HUMANs Solidarity Summit from SJC this weekend + Supper Club Monday and beyond!

picture of summit schedule

Hello friends!

 

Our HUMANs December Solidarity Summit is coming right up - this Saturday and Sunday Dec. 14-15. In case you don't already know, the HUMANs are the global cooperative network that we helped to instigate, and are still HQ for.
 


 

We'll be hosting from our home base at the Social Justice Center conference room! Join us in person if you like, beginning 1/2 hour before the summit starts each day.


 

Bring a snack or drink to share if you like, or just come and enjoy. More summit details below, but first -


 

Mutual Aid Supper Club #3 is Monday December 16, 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Center 953 Jenifer.

Come for part or all of it! You don't have to cook to eat, you're more than welcome to just drop in for food.

3:30-4: Bring ingredients if you have some. We'll make a Stone Soup-style menu
4-5: Some of us will cook, others are welcome to just chat or to participate in a Peace Practice demo, where we show how we do our group learning journey toward making peaceful communities

5-6: Eat together, chat

6-6:30: Clean up, pack up leftover food
 

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And now, onto the HUMANs summit details and links: 
 

 

The agenda is available (click 'agenda' at the event page) and I'll also paste the current schedule in this email. Be sure to look at the event page too, in case any last-minute changes happen, which we'll do our best to keep at a minimum.


Important summit links:

Summit Registration link (agenda and other links can be found there)
 

 

Here are the events on social media, to make it easy for you to invite your friends and networks:

 

 

Links to take action during and after the summit:

 

 

Schedule at a glance (check time zone converter!) 
 

  • Saturday 12/14

    • 10am CST Getting to Know Each Other: HUMANs and summit overview, brief intros (1/2-2 minutes) of projects present, brief conversation on offers/needs/synergies
       

    • 11:30am CST Go Deeper: Deeper conversations about projects and synergies, with possible breakout rooms. 
       

    • 1pm CST Econet Action Plan: Call for Action! Learn more about Econet and how you can take action. www.e-c-o.net is an online community of citizen scientists who work together as both ecological thinkers and ecological practitioners

  • Sunday 12/15

    • 11am CST The Art of Onboarding a Coherent Whole with Tony Budak explores how to foster group commitment
       

    • 12:30-1pm BREAK or open conversation on Zoom
       

    • 1pm CST Technicollab Dreams: Software developers and mutual aid geeks come together to see how we can collaborate to create a tech ecosystem that works to realize our dreams. Beginners may feel overwhelmed but are welcome - the conversation is geared toward practitioners moving forward.
       

    • 2:30pm CST Highlights and Action Steps: We'll see how we can take action to move our individual and collective work forward via mutual aid. Those who want to check out timebanks.org's Chat on the Bench will be invited to do so.
       


We hope to see you! Please share the invitation with your friends.


 

Solidarity Summit and Supper Club, coming up soon!

Solidarity Summit schedule 12/14 9:30am-2:30pm; 12/15 10:30am-4pm

We have an exciting few days of mutual aid celebrations coming up. 

 

The weekend of December 14-15 we'll host the HUMANs global Solidarity Summit from right here in Madison, at the Social Justice Center conference room 1202 Williamson. We'll bring a few treats, feel free to bring some to share or just come enjoy.

Saturday 9:30am-2:30pm and Sunday 10:30am-4pm. 

Details and registration here.

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Mutual Aid Supper Club Monday December 16, 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Neighborhood Center 953 Jenifer St. 

Bring a friend! 

Pop in anytime - you're welcome to drop in for a quick bite or to stay and visit the whole time. 
 

We make menus based on what's available, cook together, share a meal from 5-6, then package some food to go and clean up.

 

On Dec. 16 from 4-5 we'll offer a Peace Practice demo for those who want to do that while others do the cooking (not everyone needs to cook!). Join in as we show how our regular Peace Practice sessions work, a simple learning circle devoted to creating peace. 

 

You don't have to help out to eat, but you're welcome to! And you'll earn MAN hours for your time.
 

How would you like to help? 

•Plan menus •Cook •Set up •Clean up •Provide ingredients •Give money 

•Teach- Food safety, Cooking, Nutrition, Other
 

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And don't forget to add and reply to offers and wants at our website!

Mutual Aid Supper Club Monday Dec. 16, 3:30-6:30! Come for any part of it

supper club 12/16/24 3:30-6:30pm at the wilmar center
Monday December 16, 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Neighborhood Center 953 Jenifer St. Bring a friend! Pop in anytime - you're welcome to drop in for a quick bite or to stay and visit the whole time. We make menus based on what's available, cook together, share a meal from 5-6, then package some food to go and clean up. How would you like to help? On Dec. 16 from 4-5 we'll offer a Peace Practice demo for those who want to do that while others do the cooking (not everyone needs to cook!). Join in as we show how our regular Peace Practice sessions work, a simple learning circle devoted to creating peace. How would you like to help? •Plan menus •Cook •Set up •Clean up •Provide ingredients •Give money •Teach- Food safety, Cooking, Nutrition, Other The Madison MAN (Mutual Aid Network) Cooperative is the new home of timebanking in Madison. Earn MAN hours for your time, share and exchange with your neighbors, and help (re)build our local solidarity economy! We'll host Supper Club the 3rd Monday each month through 2024, and aim to increase to weekly in 2025.

Madison MAN Cooperative

Welcome to the website of the Madison Mutual Aid Network Cooperative!

Find and make exchanges - using timebanking, sharing, mutual credit, the Common Good debit card, or whatever works for you, as long as it fits within our core principles.

MAN Gears diagram
The cooperative structure is the circle around us. As members of this cooperative, each of us has a say in governance and a stake in ownership. The economic tools, on the + axis, are how we support ourselves and our projects. The social tools, on the x axis, are how we learn to organize ourselves to do our work and create lively humanhoods for ourselves and our communities. The MAN in the middle is how we organize the whole cooperative to move these pieces in concert. 

Timebanking is our primary way to exchange, and we encourage you to give it a try! Every hour you spend helping another member earns you one hour's worth of credit - a 'MAN hour' (or human hour if you prefer!). You can use that credit for an hour of anyone else's time. Everyone's time is valued equally and we don't put a monetary price on our time. You can also spend before you earn if you need to. We expect everyone to engage in reciprocity, while we understand that sometimes in life we have more needs and other times we have more to offer.

Here is a 25-minute video overview of our version of Mutual Aid Networks (more informal what+why), plus a one-hour HOME Economics 101 video - an overview of the cooperative economic practices we're connecting and the tech tools we're using to support those.

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The Madison Mutual Aid Network (MAN) is a new type of networked cooperative, designed to create means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community.

Based in Madison Wisconsin, Madison MAN Cooperative members engage in mutually beneficial sharing and exchange, in service to equitable and sustainable communities, and embodying the following practices:

  • Reciprocity
  • Democratic member control and economic participation
  • Voluntary and open membership
  • Mutual aid among mutual aid networks
  • Transparent, open, and accessible processes

Projects range from collaborative gardening and community peace practice (ongoing) to working toward a mesh wireless network (dream stage). Learn more here, and sign up for what interests you or suggest your own!

Common Funds

We're developing shared savings pools to provide investment funding for each other's projects and needs, and emergency funds for neighbors in need.

Common Shared Resources

These can include shared meeting spaces, tool and expertise libraries, exchange platforms, and vehicles for cooperative ownership of the things we need, but don't use often or can't afford alone.

Our local home base is in Madison's Social Justice Center, which itself hosts free food, a community pantry for food, books, and other items, and a shared stock of supplies for community events (tables, chairs, dishes, sound system) - plus an art gallery maintained by founding Madison MAN members 608 Arts.

You can access our local exchange system by joining the Madison MAN Cooperative if you haven't already, and setting up or logging into your account here, on the lower left-hand corner of this page. Exchange or share time, stuff, price-based mutual credit, even regular old bank money!

But wait, that's not all!  The Madison MAN Cooperative is equally devoted to

Building Community

Regular social events for new and existing members, workshops to learn about and create the economy we want, free food and childcare for members and guests, and expert project assistance. Calendar here

and

Global Solidarity and Shared Learning

The Madison MAN Cooperative is a founding member and home base of Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks (HUMANs), a global cooperative network designed for mutual learning and support in service to building a neighborly global economy.

In turn the HUMANs are an active partner in an even larger cooperative that's creating and implementing tech and peer support tools for mutual aid. That's our tech HOME and we'd be happy to share it with you.

Click here for more on each of our economic tools.

Support our coop with a donation! Or pay your member dues if you haven't yet this year :)

 

 

Mutual Aid Supper Club launches Monday October 21!! 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Center

mutual aid supper club 10/21/24, 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar 953 Jenifer St.

We're excited to host our first Mutual Aid Supper Club on Monday, October 21st. 

This is the old Dane County TimeBank's birthday so we'll just continue the tradition of birthing stuff around that time. 

Mutual Aid Supper Club on Monday, October 21st, 3:30-6:30pm at the WilMar Neighborhood Center, 953 Jenifer St. 

We'll have a brief general membership meeting during the event, and elect our Board and give you all a brief update on what's up and how you can be involved. 

But mainly, we'll plan a menu based on the ingredients we have, we'll cook together, share a meal, then pack any leftovers to-go and make them available to our members for their MAN hours or other credits. Fun! 

We'll also make plans for other activities we want to do during our time together. 

We'll start with monthly Supper Clubs through the rest of 2024, then hopefully build the capacity we need to go weekly. You can help!!

Join the Madison MAN

As a Madison MAN Cooperative Member you are part of local, national, and global networks of people and organizations applying principles of mutual aid and smart resource sharing to build healthy, equitable, regenerative, and beautiful communities.

The Madison MAN holds regular social and workshop events to put you together with a diversity of people, talents, and organizations in Dane County, and beyond, who share a desire to build a sustainable economy.

You are welcome to join weekly Madison MAN planning meetings, where agenda ranges from planning our next social to defining how our savings pools will work, to discovering new ways to help our neighbors here and around the world.

The Madison MAN is a Mutual Aid Network Cooperative and adheres to the Core Principles of the Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks (HUMANs) global cooperative network. Madison MAN members are individuals and organizations who engage in mutually beneficial sharing and exchange, in service to equitable and sustainable communities, and embodying the following practices:

  • Reciprocity
  • Democratic member control and economic participation
  • Voluntary and open membership
  • Mutual aid among mutual aid networks
  • Transparent, open, and accessible processes

Note: At this time, the Madison MAN needs an email address to sign you up online. If you don't have or cannot provide an email address, that's OK. Please contact us by phone or come to one of our regular events to discuss membership.

Check out our member agreement here.

Create your account!

SJC Jubilee Saturday October 5, 4-9pm. Come for fun, or offer to help out!

the lineup for SJC Jubilee

Saturday October 5 is the SJC Jubilee, a yearly party and fundraiser for our home base The Social Justice Center. 

With food, drinks, raffle, games, art, music, and activism the whole time. 

The first hour or so will be an open mic - feel free to play some music, do some poetry or comedy, whatever you like to do. 

Then the Flower Buds, Ladyscissors, and Def Sonic play between 5 and 9. There are lots of fun volunteer slots available, and you can earn MAN hours for your time!

How You Can Help:
We’re looking for volunteers to assist with various tasks throughout the event. Whether it’s setting up, greeting guests, or helping with activities, there’s something for everyone!

Please take a moment to fill out our Volunteer Availability Page here. Feel free to share with your friends and community as well. I will confirm volunteer slots a few days before the event.

Remember, it's a fundraiser! Please give generously to help keep the SJC affordable and accessible, and share the info with your friends to encourage them to give, too. Abundance through cooperation!

Hope to see you soon
 

Our website is being upgraded, thanks for your patience!

We're working on improving all of our web functions and appearance. Meanwhile, it's like construction or deep cleaning, where you have to make a bit of a mess before you put it back together better. This is the mess time. We'll get it cleaned up and improved as quickly as possible. You can help! If you have design or writing skills, or constructive suggestions about how to improve your own experience, we'll offer you MAN hours for your time helping. Reply to our wants or just get in touch at info@madisonman.coop. Thanks!

About

 

The Madison MAN Cooperative is a ch. 185 cooperative incorporated in Wisconsin. We're the founding sister site of Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks (HUMANs) global cooperative network. 

 

 

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