WEconomics

Democratize Big Banks

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

Building Black Cooperatives

Peru, France reinforce cooperation on social solidarity economy

12:01. Lima, Feb. 24. Peru's Development and Social Inclusion Minister Paola Bustamante along with French Ambassador Fabrice Mauriès signed on...

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

A Social, Solidarity… and Female Economy

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

New Zine Highlights the Solidarity Economy in St. Louis

By Maira Sutton November 30, 2016 It's hard to convey what the sharing movement is about without describing how it looks...

Why Building a More Democratic Economy Matters for Nonprofits

By Steve Dubb via Nonprofit Quarterly “We are suffering not from the rheumatics of old age, but…from the painfulness of...

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...

“Building the Solidarity Economy” Recording

Check out USSEN members speaking on a recent panel on "Building the Solidarity Economy" at the California Progressive Alliance. ...