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19Feb

Buffalo Sets Up Community Land Trust

It is the product of more than a decade of community organizing, but residents in east Buffalo’s historic Fruit Belt neighborhood cheered when Common Council President Darius Pridgen announced on his radio program last Friday that the “City administration [will start] setting aside land…for the...
16Feb

Resist and Build: Discussing Solidarity Economy with Emily Kawano

via The Next System

Emily Kawano, coordinator of the US Solidarity Network, Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS), and co-director of the Wellspring Cooperative in Springfield, Massachusettes, joins us to discuss her work on the Solidarity Economy.

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14Feb

A Boon for Shared Equity Homeownership

Shared equity homeownership programs just had a big win: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (“the Enterprises”) committed in their Underserved Markets Plans to increase access to mortgages for shared equity homebuyers over the next three years.

via Shelterforce by Emily Thaden These Underserved Markets Plans...
12Feb

The Preston Model

In a new series looking at how to make the economy work for everyone, Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty finds out how Preston turned its fortunes around by spending locally

via The Guardian by  The city of Preston in...
07Feb

Cincinnati experiments with co-op/union hybrid

A city hit by high unemployment is looking to examples abroad and from US history to create new ways of working

via Co-op News In Cincinnati, Ohio, a city with high levels of unemployment, new models of co-operation are being developed, based...
05Feb

Why Workers’ Rights Are Good For The Economy

via New Economics Foundation by Adrian Bua When economic decision-making power is in the hands of the public rather than corporate interests, economies tend to have lower rates of inequality, and higher levels of productivity. These are the findings of the new international Economic...
01Feb

Imprisoned: Inside the Politics of Control and Resistance

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Social justice movements from around the world are pushing back against this shift toward nationalism, extraction and environmental destruction. They are particularly highlighting food sovereignty, feminism, and environmental justice as strategic ways forward in the defense of land, water, and territory. Via Grassroots...
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