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New Economy ROUNDUP
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Resources from our Network
Meeting Sheet for Facilitators – from Many Voices One Song Book
Meeting sheet resource from Many Voices One Song handbook by Sociocracy for All. More resources available online.
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
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.
New Economy Organisers Network(NEON) Toolkit
Key resources from NEON on sysytems and power, leadership, campaigns and more for campaigners, activists, and organizers.
WATCH: Worker Co-ops — A solution for an economy in crisis
Learn about: the worker co-op movement's development over the last few years newly-released data on successes and growth in employee ownership how the worker cooperative movement is raising money for the people and by the people, and exciting policy developments in the last year.
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What capitalism and kings have in common
What we’re trying to do seems downright impossible most days. The system is entrenched. Its “logic” is deep in our culture. A small number of individuals and groups hoard most of the power and the wealth, and use it against us.
Democracy is under attack.
In July, the Washington Post published a report claiming that one-third of the world’s population was living in a “backsliding democracy.”
#MakingWaves: Staff Profile on Kierra Sims
“The new economy isn’t new – people have been practicing these models for a while,” Kierra emphasizes. “Our job is to name it and recognize it, so that those efforts can be connected and scaled.”
#MakingWaves: Staff Profile on Kelly Baker
Before we can change any system we must first see and understand it for what it truly is. For Kelly Baker, Interim Co-Director at NEC, that system is philanthropy.
#MakingWaves: Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance in Next City!
Learn how NEC members are changing the current, like in Philadelphia!
#MakingWaves: We Have Something They Don’t Have
The power of many. That’s what we saw on Election Day.
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