#SolidarityCities: Upstate New York
We visited Ithaca to attend an event which we also helped organize, the Mobilizing the Cooperative Economy in NY State Summit. This meeting built on momentum from summits held in Syracuse in 2012 and 2013.
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COP21: What Paris Can Learn From a Mississippi Co-op
Business-as-usual capitalism may be bracing for a stiff challenge from a group in one of America’s poorest cities.
#SolidarityCities: Philadelphia
#SolidarityCities is a project exploring how peer organizations facilitate cross-sectoral and regional organizing and grew from a desire to learn more about the challenges, victories, and movement-building of the solidarity economy movement.
Banding Together to Build a Better CSA
On paper, the community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription model is an ideal partnership.
“Something’s Happening Here… What It Is Ain’t Exactly Clear…”
“For What’s It’s Worth,” the 1967 Buffalo Springfield song as lyrical, close-up, socio-economic observation, still resonates.
Mutual Aid Network: The New Cooperative Model on the Block
The move to a new economy is underway, whether we like it or not.
The Death of the Labor Market
Over the past 20 years, the existence of common spaces, places of social debate and pretty much everything involving citizenship has been erased in a conscious and ideologically-directed manner.
Powering Community: Talking Resilience with Timothy DenHerder-Thomas
Our whole economy is built on financing things for privatized benefit.
Cooperative/Solidarity Economics and Advancing the Development of Worker Co-ops
Let’s try to get both a firm grasp and a large perspective on "regional co-operative/solidarity economic development," and what it has to do with “advancing the development of worker co-operatives.”
Living Co-operatively: Everyday Dissent
Co-operatives (housing, energy, food and worker) act in opposition to the ruthlessness of capitalism, and provide security, opportunity and positivity to those involved with them.
We Need a New Economic System
If we want to reverse this trajectory — if we want an economy that delivers democratic rather than plutocratic outcomes — we need to democratize the economy.
Worker Cooperatives – An Alternative for Youth
Worker cooperatives are rising, and youth are increasingly becoming a part of their success.
