yesterday i met with the girls who are working on creating a bike cooperative in berlin.  the economic and governmental structures are different, which means different things for the way they will collect money and how they may or may not register themselves, but the principles, values, philosophies, and politics, as well as the decision making processes and concerns about privilege and power 
<br>reflect what i think a lot of us are more or less experiencing (not that i can speak for everyone, but i think it is a reasonable generalization).&nbsp; it was really great to share with them, and i am trying to convince them to come to bikebike.&nbsp; also, there is a european bikebike kind of thing happening this spring in italy i think.
<br><br>it seems that what is helpful to people i meet who want to know about sopo is to tell the whole story of how things happened (and i know that my version of the story is different from that of the other organizers), so i am thinking about writing my version down and maybe collecting the stories of others and then assembling it into a zine or some other publication.&nbsp; anyone got friends at ak press?&nbsp; haha.
<br><br>anyway.. i just wanted to share that we are everywhere, doing good, and making the world a better place.&nbsp; hooray!<br><br>two wheels good,<br>rachael<br>