Music, Solidarity and Community
On a small scale, Mousai is laying the foundation for what Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard calls a Cooperative Solidarity Commonwealth.
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On Doing Well, Part 2
There was a time in this country’s history when knowledge of the fundamentals of the monetary system was wide spread among the common citizens, not just Wall Street financiers and academic economists.
On Doing Well
Solidarity means, simply, that we commit ourselves to sink or swim together.
In Venezuela’s Difficult Times the Grassroots are Stronger
‘People are starting to understand how food works. There is no way to move forward until communities become involved in food and production.
Lessons from Syriza’s Failure: Build a New Economy and Polity
Last year SYRIZA, the left coalition party elected to lead the Greek government and face down its creditors and European overlords, lost its high-stakes confrontation with neoliberalism.
Working Alone Together
For many, a permanent state of social economic uncertainty is the new normal.
Building Alternative Institutions in Greece
A key organization within the solidarity economy movement is Solidarity for All. Solidarity for All is an organization that offers technical support, capacity building, and network-scaling for the various grassroots initiatives around Greece.
Giving Fellow Citizens a Stake
Stephane Vlaminck is not out to conquer the world market. He supplies his microbrewery’s products locally – with a little help from an association to promote the solidarity economy.
#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.
#SolidarityCities: Montréal
Our visit to Montreal was built around a desire to understand the city’s uniquely federated Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) sector.
#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.
Here’s what a Solidarity Economy Looks Like – From Quebec to Chicago to Mexico
Defining the term “solidarity economy” can be difficult: it has become a kind of catch-all to describe everything from worker-owned cooperatives to open source software to complementary currencies.
