<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">ChiCommons LWCA</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:inquiries@chicommons.coop">inquiries@chicommons.coop</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:24 AM<br>Subject: News from ChiCommons<br>To: <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<span style="font-size:20px"><em>To cooperatively foster and grow a people-owned solidarity economy </em></span></span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" id="m_-8657656942068932350docs-internal-guid-8f112a90-7fff-7075-842a-af26e60ddd78" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#000000;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In November of 2018, at a Community Technology event sponsored in partnership with Chi Hack Night and the Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network, a participant in one of the breakout sessions raised a question. "I grew too many tomatoes and want to tell my neighbors I have extra tomatoes to share. How would I go about doing that?" This question formed the catalyst for what has now become Chicommons and within it the concept for Blockshare and our other sharing platforms. </span></span></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#000000;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Since then, we have been building ChiCommons, a Limited Worker Cooperative Association. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As the title of the famous book about the Spanish Mondragon Cooperative states, “We build the road as we travel.” You’re getting this email because you’ve attended one of our breakout groups at Chi Hack Night, requested more information from one of our members, or are associated with the cooperative/solidarity sector in Chicago. You, along with us, are building the road as we travel. </span></span></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" id="m_-8657656942068932350docs-internal-guid-caaf5a62-7fff-6bad-c673-cc8591f94462" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#000000;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Welcome to our second edition of the Chicommons Newsletter. While things always seem to move slowly in the midst of the work, looking backwards reveals significant progress.</span></span></span></p>
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