Visions Unite

• No forced displacement of houseless people in Minneapolis

  We are working to secure the bare minimum of human dignity in Minneapolis, Minnesota that anyone who is unhoused be treated as an equal and leaving a location be based on negotiation—such as a key to stable housing handed over—rather than intimidation and violence or the threat of violence, which is the current norm happening near daily.
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• Meta

  Discussions about Visions Unite. Also can use this group for testing things. Ultimately, stuff that needs to get fixed or improved or created should [be posted as an issue](https://gitlab.com/pwgd/visionsunite/-/issues/)
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• Privacy Preservationists

  People passionately protecting parameters pertaining to privacy.
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• Cooperative Standards

  Anyone can call themselves a coop. They can even apply to domains.coop, the TLD authority for a .coop url. Domains.coop does vet them, but in a minimalist fashion, that is relatively easily gamed. Improving the brand of cooperatives would benefit from a stronger vetting process. Here's a vision for a stronger cooperative/solidarity identity: 1. Develop a survey for .coop url registrants that asks them to 'prove' they are a cooperative by answering questions about how they apply each of the 7 Cooperative Principles. These would be 'graded' and require a minimum score to receive the .coop url. 2. The scores and original answers would be made publically available. 3. To start this process, because it will take some time and study to understand how to 'grade' the answers in a fashion that is clear to all. So the proposal is to introduce this as a voluntary exercise, perhaps at identity.coop or a federation of cooperative mapping organizations. 4. This idea was thought through from a cooperative perspective, but could easily be adapted to a solidarity perspective by applying The RIPESS Charter [16] of the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy 11 core values.
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