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New Economy ROUNDUP

Sign up for our bimonthly newsletter, the New Economy Roundup, to get highlights of our 200+ members and many other building solidarity economies around the world.

Defend Rojava, Worker-Owned Cannabis, and Mobile Home Tenant Organizing

This month we’re talking about how the Energy Permitting Reform Act will walk back climate action in the U.S., the affordable housing scandal displacing a mobile home community in Miami, a call for solidarity from the Kurdish Liberation Movement in Syria, and solidarity economy at the World Social Forum in Cali, Columbia. Read to the end for our resource list of the month, nonprofit jobs, and virtual and in-person events.

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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.

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Resources from our Network

Resource List: Participatory Democracy

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: Feminist & Popular Economies

Resource List: Feminist & Popular Economies

We honor the legacy of those who fought, and all the women today resisting capitalism, colonialism & cisheteropatriarchy by building feminist and popular economies from below. Learn about how women are building their own economies to provide dignified work, visibilize networks of communal care, build solidarity and collective wealth, and protect against gender-based and state violence.

Resource List: Black Co-op History

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. Learn about radical Black co-ops throughout history and today.

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