This week we’re talking about a people-powered currency in Puerto Rico, our Rural Electric Cooperative Toolkit, a new worker cooperative start-up guide, and workers seizing the machine of Capital to demand renewable energy jobs. Plus, jobs and events from across the new economy!
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New Economy Roundup: Public Bank of North Dakota Turns 100, #ReparationsNow from M4BL & #RickyRenuncia Next Steps!
This week we’re talking about the 100th birthday of the Public Bank of North Dakota, a Puerto Rican feminist collective who helped spearhead the historic #RickyRenuncia protests, and the #ReparationsNow toolkit from the Movement for Black Lives!
New Economy Roundup: Resources For Your Climate Stress, Co-op Franchises, and International Trade
This week we’re talking about private prison divestment, progressive trade agendas that serve the people and planet, and how to process and navigate the current climate crisis.
New Economy Roundup: Keep Your Elegy, #CloseTheCamps and 4th of July Anti-Imperialist Reading List!
This week we’re talking about bold plans for just transition, countering dominant narratives and reclaiming freedom locally and globally.
New Economy Roundup: Seeding the Conversation – Poverty, Reparations, Healthcare, POC Farmers, and Public Banking
'This week we’re talking about presidents and poverty, the next generation of land stewards, international public banks and a new network of New Economy professionals.P.S. - We’re halfway there! Help us reach our goal of 100 monthly donors joining our new...
New Economy Roundup: A Roundup of Seeds – Sown, Grown, #NowWeOwn
This week we’re talking about sowing the seeds of a new system in California, Ghana, Minnesota, the ocean off of Connecticut, Indonesia, Tunisia, and beyond.
New Economy Roundup: Essential Resources – Community, Land, Cooperation
This week we’re talking about the many ways NEC members help people build community, steward the land they depend on, and cooperate to serve their needs. From black youth in Chicago and artists in Mexico, to cooperative tech start-ups and community land trusts, our members are building power for people to own themselves.
New Economy Roundup: 100 Hours Without Coal, Radical Street Lights, and A Silver Tsunami Plan
This week we’re talking about the national climate emergency declared by the UK, how streetlight development in Michigan is building the future of energy democracy, and how one city plans to use cooperatives to solve the baby boomer retirement crisis.
New Economy Roundup: #NowWeOwn The Code, Global Transformation for Reparations, & Highlander Center
This week we’re talking about the evolution of tech ownership, the system change needed for true reparations, and reflections on recent conversations of reactions and impacts of burning of well-known buildings.
New Economy Roundup: John Oliver, Nazis, and Aboriginal Rights
This week we’re talking about John Oliver lifting up resident owned communities as a solution to rent hikes, corporations reckoning with their Nazi affiliated past, and how aboriginal people of Australia had their native title rights recognized.
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