By Fanny Malinen, New Internationalist Blog
‘There is a big need for the solidarity movement in Greece. It started in late 2011 and has nearly doubled now to around 400 groups – even more if you add the more loosely networked ones,’ Christos Giovanopoulos says.
By Yavor Tarinski, Grassroots Economic Organizing
Seeing high unemployment, activists from various social movements have decided that since the contemporary system cannot provide them with jobs, they’ll create them outside of it.
By Henry Tam, Commons Transition
Unlike their traditional for-profit counterparts, Open Cooperatives are oriented towards the common good in their statutes.
By John Restakis, Grassroots Economic Organizing
I want to speak today about a crisis that has gripped Europe, and the western democracies, over the last 30 years.
By Frank Cetera, Grassroots Economic Organizing
With little governmental help for sustainable agricultur...small farmers in Cauca have turned to the production of compost.
By Abby Scher, YES! magazine
This localist agenda is part of Mayor Spencer’s ambitious program to create a fairer and more sustainable local economy whose businesses stay put and where money spends more time circulating locally among networked enterprises.
By Mira Luna, Shareable
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) is a grassroots organization that has taken the lead in organizing the community around the Mike Brown case, systemic racism and building a solidarity economy in St. Louis through a new project called Solidarity Economy St. Louis.
By Michael Johnson, Grassroots Economic Organizing
A diversity of kindred approaches to alternative economics has been evolving.
By Cat Johnson, Shareable
A powerhouse organization promoting economic justice, Cooperation Jackson was born of a need to transform the state, in particular its capital and largest city, Jackson.
By Carl Davidson, Shareable
...the ‘Jackson Rising’ conference in Jackson, Mississippi...was a highly successful and intensive exploration of Black power, the solidarity economy and the possibilities unleashed for democratic change when radicals win urban elections.
By Mira Luna, Shareable
This is an exploration of their impressive model for other cities to learn from - whether they are sharing cities, solidarity cities, or regions of new economy