WEconomics

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 [...]

The Oppression of Debt & the Promise of a Financial Commons

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Women’s March and the Coming of Age of Feminism

by Julie Matthaei, via Common Dreams  

Solidarity vs Solitary – Aaron Tanaka

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 [...]

Democratize Big Banks

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

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 [...]

Democratizing Community Economic Development – Jessica Gordon Nembhard