01Feb
31Jan
How Communities Can Take Control of Their Police
via The Next System This week on the Next System Podcast, Adam Simpson talks with Max Rameau about his article “Community Control Over Police: A Proposal,” part of the Prisons and Policing: Systemic Challenges & Alternative Visions collection at thenextsystem.org. Adam Simpson: Welcome to The Next System Podcast. I’m Adam...
29Jan
2017 Was a Good Year for Worker Cooperatives
via Next City by Rachel Dovey Promising as the worker cooperative model is, on-the-ground businesses tend to have a difficult time growing, as Next City has covered. In 2014, the city of New York announced a $1.2 million Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (WCBDI) to cultivate the model. “We are talking...
25Jan
How Black Businesses Helped Save the Civil Rights Movement
via Institute for New Economic Thinking by Louis Ferleger and Matthew Lavallee Behind towering figures like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were the taxi dispatchers, pharmacists, grocers, and other small business owners who were instrumental in making civil rights a reality. News that Montgomery police had...
24Jan
Los Angeles Community Mobilizes and Sends ICE Packing
via It's Going Down by Black Rose Anarchist Federation With Trump planning a major wave of ICE raids targeting Northern California in the coming weeks, especially targeting sanctuary cities, organized community responses are essential to beating back these attacks. The goal, as always with immigration enforcement, is to strike...
22Jan
Co-ops: A Tool For Community Organizing
via The Uptake by Cirien Saadeh Co-ops are not just for grocery stores anymore. Member and worker-owned co-ops for housing, farming, rural electricity, and other big projects that have societal benefits — including sustainable businesses and living wages— are on the rise in Minnesota. Minnesota already has a...
19Jan
The Catalan Integral Cooperative
via Resilience.org by Ted Trainer This is a remarkable and inspiring movement in Spain, now involving hundreds of people in what I regard as an example of The Simpler Way transition strategy … which is primarily about going underneath the conventional economy to build our own new...
18Jan
The call for proposals for GSEF 2018 is open until February 28th
via RIPESS The call for proposals for the 4th edition of the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF) is open until February 28th, 2018. RIPESS, as a close partner of GSEF, warmly encourage you to participate. The Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF) is an international network that brings together regional...
07Jul
20th Anniversary of Lima Declaration
RIPESS is celebrating the 20th birthday of our movement! The first meeting of the globalization of solidarity was held in Lima, Peru, from the 1st to the 4th of July 1997, as an initiative of GRESP, the Peruvian network for solidarity economy. Following this meeting and declaration, the desire...
27Jun