This week we’re talking about new Community Land Trust funding, an international cooperative conference, and a global hub for participatory budgeting. PLUS the first podcast section of the Roundup!
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10/4/19
NEC has partnered with the worX printing cooperative, and union merchandising platform FII Marketing to bring you on-demand access to Fire The Bosses T-shirts, Totes, Mugs, and Bumper Stickers.
10/3/19
This week we’re talking about yesterday's public banking victory in California, a co-op of Native artists in South Dakota, and a new worldwide fund for direct action!
6/18/15
Think food co-ops can only exist in wealthy neighborhoods? Think again, and then check out this exciting new resource from the Cooperative Development Institute (an NEC member) detailing different models of cooperative ownership that are bringing real food and good jobs to low-income communities around the US.
5/20/15
Working to build a new economy from the bottom up will require a lot of experimentation. Having a long-term vision can help make sure such new experiments open the door to even more transformative change in how the economy works.
5/14/15
This week, NEC is starting off the second half of 2015 on stronger grounding than ever with our Annual Meeting and first ever Grantee Gathering in Philadelphia.
4/24/15
While the residents in Northeast Greensboro just wanted to get grocery store, they are doing something much bigger and more important.
4/23/15
Signs of deep economic changes are slowly taking place across the United States, focusing on cooperative/solidarity economics.
4/23/15
We currently face two equally urgent and significant crises: rising inequality and climate change. Rising inequality is not only morally unacceptable; it hinders economic growth. Climate change is occurring at a faster rate than other time in history and is already impacting every part of the country with low-income communities and communities of color getting hit first and most hard.
4/23/15
Reclaiming our Commons requires coming together as a community.
4/23/15
By working together, we can build the next great progressive movement to take back our government and create the kind of just and sustainable economy in which we want to live and work.
4/22/15
Climate change, shifting demographics, and sobering economic realities for a growing number of Americans have sparked increased awareness of the need to re-examine how working class people and communities of color will successfully participate in tomorrow’s economy, the one they will inherit when our nation becomes an ethnic plurality.
4/22/15
In the not-too distant future we can expect to see a rapid increase in structural unemployment as a result of increasing substitution of technology—including sophisticated robots—for human labor. A massive shift to new energy technologies can, in the short run, substitute for many jobs lost in the dirty fuel industries we must, and will, phase out.