This week we’re talking about confronting the coronavirus crisis with mutual aid and collective care, the People’s Bailout and demands for a Just COVID-19 Recovery, and where to report coronavirus-related racism and hate.
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New Economy Roundup: Community Responses to COVID-19, Just Transition Stories, & Community-Controlled Affordable Housing
This week we’re talking about community responses to COVID-19, stories from the Just Transition, seven steps to building a democratic economy, and community-controlled affordable housing.
New Economy Roundup: Black Solidarity Economy History, Stand with Wet’suwet’en, Building a People’s Economy
'This week we’re lifting up stories about Black liberation, economic democracy, and healing in celebration of Black History Month. We’re also talking about solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land protectors, the People’s State of the Union...
New Economy Roundup: The Future is Public, Policy Tools for a People’s Economy, Black Co-op History
'This week we’re talking about global movements to reinstate public ownership, Black cooperative history, and the 2019 Worker Coop State of the Sector. PLUS, we’re talking about the exciting launch of Pathways to a People’s Economy —...
New Economy Roundup: Fair Housing, Platform Cooperatives, & Creative Leadership Training
This week we’re talking about the recent win for Moms 4 Housing and community land trusts in Oakland, the year in review in the cooperative digital economy, and an intensive training for creative community building.
New Economy Roundup: #NoWarWithIran, Indigenous Fire Management in Australia, & 2019 New Economy Wins
In our first New Economy Roundup of 2020, we’re talking about why the resurgence of a U.S. anti-war movement is crucial to building a liberatory new economy, indigenous fire management techniques in Australia, and major policy wins for public banking, worker ownership, and community land trusts in 2019.
New Economy Roundup: Co-op Accelerator, She Safe We Safe & New Belgium Reflections
This week we’re talking about building the next generation of cooperatives in 2020, the Black Youth Project’s “She Safe, We Safe” campaign, and a forum to reflect on New Belgium Brewing and the promise and the limitations of employee ownership.
New Economy Roundup: Organizing Grants, Free Transit, and From Slavery to CLTs
A reader recently summed up what we hope the Roundup is to you.”It’s my little space of good news I make for myself.”
New Economy Roundup: We Are On Native Land
Indigenous people are — and have always been — at the frontlines of resisting colonization. In the spirit of Truthsgiving, we want to use this space to lift up Native-led stories and resources that demonstrate that another way of life is possible. For more general resources decolonizing the myth of Thanksgiving, see this guide from the Center for Racial Justice.
New Economy Roundup: Nonprofits Don’t Pay Enough, How The People Could Own PG&E, and Making A Fossil Fuel Free Barbados
This week we’re talking about a report on how nonprofit’s can better live into their values, California’s mayors calling for PG&E to become a consumer cooperative, and how Barbados is exploring cooperatives to achieve it’s fossil fuel free goals!
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