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Cooperative Action – What Does It Look Like?

We are now living in a global community whether we like it or not. As global citizens, we have a choice to either cooperate and work to change the existing system, or to build anew and create ways to disengage and divest from the non-working parts of the current system as new ones are built. While technology makes it easier to work with remote teams from around the world and to network our way to mass-cooperation effectively, but understanding how to work together is key.

Working alone, either within the system or from the outside, can be damaging to any movement as a whole. Mainstream media outlets usually portray singularly successful social activism as a freak incident, if they even cover the story at all. Right now could be the best time ever in the history of humans to create a concerted network of activism using the free tools and platforms needed for massive engagement.

A conscientiously active and networked society should include activism, networking, free software, and organized sustainable cooperative businesses. Two groups that need to become closer allies are activists, social and economic, and free software developers. When networked and cooperating, activists and free software developers can build things that are bigger than themselves. Free software projects like the GNU project, the linux kernel or Drupal come to mind. In fact the free GNU/Linux Operating System runs on a large percentage of the servers on the internet.

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