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New Economy ROUNDUP
New Economy Roundup: Criminalization of Solidarity, Climate Survival in Appalachia, Mutual Aid in Sudan
This week, we’re talking about the escalating criminalization of solidarity in the US, building power through co-op housing, disaster cooperativism in Appalachia, a call to support Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, Third World feminism, and the history of US intervention in Panama.
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!
community highlights
Resources from our Network
Solidarity Economy Shorts #7: Feedback is a gift
In this episode we talk with Cooperate Western North Carolina about conflict transformation, finding the balance between relational trust building and practical work, and tools for shifting from individualism to a collective way of life!
Resource List: Feminist & Popular Economies
Learn how women around the world are resisting capitalism, colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy by building feminist and popular economies from below.
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.
Resource List: Solidarity Economies 101
A compilation of some of our favorite resources to learn about the vision, values, and practices of the solidarity economy movement.
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.
Resource List: Union Cooperatives as a Strategy for Building Worker Power
Find resources below to learn more about unionizing worker-owned cooperatives as a strategy for building worker power.
news & updates
What’s new with NEC?
Lessons From 10 Times A Rapper Spit Something Lowkey Revolutionary
During our program planning season last year, we mandated that art and culture and programming against anti-Black racism would be at the forefront of our work. Why now? Because we’re doubling down on the economic commitments that the 2020 uprisings brought to our movement.
We’re Hiring a Care & HR Director
We’re looking for someone to care for NEC’s people and HR systems in a way that works toward liberatory self-governance while maintaining state compliance.
10 Times A Rapper Spit Something Lowkey Revolutionary
Join the New Economy Coalition’s Black Solidarity Economy Fund and Black Radical Democracy working group this Black History Month for a livestream event on Zoom! In this session, we will explore how generations of Hip Hop are tending to the resounding cry for overdue systems change.
2024 Black Solidarity Economy Fund Grantees
In 2024, the Black Solidarity Economy Fund awarded $241,500 to 36 organizations through a participatory grantmaking process with former grantees.
Solidarity Economies 101 workshop with NEC!
What do we mean by “economy” & what are solidarity economies? How can you connect and build upon the economic practices of cooperation and solidarity that already exist? Register for SE 101 today to explore some of these questions!
NEC Program Update: Annual Member Meeting, Black Radical Democracy Convening, Worker Co-op Conference
Sharing back the energy and inspiration from our summer gatherings and a preview of what we’ve got cooking for the rest of the year.
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