26Mar
21Mar
Zapatista’s Women in Struggle Summit
The First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle is hosted exclusively by rebel women for rebel women.
via Telesur Thousands of women from around the world attended a meeting in Zapatistaterritory Thursday to hold the “First International Gathering of Politics,...
19Mar
Buy Out Your Boss
Two Glasgow businessmen knew that selling up for big money would also mean huge job cuts, so they handed over power to their staff instead. The latest article in our new economics series explores this forgotten solution.
by Aditya Chakrabortty via
14Mar
Cooperative Banking for Black Lives
After facing decades of disinvestment and targeting by powerful financial institutions, African-American-owned credit unions could offer a way to build economic power and grow black wealth.
via In These Times BY VALERIE VANDE PANNE MINNEAPOLIS—On an unseasonably warm Friday in late January, African-American business...
12Mar
#PoderColectivo
Connecting and Organizing Collectives of Color in Los Angeles
via Color Coded by Aldo Puicon For communities of color, being dependent on the current economic system is dangerous and hazardous to our health and to our lives. Through decades of neoliberal policy making, capitalism has prioritized the...
07Mar
A Digital Map Leads to Reparations for Black and Indigenous Farmers
The map’s creators envision equitable distribution of land and resources through “people-to-people” reparations.
by Jean Willoughby via Yes magazine Last month, Dallas Robinson received an email from someone she didn’t know, asking if she would be open to receiving a large sum of money—with...
05Mar
Alicia Garza Launches New Organization to Harness Black Political Power
“Black folks drive the progressive political power in this country, but rarely benefit from the fruits of our labor. We are launching the Black Futures Lab as a way to mobilize around our needs, hopes and dreams.”
by Kenrya Rankin via Colorlines As the nation
28Feb
Maximizing Dignity through the Social and Solidarity Economy
The three year SUstainable and Solidarity economY (SUSY) project ends with a policy paper presentation at the European Parliament
In February 2015, 26 partners from 23 European countries – including the UK’s
26Feb
Worker cooperatives offer real alternatives to Trump
via Waging Nonviolence Announcing his presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised the nation that he’d become “the greatest job president God ever created.” His plan to accomplish this rested on a retrograde economic vision that would “make America great again,” by restoring waning...
21Feb