How can we construct regional economies rooted in group possession? As Stacey Sutton wrote to introduce an NPQ article sequence final fall on “Solidarity Economies—Constructing Group Energy,” the expansion of solidarity financial system organizations throughout the nation during the last decade has been “considerably astounding.” On this webinar, cosponsored by the New Financial system Coalition, we construct on the contributions from that sequence and take a deep have a look at motion development and ongoing challenges—with contributors from New Orleans, Los Angeles, Oakland (CA), Buffalo and Washington DC sharing their views.
Our panelists are:
This webinar explores:
- What can we imply by a solidarity financial system?
- How do you construct a community-owned solidarity financial system on the native and regional ranges?
- How do solidarity financial system companies develop viable and sustainable enterprise fashions?
- What does an incubator do and the way does that assist community-owned companies generate residing wages and earnings?
- What’s the ecosystem that’s wanted to assist cooperatives, group land trusts, and different instruments of group financial possession?
- What’s the position of tradition and the humanities within the solidarity financial system?
- How can group financial organizing construct on African and Indigenous cultural traditions?
- How do solidarity financial system activists be a part of forces with labor unions, racial justice teams, and different social motion organizations?
- What can public coverage do to assist solidarity financial system improvement?
Whether or not you’re a social motion activist, nonprofit chief, board member, or engaged in community-based organizing, this webinar will give you real-life examples and classes realized that may inform your work in your individual group.
Assets
Andrew Delmonte, “Constructing Financial Resilience within the Rust Belt: Buffalo’s Rising Co-op Community,” NPQ, December 13, 2023.
Latowa Giwa, in collaboration with Susan Sakash, “Constructing an Arts Solidarity Financial system,” NPQ, December 6, 2023.
Gilda Haas, “How the Metropolis of Angels Can Turn into a Metropolis of Employee-House owners,” NPQ, December 13, 2023.
Gregory Jackson, “Constructing the Solidarity Financial system by Boosting Black-Owned Co-ops,” NPQ, December 20, 2023.
M. Felix Macaraeg and Bianca Vazquez, “Constructing the Spokes within the Wheel of a Solidarity Financial system: A DC Story,” NPQ, December 20, 2023.
Stacey Sutton, “Seeding Solidarity Economies: What’s Behind the Rising Ecosystems,” NPQ, December 6, 2023.