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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">November 10-11, 2017 / The New School, New York City</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">INFORMATION </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">The first platform cooperativism event in 2015 popularized the</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">#platformcoop idea, and the second event in 2016 brought together co-op and</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">union leaders to push the model forward. This third event will zero in on</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">ways that platform cooperatives can help to address some of the future’s</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">most urgent challenges. The fairer digital economy we need is already</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">emerging, but it won’t happen on its own. That’s where you come in.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Learn about new platform co-op projects that are shaping this emerging</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">ecosystem, from blockchain-based financing to user-owned clouds</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Reflect on research and lessons from platform co-op experiments in</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">recent years</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Confront growing challenges from artificial intelligence to global</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Join leaders from co-ops, industry, labor, and social movements—from</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Associated Press to Black Lives Matter—to raise the scale of our ambition</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Platform cooperatives are poised to be a dynamic, transformative force in</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">building a more equitable economy for people across various income, race</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">and class strata, starting with the most vulnerable populations. This is a</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">political and economic movement that can disrupt Silicon Valley’s</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">disruptors by shifting the focus toward fundamentally fairer forms of</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">ownership and governance. Over the past few years, the burgeoning of</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">platform co-ops, community currencies, worker’s tech, the solidarity</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">economy, and B Corps have shown us that alternative economies are not only</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">necessary but possible. Come help us make platform cooperativism part of</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">the new normal.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Convened by:</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Trebor Scholz, Camille Kerr, Nathan Schneider, Palak Shah</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Featuring:</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Alicia Garza / Brad Burnham / danah boyd / Joseph Blasi / Pia Mancini /</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Yochai Benkler / Juliet Schor</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">And many more: </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Sponsored by:</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Better World <a href="https://cooperativesforabetterworld.coop/">https://cooperativesforabetterworld.coop/</a>, Eugene Lang The</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">New School for Liberal Arts <a href="http://www.newschool.edu/Lang">http://www.newschool.edu/Lang</a>, Robert</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://blogs.newschool.edu/heilbroner-center/">http://blogs.newschool.edu/heilbroner-center/</a>,</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Febecoop, Unionen, Vancity, SMart, Stocksy United;</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations,</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Sharetribe, Hexalina, Freelancers Union, Institute for the Future, </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals, Shareable.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Presented by:</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">The Platform Cooperativism Consortium</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://platform.coop/consortium">https://platform.coop/consortium</a></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">REGISTER TODAY: </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Also, don’t miss:<br><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
<font color="#000000">Platform Coop 2017: Technology Afterparty (November 12, New York, NY): an</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">after-party for #platformcoop-obsessed tech developers and platform</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">designers to come together and learn from one another, connect, and</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">co-create. Register here—it’s free</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/platform-coop-2017-technology-afterparty-tickets-38513502924">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/platform-coop-2017-technology-afterparty-tickets-38513502924</a><br>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">DazzleCon '17 (November 15-17, Portland, OR) is still accepting</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">about creating a more inclusive and ethical type of funding, be sure to</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">Tenerife Colaborativa 2017 (November 23-27, Tenerife, Spain): an</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">opportunity to discover the keys that encourage economic paradigm shift and</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">to explore initiatives that lead to practice. More information and</font></p>
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