Conferences, Events & Gatherings

Venezuela Solidarity Symposium

Ethan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:20:27 -0400

A gathering in Washington DC examines Venezuela's practices of participatory democracy.

Ecopalooza Green Events Network

EcoLarry — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:23:21 -0400

Ecopalooza is a web portal and event calendar for the promotion of green living expos, fairs, festivals, conferences, workshops and other sustainability events throughout North America. Ecopalooza website is a project of Ecopalooza Green Events Network, which also sponsors occasional green events in the Redwood North Coast bioregion of Northern California. The primary focus of Ecopalooza's networking activity is is on the bioregional, plant-based diet and youth aspects of the sustainability revolution.

The Really Really Free Market!

Ethan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:06:50 -0500

The "Really Really Free Market" challenges neoclassical definitions of the word "free" and creates gift economies in communities across the U.S.

The UnMoney Convergence: April 14-16

Ethan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:29:11 -0500

The unMoney Convergence is an interactive (un)conference on the systemic transformation of money and its connection to the social transformation of the planet as a whole.

Free Software & Solidarity Economy In Colombia

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

By David Jacovkis, www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy Goes South!

Ethan — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:27:22 -0500

By Mary Hoyer, ECWD Lead Organizer

For the first time since its inception in 2002, the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (ECWD) will be held in the South. The 2007 regional conference will be co-hosted by the Federation of Southern Co-ops/Land Assistance Fund (FSC/LAF) and the Southern Appalachian Center for Cooperative Ownership (SACCO). Conference planners are delighted to bring the message of worker cooperation and business ownership to the South where credit unions and producer co-ops are prominent in rural areas.

U.S. Solidarity Economy Network is Born at the USSF 2007

Ethan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:31:59 -0500

By Jenna Allard and Julie Matthaei, Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy

Most of the over 10,000 people who traveled to the first-ever U.S. Social Forum, in Atlanta last June 27-30, would consider ourselves activists, and most are acutely aware of the many systemic problems that our country faces, from increasing inequality and persistent poverty to environmental degradation, from a corrupt political system to an unjust war, from the continuing struggle with racism and sexism to the intolerant policies enacted against immigrants and gay/lesbian/trans-gendered people.

Worker Conference Goes to the South, Resolves to Collaborate with Unions

Ethan — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:29:09 -0500

By Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (ECWD) took concrete steps toward coalition building with other workers and unions, inter-cooperation with other cooperatives, and forging alliances with political groups at its 4th biennial conference this summer. It was the first ECWD held in the South. Attended by 146 people from 26 states and 75 organizations, the conference took place at the University of North Carolina in Asheville from July 20-22, 2007. It was one of the largest, most enthusiastic, inclusive, and successful conferences since the first ECWD meeting in 2002.

What I'm Bringing Back to My Co-op From the 2007 ECWD

Ethan — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:13:33 -0500

By Jim Johnson, GEO Collective

I had such a great time at this year's conference in Asheville, NC. Too many workshops, I wanted to go to all of them! But it's impossible, of course; quality over quantity is the only way. Armed with my laptop, I vowed to take careful notes and make at least a couple of presentations back home that would help my comrades and I become better worker-owners. Of course, my motive also was to demonstrate that attending the 2009 conference would be a worthy investment of time and money.

Fuel to the Fire: Reflections on an Amazing Conference

admin — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:41:20 -0400

By Len Krimerman, GEO Collective

I had expected the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC) conference to be extraordinarily good, but it exceeded even that expectation. There was a wonderful mix of energies, ages, languages, cultures, regions, sectors, perspectives...that often found common ground; there were issues discussed that usually are kept off the table; there were ever so many signs of a movement matured, full of experience and promise, ready to take risks and take off.