Mass effect

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The concept of the solidarity economy is supporting and only buying from flat, participatory economies. A collective is based on any participation without hierarchies, a cooperative is member participation without hierarchies. Since the means to exist (land, water, etc.) should be equal to all, collectives are usually spaces without hierarchy. Meanwhile, the forming of products, as a means to survive are usually cooperative decisions by those producing the product (workers).

The concept of a mass effect is comparable to a mass line, except a mass line is the formation of organizations in protest or opposition to another organization (business, state, etc.). A mass effect are collectives and cooperatives coming together to share or exchange their resources in their own participatory compacts. A collective event for cooperatives and collectives to form their own compacts. These compacts are non-binding areas of interest or participation.

File:Mass-effect.jpg the collective cooperative economy


Bay Area Cooperatives & Collectives

The plus sign below indicates the number of contacts (+), compacts are indicated too.

Education

  • Bay Area Public School (BAPS) (omni compact)

Law

Hacker / Maker

  • Sudo
  • Noisebridge
  • Liberating Ourselves Locally (LOL)
  • sol space
  • Open Oakland
  • Solar Cooperative

Biology

  • Counter Culture Labs (omni compact)

Art

  • Rock Paper Scissors
  • Needles and Pens
  • 924 Gilman
  • The Crucible
  • Free Montgomery
  • Salta
  • Oakland Nights Live (omni compact)

Health

  • Vegan Coop + (omni compact)
  • People's Kitchen
  • Arizmendi ++
  • RAD brains +
  • Mandela Food Cooperative
  • Phat Beets
  • Food Not Bombs

Unions

Press

  • AK press
  • Black cart
  • Timeless Infinite Light (omni compact)

Transportation

Government

  • Community Democracy Project
  • Cop Watch
  • Corp watch
  • Poor magazine

Misc