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We’re a coalition of 170+ organizations building the solidarity economy in the U.S. and showing that another world is not only possible — it’s already happening.

A New Future

What is the solidarity economy?

A global movement to put people and planet over profits.
A set of principles, practices, and institutions that provide real alternatives to capitalism.
A system where all of the things a community needs are controlled and governed by everyday people.
A framework rooted in participatory democracy, cooperation, solidarity, and respect for the earth.

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New Economy ROUNDUP

Sign up for our bimonthly newsletter, the New Economy Roundup, to get highlights of our 200+ members and many other building solidarity economies around the world.

Juneteenth Legacy, Abolitionist Futures, Making Reparations Possible, Resources for Anti-Racism, Mapping Collective Care

This month’s short & sweet Roundup connects abolitionist struggle, reparations, and solidarity economies as living practices of survival and liberation. From Black cooperative legacies to movements confronting policing, prisons, and state violence, we highlight tools, readings, and actions.

Alabama’s Freedom Quilting Bee, Union & Co-op Solidarity on the Rise, Bolivia Libre, Popular y Soberana!, Palestinian Cooperatives, Artists Divesting, #FreeCongo

This month we’re talking about Black cooperative land ownership through the legacy of Alabama’s Freedom Quilting Bee, rising union and worker co-op organizing in response to layoffs and workplace instability, and artist-led campaigns divesting from war industries, alongside urgent calls from Congo and Bolivia, and more.

New Economy Roundup: May Day Actions, Housing Wins, Chile vs AI Extractivism, Alaska Water Protectors, Cooperativism in Bolivia

This month, communities are taking action everywhere, from May Day mobilizations and housing wins to water protectors fighting pipelines and AI extractivism. Together, these stories point to a shared fight to defend land, housing, and life over profit, and a reminder that what communities face at home is deeply connected to struggles everywhere else in the world. As wars intensify and ecological crises deepen globally, internationalism has never been more necessary.

New Economy Roundup: 2028 General Strike, AI Afrofuturism, Water Bankruptcy, and the Sudanese Spirit of Nafeer

This month, we’re talking about the brewing nationwide general strike, AI provocations, collective responsibility to land and water, community ownership models, “water bankruptcy,” and Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan.

New Economy Roundup: How to Stop ICE in your Community, Defend Rojava NOW!, Assemblies for Just Democracy at Home & Abroad, La Patagonia Arde

This month, we’re talking about how to resist ICE in your community and demand corporate accountability; people-led assemblies reclaiming democracy and collective decision-making; international solidarity with Rojava as its autonomous project comes under attack; and communities in Patagonia organizing mutual aid and volunteer brigades amid climate denial and devastating wildfires.

Program Update: Solidarity Economy Festival, Black Solidarity Economy Fund, EAT! Talkback Session, and Sustaining our Resistance

In this program update, we’re talking about our highlights of the final quarter of the year. Read on for updates on solidarity economy happenings around the network, and Black Solidarity Economy Fund Updates.

New Economy Roundup: Solidarity Economy in NY, Black-Owned Farms, Ecuador Says NO, Speak Up for Sudan, Defending Neighbors & COP30

This month, we’re talking about New York’s Festival of the Solidarity Economy in NYC, Black farmers across the South stepping in to feed communities amid SNAP cuts, neighbors defending against ICE, Ecuadorians standing up to neoliberalism, and grassroots climate justice movements mobilizing at COP30 in Belém.

New Economy Roundup: Co-op Month, Sumud Flotilla, Fighting Lawfare, and Global Popular Movements

This month, we’re talking about Co-op Month, a vision for solidarity economy in the United States, Gen-Z protest movements in Africa and Asia, and the national strike in Ecuador. Read to the end for podcasts, videos, toolkits, jobs, and events.

New Economy Roundup: South Asian Anti-Fascist Networks, Black August, K20, and Honduras Resiste

This month, we’re talking about South Asian diaspora political education networks, Black August, Black and Indigenous reparation narratives, a cooperative development strategy against authoritarianism, and how you can get involved in a week of action commemorating Hurricane Katrina.

New Economy Roundup: Funding Takya, LA Eviction Moratorium, and Building Movement Infrastructure

This month, we’re talking about boycotts for Palestine, supporting Sudanese tekya, an eviction moratorium in LA and Cincinnati’s emerging cooperative economy, and Vanuatu’s win for global climate reparations.

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