In this episode we learn about NEC’s Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF), and we speak with former grantees about their solidarity economy organizing and the ancestral wisdom that informs their work.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #3: Practicing Abolition with Sol Underground
In our third episode we talk with NEC member Sol Underground, an abolitionist ecosystem in Atlanta dreaming of a Black and Indigenous liberated world that is resisting colonial systems of oppression.
SOLIDARITY ECONOMIES: BUILDING COMMUNITY POWER
A publication series coproduced with The Nonprofit Quarterly, that features five case studies highlighting the work & the strategies that NEC members are using to build solidarity economy ecosystems.
Event Recap: Building a Solidarity Economy Against War and Occupation
On December 6th, NEC members CEANYC and NYC NoWC co-hosted an event for NYC cooperators to explore the connections between the solidarity economy and the growing movement for a Free Palestine.
Resource List: Free Palestine
November 29th marked the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine. We stand with movements around the world calling for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #2: Cooperation among cooperatives with Co-op Dayton
In our second episode we talk with NEC member Co-op Dayton, an organization that is using community ownership to transform Dayton’s Black and working class neighborhoods.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #1: Land Liberation with Nuns & Nones
Solidarity Economy Shorts is a podcast collaboration between NEC & Cooperative Media Journal. In our first episode we talk about Land Liberation, and engage in conversation with NEC member Nuns & Nones.
Resource List: Just Recovery vs Disaster Capitalism
Niki Franco is back to break down what we mean by the term “disaster capitalism” and how communities all over the world — from PR to New Orleans to Hawai’i — have resisted it and built just recovery efforts that return resources and power to the grassroots.
Resource List: Participatory Democracy
The US is obsessed with the word “democracy” – but what would real, grassroots democracy actually look like? Learn how initiatives like peoples budgets, movement assemblies and workplace democracy are putting real decision making power into community hands.
Resource List: Pride, Abolition & Solidarity Economies
On the the anniversary of Stonewall, we’re learning all about the radical roots of Pride Month (hint: Stonewall was an uprising against police brutality) and the importance of building abolition into our movements for queer & trans liberation.
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