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Where the dreams of our ancestors meet the memories of our descendants: Reflections on commoning, abolition and reparations - created

Fri, 10/30/2026 - 10:47
Where the dreams of our ancestors meet the memories of our descendants: Reflections on commoning, abolition and reparations By Alison Chopel Introduction There are two currents in the US-based racial justice movement that I am committed to which seem, at surface, to stretch their attention in different temporal directions: reparations or reparative justice and abolitionism. Reparations activists and scholars observe that to move toward a less violent society that can truly break from the ho…

WEAVING ALTERNATIVES #21: A periodical of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives

Fri, 10/30/2026 - 10:43
WEAVING ALTERNATIVES #21: A periodical of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives Weaving Economies for Life Solidarity Economy, Commons, Care and Pluriversal Futures November 2026 Editorial Note Solidarity Economy: A Historical Overview Melanie E L Bush and Nokuthula HlabanganeAlternativesAlternativesWeavers

Who Tends the Fire? and The Arithmetic of Fire

Fri, 10/30/2026 - 10:40
Who Tends the Fire? and The Arithmetic of Fire By Dr Lebohang Liepollo Pheko Cooling the Flames Without Extinguishing the Fire Who Tends the Fire? I. The economies that consume us They told us to cool the flames while they were still setting the world alight.

Assembly #21 - 25/11/2026

Wed, 10/28/2026 - 08:00
Assembly #21 - 25/11/2026 Date, time and meeting link * Date: 25/11/2026 * Time: 1pm GMT * Duration: 2 hours Agenda * Introduction (10 minutes) * Interweaving (50 minutes) * Governance (40 minutes) * Information (15 minutes) Description

Jinwar: Women’s Collective Approach to Managing the Local Economy - created

Wed, 10/28/2026 - 07:28
Jinwar: Women’s Collective Approach to Managing the Local Economy By Halwest Karim Introduction Jinwar is an ecological village for women and children in Rojava-Western of Kurdistan. It is located between agricultural lands and the Kibaz Hill, in the northeastern plains of Syria’s Hasakah Governorate. The village built by the Kurdish women’s movement as a safe home for women affected by violence and war to rebuild their lives and live together in a community based on solidarity, freedom, an…

WEAVING ALTERNATIVES #21: A periodical of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives

Wed, 10/28/2026 - 07:23
WEAVING ALTERNATIVES #21: A periodical of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives Solidarity EconomyNovember 2026 Editorial Note Feature Articles Who Tends the Fire? Dr Lebohang Liepollo Pheko Every economy has its hidden workforce. Not only those whose labour is absent from national accounts, but those whose exhaustion is already anticipated in the calculations of others. Their time is assumed available, their contributions naturally given, and their claims upon the wealth they sustain so…

Pamayanihan: Growing Food, Solidarity and Economies of Life in the Philippines - created

Wed, 10/28/2026 - 07:19
Pamayanihan: Growing Food, Solidarity and Economies of Life in the Philippines By Charlene Tan Introduction GTA

Living Sin Patron: Recuperating Work and Life from Argentina to Europe - created

Tue, 10/27/2026 - 20:16
Living Sin Patron: Recuperating Work and Life from Argentina to Europe By Marina Sitrin “One self-managed workplace may not end capitalism, but the experience helps flex the collective anti-capitalist muscle” (Makis, Vio.Me, Thessaloniki, Greece)...!!.!!!))-.

The basic form a sustainable and just alternative society must take

Tue, 10/27/2026 - 20:12
The basic form a sustainable and just alternative society must take By Ted Trainer Introduction There is now much recognition of the fact that present systems are not only not working well for us but are generating a global polycrisis that must soon result in catastrophic global breakdown. There are many proposals regarding the nature of a more sustainable and just system. I want to argue that when the nature of our global predicament is properly understood there is only one basic form tha…

Solidarity Economy: A Historical Overview - created

Tue, 10/27/2026 - 19:56
Solidarity Economy: A Historical Overview By Melanie E L Bush and Nokuthula Hlabangane Introduction Our era is one of heightened contestation. The capitalist world system has entered its end stage and all aspects of life - political, social, ecological, economic, and more -alternatives)))Alternatives)---Alternatives)TapestryAlternativesalternativesTapestryAlternativesGTAGTAGTAGTA))))-!.TapestryAlternatives.......vs........

Solidarity Economy through Agroecology National Solidarity Economy Network in Mexico

Tue, 10/27/2026 - 12:27
Members of ECOSOL MX Network redecosolmx@gmail.com. For contact: Marcos Cortez Bacilio, marcosbacilio@gmail.com; Celina Valadez, celinavaladez@yahoo.comalternatives

Beacons of Hope in Citrus Country: Weaving Autonomy, Biodiversity, and Economies for Life in Veracruz and Puebla

Tue, 10/27/2026 - 12:17
Beacons of Hope in Citrus Country: Weaving Autonomy, Biodiversity, and Economies for Life in Veracruz and Puebla By Amanda Gpe. Macías Caballero and Jesús Flores Cruz Introduction Across the agricultural landscapes of northern Veracruz and northeastern Puebla, Mexico, amid the scent of orange blossoms and the green of the milpa, a quiet yet vibrant transformation is taking shape. Faced with the multiple socio-environmental crises caused by the agroindustrial model, peasant and Indigenous c…

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