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Archiving the stories of how people are collectivizing to resist, reimagine, and co-create a regenerative economy.

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🎙️The latest episode of Solidarity Economy Shorts is out!

In this episode, Ebony of @cooperativejournal sits down with Mwende Hinojosa, the director of communications and strategic storytelling at @theselc to talk about the role of attorneys and legal workers in supporting the solidarity economy movement.  
✨ In this conversation, you’ll learn about:

• what democratizing land, labor, and law looks like in practice
• cooperative models as a pathway to ownership for undocumented immigrants
• the revitalization of a former Black self-sufficient community,
• how organizations can show up with care and intention for immigrants in their community   Link in bio ⭐️Or find the podcast at your favortie streaming platform. Look for “Cooperative Journal Podcast.” by @cooperativejournal

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🗣️Care for moms! Protect moms! Support moms!

🎙️Solidarity Economy shorts are back! In this episode, Ebony of @cooperativejournal sits down with @motherful_org a matriarchal collective by & for single moms rooted in mutual care, shared resources & collective decision-making.

They're building a "mommune", a community where mothers support one another, and are creating a cooperatively owned eco-village designed for single moms to thrive.

✨ In this conversation, you'll learn:

• What it means to be a matriarchal, non-hierarchical collective.
• How Motherful has built a network of more than 2,000 single mothers & their children.
• How cooperative housing & shared care can create real safety, stability, & belonging.

Link in bio! Or find the podcast at your fav. streaming platform. Look for "Cooperative Journal Podcast."

Support & visit @motherful_org & feel inspired!🫂

In collaboration with @cooperativejournal
Episode music by MADlines

#mommune #singlemoms #matriarchy #solidarityeconomies by @cooperativejournal

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Episode 3, Season 2 of “Remember the Future Podcast” is Out! 📺 ⚡️Anticapitalist Media with @Means_TV

What media platforms can we rely on when free speech is at risk? How can filmmakers and content creators own their labor and maintain creative control?

In this episode you’ll learn about:

• MeansTV intention to create a platform for anticapitalist filmmakers and creators in an industry where they have been excluded

• Balancing content that is challenging capitalism and offering solutions

• Media as a tool for connecting working class people through shared struggle

• What infrastructure is needed to accommodate revolutionary culture building

Listen through the link in our bio or find the podcast on all streaming platforms 🔗 by @cooperativejournal

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New Episode! Season 2 of “Remember the Future” podcast: Worker & Musician Ownership with @Groupmuse 🎻🎶⚖️

How can a cooperative model allow musicians to receive 100% of ticket sales for their live performances? How can concerts be a pathway towards community building?

In this episode you’ll learn:

• The evolution of Groupmuse from their inception 11 years ago

• How they transitioned from a traditional business model to worker and musician ownership

• Practices of honoring musician diversity and time through supporting Black artistry and ensuring minimum guaranteed payments

• The power of music to cultivate community

Listen through the link in our bio or find the podcast on all streaming platforms!

#Repost from @groupmuse

🎻 Groupmuse is “Uber, but for millennials who want orchestras in their living rooms.” (@wired) Experience extraordinary talent in intimate spaces, like homes and local parks, where community and music meet. Find a groupmuse near you at groupmuse.com. 🧡 by @cooperativejournal

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To launch Year 2 of the Remember the Future Fellowship (more below) we’re back with the second season of our Remember the Future Podcast 🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧

Episode 1 - “Why We Moved $90k to Arts Collectives & Cooperatives” is out now wherever you get your podcasts!

In this season you’ll learn from some of our Remember the Future Fellows @means_tv, @groupmuse, @question.culture, @coopartisans, @ohketeau, who are modeling what it looks like for musicians, artisans, media producers, and cultural preservationists to cooperatively own their work rooted in Solidarity Economy principles.

This season is a celebration of our amazing Remember the Future Fellows, who continue disrupting the narrative of competition in the art world by creating business models and practices rooted in solidarity.

The second year of the Remember the Future Fellowship is informed by their reflections, calls to action, and needs – and we’re grateful to have their trust and solidarity in this second year of #RTF. Here’s to our future ancestors!

#rememberthefuture #podcast taken in Podcast-ing by @cooperativejournal

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🗣️FEEDBACK is a GIFT!

🎙OUR SOLIDARITY ECONOMY SHORT #7 w/ NEC member @cooperate.wnc is live now!

"We don't want to just resolve conflicts and brush them under the rug, we want to see each one as a window into the underlying causes so that we can transform the underlying causes and create deeper trust and profound collective power."

Learn about:

💫 about practicing mutual aid through models like bulk purchasing and savings pools;
🌱conflict as an opportunity for transformation;
🦋finding the balance between relational trust building and practical work
🪴tools for shifting from individualism to a collective way of life!

Link in bio and/or find the podcast at your fav. streaming platform. More episodes at "Cooperative Journal Podcast".

In collaboration with @cooperativejournal
Episode Music by MADlines. by @cooperativejournal

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New episode alert‼️Tap in to our Solidarity Economy Short #6 where NEC member @belovedcommunityincubator drops knowledge about how to build local solidarity economies!

🪐In this episode we discuss how they started as a hyperlocal initiative and evolved into regional solidarity economy organizing, challenges and effective tools in collective organizing, how participatory action research influences their work, and actionable steps for navigating times of uncertainty.

✨ “When I think about what to do in moments of uncertainty, it's always to get grounded in relationships and get connected to the mutual aid groups that are local.” – Co-director Bianca Vazquez.

🔗Link in bio and/or find the podcast at your fav. streaming platform. More episodes at "Cooperative Journal Podcast."

In collaboration with Cooperative Journal Media @cooperativejournal

Episode Music by @mad.lines
#SolidarityEconomy #Podcast #BlackSolidarityEconomies by @cooperativejournal

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📢 Chicago, this Saturday 📢

Would love to see you at our panel at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (@USFWC) & Democracy at Work Institute’s (@wearedawi) upcoming national Worker Co-op Conference!

We love connecting with and learning from worker-owners and the cooperative movement. I’m so inspired by the work of @hazroom and @cooperation.racine what a gift to share space and learn from them. Come through with your questions about creating artist collectives/co-ops and archiving solidarity economy models with storytelling!

If you’re attending, join us on Saturday, September 14th at 9:30 am at @ctulocal1 building for our conversation, “The Art Worlds We Want in Chicago & Beyond.”

Join @_artcoop in conversation with:

Andrea Yarbrough (@cooperation.racine)
Nathaniel Green (@hazroom)
Ebony Gustave (@cooperativejournal Media, Creative Wildfire, Art.coop)
Nati Linares (Art.coop, EAT: Economics. Arts. Transformation. @artworldswewant)

If you’re not in Chicago, there will be a virtual program you can join to plug in with various plenaries and conversations going on if you’re curious to learn about the worker coop movement. Learn more: www.conference.coop

Thank you @byunnaturalcauses & @elliethecosmicjelly of @transverse.coop for the beautiful artwork for our panel! by @cooperativejournal

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ARTISTS AS ORGANIZERS!🔥

Our Solidarity Economy Short #5 is out!

For this one we speak with @lizziesuarez_ and Lily Xie (@lolysoups), two of the most recent Creative Wildfire grantees, about their roles as artist & cultural organizers, challenges that arise when collaborating with organizations, what can symbiosis look like when artists and orgs co-create, the value artists bring beyond being producers, and the cultural shifts needed to have a just transition in the arts.

🌷In words of Lizzie:"it's really important for artists to see themselves as workers as well, to not see ourselves as separate from the issues that maybe we are helping organizations create artwork about, because a lot of the precarity in our industry as freelancers is very similar to that of, let's say undocumented domestic workers who don't have a right to a written contract as well and are kind of figuring it out just as we are."

🔗Link in bio and/or find the podcast at your fav. streaming platform. More episodes at "Cooperative Journal Podcast."

CREATIVE WILDFIRE is a culture & narrative shift collaboration between @movementgeneration @cjaourpower & New Economy Coalition.

In collaboration with Cooperative Journal Media @cooperativejournal

Episode Music by @mad.lines

#SolidarityEconomy #Podcast #BlackSolidarityEconomies by @cooperativejournal

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Skillshare opportunity🔥

How are artists collectivizing to challenge the founding myths of America — racial capitalism, settler colonialism & exploitation?

🫶Join us July 2nd (2PM ET/11AM PT) for ARTISTS IN THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY, a skillshare led by Ebony Gustave, Core Organizer with @_artcoop & host of @cooperativejournal

✨This will be an opportunity to connect with other artists & talk about how we're building, activating new worlds & keeping it real.

This skillshare is for cultural workers, artists, organizers & whoever wants to learn & share about how we're building solidarity economies.

🔗 REGISTER NOW: link in bio!

Organized by Arts, Culture and Care in the Solidarity Economy Working Group w comrades from @art.coop @ussolidarityeconomynetwork & New Economy Coalition! taken in Online by @cooperativejournal

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💸 Learn about RESOURCING BLACK SOLIDARITY ECONOMIES!

🫶Our Solidarity Economy Short #4 is out!

For this one we speak with NEC’s @blacksolidarityeconomyfund (BSEF) & w/ former grantees & members of BSEF Erin Backus from the Maternal Health Equity Collaborative (@mhecatx) & Georie Bryant from @symbodied

🌷In words of Shardé Nabors, our Resource Redistribution Director ”Within the context of Black communities, both in the U.S. and throughout the diaspora, we see solidarity economies in things like Susus, co-ops, community organizing, and mutual aid efforts. We're familiar with the grandmas and the aunties, who create ecosystems of care taking care of the kids, cooking for the block, even saving money to buy property or provide help to single mothers.”

You'll learn about:

✌️The Black Solidarity Economy Fund: what it is, the intention for starting it, and the plans for growth.

👌The collective regranting process and how it felt for some grantees to shift from grantee to grantmaker.

🤝The future to build a robust Black Solidarity Economy & the current barriers.

🔗Link in bio and/or find the podcast at your fav. streaming platform. More episodes at "Cooperative Journal Podcast".

🔥Check out @blacksolidarityeconomyfund, and support their next funding cycle at https://bit.ly/40GhLYF

In collaboration with Cooperative Journal Media @cooperativejournal

Episode Music by @mad.lines

#SolidarityEconomy #Podcast #BlackSolidarityEconomies by @cooperativejournal

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🎙PODCAST: Practicing Abolition! Our SOLIDARITY ECONOMY SHORT #3 w/ NEC member @solunderground is live now!

Learn about:

🌹What is abolitionism, its connection to the solidarity economy & tips for adopting an abolitionist mindset.

🌹Sol Underground’s transformation from an artist collective to supporting the unhoused community
through mutual aid.

🌹Models such as Sol Below, a pop up tent they set up to provide warmth and food to houseless people when the temperature drops below a certain degree.

Link in bio and/or find the podcast at your fav. streaming platform. More episodes at "Cooperative Journal Podcast."

In collaboration with @cooperativejournal

Episode Music by @mad.lines taken in Atlanta, Georgia by @cooperativejournal

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