Tales of a DisCO, Straight from the Dancefloor
DisCOs are a commons-oriented, feminist, cooperative way for people to work together. Find out how we use them in Guerrilla Translation.
New Economy
“Economics is not just about money; it’s about our holistic well-being as a planet”
“How a person lives and interacts with others and with nature is called ubuntu. This indigenous knowledge reminds us that we are humans thanks to mother nature. She belongs to us and we belong to her. But we have forgotten who we are and that we have a deep connection to nature.”
You Say Decentralized, I Say Potato: The DisCO Manifesto is live and ready to download
DisCO stands for Distributed Cooperative Organization, a way for people to work and create value together that’s cooperative, creates commons and is based on feminist economic principles.
Let Me Handbook That For You: A User’s Guide To Open Value Cooperativism
The GT Handbook is a document that welcomes the reader into the world of Guerrilla Translation with a narrative, colourful approach. It is aimed at those who have joined or are interested in joining the collective, are researching our model or have an interest in a practical understanding of Open Value Cooperativism and/or Distributed Cooperative Organizations (DisCOs).
Rage Against the Machine and Science Friction: a video introduction to DisCOs
A keynote presentation on DisCOs. DisCO stands for “Distributed Cooperative Organization” and it’s a friendly, yet challenging, critique of DisCOs older cousin, the Decentralised Autonomous Organization or DAO.
Feminism and the Social Solidarity Economy: a Short Call to Action
Read our translation of Marian Diaz’s impassioned closing speech at the recent convergence meeting of the World Social Forum for Transformative Economies.
A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy
The Social and Solidarity Economy is a way of living that protects the integrity of people and subordinates the economy to its true end: to sustainably provide the material bases for the personal, social and environmental development of humanity.
The Open Coop Governance Model in Guerrilla Translation: an Overview
Guerrilla Translation’s governance/economic model is unique in that it incorporates Open Cooperativism, Contributive Accounting and Feminist Economics.
Punk Elegance: How Guerrilla Translation reimagined itself for Open Cooperativism
Read how Guerrilla Translation and its extended family reimagined itself as care-oriented Distributed Cooperative Organization (DCO).
Financial Crisis Or Monetary Crisis?
Spanish economist, author and complementary currency activist Susana Martín Belmonte exposes the false assumption that has led to a fundamentally misguided diagnosis of the current financial crisis; the false assumption being that money needs to exist before it can be lent, when exactly the opposite is true.