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Check out the new report Cooperatizing Boston: Advancing Municipal Support for Worker Ownership, just released by the Center for Economic Democracy’s Solidarity Economy Initiative. I helped advise this project and its main author Erwin Li, who is a recent master’s degree graduate of Tufts Department of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning. The project wasContinue reading Report Launch: Cooperatizing Boston
Lessons Learned from the Solidarity Economy Initiative 2014 – 2021 By Penn Loh, Michelle de Lima, and Erwin Li “We want to change the mentality of people from individual to collective thinking and not only to keep it in the mind but also to transfer that to the heart in order to know how toContinue reading Solidarity Economies as Relational Practice to Build Worlds Beyond Capitalism
The annual Greater Boston Housing Report Card, most recently released in November 2023, featured a special chapter focusing on community land trusts. I had the honor of leading a team that included Tufts UEP graduate students Chelsey Gao and Johnny Shively to draft that chapter. Check out the 2023 Greater Boston Housing Report Card here.Continue reading Community Land Trusts featured in Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2023
Our final report is now released — Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening Civic Infrastructure in East Boston through Community Care.Continue reading New Report — Mutual Aid Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Strengthening Civic Infrastructure in East Boston through Community Care
Nuestro informe final ha sido publicado — Lo que la pandemia del COVID-19 nos enseñó sobre el apoyo mutuo: Cómo fortalecer la infraestructura cívica en East Boston mediante el cuidado comunitario.Continue reading Nuevo informe — Lo que la pandemia del COVID-19 nos enseñó sobre el apoyo mutuo: Cómo fortalecer la infraestructura cívica en East Boston mediante el cuidado comunitario
[This case study is an adaptation of a May 2023 assignment for “Solidarity Economy Movements”, a course in Tufts University’s Urban and Environmental Policy & Planning program. Credits to contributors Sarah Jane Huber and Eda Kosma. Also available to view as a Storymap: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a3d3c3785db240fb863bf66a89ecfc2f.%5D In October 2022, the newly formed East Boston Neighborhood Trust (EBNT)Continue reading When We Fight (and Build), We Win: How community organizing helped create the East Boston Neighborhood Trust
Si bien la pandemia de COVID-19 trajo enormes desafíos para las comunidades de los Estados Unidos, también fue un momento que unió a las personas y mostró el poder de la cooperación, la creatividad y la resiliencia. Cuando llegó la pandemia en marzo de 2020, las organizaciones comunitarias en el área de Boston dieron unContinue reading Nuevo informe:Cómo las Respuestas Comunitarias a COVID en Boston están Construyendo Nuevas Infraestructuras de Atención y Participación Ciudadana
While the COVID-19 pandemic brought daunting challenges for communities around the United States, it was also a time that united people and showed the power of cooperation, creativity, and resiliency. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, community-based organizations (CBOs) in the Boston area pivoted almost overnight to provide emergency response and mobilized to meetContinue reading New Report: How Community Responses to COVID in the Boston Area Are Building New Infrastructures of Care and Community Engagement
I am so excited to announce that a paper I co-wrote with Boone Shear is finally published and available after more than two years of work. Entitled Fight and Build: Solidarity Economy as Ontological Politics, this article explores the potential of solidarity economy movements to create and sustain other worlds (a pluriverse) beyond capitalism andContinue reading Article published in Sustainability Science. Fight and Build: Solidarity Economy as Ontological Politics
I and former UEP students Zoë Ackerman and Joceline Fidalgo have published the article “A Relational Approach to Transforming Power in a Community-University Partnership” in Gateways International Journal of Community Research and Engagement in December 2021. It explores the power dynamics in our Co-Education/Co-Research (CORE) partnership between Tufts UEP and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative.Continue reading Article published in Gateways Journal: A Relational Approach to Transforming Power in a Community-University Partnership