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SOLIDARITY ECONOMY:
BUILDING ALTERNATIVES
FOR PEOPLE AND PLANET.
PAPERS AND REPORTS
FROM THE u.s. sOCIAL
FORUM 2007
EDITED BY JENNA ALLARD,
CARL DAVIDSON AND JULIE MATTHAEI
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Videos from Left Forum 2008!
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Sicko and the Transformative Moment
Julie Matthaei, 07/23/2007
...as a skeptic who has been convinced by news coverage in the U.S. that “socialized” medicine creates long lines, poor treatment, government-oppressed doctors, and lack of choice, he interrogates both patients and medical providers on our behalf in a humorous and educational way...click here to read more.
Immigrant Endorsing Obama
Germai Medhanie 2/3/2008
Obama has vision, and he is taking the political high road. He is trying to appeal to all Americans, and he is coming to people with a fresh outlook, claiming that racism and racial divides have no place in 21st-century America. to read more, click here
Transformative Business: A Report from the U.S. Social Forum 2007
Germai Medhanie, 10/30/07
People are engaging in transformative businesses by starting worker-owned businesses, co-ops and green businesses. It came out of the realization of private corporations’ greed. Traditional businesses corporations are always in search for more profit, they lack responsibility, decency, and civility... to read more, click here.
Plea to my fellow immigrants, let us not bury our voices alive
Germai Medhanie, 07/20/2007
This is a story about finding my voice as an immigrant writer. To write this story, I have to expose my problems with writing...click here to read more.
Consternation over Consumption
Jenna Allard, 07/20/2007
As a recent college-graduate, making a somewhat abrupt transition to the working world ...click here to read more.
Defining the Solidarity Economy, Defining my job
By Jenna Allard, 08/08/2007
I have deep suspicions about capitalism, .... I believe that structural change is necessary, but I still suspicious of the some half-baked and some mostly-baked economic alternatives that radicals cook up...to read more click here.
From Miami…[Part 1]
By Katie Clifford, 08/14/2007
...the extremely poor and desperate meet the extremely rich folk and yearn to be like them in style, substance, and consumption patterns.. to read more click here.
Inner City students making their hands dirty!
By Germai Medhanie, 08/06/2007
Inner City students, from Common Ground High School, are engaged in learning about the value of healthy living and sustainable agricultural practices by making their hands dirty...to read more click here. Watch an interview with Joe Lesiak. If you would like to read the partial transcript click here
Summer Camp for Radicals: The Union of Radical Political Economics 2007 Summer Conference
By Jenna Allard, 08/24/2007
This past weekend I traveled to Pine Bush, New York, for my first URPE Summer Conference...to read more click here.
Universal Peace Day’s Quest for World Transformation
By Ray Korona, 07/25/2007
“Power to the Peaceful” are the words emblazoned on a t-shirt worn by SuZen, who with Barry Gruber, is a co-organizer of the annual event in NYC known as Universal Peace Day (UPD).... click here to read more.
Don’t Blame Me for the Bad Economy, I’m Just an Immigrant
by Germai Medhanie 4/21/2008
I know it is coming: as an immigrant, I’m one of those people who will be blamed again for the bad economic times. But, let me say to voters in the rural areas of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina – I’m here, in the United States, because the rulers, where I came from, denied me my right to hear the truth, denied me my right to speak the truth, and denied me my right to vote for my own interest. to read more, click here
Never Seen that Many Dishes
Germai Medhanie, 07/23/2007
As someone who had lived in a country where we eat on one big plate with our fingers, I was stunned by the volume of dishes and utensils that kept getting delivered to me...click here to read more.
Meeting an Old Friend: Discovering the Solidarity Economy at the USSF
Megan Wade Antieau, 07/20/2007
Prior to the U.S. Social Forum, the term “solidarity economy” did not exist in my vocabulary...click here to read more.
A Less Dogmatic Day for Jenna: Structural Roots and Short Term Fixes
By Jenna Allard, 09/07/2007
Individual events, like the Iraq War for instance, may have particularly shady beginnings and horrific consequences, but it is our constitutional structure that gives the president his power as commander-in-chief, and his ability to veto yet another bill that sets timelines for withdrawal... Read more here