Building Black Cooperatives

The Oppression of Debt & the Promise of a Financial Commons

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Vanuatu: Another kind of wealth

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXhftm_tifQ&w=560&h=315] Published on Mar 21, 2016 In the language of modern economics, the small island nation of Vanuatu in the...

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...

UNRISD – SSE raising international profile

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

Film Review: Solidarity Economics in Italy

Everywhere You Look [vimeo 155755754 w=640 h=360] In their 2012 film “Shift Change”, filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin introduced viewers...

Seattle Flirts with ‘Municipal Socialism’

The $15 minimum wage was just the beginning. Now Seattle is trying to build a whole safety net for...

Democratize Big Banks

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

Little Free Pantries – Beyond Charity, to Food as a Right

Tamara McFarland, Cooperation Humboldt   Along the rugged coastline of far-Northern California, activists have launched a program to tangibly demonstrate...

Solidarity Economy Part 3: Expanding Citizenship in Brazilian Favelas

Work produced by Mulheres Guerreiras de Babilonia This is the third and final article in our three-part series on solidarity economy...

Cleveland Ecovillage