The Solidarity Economy

The Solidarity Economy encompasses a wide range of businesses and organizational models that form with people coming together to prioritize the meeting of their needs with resources. This includes cooperatives, community currencies, community land trusts, credit unions, and other DIY forms of community-led self sufficiency. Solidarity economics prioritize collective well-being rather than financial return or growth.

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Seven ways to build the solidarity economy

Emily Kawano opendemocracy.net

Austin Robey

Solidarity Not Charity - Grantmaking in the Solidarity Economy

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Austin Robey

Stocksy United

stocksy.com

Austin Robey

Trust — Utopian conspiracy

trust.support

Austin Robey

“We have to overcome some legal hurdles, but we could unionize musicians tomorrow,” DeFrancesco said. “SAG is like an alternate history for musicians. We’ve done all this before and won, just not within recent memory.”

Some musicians are in fact unionized. The American Federation of Musicians, with 80,000 members in the U.S. and Canada, collectively... See more

August Brown • Musicians deal with stingy streamers and AI threats, too. So why aren't they on strike?

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Ampled | Direct Community Support For Music Artists

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Austin Robey

Catalytic Sound - creative music cooperative

catalyticsound.com

Austin Robey

Boston Ujima Project

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Austin Robey

Spirits and Logistics: How Grantmakers, Universities, and Arts Institutions Start Working with the BIPOC-Led Cooperative Movement to Build the Future of Art Education

Luana Marques Soares cciarts.org

Austin Robey