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Rural Power Coalition: A call to action to support 42M Co-op members in 92% of persistent poverty counties across the US

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Rural Power Coalition: A call to action to support 42M Co-op members in 92% of persistent poverty counties across the US

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Join leaders of RPC for an update on the campaign that successfully fought for more than $10B in the Inflation Reduction Act to support the Just Transition and what we're doing now to maintain every dollar as Congress attempts to claw it back.

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NESAWG's MapJam! Community-led GIS Mapping of the farm and food system in the Northeast region.  NESAWG - Cristina Cabrera- ccabrera@tidescenter.org 

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NESAWG's MapJam! Community-led GIS Mapping of the farm and food system in the Northeast region.  NESAWG - Cristina Cabrera- ccabrera@tidescenter.org 

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NESAWG's MapJam! is the creation of community-led GIS Mapping thru movement building for a racial equity transformation of the farm and food system in the Northeast region.  We would like to share how we are working collaboratively with groups and organizations (and continue engaging more folx!) to roll out MapJams! -- the regional mapping of the farm and food system in the Northeast with the establishment of a BIPOC regional stakeholder group, local hubs, and an interactive website. We are doing translocal organizing work using digital tools for grassroots organizing - including GIS and AI technology.  We would also like to share the benefits and resources that our MapJams! can provide for the larger community, and discuss some of the digital tools that are making this possible.

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Tool Kits for State SE Networks (Matthew Slaats, VASEN) 

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Tool Kits for State SE Networks (Matthew Slaats, VASEN) 

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Damn! Organizing across a state is hard ya'll. We move at different speeds, are responding to different crises, and have different interests. That doesn't even take into consideration that Capitalism/philanthropy/501c3 industrial complex doesn't want us to come together. Plus, we have to build trust, which takes time and space. Do you have any of that, because I barely do. So what does/will it take to build networks across geographies, cultures, identities, and needs? Let's come together to imagine the enabling infrastructures we need to build robust networks that not only think about alt economies, but build them.

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David Cobb
Wiyot Tribe Dishgamu Humboldt CLT

Description: We are offering to share what we have learned in creating a Community Land Trust as a "component unit" of a federally-recognized tribe.

We will walk through the "nuts and bolts" of the process of creating the CLT, and how we have used it to successfully rematriate land and build affordable housing.

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Gathering of Communities in Immigrant Cooperatives in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Cooperative Projects in Immigrant Communities (Pável Uranga, Coordinator Director of Immigrant Services at Cooperative Development Institute)

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Cooperative Projects in Immigrant Communities (Pável Uranga, Coordinator Director of Immigrant Services at Cooperative Development Institute)

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- Adversities, challenges, obstacles.
- What is and what is not an immigrant cooperative
- Closing the Gaps and Building Bridges
- Solution providers for immigrant communities

Create spaces where language justice and cooperative development can be built in the languages needed and with the appropriate cultural approach.

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La Tortilleria Viva el Sabor Arte Popular

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Housing Co-ops as Neighborhood-Level Bases of Operation for Organizing and Power Building - Submitted by Adrian Madriz (SMASH)

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Housing Co-ops as Neighborhood-Level Bases of Operation for Organizing and Power Building - Submitted by Adrian Madriz (SMASH)

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In this workshop, SMASH will share about its work in establishing two affordable housing cooperatives on its community land trust in Miami, FL. The co-ops are the centerpiece of an ecosystem of strategies meant to build power for housing and climate justice. The co-ops house community leaders engaged in outreach and relationship building with neighbors to recruit support for the current campaign, the Miami Housing Justice Agenda to make housing a human right.

This model can be adapted by many different kinds of causes in order to build community power, and as a way to showcase the unique advantages of new economy models to skeptical neighbors, potentially transforming them into movement allies.

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Energy Democracy and Owning Our Power - submitted by Craig Ickler (Cleveland Owns)

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Energy Democracy and Owning Our Power - submitted by Craig Ickler (Cleveland Owns)

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Hello all!

In this workshop, we'd like to talk with folks about what is energy democracy, how it addresses the problems created by our current energy system, and what tools we have at our disposal to (re)create an energy system that puts working people and communities first!

We will also discuss the work Cleveland Owns is doing with Cleveland Solar Cooperative and our progress towards building Ohio's first community-owned solar array.

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Caregiving in the Solidarity Economy (suparna)

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Caregiving in the Solidarity Economy (suparna)

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If you're care-curious and wanna learn more about care-giving/care-work in the solidarity economy, would love to heart-storm together.

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Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks (HUMANs) can be part of an ongoing mutual support system for you, your communities, and your work

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Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks (HUMANs) can be part of an ongoing mutual support system for you, your communities, and your work

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http://mutualaidnetwork.org
In our version of mutual aid networks, we connect sharing, timebanking, and other forms of mutual credit and commons-building, with peer-to-peer work practices. We do this to 'create means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community.'

We create networks of real trust within communities of place or practice, and then build real trust between networks, through mutually beneficial sharing and exchange.

We have sister sites and partner projects working in (our HQ) Madison WI, Allentown PA, St. Louis MO, Hull UK, Slovenia, France, Nigeria, and more. We learn from each other, support each other morally and materially, and build on share knowledge through sharing our experiments.

We can show tech tools, work practices, and living examples of mutual aid in action, and how this can apply to your local dreams. Whoever comes can help shape it.

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Individual: John Jenkins
Group: We Are The Ones
Website: https://www.wearetheoneshtx.org/
Topic: Direct to Community Accountability
Topic Description/Questions:

How do citizens organize around their self defined shared priorities and advocate for their own needs when institutional stakeholders who are charged with acting on their behalf are failing?

The Community Scorecard Project is a project initiative seeking to address this concern through the organizing of collective voice around accountability and outcomes assessment in communities of color.

Developing an organizational method for establishing an impact management process for communities to hold organizations, institutions, and individuals accountable for the social impact funding/budgets they spend and/or collect on behalf of community residents.

By impact management, we refer to a community's ability to define a social impact framework that is practical and enduring and translates insights into effective communication to the impacted community as a whole so that appropriate community led actions can be taken to either scale, pivot, or defund an intervention or project.

When elected officials and social impact institutional players are merely paying lip service to the structural changes needed to shift power in our communities, how do we develop a clear, evidence-based picture of what citizen participation looks like in a truly democratic impact outcomes assessment environment as a model for larger systemic change?

We Are the Ones would like to discuss this with other groups who are doing base building work to collectively organize power from the ground up in Black communities.

Backgrounder: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1euKUxpZIqB62925xthYT8F04UpK9TpknkPtvOKnmjyQ/edit?usp=sharing

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Yvonne Yen Liu
Solidarity Research Center
yvonne@solidarityresearch.org
https://solidarityresearch.org
https://municipalism.org
https://losangelesforall.org

How do we build powerful movements for participatory and economic democracy within, outside, and across our cities?

We Solidarity Research Center have been experimenting in the past two years with the theory and practice of democratic municipalism, in our projects Los Angeles for All and the Municipalism Learning Series.

We will share what we've learned about municipalism, our attempts to build a decentralized network of autonomous social movements in Los Angeles, and our next steps in building beyond the left.

We will also explore the relationship of vision, strategy, and tactics as it relates to building a municipalist movement. Tactics include people's movement assemblies, charter reform, participatory budgeting, citizen's assemblies, and deep canvassing.

We invite organizers reclaiming their cities and developers of local/regional solidarity economy ecosystems to join us to discuss the following questions:

-- How do we build powerful movements for participatory and economic democracy inside and out of our cities, suburbs, and rural places?
-- How do we build a base and meet peoples' material needs?
-- How do we preach beyond the choir and bring new folks into our movement?
-- How can we scale our movements by networking liberated zones across regions, the nation, and the world?