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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“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