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New Economy ROUNDUP
New Economy Roundup: How to Stop ICE in your Community, Defend Rojava NOW!, Assemblies for Just Democracy at Home & Abroad, La Patagonia Arde
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.
Program Update: Solidarity Economy Festival, Black Solidarity Economy Fund, EAT! Talkback Session, and Sustaining our Resistance
In this program update, we’re talking about our highlights of the final quarter of the year. Read on for updates on solidarity economy happenings around the network, and Black Solidarity Economy Fund Updates.
New Economy Roundup: Solidarity Economy in NY, Black-Owned Farms, Ecuador Says NO, Speak Up for Sudan, Defending Neighbors & COP30
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.
community highlights
Resources from our Network
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!
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.
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.
Solidarity Economy Shorts #3: Practicing Abolition with Sol Underground
In our third episode we talk with NEC member Sol Underground, an abolitionist ecosystem in Atlanta dreaming of a Black and Indigenous liberated world that is resisting colonial systems of oppression.
SOLIDARITY ECONOMIES: BUILDING COMMUNITY POWER
A publication series coproduced with The Nonprofit Quarterly, that features five case studies highlighting the work & the strategies that NEC members are using to build solidarity economy ecosystems.
news & updates
What’s new with NEC?
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.
NEC launches new Funding Library and holds Movement Funding Webinar
New Economy Coalition’s Movement Resourcing Working Group has just launched a Solidarity Economy Funding Library, which includes 350+ funders, non-extractive investors, and fiscal sponsors.
We’re Hiring a Membership Director
We’re looking for someone to lead our high-level membership strategy and programming. Apply by March 15, 2024.
SOLIDARITY ECONOMIES: BUILDING COMMUNITY POWER
A publication series coproduced with The Nonprofit Quarterly, that features five case studies highlighting the work & the strategies that NEC members are using to build solidarity economy ecosystems.
2023 Black Solidarity Economy Fund Grantees
In December 2023, the Black Solidarity Economy Fund working group redistributed $280,000 to 48 Black-led solidarity economy projects! BSEF funds not distributed this year will be used as seed funds for next years’ round of re-granting, and support the BSEF working...
Divest from Militarism and Invest in Life! Join the Dec 11-15 Week of Action
As members of the solidarity economy movement, we know that investments in militarism, both domestically and abroad, aren’t keeping us safe. Take action this week to tell the US government: Divest from militarism and invest in life!
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