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New Economy ROUNDUP
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A New World From The Ashes Of The Old: Solidarity Economy Organizing In a Moment of Resistance
This panel, held at NEC's 2017 Member Gathering in Chicago, features leaders from across the country sharing how their communities have organized to simultaneously fight back far-right attacks and build powerful bottom-up solutions that model economic democracy, sustainability, and social justice as cornerstones of a new world in waiting.
Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth
A veritable choose your own adventure through the New Economy, Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth is a book that allows multiple entries into a vision for a new system by exploring the possible building blocks for that system.
A New World From The Ashes Of The Old: Solidarity Economy Organizing In a Moment of Resistance
This panel, held at NEC's 2017 Member Gathering in Chicago, features leaders from across the country sharing how their communities have organized to simultaneously fight back far-right attacks and build powerful bottom-up solutions that model economic democracy, sustainability, and social justice as cornerstones of a new world in waiting.
Rebuilding America’s Infrastructure: How to Save $1 Trillion Without Increasing the Deficit, Causing Inflation, or Raising Taxes
Democracy Collaborative Fellow Ellen Brown, founder and president emeritus of the Public Banking Institute, explores what's wrong with President Trump's approach to infrastructure. Brown explores historical precedents and proposes public strategies for investing in infrastructure that would cost less and inject money into the real economy.
A New World From The Ashes Of The Old: Solidarity Economy Organizing In a Moment of Resistance
This panel, held at NEC's 2017 Member Gathering in Chicago, features leaders from across the country sharing how their communities have organized to simultaneously fight back far-right attacks and build powerful bottom-up solutions that model economic democracy, sustainability, and social justice as cornerstones of a new world in waiting.
Bringing Competitive Clean Energy To Market: The Clean Energy “Act”
Why is it hard for community-scale renewable energy to compete? It's not the price, but the lack of accurate price that takes into account the cost of delivery! This presentation explains how federal law guarantees a right to sell power at competitive prices.
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What’s new with NEC?
Reporters: Apply for the New Economies Reporting Fellowship!
NEC is excited to announce a new partnership withThe Media Consortium(TMC)andThe Laura Flanders Show. Together, we are coordinating the New Economies Reporting Project, an effort to support journalists who are interested in covering new economy stories in the US and Canada.
Four Organizations Transforming the Face of Labor (and the Economy)
In honor of May Day, we’re celebrating a few of our many incredible members working for fairer, sustainable, and democratic workplaces.
Seven Ways to Think Like a Twenty-First-Century Economist
Whether you consider yourself an economic veteran or novice, now is the time to uncover the economic graffiti that lingers in all of our minds and, if you don’t like what you find, scrub it out; or, better still, paint it over with new images that far better serve our needs and times.
Who Wants to be an Economist?
No academic discipline other than economics has managed to provoke its own students—the very people who have chosen to dedicate years of their life to studying its theories—into worldwide revolt.
Welcome New Members!
We’re thrilled to announce four new organizations have joined our coalition this month! Here’s a quick round-up of who they are, what they do, and why we’re so excited to have them.
Let’s Do This Together
See what talented, dedicated activists, organizers, and changemakers are saying about how being in the NEC network has helped them move their work forward.
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