solidarity economy
How to Map the Solidarity Economy in Your City
Submitted by miraluna on Wed, 03/13/2013 - 5:36pmYou can create a powerful tool to organize the new economy in your community in just a few hours using this "how-to map" guide.
Reading considers co-ops to boost economy
Submitted by emilykawano on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 10:35pm
Officials held a meeting last week to talk about worker cooperatives.
By Don Spatz
Reading Eagle
Some two dozen city officials and others met for three hours Friday to address one question: How can Reading foster creation of worker-owned cooperatives as part of an urgent effort to turn around the economy.
“This can be another approach in the toolbox as we try to invigorate the economy,” said Eron Lloyd, special assistant to Mayor Vaughn D. Spencer.
Lloyd spoke to an audience of business leaders, union representatives and consultants meeting at United Community Services on Hiesters Lane.
And the stakes are high, said Lawrence P. Murin, also a special assistant to the mayor.
“If we fail, the consequences are dire,” Murin said at the opening session before the group began private discussions on the possibilities.
Young Adults: Win a Grant to Start a Sharing Project!
Submitted by miraluna on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 1:43pmAre you interested in starting a sharing project, or know someone who is? Then you should apply for a seed grant from Shareable! This brand-new pilot program offers small grants and technical support to students and young leaders under 30 to help them catalyze a sharing project in their communities.
Justice Rising: Building an Economy for People and Nature
Submitted by emilykawano on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 5:02pmA Special Issue of Justice Rising focusing on the solidarity economy. Lots of great articles from the U.S., Canada, and Brazil. Fall 2010, pdf.
Into the Light: the emerging solidarity economy movement in the US
Submitted by emilykawano on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 4:31pmby Emily Kawano, Cayapa, vol. 10, núm. 19, enero-junio, 2010, pp. 50-64
Centro Internacional de Investigación e Información sobre la Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa
Mérida, Venezuela (Spanish version)
This paper looks at the many solidarity economy practices that exist all around us and why we need to build a whole new economic paradigm starting with the basic unbalanced concept of economic man.
Solidarity Economy Declaration at Rio+20
Submitted by emilykawano on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 8:51am
16/06/2012
This declaration was written by the Board of the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social and Solidarity Economy (RIPESS), based on the discussions on Rio +20 of the 5th Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Solidarity Economy and fair trade and inputs from the delegates from the other continents.
After the declaration follow the signatures from more than 370 organizations and networks fom all over the world who expressed their support between June 16th and 25th.
The Economy we need
Declaration of the Social and Solidarity Economy movement at Rio +20
Click here to download the PDF version
The People’s Summit and the United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development of Rio+20 are being held at a time of crisis of our civilisation that takes multiple forms: food, ecology, energy, financial, social and of political representation. And it is not the same mindset or social model that created this crisis that will or can solve it!
The so-called green economy as presented by governments and multinational corporations is merely the extension of this model, through the commodification of the Commons; it is a new form of expansion of capitalism in crisis. Solidarity economy however is a means to free society of these constraints. (for more, click title)
Solidarity Economy at the Rio+20 Summit
Submitted by emilykawano on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 2:41pm
Excerpt from People’s Summit Plays Countervailing Role at Rio+20
Articulating people’s alternatives: the social and solidarity economy
Among the many ideas for more sustainable development paths articulated at the People’s Summit is the growing movement for a “social and solidarity economy” built on the values of cooperation, complementarity, sharing, mutual support, human rights and democratic control over economic decisions and resources. Many summit workshops gave examples of the myriad initiatives taking place on the ground – notably in Brazil – to promote these new forms of economic relations that can meet social and environmental goals. These include the establishment of community banks that issue their own complementary currencies to support local entrepreneurial activities in a manner that ensures that the wealth generated in the community stays within the local territory, is equitably shared, and creates “multiplier effects” through faster circulation of money and reinvestments in job creating projects.
Proponents argue that the strategy for the poor and excluded is not to begin with political demands on the State (for e.g. basic public services such access to housing, water or sanitation), but to build up first their autonomous economic base, which then places them in a stronger position to make demands on the authorities. One Brazilian community leader stated that local community banks, besides issuing complementary currencies to fuel social, economic and environmental initiatives, can also serve as a strong basis for the development of new social movements at the territorial level.
Solidarity Economy talks at the Rio+20 People's Summit - In Spanish
Submitted by emilykawano on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 1:55pm
Hi folks,
For you Spanish speakers, here are some videos of Solidarity Economy related workshops at the Rio+20 People's Summit.
http://www.iteia.org.br/
Song mentions Solidarity Economy: How we gonna make Wall Street pay?
Submitted by miraluna on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 3:17pmSolidarity Economy Briefs: Occupy the Economy!
Submitted by emilykawano on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 11:48am
The U.S. Solidarity Economy Network stands in solidarity with the Occupy Wall St. movement. As a network of groups, activists and solidarity economy practitioners, we seek to transform our economic system into one that puts people and planet front and center – an economy for the 99%. Another World is not only possible, it already exists, in many, many forms.
