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Hello! Our HUMANs 2018 Annual General Membership Meeting was a smashing success, resulting in some deeper common understandings of where we are in our collective and individual site work, a new currency design and policy, and a great new Board of Directors. Here are our notes, taken collectively and still in progress. Here are the…
Hello HUMANs, Please mark your calendars for the HUMANs Annual General Membership Meeting! It’s a 2-parter, but if you can only make one be there on Saturday for the Board election. Friday September 14, 2-4pm CDT HUMAN Economy design – discussion and vote. We’ll have a few proposals for how we approach our use of…
Hello mutualistas, I realize I haven’t posted here for quite a while and thought I should say hello, and let you know why. The positive: There’s just a lot happening on the ground, complicated things to work through in order to make our projects happen. Quite amazing things! But we have to lay solid groundwork…
Hello all, As you know if you’ve been keeping up with these posts, the HUMANs and the Mutual Aid Network Cooperative project in general have been operating without a regular funding source since Feb. 2017. One whole year! Which means that no one working on this receives any kind of salary or life subsidy, which…
Friday, February 16, 2018 on A Public Affair with Guest Host Rebecca Kemble – Reclaiming the Commons. Substitute host Rebecca Kemble explores the idea of “the commons,” a type of model in which resources are managed and accessible to all members of a community. She is joined by Stephanie Rearick, founder of Madison’s Mutual Aid…
appy new year! (yeah, I know it’s a bit late but this too-long post took too-long to write! but you can take too-long to read it, there’s plenty of good stuff to be found) I’m excited to see what big developments 2018 will bring, and expect that we’ll have some happy ones in MAN-land. There’s…
Hello, We’ll be hosting a little Mutual Aid Network orientation and tech plans discussion on Tuesday January 16 at 10am CST. Same web meeting we always use. Here’s a podcast that the meeting organizer, Lisha Sterling of Geeks Without Bounds (thanks Lisha!!), recorded. To give you some background. Here’s the event page where you can…
Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks hosted a skillshare and work sprint summit in Madison WI February 17-20, 2017. This is the invitation and schedule, to give you a sense of what it was all about. A more thorough written report may or may not be forthcoming, but here are some pictures and some notes…
Hello! If you haven’t yet, please go ahead and join the HUMANs global cooperative network. Then get oriented at our next Friday office hours. Next week (Dec. 15) we’ll host them from 2-4CDT. Web meeting access instructions are here (and you can always find them at our website under the ‘resources’ tab.) This session will…
Hello! If you haven’t yet, please go ahead and join the HUMANs global cooperative network. Then get oriented at Friday’s office hours. This week (Nov. 10) we’ll host them from 12-2 CST, and then will look at ways to meet a variety of schedules. At our regular web meeting. The initial session will be open…