In our latest episode, we chat with Dražen Šimleša from Croatia’s Green Network of Activist Groups and RIPESS Europe about what a just economy really means today—and how it’s already being built. From fair wages and democratic workplaces to sustainable local economies and global solidarity, Dražen gives us a grounded, practical view of how solidarity economy works in real life.
In 2019, the UN adopted a first version of a resolution supporting the social and solidarity economy. Since then, numerous advocacy and mobilization efforts have been undertaken to preserve the essence of this concept and prevent it from being diluted into approaches more focused on “social business” or entrepreneurship, which do not challenge the current unsustainable and unjust economic system.
Main ideas taken from the case study “Community Supported Agriculture – blurring the boundaries between producers and consumers, urban and rural, and furthering our commons …
During the 5th People’s Health Assembly (PHA 5) held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in April 2024, the People’s Health Movement (PHM) is raising its voice against the overwhelming control of transnational corporations (TNCs) over the global economy, health, and welfare systems. In a stand against the corporatization, marketization, and colonization of public goods, PHM is spotlighting the dire consequences of corporate dominance, emphasizing the pressing need for systemic change.
Article by REAS, the Network of Networks of Alternative and Solidarity Economy of Spain published in La Revista Soberanía Alimentaria (here you can read its …
Between the 10th -12th of May, some 50 representatives of different civil society organisations, unions, farmers, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, fishers, consumers, women and gender diversity, youth and food cooperatives as well as researchers from different countries in Europe and Central Asia came together in Istanbul, Turkey for three days of Nyeleni Europe and Central Asia (Nyeleni ECA) food sovereignty movement (building) meetings.
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