{"id":4564,"date":"2017-09-25T17:09:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T21:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2017-10-02T17:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:11:48","slug":"the-peoples-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2017\/09\/the-peoples-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"The People’s Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Want to help bring democracy to the internet? On the heels of the successful platform co-op conference in Toronto<\/a>, I’m now working with a mighty team of collaborators to organize November’s conference in New York, The People’s Disruption<\/a>. It’s all about connecting the resources of the present with ambitious visions of a cooperative future online, featuring speakers from #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Alicia Garza to venture capitalist Brad Burnham. I hope you can join us! Space isn’t infinite! Register today<\/a><\/strong> (and retweet this<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Over the summer I had the chance to join the MBA program at St. Mary’s University<\/a> in Canada for a tour of the co-op sector in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. There was plenty to write home about, and I put it together in a dispatch for America<\/em> magazine, which will appear in the next print issue. Read it and share it<\/a> online now<\/strong>: “How Communists and Catholics Built a Commonwealth<\/a>.”<\/p>\n It’s both a report from the field and a reflection on why, as we build a new economy, we should look to our past.<\/p>\n I’ve also been writing about stuff like how we can democratize ISPs<\/a> and the little churches of St. Francis<\/a>. I turned in a book draft, too! And then there are some live events coming up:<\/p>\n Thank you for reading, thank you for what you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Want to help bring democracy to the internet? On the heels of the successful platform co-op conference in Toronto, I’m now working with a mighty team of collaborators to organize November’s conference in New York, The People’s Disruption. It’s all about connecting the resources of the present with ambitious visions of a cooperative future online, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,31,69],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-new-york-city","tag-utopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Communists and Catholics<\/h2>\n
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