Solidarity Economy Organizing

The Seed

Ethan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:37:01 -0400

A solidarity trade organizing effort in Greece

U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (SEN)

Ethan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:35:20 -0400

Our Eyes On the Prize: From a "Worker Co-op Movement" to a Transformative Social Movement

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:56:02 -0500

While empathizing with those who feel a sense of "inevitability" in the face of today's powerful capitalist economy (and disagreeing with those who see it as generally acceptable), I hold firmly to the perspective that a more just and democratic economy is both necessary and possible. And I believe that the greatest chance of increasing and assuring viability for the workplace democracy movement may rest in our ability to keep our "eyes on the prize"; that is, on the long term replacement of capitalism―an economy which socializes costs and privatizes benefits―with an economy of democratic cooperation―in which costs and benefits are democratically and equitably shared throughout society.

World Social Forum at a Crossroads: 5th International, Solidarity Economy, or Stand Pat?

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:42:59 -0500

If in 2001 the World Social Forum was "the birthplace of global civil society"-namely all social groupings between the public realm of the state and the private realm of the family-what should it be when that society grows up a bit? Many feel that a change is needed. Explaining her absence from the 2006 WSF, Arundhati Roy said "[it] has now become very NGO-ized [non-governmental organizations]...it's just become too comfortable a stage. I think it has played a very important role up to now, but now...I think we have to come up with new strategies."

Free Software & Solidarity Economy In Colombia

Ethan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:28:13 -0500

By David Jacovkis, www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Solidarity Economy In Nepal

Ethan — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:50:28 -0500

A blog highlighting solidarity economy experiences and case studies

The Social Forum and The Solidarity Economy: A Dialogue

Ethan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:18:22 -0500

By Len Krimerman and Bob Stone, GEO Collective

LEN: As folks head towards the very first US Social Forum in Atlanta questions arise: other than convening a rich mosaic of progressive organizations and activists, does the social forum movement have a mission to bring about "another world," and, if not, should it now adopt a strategy for doing so?

Helping Cooperatives Cooperate: A New Solution to Inequities Within Worker Cooperatives

Ethan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:14:23 -0500

By Robin Hahnel

Worker-owned cooperatives are wonderful alternatives to privately owned, capitalist firms. Workers can decide what they want to produce and how they want to produce it instead of having all that decided by their employers. In other words, workers can take control of their laboring capacities and use them as they see fit. Moreover, whatever benefits come from their efforts belong to them, not to an absentee owner who did none of the work.

GEO Online: Building a Toolbox for the Solidarity Economy

Ethan — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:44:45 -0500

For more than twenty years, the Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) Newsletter (called "Changing Work" from 1984-1991) has published news and analysis of global efforts to build a democratic and cooperative economy. In 2007, we decided to move from a printed format (with a supplemental website) to a fully-online web publication. Welcome to the new GEO Online!

Cooperativization As Alternative to Globalizing Capitalism

Ethan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:48:08 -0500

By Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone, GEO Collective

This Occasional Paper by editor/activists at Grassroots Economic Organizing is meant to stimulate dialog on the future of the grassroots economic democracy movement. This is a fully re-written update of an essay available since 1994 to GEO readers. We hope for wide use of this text, with attribution to the authors and GEO. Please email us with ideas/dialogue.

Our goal is more than simple options for individual improvement. It is more. If the co-operative enterprise does not serve for more, the world of work has the right to spit in our faces.
- Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta (Quoted by MacLeod 1997)