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New Economy ROUNDUP

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Land Back Wins, Grassroots Democracy, Disaster Cooperativism in Action

This week we’re talking about protecting ancestral lands from Digawututklh to Alaska and Honduras, actually-existing practices of grassroots democracy, cooperative networks in Palestine, and disaster cooperativism in Valencia and beyond.

#StopGalamsey, Boston’s Cooperative Economy, and Transformative Justice in India

This week we’re talking about Boston’s cooperative economy, social housing in New York, #StopGalamsey in Ghana, transformative justice legacies in India, and more. We’re able to provide stories like these because of the arduous reporting on solidarity economies around the world from journalists and storytellers. This week, Israel accused 6 Al Jazeera journalists of being Palestinian militants at the height of the expanding genocide and occupation. Join the BDS movement’s call to get the UN General Assembly President to remove Israel for their decades long impunity. Read to the end for jobs, events, and resources that strengthen us.

Mutual Aid in the South, Social Housing Wins, Co-op Month

This week we’re talking about just recovery after Milton and Helene, global reparations in the face of climate catastrophe, a “people’s arms embargo” on Israel, the growth of grassroots social housing, a new driver’s cooperative, guaranteed income for artists, celebrating Co-op Month, and more.

Latinx Cooperatives, Haitian Community Resilience, and Abolition Resistance United

This month we’re talking about Latinx communities getting what their communities need by any means from cooperative business development to legal action against racist politicians; the sustained resistance united against policing and genocide; and poetry by Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, may he rest in peace.

New Economy Roundup: Community Ownership for Just Recovery, Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, Ghanaian Delivery Co-op

This week we’re talking about decommodifying land from Lahaina to Jackson, divestment campaign wins, mutual aid in Sudan, collective housing in Latin America, a worker-owned delivery platform in Ghana, and more!

COVID Justice, Hurricane Katrina Anniversary, Housing Rights, and The People’s Money

This month we’re talking about environmental justice post Hurricane Katrina, the work behind tenant organizing and sustainable housing, long COVID realities, and participatory budgeting across the United States.

New Economy Roundup: Housing Justice, Worker Co-ops in Baltimore, and Solidarity Economy in Bolivia

This week we’re focused on Indigenous peoples’ strides to rematriation in California, the Summer of Resistance emerging out of Atlanta, Black woman-led survivor care collectives from Sudan to Alabama, and beating back corporate gentrification through community-owned cooperatives across the United States. Read to the end for jobs and events, both virtual and irl.

New Economy Roundup: Decolonizing Lifeways, #SummerofResistance, and Community Ownership

This week we’re focused on Indigenous peoples’ strides to rematriation in California, the Summer of Resistance emerging out of Atlanta, Black woman-led survivor care collectives from Sudan to Alabama, and beating back corporate gentrification through community-owned cooperatives across the United States. Read to the end for jobs and events, both virtual and irl.

New Economy Roundup: #AllEyesOnSudan, Student Intifada, Rio Grande Mutual Aid, and a Just Transition College

In this week’s Roundup, we’re talking about the Student Intifada, building cooperative housing solidarity, Haitian peasant womens economies, and Sudan. Read through to the end for plentiful offerings like calls to action, toolkits, podcasts, jobs, and events.

New Economy Roundup: Economic Blockades, Peasant Struggle Solidarity, and Community Owned Utilities

In this week’s Roundup we’re talking about people’s struggles around the world. Keep reading to learn more about workers united against the Palestinian genocide, residents around the United States leading a just transition, and tenant run housing occupations turning into public housing in Brazil. 

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Resources from our Network

Cooperation Chicago: Building Chicago’s Worker Cooperative Ecosystem

This report examines the challenges and opportunities of worker cooperatives in the Chicagoland region. The paper discusses the need for worker cooperative development in Chicago, the current barriers cooperatives face to operating, and potential suggestions for local policy aimed at creating policies which would enable worker cooperatives to thrive. Supporting worker cooperative development could bring numerous advantages already proven in comparable cities – including growth of jobs, wages, and economic opportunity.

Produced through a partnership with Illinois Worker Cooperative Alliance and The John Marshall Law School-Chicago Business Enterprise Law Clinic.

Creative Interventions Toolkit

This Toolkit promotes an approach called community-based interventions to violence or what some call community accountability or transformative justice as a way to break isolation and to create solutions to violence from those who are most affected by violence – survivors and victims of violence, friends, family and community. It asks us to look to those around us to gather together to create grounded, thoughtful community responses.

A New Social Contract

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative recently released A New Social Contract, a series of bold solutions that localities across the United States are advancing, modeling or promoting to reshape our current landscape of inequity towards one that ensures the full range of human rights of all people.

Worker Cooperative Documentary Podcast

Worker Cooperative Documentary Podcast

A documentary episode on Worker Cooperatives, focusing on the topics of economic democracy, racial and social justice, and collectivist vs capitalistic values.

Featuring: Richard Wolff, Gopal Dayaneni, Doria Robinson, Najari Smith, and more.

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