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SOLIDARITY ECONOMY SHORTS
Solidarity Economy Shorts are conversations with frontline organizations and individuals that are putting solidarity economy principles into practice and using different strategies to build an economic system where communities are meeting their own needs outside of capitalism.
Solidarity Economy Shorts is a podcast collaboration between New Economy Coalition and Cooperative Journal Media. Tune in for more stories at Cooperative Journal Podcast and find the podcast at your favorite streaming platform.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #6: Building Local Solidarity Economies
In this episode we talk with Beloved Community Incubator about how they started as a hyperlocal initiative and evolved into regional solidarity economy organizing.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #5: Artists as organizers with CREATIVE WILDFIRE
We speak with Lizzie Suarez and Lily Xie about their roles as artists and cultural organizers, challenges that arise when collaborating with organizations, and the cultural shifts needed to have a just transition in the arts.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #4: Resourcing Black Solidarity Economies
In this episode we learn about NEC’s Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF), and we speak with former grantees about their solidarity economy organizing and the ancestral wisdom that informs their work.
MEMBER STORYTELLING
SOLIDARITY ECONOMIES: BUILDING COMMUNITY POWER
“Solidarity Economies: Building Community Power” is a series coproduced with NPQ that feature cases studies of solidarity economy ecosystems that are returning wealth and building grassroots power in cities across the country.
Building the Solidarity Economy by Boosting Black-Owned Co-ops
In Oakland, CA, Black community activists are combining Pan-African liberatory visions with business and legal skills to build a network of Black co-ops.
Building the Spokes in the Wheel of a Solidarity Economy: A DC Story
In Washington, DC, a network of cooperatives is emerging. The organizing extends beyond supporting worker co-ops to building a network of mutual aid and support.
Building Economic Resilience in the Rust Belt: Buffalo’s Growing Co-op Network
Buffalo residents have long had to do for themselves. Increasingly, “doing for themselves” means building cooperatives.
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Next Economy Now: In Pursuit of More Just Economic Futures
What does it take to reimagine our financial structures so that social movements can thrive in abundant ecosystems rather than being starved for resources?
Upstream Podcast: Will the Revolution Be Funded?
In this conversation we explain why it is so hard to find funding to do anti-capitalist movement work and how we can find aligned funding both within and outside of mainstream philanthropy.
This is Hell Radio: Will the Revolution Be Funded?
Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry discuss their article at The Forge, “Will the Revolution Be Funded?,” which is against big philanthropy and argues for community ‘self-funding.’