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Solidarity Economy News & Action from Around the World

Grassroots Democracy in Venezuela

a struggle for participatory budgeting in the largely agrarian municipality of Torres (population 197,000) in the central-western Venezuelan state of Lara
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Announcing a Global Teach-In

Building a new economy and new wealth through democracy networks, green jobs, and an alternative financial system
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A Call for Revolutionary Love Letters

revolution is also about a change of heart: r/evolution in our relationships with ourselves, each other and the land--with life itself
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Grace Lee Boggs Message to the Occupy Movement

Move on from protest to re-inventing the institutions and practices we need
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Worker-Owners of America, Unite!

Is the NY Times getting it?
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The power of Occupy Wall Street at Lincoln Center Plaza

OWS "Truth-Force" Obliterates New York Police Department Barricade with Gandhi power
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A more than interesting proposal

"I know that this uniform doesn't have a heart, but I do."
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Civil Society at Ground Zero:

Civil Society at Ground Zero: You Can Crush the Flowers, But You Can't Stop the Spring
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More Low-Wage Workers Become Their Own Bosses

From California to Maine, over the last 15 years low-wage workers have steadily organized employee-owned small businesses
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Get Occupied With the Co-Op Movement!

By Emily Kennedy, Huffington Post

I bet you haven't heard of the global movement that's demanding a democratic economy. The one that's unsatisfied with the corporate business model and the way banks dominate the system. The one that's been occupying the social change arena since 1844. They're the Co-Operative Movement.

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