Solidarity Economies (TG)
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Solidarity Economies (TG)
Members
Anchors: Melanie Bush, Halwest Karim
Description
The Global Tapestry of Alternative Solidarity Economy Thematic Group aims to:
- Share experiences of alternative economy projects around the world;
- Consider our commonalities and specificities;
- Learn about how solidarity economy projects are practiced in different localities and by communities with different positionalities;
- Develop relationships and collaborations between initiatives.
We want to engage in a visioning process, especially reflecting on that which has been marginally visible. We hope to contribute to developing a resource library on solidarity economy theory and practices.
Links
If you are interested in participating in the Solidarity Economy thematic group, you can:
- Complete the GTA Solidarity EconomyContact form
- For more info: melanie.e.l.bush@gmail.com and halwestak@gmail.com
Some Resources
- Local Futures Our Action Guide https://actionguide.localfutures.org/
- System Change: A Basic Primer to the Solidarity Economy - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly https://nonprofitquarterly.org/system-change-a-basic-primer-to-the-solidarity-economy/
- Sharable's Library of Things toolkit https://www.shareable.net/library-of-things-toolkit/
- How Does Fermentation Cultivate a Healthier (Gut) Community? – Good Food Community https://www.goodfoodcommunity.com/blogs/good-food-guide/building-a-ferment-nation-how-do-ferments-cultivate-a-healthier-gut-community
- Cooperative Ecoomic Alliance New York https://gocoopnyc.org/
- Flatbush Mixtape https://flatbushmixtape.org/
- US Solidarity Economy Network https://ussen.org/
- Solidarity Economy and Cooperatives in Rojava https://mesopotamia.coop/solidarity-economy-and-co-operatives-in-rojava/
- Solidarity: The Past, Present and Future of a World Changing Idea https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740355/solidarity-by-leah-hunt-hendrix-and-astra-taylor/
- People’s Network for Land and Liberation https://www.landandliberation.org/
- Webinar Recording “Remaking the Economy: Worker Self- Directed Nonprofits in Practice” https://ussen.org/resources/tools/
- Hope is a muscle: What keeps us going, year after year by Local Futures https://www.localfutures.org/hope-is-a-muscle-what-keeps-us-going-year-after-year/
Submit resources to be added, here
GTA SE Thematic Group Meetings and Events (recordings)
- March 2026: Economies that prioritise people and the planet - Solidarity and Wellbeing Economy: Are they the same? (Aamirah Patel, Engagement Lead, WeALL)
- September 2025: Credit and Economic Alternatives - MALAR and Timbaktu Collective (Comrade Thomas Franco, Sehjo Singh , Bablu K. Ganguly)
- June 2025: Rooted Resistance: Kurdish Women in Ecological and Industrial Agriculture (Halwest Karim)
- March 2025: About the Solidarity Economy GTA SE presentation (3/28/25) (Melanie E L Bush)
- February 2025: Agroecology & Community Shared Agriculture, Good Food Community Praxis, Philippines (Charlene Tan) Good Food Community Recording.
