This month, we’re talking about boycotts for Palestine, supporting Sudanese takya, an eviction moratorium in LA and Cincinnati’s emerging cooperative economy, and Vanuatu’s win for global climate reparations.
STORIES FROM THE FIELD
LA Eviction Moratorium: Local economies are seeing a dip in revenue, with workers and customers choosing to stay home to avoid ICE raids. So the LA Tenants Union is urging the LA County Board of Supervisors to protect renters and unhoused neighbors with an eviction moratorium. They say, “If it’s unsafe to work, how can we pay rent?”After the devastating wildfires in January, renters won rent control; however, these protections ended yesterday. People of the land, join LA Tenants Union in the fight for an eviction moratorium, and learn more about how LA Más is constructing affordable housing in northeast LA.
Birthing the Anti-AIPAC: Earlier this year, the US Attorney used lawfare to target Jewish Voice for Peace leading to a settlement of nearly $700K. Today, JVP is a 501c4. This means beyond encouraging boycotts, they can also name the politicians who are funded by the Zionist entity and other pro-apartheid funders. Now, more than ever before, our movements need democratic strategies for ensuring organizational resilience. If your organization is asking the same questions, learn more about JVPs process, and consider applying to the Movement Power and Infrastucture Institute, founded by NEC members Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) and Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC).
Co-op Cincy Building Worker Ownership: With over $7.4 million invested in the local cooperative economy, NEC member, Co-op Cincy is building infrastructure for community food systems, competitive wages and benefits, and a just transition. “Before Our Harvest, I worked at a chicken processing plant. I got a raise one or two times, at fifty cents, and that was it. I didn’t receive another raise for the next four years. [It’s] different here, because I feel like I’m treated like a person,” one worker-owner testifies. Read Seed Commons’ case study on Co-op Cincy to learn how they’re making this happen with non-extractive loans and co-op incubation.
SOLIDARITY ECONOMIES ABROAD
Takya is Feeding Sudan: Emergency Response Room (ERR) community kitchens, or ‘takya,” are neighborhood-based mutual aid groups that emerged out of the 2018-19 revolution, and they are mitigating level 5 famine across Sudan– the worst of malnutrition and death by starvation. Mutual aid means mutual need, so the very humanitarian ERR workers are both famished and carrying out rapid response. Support @barana_hanabneiho, @hopeandhavenrefugees, @helpingsudan, @mazinalzain (Sororab Community Kitchen), @sadagaatusa, and @khartoum_aid_kitchen materially by donating, volunteering, or amplifying their calls to action. Learn more about the legacy of ERRs by following @sudan.updates on Instagram and by reading our toolkit, archiving the revolutionary movement.
Palestinian Co-ops Call for BDS: The Zionist entity has destroyed 80% of co-op societies in Gaza, from agriculture and housing to savings and credit services. The Union of Agricultural Work invites the international community to volunteer in the West Bank to support Palestinian farmers as a protective presence and amplify voices in the struggle for food sovereignty and self-determination. Cooperators and solidarity economists are invited to join this effort in October for the annual olive harvest. Learn more about this opportunity for solidarity on their website.
Vanuatu Brings Climate Reparations to the World: In Yakel, Vanuatu, yam is more than a tasty crop– it’s a time keeper and vital ancestor in ceremonies from marriage to funerals to choosing a new leader. There hasn’t been a single successful yam harvest in four years. Carrying this grief, Pacific Islander legal activists beg the question, ‘what do states who have caused the climate crisis owe to the victims of this crisis?” Gathering testimonies from Guam to Vanuatu, and carrying them to the International Court of Justice, they finally reached an advisory opinion: “climate inaction is a breach not only of environmental treaties but of general international law and human rights law.” This opinion can set an international norm for climate reparations. Read this essay detailing the hands, hearts, and histories that made this achievement for the people of the global majority possible.
FEATURES
Climate Mobilization Project launched a climate survival leadership cohort for BIPOC youth leaders working on aligned disaster resilience infrastructure and skill-building initiatives. Check the criteria and apply today.
MOVEMENT NEWS
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- After a century of dispossession, Black farmers are fighting to get back to the land
- Dollar Stores Force Local Grocery Stores to Close. This Woman Opened One Anyway.
- How Trump’s Tax Law Will Deepen Housing Insecurity
- How to Reduce Economic Inequality by Expanding Employee Ownership
- Why we need a solidarity economy now
- Learning from a Near-Death Experience: How to Survive a Budget Crisis
- New Miner Challenges Trump Cuts To Black Lung Screening Program
- REI Co-op Members Back Workers, Reject Board-Imposed Candidate Slate
- Research Shows Evictions Are a Public Health Problem. Can Eviction Prevention Be a Solution?
- Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics
- The US is BLIND to BRICS – And It’s Crushing America’s Future!
RESOURCE LIBRARY
PODCASTS & VIDEO
#BuildAndFight Formula 6: Social – Digital Commons, Black Liberation Media
Profit Is A False God, The Socialist Program
Trade Wars and Tariffs w/ Richard Wolff, Upstream
Where Language Fails Us: A Concert Film with Dirar Kalas, Palestine Deep Dive
TOOLKITS & RESOURCES
How to Protect Your Health If A Disaster Strikes Your Community, Grist
Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistance, Shareable
Brief: The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight – Why Investors Are Paying Attention to Employee Ownership, Transform Finance
JOBS
Buildings & Grounds Director, Highlander Center
Climate Organizing Director, Jobs with Justice San Francisco
Human Resources Consultant, Beloved Communities Incubator
Media Producer, More Perfect Union
Paralegal, New Economy Project
Staff Attorney, New Economy Project
Sustainable Resource Development Strategist, RiseBoro
If you’re hiring, consider submitting to The Roundup.
For more opportunities, check out this job board from NEC member Post Growth Institute and this one from the U.S. Federation of Worker Co-ops!
UPCOMING EVENTS
2025 Undoing Internalized Ableism Cohort
This is a workshop series for a cohort of disabled people who are currently engaged in social justice work. The series is designed to develop knowledge and skills (peer support, self-advocacy, practicing access, and more) to navigate internalized ableism. This is not apolitical or completely individual. Participants will work with each other to find ways we can make the work of undoing internalized ableism a collective process and use what is learned in movement work beyond the cohort. The series will occur between September 5 and October 9, and we ask that all applicants commit to attending all session dates. (Deadline – Aug 9)
Cascadia Cooperative Conference 2025 | Northwest Cooperative Development Center
CCC will celebrate the incredible diversity of the cooperative economic model in the bioregion of Cascadia (connected to the Salish Sea and the Columbia River), which includes communities throughout British Columbia, Canada, and the U.S. States of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The conference aims to leverage the strength of co-ops in these communities to create a stronger and more resilient cooperative ecosystem and to advance the goals of the International Year of Cooperatives. (Seattle, WA – Aug 25 & 26)
Cosmos Financial Foundations
Get your ticket for this four-part series to develop confidence and clarity around finances in your organization as we build and fight for a just world. (Virtual – Sept – Oct)