Links to More Information on the Solidarity Economy
By Jenna Allard, Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy
Links to More Information on the Solidarity Economy |
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By Jenna Allard, Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy |
Articles About the Solidarity Economy Published with the Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective, Ethan Miller's "Solidarity Economics: Strategies for building New Economies from the Bottom-Up and the Inside-Out" provides a good overview of the basic principles of the solidarity economy. http://www.geo.coop/SolidarityEconomicsEthanMiller.htm The Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy has lots of downloadable documents on their site. Marcos Arruda provides excellent overviews. http://www.socioeco.org/en/documents.php This collection of documents, also on the Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy website, specifically focuses on envisioning the new solidarity economy. Miriam Nobre's article deals with the solidarity economy and gender. http://vision.socioeco.org/en/documents.php In this article, "What is a Solidarity Economy?", Carola Reintjes, as an attendee of the 2003 World Social Forum, outlines the preceedings of the conference. http://www.zmag.org/carolase.htm Manish Verma, in an article also entitled "What is the Solidarity Economy?" explores conceptualizations from a more personal perspective. http://www.awid.org/go.php?stid=811 This is a translated excerpt from the book, Si Uno Come, Que Todos Coman, Economia Solidaria, by Alma Cecilia Reyes and Jorge Santiago Santiago, available on the Global Exchange site. http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/mexico/ppp/desmi.html This piece, entitled "Solidarity Economics: An alternative for development, equity, social justice, and peace in Colombia", is written by the Latin American Confederation of Cooperatives and Worker's Assocations. http://www.zmag.org/content/VisionStrategy/colacot-solidarityecon.cfm An article by Bob Stone and Betsy Bowman, "The Meek Want the Earth Now: the Solidarity Economies of Brazil & Mexico" http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/report_mexbrasil.htm Another article by Bob Stone and Betsy Bowman, specifically about the solidarity economies of Venezuela and Argentina. http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/report_argen_venez.htm Another article on solidarity economies by Bob Stone and Betsy Bowman, entitled "Argentina's Crisis". http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/report_argentina.htm This proposal paper on the solidarity economy is a synopsis of the work done by an Alliance 21 workshop. http://www.alliance21.org/2003/article.php3?id_article=552 This document, put together by the Brazilian Forum of Solidarity Economy, entitled, "The Management and Organization Experience of the Solidarity Economy Movement in Brazil", gives a good overview of the many actors involved in the solidarity movement in Brazil, as well as their organizational strategies. http://www.fbes.org.br/docs/Brazilian_Solidarity_Economy_Movement.pdf |
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The Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy http://www.ripess.net/en/ Alliance 21 (Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World) http://www.alliance21.org/2003/sommaire_en.php3 Workgroup on Solidarity Socio-Economy http://www.socioeco.org/en/index.php |  |
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The Solidarity Economy in North America North American Network for the Solidarity Economy (renamed RIPESS North America as of March 2008) http://www.clcr.org/NANSE/ From the Human Resources and Social Development Canada website, an article answering questions about the social economy. http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/cs/comm/sd/social_economy.shtml Co-op America website, providing a plethora of information on how to be an ethical consumer http://www.coopamerica.org/ B.C. - Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) articles hosted at Athabasca University. A plethora of research articles about the social and solidarity economy, mostly focusing on Canada. http://auspace.athabascau.ca:8080/dspace/handle/2149/457 The Equal Exchange Website. The oldest and largest for-profit fair trade company in the United States, run as a cooperative. http://www.equalexchange.com/ |
The Solidarity Economy in South America The website of the Brazilian Forum of Solidarity Economy (in Portuguese) http://www.fbes.org.br/ The website of the Peruvian Network of the Solidarity Economy (in Spanish) http://www.gresp.org.pe/ The website of the Network of Latin American Researchers on Social and Solidarity Economy (RILESS) (in Spanish) The "Letter from Porto Alegre", a statement by the Latin Meeting on a Culture and a Socio-economy of Solidarity, in 1998. http://www.socioeco.org/engl/carta.html Fair Trade,The Popular Cooperativism Portal, run by the Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives, located in Brazil. http://www.cooperativismopopular.ufrj.br/corp_oquee_eng.php An article by Renate Lunn entitled "Rosario, Argentina: An Economy based on Solidarity" about innovative municipal programs to foster the growth of the local solidarity economy. http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/23/32/ The English-language homepage of the Brazil's Landless Workers Movement. http://www.mstbrazil.org/ |
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The Solidarity Economy in Europe Website of the Agency for Promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy (APRESS), a Paris-based media co-op that disseminates information about the solidarity economy. (in French) http://www.mediasol.org Website of the Lilliput Network, a Milan-based group that aims to make sustainable and democratic economic choices (in Italian) http://www.retelilliput.org/ Website of the New Economics Foundation, a UK-based think-tank that envisions an economics "as if people and the environment mattered" http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/ Website of Ethical Consumer, a UK-based publication that evaluates corporations and productions, and provides information on how to consume responsibly. http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ English-language website of Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa. http://www.mcc.es/ing/index.asp Several articles written by Matt Hancock of the Center for Labor and Community Research are available about the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, where small-scale cooperative enterprises abound: "Introduction to the Emilian Model" http://www.clcr.org/publications/other/Intro_Emilia_Romagna.doc; "Markets and Solidarity: Social Cooperatives in Italy's Emilia-Romagna Region" http://www.clcr.org/publications/other/Social_Coops_Final.doc; and "The Cooperative District of Imola: Forging the High Road to Globalization" http://www.clcr.org/publications/other/Imola.pdf |
The Solidarity Economy in Africa Final declaration of the Third International Meeting on the Globalization of Solidarity in Dakar, 2005. http://www.ripess.net/en/declaration_dk2005.html Website of the South African New Economics Network, which aims to create a "humane, just, sustainable and culturally appropriate economic system in South Africa" http://www.sane.org.za/index.htm Information about the Kuapa Kokoo Cocoa Cooperative in Ghana http://www.divinechocolate.com/about/kokoo.aspx |
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The Solidarity Economy in Asia / Oceania Website of the Asian Forum for Solidarity Economy http://www.asianforum2007.net/ Website of Grameen Bank, a micro-credit and development agency in Bangladesh http://www.grameen-info.org/ Website of the Self-Employed Women's Association, a union for Indian women working in the informal sector http://www.sewa.org/ A conference working paper by Manuka Henare, entitled "Maori Economic Development is Nation Building". http://www.devnet.org.nz/conf/Papers/manuka.pdf More papers and documents from the International Development Studies Network Conferences in New Zealand can be found at http://www.devnet.org.nz/conf/ |
US Social Forum Social Solidarity Workgroup Documents The Audit of Bristol's Social Economy, Nick Oatley Social Economy Bristol Audit Questionnaire Solidarity Economy as an Integral New System: Global Vision, WSSE Dakar Meeting Exchanging Visions of a Solidarity Socioeconomy: Glossary of Important Terms and Expressions, WSSE Dakar Meeting A Diverse Economy: Rethinking Economy and Economic Representation, JK Gibson-Graham Defining the Social Economy, the Solidarity Economy, and NANSE, Dan Swinney Other Economies are Possible!, Ethan Miller Elements of a Solidarity Economy, Ethan Miller |
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