Dear colleagues, friends and supporters, 

We hope all is well with you. We are writing today to announce that we are publicly launching the first version of our DisCO Manifesto. 

You are receiving this email because you contributed to this document, or expressed an interest in reading it. As a reminder, DisCO stands for Distributed Cooperative Organization. We see a DisCO as a way for people to work and create value together that's cooperative, creates commons and is based on feminist economic principles. Most of all, they're a more human yet also radical alternative to the DAO, or Decentralized Autonomous Organization, which has different priorities and potential outcomes, to say the least.

Want to find out more? Then check out The DisCO Manifesto.

Download here

If I Only Had a Heart: a DisCO Manifesto is our deep dive into the worlds of the blockchain, commons, cooperatives, AI, feminist economics and so much more! It's 80 pages long, adorned with amazing images, and will take you about an hour to read straight through. We hope that the text is engaging, lively and easy to read.

You can download the manifesto on PDF from this page (more versions coming soon), or you can read our press release here.

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Co-published with the Transnational Institute (TNI), the Manifesto is the culmination of our work with the P2P Foundation, Commons Transition, Guerrilla Translation and Guerrilla Media Collective groups. It extends concepts such as Platform and Open Cooperativism into new, exciting areas. 

We want to reach everyone who could benefit from these ideas, will you help us out? We invite you to:

• Resend this email to anyone who you think will be interested

• Share any of the links above in Social Media

• Recommended hashtags: #DiscoCoop, #coops, #platformcoop, #feminism, #commons, #p2p, #blockchain, #DAOs

• Contact us at hello@disco.coop or reply to this email to share your feedback or ideas with us.

DisCO Live!

Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel, Ruth Catlow and other members of the DisCO team will be at several events talking about the manifesto in the coming months. The next events include:

• Friday, November 15th, Amsterdam, Holland: Beyond the Blokechain: The CryptoFeminist Agenda

• Monday, November 18th, Boulder, Colorado: MEDLab University of Colorado Boulder

• Thursday, November 21st, San Francisco, California: The Red Victorian

• Monday, December 2nd, New York, NY: Civic Hall

More resources

To learn more you can read:

• You Say Decentralized, I Say Potato: The DisCO Manifesto is live and ready to download (Press release)

• Last Night a Distributed Cooperative Organization Saved My Life (A short overview of the DisCO Manifesto)

• Rage Against the Machine and Science Friction (Video presentation and podcast)

• The DisCO Manifesto review (In-depth review with extracts)

Thanks for your support! Follow more developments at DisCO.coop

Stacco, Ann Marie and the rest of the DisCO and Guerrilla Media Collective teams.