09:01:02 From Marcus Hill to All Panelists : You're muted 09:02:02 From Lou Novak : I’m hearing two people talking 09:04:00 From Solidarity Research Center to Robert White III, All Panelists : Hi Robert! 09:04:05 From Emily Kawano to Solidarity Research Center (Privately) : On my screen I'm not muted 09:04:17 From Emily Kawano to Solidarity Research Center (Privately) : But there are multiple Emily Kawano 09:05:04 From Lou Novak : greetings from Detroit 09:05:11 From Emily Kawano to Solidarity Research Center (Privately) : Yvonne can you see the blank boxes with my name. I can't close nor unmute. 09:06:08 From Lou Novak : Yes we can 09:08:05 From Neal Gorenflo to All Panelists : greetings from Mountain View. Yes We Are. 09:08:30 From Lou Novak : sounds good 09:09:01 From Lou Novak : no worries 09:09:37 From Shawn Hendrickson : Hey all - audio’s good. 09:09:50 From Sam Stoker : Greetings all from Mexico City 09:10:04 From Solidarity Research Center to Sky Rose, All Panelists : Hi Sky 09:10:35 From Paul Gibson : Hello from Roxanne Barber and Paul Gibson, Retake Our Democracy, New Mexico. Here in Jackson today and online now. 09:10:42 From Emily Kawano to All Panelists : Greetings from Worcester MA 09:10:43 From Kali Akuno : Greetings All, thank you for joining us. Apologies for my tardiness due to technological challenges on my end. 09:10:44 From Solidarity Research Center to Paul Gibson, All Panelists : Hi Paul! 09:11:06 From Solidarity Research Center to Sam Stoker, All Panelists : Hi Sam! 09:11:13 From Emily Kawano to Solidarity Research Center (Privately) : I can see that other people logging on are showing up as me. 09:11:14 From Gabriela Garcia : Gabriela Garcia in Los Angeles, California from Libérate! Language and Healing Justice Worker Cooperative 09:11:25 From Helen Cane to All Panelists : Excited to be hear from Durham, NC! 09:11:46 From Paul Ahrens to All Panelists : Greetings from Los Angeles Union Cooperative Initiative [LUCI]. Paul Ahrens here 09:12:10 From Emily Kawano to All Panelists : audio is a bit difficult—you are muted Emily! 09:12:32 From Emily Kawano to All Panelists : Can anyone else hear? 09:13:11 From Emily Kawano to All Panelists : I can’t hear 09:13:18 From Neal Gorenflo to All Panelists : Hi everyone, this is Neal from Shareable.net. Please help yourself to a free PDF of our new book, "Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons" here: https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities 09:13:41 From jonathan chai-chang azterbaum : hi! jonathan from los angeles, with the chiapas support committee 09:14:23 From Solidarity Research Center to jonathan chai-chang azterbaum, All Panelists : Hi Jonathan! I’m also in Los Angeles! 09:14:30 From Ana Martina to All Panelists : Ana Martina based in Philly, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives 09:14:55 From Emily Kawano to All Panelists : Sorry; I can’t hear anyone 09:15:22 From Gabriela Garcia : Yvonne and Jonathan would love to connect since you all are in Los Angeles - Gabriela Libérate! 09:15:30 From Marshall Trammell : Hello! This is Marshall Trammell joining in from Kansas City. Thank you SRC and everybody for doing this good GREAT work! 09:15:44 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Hi Marshall! 09:15:59 From Yvonne Yen Liu : You can ask questions in the Q & A box 09:16:55 From Ana Martina : Ana Martina based in Philly, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives 09:17:33 From Shawn Hendrickson : I’m Shawn, from Denver Compost Collective in CO. Working on developing our new company as a worker co-op that feeds our local food system, particularly through social-justice & liberation-oriented community farms (they get free compost & other resources). The idea is to position ourselves in support of a larger ecosocialist system of exchange in the (hopefully near) future, while being grounded in radical anti-capitalist & working-class struggles. 09:19:47 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Hi Shawn! 09:19:55 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Hi Ana Martina! 09:20:46 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Hi Gabriela and Jonathan — happy to connect and build! yvonne at solidarityresearch.org 09:21:03 From Ricardo Nuñez : Buenos días, compas. Ricardo Nuñez in Oakland at Sustainable Economies Law Center. 09:21:06 From Alicia Goode-Allen to All Panelists : hi all— Alicia from Dignity and Power Now in Los Angeles 09:21:15 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Hi Ricardo, hi Alicia! 09:21:51 From Marcus Hill to Helen Cane, All Panelists : Glad to see some NC representation! Hey, from down the road in Winston-Salem. 09:22:23 From Priscilla Settee (priscilla.settee) : Priscilla Settee, I am teaching a brand new course on the social economy at the University of Saskatchewan, in the Department of Indigenous Studies, in Saskatchewan Canada, I am a Cree First Nations woman 09:23:18 From Michael Banner : Thankhs for hosting us!! 09:23:53 From Marcus Hill to Michael Banner, All Panelists : Thanks for joining! 09:26:25 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Thanks Lou for your questions. You can ask your questions in the Q & A box or in this chat window. 09:30:11 From Lou Novak : Great electoral work in the Mayor’s race 09:31:01 From Lou Novak : Happy belated b-day! 09:38:46 From Shawn Hendrickson : Would be happy to connect with CJ’s Green Team (and any other orgs) on composting, if anyone’s interested. 09:39:06 From Shawn Hendrickson : We’re currently working on “ASP” composting, a very low-labor approach that’s working great... 09:40:47 From Christian Robles : Does anyone know of a site where I could look for similar effors in Houston or Texas in general? 09:43:23 From Alexis Ortiz : http://blackyouthproject.com/the-city-of-houston-experimenting-with-land-trust-to-fight-gentrification/ 09:44:00 From Christian Robles : Ty 09:45:58 From Ricardo Nuñez : Christian: you can also connect with Austin Cooperative Business Association https://acba.coop/ and check out some of the resources for cooperatives in Texas here http://www.co-oplaw.org/statebystate/texas/. 09:46:00 From Lou Novak : where would we find pointers to SE work in our local area, Houston as Chris asks or Detroit where I am 09:46:53 From Meagan Lyle : Thank you so much! I have to hop off, but so appreciative of this webinar! 09:47:20 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Thanks Meagan! 09:49:42 From Yvonne Yen Liu : We will have a recording of the webinar available on our website http://ussen.org 09:51:04 From Andy Nash to All Panelists : Yes! Thank you! 09:51:19 From Priscilla Settee (priscilla.settee) : I could help with that curriculum stuff 09:51:45 From Yvonne Yen Liu : SRC has been developing curriculum for Asian American communities —> http://asiansolidarity.org 09:51:50 From Andy Nash to All Panelists : I would love to have a module to bring into adult education classes. 09:52:42 From Lou Novak : Climate Justice/Environmental Justice 09:53:09 From Marcus Hill : For those looking for related efforts in their areas, one resource worth looking into is the Solidarity Economy map (US-focused): http://solidarityeconomy.us/. There's also the Solidarity Economy Network listerv: https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/sen 09:53:33 From Shawn Hendrickson : ^ ^ ^ 09:58:40 From Lou Novak : thanks! 10:00:34 From Priscilla Settee (priscilla.settee) : which article did he just mention? 10:00:47 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Countering the Fabrication Divide 10:00:52 From Marshall Trammell : https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/2018/1/7/countering-the-fabrication-divide-4 10:03:44 From Kimalee Phillip to All Panelists : sorry, have to leave but thank you and will review the recording for what i missed - Kimalee from Canada/Grenada 10:04:18 From Yvonne Yen Liu to All Panelists : We have three people with questions so far. I can unmute them so they can introduce themselves and ask. 10:04:30 From Yvonne Yen Liu to All Panelists : Lou Novak, Christian Robles, and Kim Breas. 10:05:35 From Yvonne Yen Liu to All Panelists : I think we should have each three ask questions, then Kali/Emily answer. Then take another round of three questions. 10:05:44 From Marcus Hill to All Panelists : Sounds good. 10:07:03 From Ana Martina : You all can find also resources and templates in our library https://institute.coop/resource-guide 10:11:31 From Kali Akuno : How will the resources listed in this discussion be documented and distributed? I’ve seen a lot of great things, but I’m sure I missed a number of things as well and would like to have them to bring back to our organization and community. 10:12:56 From Yvonne Yen Liu : The chat and webinar will be saved. I can upload a copy of the transcript to ussen.org for access. 10:13:18 From Lou Novak : Printing co-op Great idea! 10:13:20 From Shawn Hendrickson : Regarding Lou’s question regarding tech folks supporting a solidarity economy: 10:13:22 From Shawn Hendrickson : https://www.shareable.net/blog/11-platform-cooperatives-creating-a-real-sharing-economy 10:14:24 From Lou Novak : thanks! 10:15:41 From Ana Martina : Def in LA @ WCNC will be a great place to connect with other worker coops, we also have a directory of cooperatives and democratic workplaces across the US https://usworker.coop/worker-coops-full/ 10:16:01 From Ana Martina : we are working to update the printed directory 10:17:45 From Ana Martina : We also just published the latest Report on Worker Cooperatives in the US with the data that came up from the 2017 Annual Economic Coop Census https://usworker.coop/blog/2016stateofthesector/ 10:18:19 From Lou Novak : CooperationJackson@gmail.com 10:18:29 From Lou Novak : that would be great, thanks!!! 10:19:10 From Kali Akuno : kaliakuno@gmail.com 10:19:22 From Ricardo Nuñez : Regarding working with existing owners to convert businesses to worker cooperatives, people should look at and share Democracy at Work Institute’s https://institute.coop/workers-owners-conversions and http://becomingemployeeowned.org/. 10:19:23 From Lou Novak : thanks Emily! 10:19:28 From Kali Akuno : May 1st People’s Alliance 10:20:51 From melanie bush : Mayfirst People link https://mayfirst.org/en/ 10:20:57 From Cora to All Panelists : https://fair.coop/en 10:22:10 From melanie bush : Or email and I can connect you in with the Congresses and MFPL projects 10:22:17 From melanie bush : melanie.e.l.bush@gmail.com 10:23:07 From Lou Novak : having trouble hearing question 10:23:16 From Lou Novak : much better 10:25:19 From Cora to All Panelists : This link that I posted is an attempt to build a network of alternative economic modalities globally: https://fair.coop/en 10:26:57 From Shawn Hendrickson : Regarding the anti-imperialist question (by John): Is there a way to offer that material, economic support through co-op ownership to individuals who are not legal citizens of the US? https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/is-illegal-undocumented-immigrant-start-us-business.html 10:27:39 From Shawn Hendrickson : This can be an answer to employment struggles of undocumented persons, while anchoring equity/wealth in communities that struggle to obtain it. 10:29:27 From Lou Novak : awesome! 10:29:46 From Yvonne Yen Liu : RIPESS —> http://www.ripess.org/ 10:30:27 From Paul Ahrens to All Panelists : Sorry but I must sign off at this time. There are labor union folks all across the U.S. who are working to bring unions and worker cooperatives together in productive and powerful ways. I invite everyone to the Union Coops Council session — Friday September 14, 2018 from 1 to 5 PM — at the upcoming National Conference of Worker Cooperatives in Los Angeles. Paul Ahrens, LUCI. ahrensprops@mac.com 10:31:34 From Lou Novak : Great stuff, thanks all! 10:31:39 From Marcus Hill to Shawn Hendrickson, All Panelists : Shawn, there's been some info coming around about coop structures that are more favorable to undocumented statuses. Not sure if this is exactly what you're talking about, but maybe along the lines: https://www.shareable.net/blog/forming-a-worker-coop-llc-or-cooperative-corporation 10:31:41 From Yvonne Yen Liu : Thank you!!! 10:31:54 From Ana Martina : Worker ownership is an option for people of mixed legal status, if ppl have specific question feel free to email to ana@usworker.coop 10:31:54 From Shawn Hendrickson : Great, thanks Marcus 10:31:57 From Neal Gorenflo to All Panelists : Thank you Kali, Emily and everybody. 10:32:03 From Shawn Hendrickson : and Ana 10:32:09 From Heather FW : Thank you!! 10:32:10 From Ana Martina : thank u all! 10:32:12 From Marcus Hill : Thanks, everyone! 10:32:12 From melanie bush : Thank YOU! 10:32:12 From jonathan chai-chang azterbaum : thank y’all so much!! :) 10:32:19 From Ricardo Nuñez : THANK YOU! So great to start the day with some inspiration, opening the imagination, and grounding it all in the reality of our and our ancestors lived experience! 10:32:19 From Clara dos Santos to All Panelists : Thank you! :) 10:32:22 From Len Usiskin : Thanks for an excellent and thought provoiking webinar