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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…
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Housing justice beyond consumerism – an excerpt from Defying Displacement
The following is an excerpt adapted from Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War (IAS/AK Press, 2024). Defining displacement Gentrification is commonly understood as consumption: who chooses to rent or purchase which housing unit. From this perspective we can ask many questions: why white people wish to live in “gritty” neighborhoods, or why they have…
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Shareable’s Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series launches February 19
Since Trump’s second inauguration just days ago, we’ve seen a flurry of executive orders and actions by the new administration with the aim of sowing intimidation and fear among the most marginalized communities in the US. We face immense challenges and threats, from the climate crisis to increasing criminalization and surveillance. At this uncertain moment…
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How to launch your own seed lending library
Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library is a non-profit seed lending library that opened in 2010. While we aim to be a local model for sustainability, we also support other communities in creating their own seed lending library and seed interchanges. Since we opened in May 2010, over 800 seed lending libraries have opened! All of…
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How Inclusive Utility Investments bring the energy transition to rural residents
As a society, we find ourselves in a situation sometimes described as a polycrisis, where social, ecological, and economic issues create challenging and mutually reinforcing synergies, making it difficult to address any problem in isolation. For working people, the imminent need for a clean energy transition might seem like it has to take a backseat…
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Rural Power Coalition: 2024 Year in Review
2024 was yet another monumental year in the fight for the future of Rural Electric Cooperatives. The Rural Power Coalition dedicated its work to ensuring that the federal funding provided in the Inflation Reduction Act for Rural Electric Co-ops (RECs) will truly benefit member-owners and the rural communities in which co-ops reside. New federal investments…