Common Knowledge

We're looking for freelance devs with aligned politics to work on some upcoming projects (TypeScript, Next.js, Python, WordPress) at £275/day.

If you're interested and available to start in the next month, email jobs@commonknowledge.coop with a short intro, relevant experience and project links.

As a cooperative made up of and working alongside organisers and activists across many movements for justice, we believe it is essential to voice our to opposition to this order. We call on our peer organisations and colleagues to do the same.

If this ban goes ahead, it will set a dangerous authoritarian precedent — one that could see people jailed for taking moral action, or even for expressing solidarity.

This is not simply an attack on Palestine Action. It is a broader attempt to criminalise dissent, intimidate activists, and attempt to impose a cooling effect on the growing movement for Palestinian liberation.

The genocidal Israeli government are facilitating the systematic killing of Palestinian men, women and children along with employing displacement and starvation tactics.

It would be a distortion of reality to consider this terrorism and draws attention away from the true perpetrators of widespread violence against innocent civilians.

Continuing this noble tradition, Palestine Action performs acts of criminal damage against property to prevent a far greater war crime: the genocide of the Palestinian people.

History shows that civil disobedience is a vital tactic in resisting genocide and oppression, and the general history of social change.

The UK government’s plan to ban Palestine Action and label its participants’ property damage as ‘terrorism’—as soon as next week—is an unprecedented and reckless attack on our fundamental right to political protest.

The Guardian view on Palestine Action: if red paint is terrorism, what isn’t? | Editorial Editorial: Labelling direct action as an act of terror criminalises dissent, chills speech and redefines nuisance as extremism under the banner of national security

Common Knowledge opposes the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Full thread below

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We just backed this excellent game!

We're now on Bluesky! Welcome to workers.coop, the UK based federation of worker-led cooperatives.

Worker cooperatives enable workers to unite and collectively advance their economic, social, and cultural interests.

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Thank you @shannonmattern.bsky.social, we are big fans of your work too!

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See you in 2025!

Publishing an essay for the 2024 By Design and by Disaster Conference on the theme Power in Transformation: commonknowledge.coop/writing/a-mo...

NEON We offer hands-on support and training for campaigners, organisers, communications and operations teams working across social movements.

Alex joining the board of www.neweconomyorganisers.org, which accelerates social movements through training, communications, and infrastructure support, & @gemmacopeland.bsky.social joining the board of directors of workers.coop, a member-led federation of worker co-ops in the UK.

Pelican House – We are a social centre for worker organising, movement building and experimental arts in London. We are a social centre for worker organising, movement building and experimental arts in London.

Launching Pelican House's new website: pelicanhouse.org

The carbon dashboard, showing visualisations of emissions within the calculator UI

Working with goodpraxis.coop to launch a new version of the Gallery Climate Coalition’s Carbon Calculator tool: measure.galleryclimatecoalition.org

Some of the CK team presenting our work at Tech Transformed.

Travelling to different events where we could learn from organisers about what’s happening on the ground, share our latest thinking around building common movement infrastructure, and run training sessions on topics like holistic security for climate activists.

Mapped by Common Knowledge

Launching mapped.tools, our open source toolkit for collective organising, and using it to power the Climate Coalition's peopleclimatenature.co.uk hub during the 2024 UK General Election.

Thank you to everyone who worked with us or supported us this year.

Here's our non-exhaustive list of highlights from 2024!

We’re supporting @Troublem8kers on 5 October at Central Hall, Manchester. Join us if you want to ⤵️
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🔁Change something about your work
💪Start a union at work
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Excited to begin a new project with https://www.colabdudley.net and https://www.dudleycreates.net yesterday! We're co-designing a digital archive for the Dudley People's School for Climate Justice.