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.
Resources
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.
Resource List: Juneteenth
A mini teach-in with Niki Franco about the legacy of Juneteenth and Black cooperative economics.
Resource List: Black Co-op History
From mutual aid societies to freedom farms and credit unions — Black communities have been using cooperative economics as a tool for collective liberation, self-determination, and to resist the violence of racial capitalism for centuries. Check out the resource list to learn about radical Black co-ops throughout history and today.
Resist & Build: Resources to Build Radical Imagination
As our communities struggle to survive this pandemic and against a failed governance and economic system, how will we reclaim our power and create a world where our needs are met, and no one is disposable? This series intends to be an educational tool for those who want to build a new world but don’t know where to start.
Resource List: Solidarity Economies in Latin America
Many of the strongest examples we have of real solidarity economies – where communities are meeting their own needs outside of capitalist systems – come out of social movements in Latin America, and the communities who have carried those traditions of cooperation across borders.
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