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I’m excited to share this article “Building the Solidarity Economy: A Decade’s Assessment” in Nonprofit Quarterly. This piece is basd on the work I’ve been involved with over the last fifteen years with community partners, including the Solidarity Economy Initiative and Center for Economic Democracy.
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
By Allie Wainer and Melissa Gordon In May 2019, a group of 18 students and faculty with Tufts New Economy and community members from the Solidarity Economy Initiative traveled to Montreal for a weekend to exchange ideas with organizations putting solidarity economy values into practice. Instead of traveling to an academic-style conference, we explored MontrealContinue reading Seeing Solidarity Economy in Action in Montreal
On Saturday April 28, the Solidarity Economy Initiative hosted “Learning from Jackson: Building a Solidarity Economy in Boston.” Almost 200 came to afternoon workshops and an evening program featuring Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson. This event had many co-sponsors, including from Tufts (Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning, Education, and Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism,Continue reading Boston Learns from Jackson MS
New report documents emerging solidarity economy movement in lower income communities of color [Download report: large-format or letter-size] A solidarity economy movement is emerging from lower-income communities of color in Massachusetts. This movement aspires to transform capitalism—as we know it—into a world rooted in values of democracy, justice, and sustainability. These dreams arise from thoseContinue reading Solidarity Rising in Massachusetts