19Aug
20Aug
Little Free Pantries – Beyond Charity, to Food as a Right
Tamara McFarland, Cooperation Humboldt Along the rugged coastline of far-Northern California, activists have launched a program to tangibly demonstrate their commitment to food justice and neighborhood building. This local Little Free Pantry initiative is a project of Cooperation Humboldt, a nonprofit committed to creating a...
23Jul
Seattle Flirts with ‘Municipal Socialism’
The $15 minimum wage was just the beginning. Now Seattle is trying to build a whole safety net for workers—and triggering a war with its biggest companies. By Paul Roberts via Politico Magazine SEATTLE—On an overcast morning in early April, three members of the Seattle City Council...
18Jul
Why Building a More Democratic Economy Matters for Nonprofits
By Steve Dubb via Nonprofit Quarterly “We are suffering not from the rheumatics of old age, but…from the painfulness of readjustment between one economic period and another.” -- John Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, 1930 As the quote from John Maynard Keynes reminds us, this is...
12Dec
New Zine Highlights the Solidarity Economy in St. Louis
By Maira Sutton November 30, 2016 It's hard to convey what the sharing movement is about without describing how it looks in practice. No matter how well you lay out its basic principles, you need concrete examples and visual imagery to help people reach that aha moment. A new...
12Dec
Solidarity Economy Part 3: Expanding Citizenship in Brazilian Favelas
Work produced by Mulheres Guerreiras de Babilonia This is the third and final article in our three-part series on solidarity economy in Brazil. Solidarity economy enterprises move beyond the “any job is a good job” logic sometimes found in efforts to address labor market exclusion. Instead, these more...
14Nov
Solidarity Economy Part II: Female Protagonists
This is the second article of our three-part series on solidarity economy in Brazil. With a broader understanding of the solidarity economy in Brazil in mind, testimonials from participating entrepreneurs themselves show the real advantages of this kind of work, from circumventing market exclusion to creating new...
31Oct
Women in resistance, building alternatives for a better World
by World March of Women 28 October 2016 "At the WMW, we work to empower women and increase their economic ... We believe in the redistribution of wealth and the solidarity economy." Declaration of the World March of Women 10th International Meeting in Maputo, Mozambique from October...
07Sep
Can the ‘new economy’ and labor movements come together again?
Eric Dirnbach August 31, 2016, Waging Non-violence Advocates for worker cooperatives celebrate outside City Hall in Oakland after the city council passed a resolution supporting the development of worker co-ops on Sept. 8, 2015 (Sustainable Economies Law Center)Activists in Oakland have been campaigning for new city...
07Sep