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NEC NEWSLETTER

New Economy ROUNDUP

Sign up for our bimonthly newsletter, the New Economy Roundup, to get highlights of our 200+ members and many other building solidarity economies around the world.

New Economy Roundup: Co-op Month, Sumud Flotilla, Fighting Lawfare, and Global Popular Movements

This month, we’re talking about Co-op Month, a vision for solidarity economy in the United States, Gen-Z protest movements in Africa and Asia, and the national strike in Ecuador. Read to the end for podcasts, videos, toolkits, jobs, and events.

New Economy Roundup: South Asian Anti-Fascist Networks, Black August, K20, and Honduras Resiste

This month, we’re talking about South Asian diaspora political education networks, Black August, Black and Indigenous reparation narratives, a cooperative development strategy against authoritarianism, and how you can get involved in a week of action commemorating Hurricane Katrina.

New Economy Roundup: Funding Takya, LA Eviction Moratorium, and Building Movement Infrastructure

This month, we’re talking about boycotts for Palestine, supporting Sudanese tekya, an eviction moratorium in LA and Cincinnati’s emerging cooperative economy, and Vanuatu’s win for global climate reparations.

New Economy Roundup: Free Black Mamas, Worker Self-Governance, Nakba Day Actions

This week we’re talking about the campaign to bailout Black mothers and end cash bail, a new community land trust and co-op hub in Santa Ana, what’s next for the Stop Cop City movement, a call to action for Nakba Day, the digital solidarity economy movement in Brazil, how workers are building power through democratic self-organization, and more.

New Economy Roundup: Earth Day Solidarity, Lessons from Rojava, Land Reform & Resistance

This week we’re talking about Earth Month solidarity, the impact of federal funding freezes on Black and Indigenous farmers, how the Koreatown Popular Assembly built neighborhood power against ICE, an upcoming teach-in on collective governance in Rojava, land reform...

New Economy Roundup: Criminalization of Solidarity, Climate Survival in Appalachia, Mutual Aid in Sudan

This week, we’re talking about the escalating criminalization of solidarity in the US, building power through co-op housing, disaster cooperativism in Appalachia, a call to support Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, Third World feminism, and the history of US intervention in Panama.

New Economy Roundup: Feminist & Popular Economies, Agrarian Commons, and the New People’s Army

This week, we’re talking about feminist and popular economy education, grants available to cooperative farmers, building the agrarian commons, the armed people’s revolution in the southern Philippines, and a case study on municipalism in Poland.

New Economy Roundup: Solidarity Against ICE, Queer Peasant Feminist Anti-Fascism, and Decolonizing Niger

This week we’re celebrating Black History Month and talking about Black cooperative practices from Ohio to Jamaica and Ghana, solidarity economy responses to the Trump administration, artist-led solidarity economy models, climate action in Congo, Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, and more!

New Economy Roundup: Black Co-op Legacies, Fascism vs Solidarity Economies, Climate Action in DRC

This week we’re celebrating Black History Month and talking about Black cooperative practices from Ohio to Jamaica and Ghana, solidarity economy responses to the Trump administration, artist-led solidarity economy models, climate action in Congo, Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, and more!

New Economy Roundup: The Civil Rights Legacy, Anti-Colonialism in Nepal, and Public Banking in LA

In every New Economy Roundup, we couple our critical analysis of the news with an action you can take to learn more or do something about the issues presented. This month we’re talking about MLK’s legacy, locally controlled finance, labor wins in transportation, ceasefire celebrations in Gaza and anti-colonial activity in Nepal. Read through to the end for related resources, events and trainings.

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Resource HIGHLIGHTS

Resource List: We Care For Us

Resource List: We Care For Us

A collection of resources with contributions from decolonial feminist, disabled, Black, Indigenous scholars and organizers to sharpen our strategies around care work + tangible resources for how to reshape our organizational cultures and policies in line with these values.

Resource List: Govern Ourselves

Resource List: Govern Ourselves

A collection of resources to support participatory democracy and governance at the organizational level, coming from NEC’s experience as a member-led network and a worker-self directed nonprofit.

Solidarity Economy Shorts #7: Feedback is a gift

Solidarity Economy Shorts #7: Feedback is a gift

In this episode we talk with Cooperate Western North Carolina about conflict transformation, finding the balance between relational trust building and practical work, and tools for shifting from individualism to a collective way of life!

news & updates

What’s new with NEC?

The Rapid Response Fund

The Rapid Response Fund

The Black Solidarity Economy Fund will redistribute $50k of rapid response funds to nonprofit organizations, entities, and collectives facing emergent needs due to racialized environmental, public health, legal, and economic threats.

Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum

Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum

In June, we helped co-convene the Movement Finance Forum, connecting social movement groups, non-extractive investors, funders, movement lawyers, financial technical experts, and other practitioners. NEC member Center for Economic Democracy anchored the forum, gathering around 130 people, many representing other NEC member organizations. Read our latest blog post to learn how we strove towards shared understanding of “Capital Strategies,” and deeper coordination within and across movement-anchored projects and campaigns advancing a Just Transition.

NEC Program Update: Care for the People Series, Our Annual Member Meeting, The Wellness Fund, Black and Indigenous Land Sovereignty, and A New Resource List

NEC Program Update: Care for the People Series, Our Annual Member Meeting, The Wellness Fund, Black and Indigenous Land Sovereignty, and A New Resource List

This week we’re talking about the campaign to bailout Black mothers and end cash bail, a new community land trust and co-op hub in Santa Ana, what’s next for the Stop Cop City movement, a call to action for Nakba Day, the digital solidarity economy movement in Brazil, how workers are building power through democratic self-organization, and more.

EVENTS

We Fund Us: 5 Years Since the Uprisings

We Fund Us: 5 Years Since the Uprisings

Join the New Economy Coalition for a funder briefing to support the longevity of the Black Solidarity Economy Fund (BSEF). In this session, we’ll share lessons learned in the first 5 years of operating this participatory fund, and how we can mobilize resources for the next half-decade.

Care for The People Series

Care for The People Series

This series will highlight concrete ideas, strategies, and practices for creating solidarity and conditions where care is centralized. If we are to resist policies of violence and economies of war what are our alternatives? How can we encourage collective consciousness and reject apathy and individualism?

Lessons From 10 Times A Rapper Spit Something Lowkey Revolutionary

Lessons From 10 Times A Rapper Spit Something Lowkey Revolutionary

During our program planning season last year, we mandated that art and culture and programming against anti-Black racism would be at the forefront of our work. Why now? Because we’re doubling down on the economic commitments that the 2020 uprisings brought to our movement.

money moves

Funding Solidarity Roundup

Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum

Five Takeaways from the Movement Finance Forum

In June, we helped co-convene the Movement Finance Forum, connecting social movement groups, non-extractive investors, funders, movement lawyers, financial technical experts, and other practitioners. NEC member Center for Economic Democracy anchored the forum, gathering around 130 people, many representing other NEC member organizations. Read our latest blog post to learn how we strove towards shared understanding of “Capital Strategies,” and deeper coordination within and across movement-anchored projects and campaigns advancing a Just Transition.

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