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For Solidarity: What do we really mean?
Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 6-8pm For Solidarity: What do we really mean? Tuesday 23rd July 2019, 6-8pm (Optional drop-in between 3-6pm) The NewBridge Project : Gateshead Free and All Welcome – please reserve a space through this link We are collaborating with The Newbridge Project in Newcastle & Gateshead to create a useful tool which can make visible and strengthen
Building Communities of Co-operation in Oxford
Wednesday 26 June18:00 – 19:30Oxford Town Hall, UKFREE but registration required The co-operative sector in Oxford is small, but thriving. From housing to childcare to publishing to web design, co-ops are providing empowering jobs and meeting community needs. To mark ‘Co-operatives Fortnight’, the City Council’s Co-operatives Champion, Cllr Richard Howlett, will host this event to celebrate our city’s democratic businesses,
Our statement of solidarity as global hunger strikers celebrate end of Ocalan’s isolation
The Solidarity Economy Association wish to send our heartfelt solidarity and congratulations to the over 7,000 Kurdish people around the world who have just ended their hunger strikes in victory. The hunger strikers had been demanding the end of the aggravated isolation which has been imposed on Kurdish leader and political prisoner Abdullah Ocalan, who has been held in largely
Co-operative societies essential for communal life in Rojava
The latest article to be reposted on our Co-operation in Mesopotamia website is a translation of an Arabic article that appeared on Rohani on 2 January 2019 and reposted on Co-operation in Mesopotamia’s website on 25 March 2019. The spread of co-operative societies in the region has strengthened the communal spirit and increased participation, with many people from villages and
Why we’re supporting the Women’s Strike 2019 – and you should too
We at the Solidarity Economy Association are supporting the Women’s Strike on 8 March, with several of our worker members taking part. Actively participating in action with movements that share our values is an essential part of creating a thriving solidarity economy for the UK – an economy based on justice, diversity and pluralism, co-operation, self-management, ecological sustainability, and solidarity.
SEA becomes co-organiser of NESI Global Forum in Malaga – the ‘Davos of the New Economy’
We’re excited to share that we’re once again co-organisers of the NESI Global Forum, considered the most relevant event worldwide for everyone working towards building an economy for people and the planet! Held in Malaga, Spain from 24-26 April, the forum will be a crucial opportunity for people and organisations to come together and focus on how to collectively
UK sees first ever camp on ‘Jineolojî’ – the social science being developed by the Kurdish Women’s Movement that’s uniting women’s & feminist movements around the world
This post has been written by Jo Taylor, coordinator of our Co-operation in Mesopotamia project. The Solidarity Economy Association made a small financial contribution to support the first ever UK Jineolojî Camp, and here Jo explains why it’s so important. At the start of February 2019, over thirty women* from across the UK, from three parts of Kurdistan,
UK co-operators in largest show of political solidarity ‘in decades’ at demonstration in support of Rojava
Members of co-ops including Calverts, Radical Routes, Birmingham Bike Foundry and Cornerstone Housing Co-operative join Solidarity Economy Association’s call to attend London demonstration in solidarity with Rojava, Northeastern Syria and its co-operative economy. The largest show of political solidarity by UK co-operators took place in London on Sunday 27 January when a ‘co-op bloc’ was formed as part of
Sponsored places: Cooperation Jackson Residential, May 2019
We’re really excited to have teamed up with our friends at Stir to Action to offer some sponsored places on their Cooperation Jackson Residential Workshop in May. Delivered by the incredible Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, the workshop will focus on building economic democracy. We’re pleased to be able to offer one fully-funded, and two part-funded
Call for co-operators to attend London demonstration in solidarity with Rojava and its co-operative economy
Call for co-operators to attend London demonstration in solidarity with Rojava and its co-operative economy Sunday 27 January, 12:30 pm, Cavendish Square, London The people of Northern Syria and its democratic self-administration are under severe threat of attack by the Turkish military and Turkish-backed Islamist militias, who are threatening to invade and occupy the Autonomous Administrations of North and East
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