LONG LIVE WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY. LONG LIVE WORKER POWER.
#Coopalooza was a week of events held the last week of September 2021, exploring our vision to redistribute wealth and power and dismantle the oppressive dominant economic system by creating more worker controlled enterprises. Nearly 300 people came to our events; we hosted over a dozen partners, collaborators, and panelists; and we grew our imagination as to what a world where work is governed and controlled by workers might look like.
#Coopalooza Event Resources
You’re (not) the boss of me
“I don’t challenge hierarchy so much as I challenge consolidated power.” Liz, Co-Executive Director of @CP_change #Coopalooza
— TheSELC (@TheSELC) September 28, 2021
“One of our community agreements at @OAKCDP is ‘Step up, Step up.’ We need people to step up into leadership and to step up to take ownership of what's going on.⁰” - Shawn McDougal, Community Democracy Project #Coopalooza
— TheSELC (@TheSELC) September 28, 2021
Immigrant Rights and Worker Cooperatives
➡️ Event Recording
➡️ PRESENTATION: Worker Coops: A great option for undocumented entrepreneurs
➡️ GUIDE: Tu Negocio Cooperativa Manual
"How do we empower workers in the movement? Placing the worker in the center of the decision making process is what really empowers workers.” - Flequer Vera @CoopCincy #Coopalooza
"A lot of the immigrants in our country are already surviving through informal cooperative practices. It’s part of what allows immigrants to survive and thrive in a country that isn’t set up for immigrants to do that." - Itzel Nuño #Coopalooza
How to Pay Ourselves Equitably
➡️ Event Recording
➡️ Sample Salary Calculator
➡️ Presentation Slide Deck
➡️ GUIDE: Setting pay in a worker self-directed nonprofit
3/3 “Our hope is that reparations within our organization will directly or indirectly touch the larger communities that bear the brunt of historical and justices and systemic oppression.⁰” Alejandra Cruz #Coopalooza
Interdependence: Worker Coop Advocacy & Movements for Environment, Immigrant Rights, RJ, & Unions
➡️ Event Recording
➡️ POLICY: Law Center Worker Co-op Advocacy
“There’s no racial justice without abolishing prisons… which will take a slow deliberative process of expanding economic democracy so that communities are capable of envisioning a world where we don’t have to call the police.” - @Estebantitos of @USFWC/@AORTACoop #Coopalooza
— TheSELC (@TheSELC) September 30, 2021
