North American Social Solidarity Economy Forum

A Social, Solidarity… and Female Economy

Ginebró school, a cooperative education founded 40 years ago in Catalonia. A company model of solidary and social economy [...]

Building Black Cooperatives

Democratize Big Banks

We don’t need to break up the big banks. We need to put them under democratic control In These Times [...]

Solidarity Economy Part II: Female Protagonists

This is the second article of our three-part series on solidarity economy in Brazil.  With a broader understanding of the solidarity [...]

Women in resistance, building alternatives for a better World

by World March of Women 28 October 2016 “At the WMW, we work to empower women and increase their economic [...]

Building Alternative Institutions in Greece

Counterpunch, March 11, 2016 by Alexander Kolokotronis Since the beginning of the Greek financial crisis, both the Right and the [...]

Vanuatu: Another kind of wealth

Published on Mar 21, 2016 In the language of modern economics, the small island nation of Vanuatu in the South [...]

Can the ‘new economy’ and labor movements come together again?

Eric Dirnbach August 31, 2016, Waging Non-violence Advocates for worker cooperatives celebrate outside City Hall in Oakland after the city [...]

Solidarity vs Solitary – Aaron Tanaka

Mixed fortunes as solidarity economy takes root in Greece

Time banks, farmer-to-buyer sales groups and alternative currencies springing up but expansion has not been steady or easy A [...]