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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.

New Economy Roundup: Feminist & Popular Economies, Agrarian Commons, and the New People’s Army

This week, we’re talking about feminist and popular economy education, grants available to cooperative farmers, building the agrarian commons, the armed people’s revolution in the southern Philippines, and a case study on municipalism in Poland.

New Economy Roundup: Solidarity Against ICE, Queer Peasant Feminist Anti-Fascism, and Decolonizing Niger

This week we’re celebrating Black History Month and talking about Black cooperative practices from Ohio to Jamaica and Ghana, solidarity economy responses to the Trump administration, artist-led solidarity economy models, climate action in Congo, Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, and more!

New Economy Roundup: Black Co-op Legacies, Fascism vs Solidarity Economies, Climate Action in DRC

This week we’re celebrating Black History Month and talking about Black cooperative practices from Ohio to Jamaica and Ghana, solidarity economy responses to the Trump administration, artist-led solidarity economy models, climate action in Congo, Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, and more!

New Economy Roundup: The Civil Rights Legacy, Anti-Colonialism in Nepal, and Public Banking in LA

In every New Economy Roundup, we couple our critical analysis of the news with an action you can take to learn more or do something about the issues presented. This month we’re talking about MLK’s legacy, locally controlled finance, labor wins in transportation, ceasefire celebrations in Gaza and anti-colonial activity in Nepal. Read through to the end for related resources, events and trainings.

New Economy Roundup: 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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New Economy Roundup: 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.

New Economy Roundup: #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.

New Economy Roundup: 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.

New Economy Roundup: 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!

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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: 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. Check out the resource list to learn about radical Black co-ops throughout history and today.

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What’s new with NEC?

Fall 2023 New Member Cohort

Fall 2023 New Member Cohort

We are thrilled to welcome the following 8 organizations as members of the NEC network! This incredible cohort of new members are bringing important sectors, regions, and strategies that were underrepresented in the network. The NEC Team thanks you all for the...

Meet our 2023 Creative Wildfire Orgs & Artists!

Meet our 2023 Creative Wildfire Orgs & Artists!

(Para leer en español ir abajo) We are so excited to announce the 2023-24 #CreativeWildfire artist cohort!  Creative Wildfire is a cultural organizing project led by Climate Justice Alliance, Movement Generation and New Economy Coalition. For this year, 7 brilliant...

A look back at our year so far!

A look back at our year so far!

There’s nothing quite as bountiful, vibrant and refreshing as a summer harvest. From sweet and tangy strawberries, to plump tomatoes, to juicy peaches, ripe fruits remind farmers the value of their hard, constant work. In this spirit of abundance, we at New Economy...

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