Solidarity Economy Organizing

A key element in movement building

Valve is a Software game development company founded by an alumnus of Microsoft. Self-funded, it has about 300 employees. Its first product came together quickly and paid off handsomely. Most importantly, it has no bosses. It is entirely flat. There have been several write-ups recently about Valve in the mainstream (Capitalist) business press pointing out the "no boss" structure.

Part two of an interview with Cheyenna Weber of SolidarityNYC

We have to change the game, not simply the rules of the game.

SolidarityNYC has worked to "challenge the social justice movement to take up grassroots economic community development" as a way of building solidarity and concrete alternatives to capitalism.

becoming the change we want to bring to the world

The biggest obstacle the Occupy Movement is up against is not the 1%.

going global for sure, but will something long-term emerge

empirical activism to achieve meaningful mutual advantage

We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory.
  --R D Laing, The Politics of Experience