USSF 2007 Highlights

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Building and Strengthening Economic Alternatives and the Social/Solidarity Economy at the U.S. Social Forum 2007

Building Community Economies Any Time Any Place

Steven Healy, a member of the Community Economies Project, introduces the various case studies that will be presented in the workshop.

A participatory exercise illustrates the many forms of non-capitalist exchange, production, and consumption that permeate our everyday lives.

A presentation on the worker cooperative, Collective Copies, located in Western Massachusetts

A presentation on the function of small farm stands in the creation of “economies of trust”.

A presentation on a project to create a local time bank in Western Massachusetts.

Discussion and comments are put to the presenters