing territories and social systems. By documenting these "counter worlds," the film reveals that modern escapism is less about hiding and more about the complex, political management of new societies, ultimately challenging the audience to reclaim their power and create their own realities.
 
Will you join us?

🎟️ Admission is free

https://eventos.coletivos.org/event/ciclo-de-cinema-cooperativista-empire-me-der-staat-bin-ich

"These essays reveal some important facts:

- The cooperative sector in Kerala would not have flourished without a long history of social reform that created the social basis for cooperation. When news about the Soviet Union trickled into Kerala, people involved in the social reform and anti-caste movements expressed their curiosity about its attempts to reconstruct social and economic relations. This curiosity led to studies about the cooperative movement in the Soviet Union, which were then presented in social reform and anti-caste movements’ public meetings.
- The cooperative sector developed due to the vitality of the class struggle in Kerala, where organised peasants and workers pushed the social reform movement to combine the struggles against caste, landlordism, and colonialism. It was in these struggles that the peasant movement – mainly in northern Kerala – took the initiative to start peasant cooperatives to help the most impoverished amongst them. The emergence of these cooperatives weakened the grip of landlords, who could no longer lend money at usurious rates to the indebted peasantry or continue to be their main provider of consumer goods. Instead, they watched as the peasant cooperatives lifted the confidence of the masses. The success of cooperatives led to their duplication in other parts of the region, building on the organisational habits of mass movements.
- The first communist ministry that came to power in Kerala (1957–1959) received mass support from the mass social reform movement and was bolstered both by the class struggle of previous decades and by the success of the cooperative movement. In turn, the communist government used a part of Kerala’s social wealth to finance the growth of more cooperatives across the state..."

https://thetricontinental.org/study-kerala-cooperatives/

#India #Kerala #Cooperativism #Socialism #Cooperatives #Communism

Yesterday I watched #TheTake , a documentary by #NaomiKlein and #AviLewis about the cooperative movement in Argentina, released in 2004.

In the beginning of the 21st century, workers across #Argentina took over control over factories, and began to run them by themselves.

Many of these cooperatives still exist.

This documentary can be a source of hope. We need it.

@unions @Cooperatives

#Cooperatives #Cooperativism #Workers #Unions

https://tube.todon.eu/w/fSVXkj5Srrbv6amgtfSy2k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Take_(2004_film)

Anyone at the Workers Governing Technologies workshop/conference on the Fedi?? I bet some of y'all are here. This is such an amazing gathering!!

#WorkersGoverningTechnologies #Cooperativism #CreativeLabourCriticalFutures #Labour #SolidarityEconomy #Unionism

"The recent book by Marcelo Vieta, Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestion (Haymarket Books, Chicago, 2020), provides a wealth of information and analysis on the emergence of worker-run production cooperatives in Argentina’s crisis-ridden industries. It highlights workers’ prominent role in occupying and self-managing factories that were either shut down or on the brink of closure following the economic crisis of the 1990s. The book also offers fascinating examples of how these worker-managed units were established. Argentina’s labour movement provides valuable lessons for understanding the complexities of workers’ self-management.

To better understand the economic and political conditions that led to these labour movements, it is crucial to briefly consider the historical context of labour organization in Argentina, as discussed in the book and other related sources, particularly its relationship with the state and capitalists. A special focus will be placed on ‘Peronism,’ which significantly shaped labour politics. After that, we will explore some key aspects of the book and conclude with reflections on the concept of workers’ control and its (in-)conceivability under capitalism."

https://socialistproject.ca/2025/08/workers-self-management-struggle-against-neoliberalism/

#Argentina #SelfManagement #Autogestion #Cooperatives #Cooperativism #Neoliberalism

#Uber #Lyft #rideShare #taxi #cooperativism #COOP

A National Rideshare Cooperative Takes Aim at Uber and Lyft

jacobin.com/2024/12/a-national…

The morning Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, members of our collective sat in the dark, listening to the howling wind and the crack of huge trees falling all around. When we emerged Friday evening to take stock, a cardboard sign on our co-op’s door read “Community meeting here, Saturday at 2pm. Let’s talk about how we can take care of each other + community.” That first autonomous act by an anonymous neighbor set the stage for the week, with Firestorm becoming a container for other people’s brilliant, beautiful, and generous self-organizing.

About forty people attended the first meeting. Nearly four hundred attended the next one. The gatherings, now a daily anchor, have generated a multitude of connections and volunteer powered projects. Before city officials had finished assessing the damage, community members were sharing supplies, doing wellness checks, and serving hot meals. Over the next few days, things became more organized. Anarchist arborists collected chainsaws and dispatched crews to clear roads for trapped residents; activists mobilized to build long term water distribution systems capable of delivering 6k gallons/day; bike punks offered free repair clinics; a farmer began driving regular water supply loops to Firestorm from a nearby spring; and an enthusiastic DIY-er set up a tent to distribute dry toilets made from affordable materials.

In the midst of this anarchic moment, Firestorm isn’t setting the agenda or directing anyone—we’re offering a space that welcomes independent initiative, we’re supporting the exchange of critical information, and we’re modeling a do-it-ourselves approach that’s responsive, experimental, and human-scale.

Yes, government and NGO aid is now flowing into the region—but the work of caring for one another continues to be done by neighbors, grassroots organizations, small businesses, and activists. It’s done voluntarily, with thousands of autonomous actions synchronized through a shared solidarity. For a brief moment, the logic of the capitalist market is suspended, care is given freely, and everyone contributes what they can.

It’s a strange paradox that the utopia we dream of becomes most visible in the dark.

#HurricaneHelene #MutualAid #Anarchism #Cooperativism #MutualAidDisasterRelief #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop

Well, we finally made it official. @hollie @ansate @django and @dphiffer are now full-fledged members of the Social.Coop Community Working Group Operations Team!

They are handling moderation and registrations and thinking about ways to build and support community.

Please give them your patience, your trust, your collaboration, your cooperation.

#cooperativism #moderation