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We’re a coalition of 180+ 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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Our members make our work real! Connect and learn more about how they are building just and democratic economies across the country.

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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.

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.

New Economy Roundup: Free Black Mamas, Worker Self-Governance, Nakba Day Actions

This week we’re talking about the campaign to bailout Black mothers and end cash bail, a new community land trust and co-op hub in Santa Ana, what’s next for the Stop Cop City movement, a call to action for Nakba Day, the digital solidarity economy movement in Brazil, how workers are building power through democratic self-organization, and more.

New Economy Roundup: Earth Day Solidarity, Lessons from Rojava, Land Reform & Resistance

This week we’re talking about Earth Month solidarity, the impact of federal funding freezes on Black and Indigenous farmers, how the Koreatown Popular Assembly built neighborhood power against ICE, an upcoming teach-in on collective governance in Rojava, land reform...

New Economy Roundup: Criminalization of Solidarity, Climate Survival in Appalachia, Mutual Aid in Sudan

This week, we’re talking about the escalating criminalization of solidarity in the US, building power through co-op housing, disaster cooperativism in Appalachia, a call to support Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan, Third World feminism, and the history of US intervention in Panama.

New Economy Roundup: Feminist & Popular Economies, Agrarian Commons, and the New People’s Army

This week, we’re talking about feminist and popular economy education, grants available to cooperative farmers, building the agrarian commons, the armed people’s revolution in the southern Philippines, and a case study on municipalism in Poland.

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