News
Special event: SEA to host Shareable’s Tom Llewellyn for Sharing Oxford workshop
Wednesday 21 November 18:15 – 20:30 Makespace Oxford We’re incredibly excited to be hosting Shareable.net’s Tom Llewellyn, lifelong sharer, commoner, and storyteller, at a special event exploring how we can work together to meet our needs in Oxford, SEA’s hometown. Building upon Shareable’s years of experience covering the ‘sharing ecosystem’ and the 137 model policies and case studies
#NotHim, not now, not ever. Statement on the election of Jair Bolsonaro
The Solidarity Economy Association is a signatory to the following statement, which was originally published on the Global Justice Now website. To all those movements, activists and marginalised communities in Brazil who have woken up this morning to the nightmare of a Bolsonaro presidency, we send our solidarity and support. No kind of electoral mandate makes it
Four new women’s co-operative projects open in Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (Rojava)
The latest article to be reposted on our Co-operation in Mesopotamia website is a report into several new co-operative projects that have been established in the region. This article was originally published by ANF English on 15 October 2018 and reposted on Co-operation in Mesopotamia’s website on 22 October 2018. Several new women’s co-operative projects have opened in
Argentine co-op movement develops free app for social & solidarity economy
This article was originally published by Anca Voinea in the Co-op News Co-ops in Argentina can now connect with customers and other social and solidarity economy businesses through a free app. ESSApp, developed by open software co-operative GCOOP, maps co-operatives across the country. Under the motto “connecting solidarity”, it enables people to search for co-op providers of goods
SEA welcomes Tim Berners-Lee’s ‘radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web’
Fast Company reported exclusively this week on the launch of Inrupt, a new company that aims to take power from tech giants like Google and Facebook and put it back into our hands For some time now, Sir Tim Berners-Lee – the father of the World Wide Web – has been leading a team working on a technology
Seven ways to build the solidarity economy
This article was first published in openDemocracy. Author Emily Kawano is a founder of the US Solidarity Economy Network. She served on the RIPESS (the Intercontinental Social Solidarity Economy Network) board for eight years, and co-directs Wellspring Cooperative. She has a PhD in economics from UMass, Amherst where she joined the Center for Popular Economics and served as director for nine
New insights into history of UK worker co-op movement revealed thanks to successful project
New insights into the history of the UK’s worker co-op movement have been revealed thanks to a project from the National Co-operative Archive in Manchester. The year-long project aimed to collate material relating to workers’ co-ops of the 1970s and 1990s – a particularly interesting time in the co-op movement’s development – and make it accessible to a wide audience
We’ve got a new home – at Makespace Oxford
We’re excited to announce that SEA have moved premises, and we’re now based at the fantastic Makespace Oxford – a project exploring innovative ways of bringing empty and underused buildings in the city back into use as affordable community working and creative spaces. We’ve spent the summer co-creating our new office space with our fellow tenants – from scrubbing
Mapping the co-operative / solidarity economy: Our sessions at Open:2018
We’re pleased to say we’ll be attending Open:2018 again this year, and we’re looking forward to collaborating with a number of people on two sessions about our work to map the solidarity economy using Linked Open Data. The sessions will share the progress we’ve been making on this work since our presentation last year, and collaboratively explore how we’ll address
Free workshops to help UK co-ops support Northern Syria’s transition to co-operative economy
We’re calling for UK co-ops to support Northern Syria’s transition to a feminist, co-operative economy — attend one of our Rojava Co-operative Solidarity workshops and find out how you can get involved. The Rojava Revolution taking place in Northern Syria is transitioning the region into a gender equal, and democratic society, based on communes, co-operatives and citizen committees. The
Solidarity Economy Association Ltd. Is a not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative company limited by guarantee. It is registered under the Companies Act 2006 in England and Wales. Registered number 10733713.
We are UK members of:
