The Solidarity Economy: A Way Forward for Our De-Futured World
Julie Matthaei, Wellesley College
Matthew Slaats, University of Virginia School of Architecture
Abstract As society contends...
From 2020 to the present, USSEN has convened Resist and Build gatherings online, creating a space for translocal and national...
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You may have seen the phrase, “Economic...
Check out USSEN members speaking on a recent panel on "Building the Solidarity Economy" at the California Progressive Alliance.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4AV2p4FsBI
The California Progressive Alliance believes that a better California is possible by reclaiming our government from the corporate interests...
California’s utility, PG&E, has put profits over public safety for too long. The company belongs in the hands of the...
The gathering, designed to commemorate the founding of the nation’s first community land trust 50 years ago, was held earlier...
The new law promises to take taxpayer money back from Wall Street and reinvest it in communities.
American medical providers that collectively spend $50 billion per year are channeling work to local businesses and residents.
The real battle is now between two post-globalization camps: democratic socialists… and fascists.
By Walden Bello via Portside
It is now clear...
Under the motto 'connecting solidarity', it allows people to search for co-op providers of goods and services
By Anca Voinea via...
Tamara McFarland, Cooperation Humboldt
Along the rugged coastline of far-Northern California, activists have launched a program to tangibly demonstrate their...
Building a Solidarity Economy Movement in NYC
By SolidarityNYC Collective via Grassroots Economic Organizing
New York City contains 9 million people speaking...
via Food Chain Workers Alliance
“To tell the truth, we are forming this cooperative so that one day we can get...
By Zaid Jilani via The Intercept
CHICAGO ALDERMAN AMEYA PAWAR is worried about the future.
He is concerned that a coming wave...
Since the stirring of “second wave” feminism a half century ago, the movement has become progressively more inclusive and systemic....
Twenty-first-century crises demand twenty-first-century social movements. What would such movements look like, and how might they align to foster a...
The $15 minimum wage was just the beginning. Now Seattle is trying to build a whole safety net for workers—and...
By Steve Dubb via Nonprofit Quarterly
“We are suffering not from the rheumatics of old age, but…from the painfulness of readjustment...
On September 5, 1970, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP), introduced his theory of intercommunalism at...
Climate change, global finance, the neoliberal state: today’s crises require action on a big scale. And yet fighting for local...
By A.P. Joyce via Mic
New York City — Could the city best known as the home of Wall Street divest...
By Max Ajl via Viewpoint Magazine
We know that the literal meaning of the word Utopia is no-place. It doubles as...
Michael Tubbs is the 27-year-old leader of one of California’s biggest cities. And he’s using that position to try out...
Populism is not only incompatible with feminizing politics — it actually reinforces patriarchy. We need to transform the way left-wing...
In Jackson, Mississippi, community land trusts are key to fair and affordable development.
By Adam Lynch via Yes Magazine
Denise Fitzgerald’s property...
With new tools and political policies now in place to support them, there could be a boom in employee-owned business...
And It's Already Changing Lives
"We're not struggling."
By Emma Paling and Daniel Tencer
via Huffington Post
Sherry Mendowegan has accomplished a lot in...
An Interview with Jessica Gordon-Nembhard and Ed Whitfield
via GEO
Richard Rice interviews Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, PhD and Ed Whitfield on Cooperatives, Community...
A paper by Emily Kawano for The Next System
We stand at the brink of disaster. The fragilities of the 2008...
How Grace Lee Boggs Changed My Life (and Maybe Yours too)
By Scott Kurashige via Reappropriate
Twenty years ago, I wrote to...
How to Build a New World in the Shell of the Old
Every city has its graveyard of nonprofits, cooperatives, social...
The Solidarity Research Center based in Los Angeles, California, was established in 2014 by a group of researchers and academics with roots...
Social.coop is a cooperatively run instance of Mastodon, a decentralized social network based on open protocols and free, open-source software. Alanna from...
Professor Paul Singer, Austrian economist and tireless promotor of the Solidarity economy in Brazil, died at age 86 (see RIPESS)....
Building Alternatives at Atlanta's Café ULU
by Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo
via Grassroots Economic Organizing
Ormond Ashby bounces into the unheated, under-construction home of...
When maximizing profits isn't the only goal, companies actually work better.
By Michelle Chen via The Nation
Imagine an economy without bosses....
Report on the Third RIPESS Webinar on Women and Social Solidarity Economy
Four feminist speakers, all practitioners and experts in SSE...
A History of Globetrotting Troublemakers
by Eric Dirnbach
via Labor Notes
Despite the “World” in its name, the Industrial Workers of the World...
"Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten...
via Georgetown Public Policy Review
Coauthored by Rebekah Ackerman and Charlie Whittington
No subject suffers continuous and unproductive beatings as often as the...
The radical vision of Wages for Housework.
By Sarah Jaffe
via The Nation
In 1975, women in Iceland went on strike, from their...
The First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle is hosted exclusively by rebel women...
Two Glasgow businessmen knew that selling up for big money would also mean huge job cuts, so they handed over...
After facing decades of disinvestment and targeting by powerful financial institutions, African-American-owned credit unions could offer a way to build...
Connecting and Organizing Collectives of Color in Los Angeles
via Color Coded
by Aldo Puicon
For communities of color, being dependent on the...
The map’s creators envision equitable distribution of land and resources through “people-to-people” reparations.
by Jean Willoughby
via Yes magazine
Last month, Dallas Robinson received...
“Black folks drive the progressive political power in this country, but rarely benefit from the fruits of our labor. We...
