This month’s short & sweet Roundup connects abolitionist struggle, reparations, and solidarity economies as living practices of survival and liberation. From Black cooperative legacies to movements confronting policing, prisons, and state violence, we highlight tools, readings, and actions.

This month we’re talking about Black cooperative land ownership through the legacy of Alabama’s Freedom Quilting Bee, rising union and worker co-op organizing in response to layoffs and workplace instability, and artist-led campaigns divesting from war industries, alongside urgent calls from Congo and Bolivia, and more.

This month, communities are taking action everywhere, from May Day mobilizations and housing wins to water protectors fighting pipelines and AI extractivism. Together, these stories point to a shared fight to defend land, housing, and life over profit, and a reminder that what communities face at home is deeply connected to struggles everywhere else in the world. As wars intensify and ecological crises deepen globally, internationalism has never been more necessary.

This month, we’re talking about the brewing nationwide general strike, AI provocations, collective responsibility to land and water, community ownership models, “water bankruptcy,” and Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan.

This month, we’re talking about how to resist ICE in your community and demand corporate accountability; people-led assemblies reclaiming democracy and collective decision-making; international solidarity with Rojava as its autonomous project comes under attack; and communities in Patagonia organizing mutual aid and volunteer brigades amid climate denial and devastating wildfires.

This month, we’re talking about New York’s Festival of the Solidarity Economy in NYC, Black farmers across the South stepping in to feed communities amid SNAP cuts, neighbors defending against ICE, Ecuadorians standing up to neoliberalism, and grassroots climate justice movements mobilizing at COP30 in Belém.

This month, we’re talking about Co-op Month, a vision for solidarity economy in the United States, Gen-Z protest movements in Africa and Asia, and the national strike in Ecuador. Read to the end for podcasts, videos, toolkits, jobs, and events.

This month, we’re talking about South Asian diaspora political education networks, Black August, Black and Indigenous reparation narratives, a cooperative development strategy against authoritarianism, and how you can get involved in a week of action commemorating Hurricane Katrina.

This month, we’re talking about boycotts for Palestine, supporting Sudanese tekya, an eviction moratorium in LA and Cincinnati’s emerging cooperative economy, and Vanuatu’s win for global climate reparations.