This week we’re talking about an online map promoting person-to-person reparations, Preston, UK’s guerilla localism, and what makes a great sharing city.
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New Economy Roundup: 50 Years of Counter-Power; Community Currency; Young, Rich, and Fighting the System
This week we’re talking about the organization creating jobs and opportunities in Appalachia’s shifting economy; the millennial one-percenters redistributing their wealth; and 50 years of people powered resistance.
New Economy Roundup: Appalachian Artisan Economies, Community Broadband and German Co-Housing
This week we’re talking about the Eastern Kentucky town that’s thriving, Community Broadband bills in Congress, and a small Italian towns effort to build a “circular economy.”
New Economy Roundup: Net Neutrality Appeal, Barcelona Goes Open-Source, Best Social Justice Conferences of 2018
This week we’re talking about the Net Neutrality appeal; why Finland has more coop members than citizens; and the best social justice conferences of 2018!
New Economy Roundup: 2018 Agenda for Change, Tiny Houses to Halt Pipelines, Fake News Curriculum
Happy new year! We’re kicking off 2018 by talking about the tiny home village in the way of the Trans Mountain Pipeline; building financially healthy neighborhoods; and a just transition framework for disaster recovery.
New Economy Roundup: Net Neutrality, People’s Budget
In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about net neutrality, building a people’s budget in Chicago, and Puerto Rico after 100 days since Maria.
New Economy Roundup: Rustbelt Revival (The Right Way), Homegrown Internet, and the Poor People’s Campaign
In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about the development (without displacement), homegrown internet, and the Poor People’s Campaign.
New Economy Roundup: Internet for All, Decolonize Your Mind, the Power of Small Media
The news has been dominated in the last two weeks with talk about the G.O.P. tax bill, COP23, and of course Thanksgiving and Native History Month (check out the piece on decolonizing your mind in Movement News). Going into the holiday season, we hope these roundups serve as a reminder that incredible people building democratic alternative to our current system are out there.
New Economy Roundup: 50 million Worker Owners; The future of Co-ops
In this week’s roundup: creating 50 million worker owners by 2050; using media platform’s as places of protest; and the future of the co-op movement.
New Economy Roundup: #DivestTheGlobe, Grassroots Disaster Relief, and Resident Owned Communities
In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about the biggest resident owned community of its type in history, the native women leading #DivestTheGlobe, and grassroots storm relief. Check it out!
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