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Raices Culturales: Cooking Up Racial Justice
In Whatcom County, in northern Washington state, Community to Community Development (C2C) organizes and builds community for food sovereignty and economic justice.
#MakingWaves: Staff Profile on René Pérez
“Technology can often replicate or reinforce capitalist structures. I see another way – a way to build equity and liberation into our digital infrastructure as we develop and use it for social change.”
What capitalism and kings have in common
What we’re trying to do seems downright impossible most days. The system is entrenched. Its “logic” is deep in our culture. A small number of individuals and groups hoard most of the power and the wealth, and use it against us.
Democracy is under attack.
In July, the Washington Post published a report claiming that one-third of the world’s population was living in a “backsliding democracy.”
#MakingWaves: Staff Profile on Kierra Sims
“The new economy isn’t new – people have been practicing these models for a while,” Kierra emphasizes. “Our job is to name it and recognize it, so that those efforts can be connected and scaled.”
#MakingWaves: Staff Profile on Kelly Baker
Before we can change any system we must first see and understand it for what it truly is. For Kelly Baker, Interim Co-Director at NEC, that system is philanthropy.
#MakingWaves: Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance in Next City!
Learn how NEC members are changing the current, like in Philadelphia!
#MakingWaves: We Have Something They Don’t Have
The power of many. That’s what we saw on Election Day.
#MakingWaves: Staff Profile on Shavaun Evans
Hear one of NEC’s interim co-directors on this podcast!
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