In this episode Ebony speaks with co-founder Lisa Woodward and housing director Amanda King. This episode grounds us in Motherful’s origin story and how they are meeting the needs of single moms through offerings like their pantry, resource garage, and basic income program.
Resource List: Resisting Capitalism, Black Mutual Aid History
A collection of resources that invites organizers to envision their work as precedented and a continuity of Black mutual aid resistance emerging as early as 1780, yet ancient in practice.
Resource List: We Care For Us
A collection of resources with contributions from decolonial feminist, disabled, Black, Indigenous scholars and organizers to sharpen our strategies around care work + tangible resources for how to reshape our organizational cultures and policies in line with these values.
Resource List: Govern Ourselves
A collection of resources to support participatory democracy and governance at the organizational level, coming from NEC’s experience as a member-led network and a worker-self directed nonprofit.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #7: Feedback is a gift
In this episode we talk with Cooperate Western North Carolina about conflict transformation, finding the balance between relational trust building and practical work, and tools for shifting from individualism to a collective way of life!
Resource List: Feminist & Popular Economies
Learn how women around the world are resisting capitalism, colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy by building feminist and popular economies from below.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #6: Building Local Solidarity Economies
In this episode we talk with Beloved Community Incubator about how they started as a hyperlocal initiative and evolved into regional solidarity economy organizing.
Resource List: Solidarity Economies 101
A compilation of some of our favorite resources to learn about the vision, values, and practices of the solidarity economy movement.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #5: Artists as organizers with CREATIVE WILDFIRE
We speak with Lizzie Suarez and Lily Xie about their roles as artists and cultural organizers, challenges that arise when collaborating with organizations, and the cultural shifts needed to have a just transition in the arts.
Resource List: Union Cooperatives as a Strategy for Building Worker Power
Find resources below to learn more about unionizing worker-owned cooperatives as a strategy for building worker power.
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