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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
Fighting for the Sanctuary Workplace
via Truthout Unions Mobilize to Protect Undocumented Workers by David Bacon Sanctuary churches. Sanctuary schools. Sanctuary cities. Sanctuary workplaces? Albeit far from its intentions, the Trump administration has put the idea of sanctuaries on steroids -- spaces free from the threat of raids and deportations. As immigrant workers, unions and...
23Jun
The Women’s March and the Coming of Age of Feminism
by Julie Matthaei, via Common Dreams
23Jun
Solidarity Rising in Massachusetts
via Practical Visionaries New report documents emerging solidarity economy movement in lower income communities of color [Download report: large-format or letter-size] A solidarity economy movement is emerging from lower-income communities of color in Massachusetts. This movement aspires to transform capitalism—as we know it—into a world rooted in values...
20Jun
The Reconstruction of Democracy in America
via Medium Lessons from Jackson, Mississippi by John Duda This piece was written before the November 2016 US election, and originally appeared as “La démocratie en construction aux États-Unis” in La Pensée n°388. My intent in writing the piece was to highlight, for a non-US audience, some of...
19Jun