[P2P-F] Fwd: OURS TO HACK AND TO OWN is now available for pre-order

Sat Aug 20 12:21:17 CEST 2016

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From: Trebor Scholz <scholzt at newschool.edu>
Date: Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 4:28 AM
Subject: OURS TO HACK AND TO OWN is now available for pre-order
To: Trebor Scholz <scholzt at newschool.edu>

Dear friends, colleagues, cooperators, allies,

Our platform cooperativism manifesto's time has nearly come; you have all
worked hard on your chapters and we are very pleased with the result.

The book is not yet available yet, but now, nine months after the Platform
Cooperativism event, readers can preorder it here
<http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/ours-to-hack-and-to-own/>. Copies will be
available by October—perhaps a bit before. As soon as we can, we'll be in
touch about getting you your complimentary copies.

At this point, we would like to ask all of you to post the link for the OR
Books pre-order page to your social media accounts: http://www.orbooks.
com/catalog/ours-to-hack-and-to-own/

And if you can think of possible reviewers whom we could send a review
copy, please add their names on this document
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aTMxgkaP5Bx5eqVrlSdLFKe19rSk7yXH9myjinC0RX0/edit>
so
that we can follow up with them.

We have discussed matters of rights and copyright with several of you. Our
publisher, OR Books, will retain copyright over the book as a whole in
support of their monopoly-challenging business model. However, all
contributors retain the rights to republish their contributions under
whatever license they like. We encourage you to do so, especially if you
also provide a link to where interested readers can buy the book as a whole.

Finally, Trebor will convene the next conference
<http://platformcoop.net/2016>at The New School and Civic Hall, November
11th-13th and we hope to see you there.

In solidarity,
Trebor & Nathan

*Platform Cooperativism:*
*Building the Cooperative Internet*
Nov 11-13, 2016

Almost unnoticed, in the gaps and hollows of the digital economy, a new
economy is emerging that follows a different ethical and financial logic.
Platform cooperativism, as it has come to be called, is an emerging
movement for democratic governance and collective ownership on the Internet
and a fairer future of work. It is a concrete, near future alternative to
the on-demand economy; it reclaims humane principles like mutuality,
sympathy, and solidarity by bringing together the rich heritage of
cooperativism with 21st-century technologies.

The pieces are coming into place. Freelancers are forming cooperatives to
find clients and pool insurance through platforms of their own. Uber
drivers are leaving the mothership, organizing in co-ops, and designing
their own taxi apps. Photographers are offering their work for fair prices
on a platform where they're in charge, and journalists are crowdfunding
news portals co-owned with their audiences. New decentralized networks are
enabling people to share their data with each other without relying on a
corporate cloud. Contrary to the rules of the dominant algorithmic
gatekeepers, platform cooperativism puts the online economic infrastructure
into the hands of the people who depend on it most.

The cooperative platform economy can become one of the counterforces to the
defects of the on-demand economy. It is a strategy for reversing wealth
inequality, gender inequity, environmental degradation, and systemic racial
injustice. The experiments now already underway show that a global
ecosystem of cooperatives can stand against the concentration of wealth and
the insecurity of workers that yields Silicon Valley's winner-takes-all
economy. They show that the Internet can be owned and governed differently.

Since the “Platform Cooperativism: The Internet, Ownership, Democracy”
event in November 2015 at The New School, conferences and community
meetings about the cooperative platform economy have taken place in Berlin,
New York City, Florence, Bologna, Weimar, Melbourne, London, Brussels,
Boston, Budapest, and Philadelphia. A new book, Ours to Hack and to Own,
gathers many of the rationales and experiments that are driving the
movement forward. The Platform Cooperativism Consortium will launch at this
event, creating a global network of institutions to support this eco system
of businesses. The vision is spreading. A year later, we need to keep the
momentum building and continue forging the critical connections necessary
to make this vision even more a reality.

On November 11-13, 2016, “Platform Cooperativism: Building The Cooperative
Internet” will take place at The New School and Civic Hall in New York City.

   - On Day 1, we will bring together an international group of
   policymakers to discuss regulation and investment in alternative models. In
   the afternoon, we’ll think through the legal and design implications of the
   cooperative platform economy.

   - On Day 2, discussions will focus on global opportunities for
   convergence among worker resistance, unions, and cooperatives. How can
   online co-ops meet some of the platform economy's challenges that the labor
   movement has struggled with?

   - On Sunday, Day 3 an unconference co-sponsored and hosted by our
   partner Civic Hall will allow for an open stream of project proposals for
   the platform co-op space.

Building the basis for a popular movement in support of a fairer
cooperative digital economy requires countless people, projects, inventive
organizations, publications, and events around the world. “Platform
Cooperativism: Building The Cooperative Internet” will be part of this
effort. Join us online and in person.

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