New York City
08Aug

A Map of the Heart

Building a Solidarity Economy Movement in NYC By SolidarityNYC Collective via Grassroots Economic Organizing New York City contains 9 million people speaking 800 languages, and at first it may appear that we have little in common besides frustration with our aging subway and high rents. But if...
18Jun

A Movement for a Public Bank in New York City

By A.P. Joyce via Mic New York City — Could the city best known as the home of Wall Street divest from major corporate banks and start its own public bank? That’s the vision that a new network of activist groups hope see in the near...
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...
15May

New York City Co-op and Solidarity Economy Directory

via Cheyenna Weber I wanted to share with you a new bilingual English/Spanish resource for folks in the 5 boroughs. Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC (CEANYC, pronounced scenic) has just produced a directory (with all known contact information) for the more than 2000 solidarity economy groups...
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