Tag: shareable
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Syrian communities form grassroots emergency networks as coastal wildfires overwhelm state response
When wildfires swept toward the hills of Qastal Ma‘af in Latakia, Ahmad al-Safi and his neighbors grabbed buckets and hoses, racing to protect their olive groves and citrus orchards. The 32-year-old farmer had only just rebuilt his war-damaged home with borrowed money, but like the rest of the village, he joined the overnight fight to…
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Mutual Aid 101 and Cities@Tufts events are back!
The Shareable team is excited to announce upcoming events in our Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series and the Cities@Tufts Fall 2015 Colloquium. All events are free, virtual, and open to everyone. Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series Shareable launched our Mutual Aid learning series in February 2025. In May, we released a written toolkit covering content…
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Restoring our capacities: How an asset lens can serve movements today
This article was originally published by NPQ Online on July 23, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/restoring-our-capacities-how-an-asset-lens-can-serve-movements-today/. Used with permission. “What do we want? Asset-based community development! When do we want it? Now!” That is a chant that I am pretty sure has never been uttered at a rally anywhere. Nonetheless, many movement activists, knowingly or otherwise, depend on asset-based…
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Why we need a solidarity economy now
As the US faces historic cuts to the social safety net, local economic alternatives can meet basic needs and provide opportunities to organize for a better future. This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence. As people across the United States face massive cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other vital programs, many are asking: What happens…
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Federal workers are organizing for democracy—from the inside out
This article was originally published by NPQ Online on June 25, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/federal-workers-are-organizing-for-democracy-from-the-inside-out/. Used with permission. In the face of a relentless effort to dismantle the federal government from within, a new movement is taking shape—led not by politicians or pundits but by federal workers themselves. The largest effort to date is the Federal Unionists Network (FUN).…
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Social co-ops: An innovative solution to our social care crisis?
While a few green shoots are beginning to sprout, social cooperatives, also known as social co-ops, are still a relatively new concept to many Americans. That means their special characteristics, as we find them in the countries where they operate, are not yet well understood here in the U.S. If we take the definition offered…
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WATCH: Getting out the Native Vote to indigenize energy sovereignty
Whether it’s the environmental and health effects of nuclear mining in Diné (Navajo) territory, the bitter contentions around the Dakota Access Pipeline in the tribal territory of the Standing Rock Sioux, or the mining for copper on a sacred Apache site, it is clear that there have long been troubling issues at the nexus of…
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Solidarity Economy Organizers Gather in Atlanta to Build Toward Liberation
This article was originally published by NPQ Online on May 27, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/solidarity-economy-organizers-gather-in-atlanta-to-build-toward-liberation/. Used with permission. Remembering our history allows us to build our futures.” So said Stephanie Guilloud of movement organization Project South in the initial plenary session of the Resist & Build Summit. The scope taken on by conference attendees was very ambitious. Held in…
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How (and why) to add a Party Kit to your Library of Things
The party kit concept (also known as a ‘party pack‘) is simple yet impactful. It combines the benefits of using reusable items with the advantages of sharing. Set up within the community, a party kit provides everything needed for an event—reusable plates, cups, cutlery, and more. Borrowed and then returned, it’s ready to be used…
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Organizing for the Long Haul: How to Build a Network for Land and Liberation
This article was originally published by NPQ Online on April 30, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/organizing-for-the-long-haul-how-to-build-a-network-for-land-and-liberation/. Used with permission. We are often forced to fight defensive battles in our movements. When your house is on fire, the immediate and urgent priority is to extinguish the blaze. Such is the case with many struggles against the present administration of President…
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Introducing Shareable’s new toolkit: “Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistance”
Our communities are facing many crises, from worsening climate disasters to fascism. It’s clearer than ever that we need each other to survive and thrive. Building robust and sustainable mutual aid networks is necessary to care for each other and build power. Of course, mutual aid is not new, and neither are the effects of…
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“No Tariffs on Sharing”: Tool Libraries Offer Resilience Amid Federal Chaos
This story was originally published by Truthout. As a handy person, Devon Curtin spends a lot of time helping people enrich their living spaces. Recently, while working with a friend to remodel their floor, Curtin noticed that the cost of do-it-yourself projects is already rising because of Donald Trump’s tariffs. “The cost of mahogany was the…
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Cross-pollinating resistance to the tech economy – an excerpt from Defying Displacement
The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024). Appropriating the planet In a fragment by Jorge Luis Borges, successive generations of cartographers create increasingly exacting maps of China. Their maps grow steadily larger to incorporate more and more minute details until “the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of…
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How tourism kills communities – an excerpt from Defying Displacement
The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024). Holiday in the sun The politics of place and displacement follow gentrifiers on holiday. Depending on the balance of class interests and power, the unique character of a place can attract gentrification as much as it can be wielded as…
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Resist and Build: A Movement Building Process Centering the Solidarity Economy
This article was originally published by NPQ online on February 26, 2025 at https://nonprofitquarterly.org/resist-and-build-a-movement-building-process-centering-the-solidarity-economy/. Used with permission. State of the Movements is a recurring NPQ column dedicated to tracking the pulse of social movements and the solidarity economy in 2025. The solidarity economy movement finds itself at a critical juncture. The opportunity for a breakthrough amid crisis is real, even as…
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Building a just energy future together: Join the REC Co-lab this March
It’s 2025. That fact alone is a lot to deal with in the United States, especially for those who understand the urgent imperative to transition to a just, democratic, and inclusive energy system, powered by clean, renewable energy. With the current administration ideologically committed to toxic and inefficient forms of energy of the past—fossil fuels…
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The school of gentrification – an excerpt from Defying Displacement
The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024). Universities as gentrifiers “These super-men and world-mastering demi-gods listened, however, to no low tongues of ours, even when we pointed silently to their feet of clay.” —W.E.B. Du Bois The workers and capitalists who profit most from the…