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New Economy ROUNDUP
New Economy Roundup: Economic Blockades, Peasant Struggle Solidarity, and Community Owned Utilities
In this week’s Roundup we’re talking about people’s struggles around the world. Keep reading to learn more about workers united against the Palestinian genocide, residents around the United States leading a just transition, and tenant run housing occupations turning into public housing in Brazil.
New Economy Roundup: Land Rematriation, Repairing Black Foodways, Building Power through Co-ops
This month we’re focused on food and land sovereignty! We’re talking about the rematriation of the West Berkeley Shellmound, Black-led food systems, Land Day protests and the global connections between land and energy systems. Plus get a look at worker co-op ecologies, a call to action from Argentina cooperators, interviews with tenant activists, and new solidarity economy 101 resources.
New Economy Roundup: Landworker Power, Community-Controlled Housing Wins, National Co-op Bill
This week we’re talking about powerful farmworker organizing on the West Coast, recent wins for community-controlled housing, LA’s stripper cooperative, first-of-its-kind federal legislation for co-ops, and a special issue of Hammer & Hope focused on internationalism and Palestinian liberation.
community highlights
Resources from our Network
Building a Solidarity Economy Against War and Occupation – Event Recap
On December 6th, NEC members CEANYC and NYC NoWC co-hosted an event for NYC cooperators to explore the connections between the solidarity economy and the growing movement for a Free Palestine.
Resource List: Free Palestine
November 29th marked the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine. We stand with movements around the world calling for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the occupation.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #2: Cooperation among cooperatives with Co-op Dayton
Our second episode is live now! We talk about COOPERATION AMONG COOPERATIVES, and engage in conversation with NEC member Co-op Dayton, an organization that is using community & worker ownership as a catalyst to transform Dayton’s Black and working class neighborhoods.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #1: Land Liberation with Nuns & Nones
Solidarity Economy Shorts is a podcast collaboration between NEC & Cooperative Media Journal. In our first episode we talk about LAND LIBERATION, and engage in conversation with NEC member Nuns & Nones, a community of sisters and seekers who connect to explore the themes of justice, spiritual practice, and how to respond to the needs of the times.
Resource List: Just Recovery vs Disaster Capitalism
Niki Franco is back to break down what we mean by the term “disaster capitalism” and how communities all over the world — from PR to New Orleans to Hawai’i — have resisted it and built just recovery efforts that return resources and power to the grassroots.
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.
news & updates
What’s new with NEC?
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...
The Regional Relationships Fund is open!
NEC’s new fund will resource the relationship-building that is foundational to regional organizing.
MEET OUR CREATIVE WILDFIRE ARTISTS & ORGS 🔥
(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! 🍅🌻
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...
Launching our 2023 Member Dues Drive
Giving dues reflects all the benefits of being a member, and materially shows that members collectively own this network! Building out recurring dues is also the most effective way to ensure that our movement is both well-resourced and in alignment with our values of a people’s economy, rather than working at the whims of philanthropy.
African Liberation Day: A Statement from The Black Solidarity Economy Fund
Around the world, Black people are experiencing violence at the hands of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy. Today, May 25, marks three years since George Floyd was murdered by the state. This murder was felt by Black people around the world, as we have a...
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