Shaping SF Public Talk: Platform Cooperatives | Mission Dist.
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Eric Quezada Center | 518 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
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More lives are being tightly integrated through the commercial social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, private corporations that are monetizing the enormous creative and cooperative activity that takes place there.
A movement among tech workers and cooperative activists to create real alternatives through building self-managed platform cooperatives is taking shape. Yes, Virginia, there is an alternative.
Shaping SF Public Talk: Platform Cooperatives
Wednesday, May 9, 2018 | 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, 518 Valencia St, San Francisco
FREE. Donations accepted.The micro-rental economy masquerading as “sharing” is unmasked, and another way forward is explored. Neal Gorenflo of Shareable.net and Melissa Hoover, director of the Democracy at Work Institute (and other TBA).
These talks are meant:
- as an antidote to historical amnesia,
- to change the climate of critical discussion in SF, and
- as a place to meet and talk unmediated by corporations, official spokespeople, religion, political parties, or dogma.
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE*
