Social & Solidarity Economy » Challenging the Crisis

Complementary currencies + value chains to build solidarity economies

Fri, Mar 11 at 1:00 PM, New York By: NYC Department of Small Business Services Events Can we use complementary/alternative currencies [...]

Solidarity vs Solitary – Aaron Tanaka

Will the New Economy be Capitalism or Something Else

with Keith Harrington, YES Magazine, Julie Matthaei, US SEN, Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative, Sohnie Black, Fund for Democratic Communities, [...]

Berkeley Votes to Boost Co-op Economy in the Face of Gentrification

In 1971, the owners of The Cheese Board turned their Berkeley, California, mom-and-pop shop into a co-op, where they [...]

Democratize Big Banks

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

Film Review: Solidarity Economics in Italy

Everywhere You Look In their 2012 film “Shift Change”, filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin introduced viewers to workers who [...]

Pluralist Commonwealth – Gar Aoperovitz

Building Black Cooperatives

UNRISD – SSE raising international profile

Social and solidarity economy (SSE) is raising its profile internationally! Last September, the International Leading Group on SSE featured [...]

The End of Capitalism Has Begun

Paul Mason, The Guardian, July 17, 2015 The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus [...]