CommonBound 2018: Full Schedule

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9:30am EDT

A School and a Bus: Sharing Models for Just Recovery and Community Food Economies in Puerto Rico

The workshop focuses on two models for in Puerto Rico based on food sovereignty, community autonomy, and local economies: A public school that has avoided closure by adapting agroecology as a framework for education and resistance, and Fondo de Resiliencia de Puerto Rico, a 24-month action campaign with the ambitious goal of impacting 200 sustainable food projects. We will discuss how these projects support long-term resiliency through food and education, continue to build healthy local economies and challenge the existing food injustice in Puerto Rico throughout the process.

Speakers

Tara Rodríguez Besosa

El Departamento de la Comida, El Fondo de Resiliencia de Puerto Rico

Tara Rodríguez Besosa, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, 34 years of age. Tara is product of a colony that has been extracted, abused and made completely dependent on external resources. They are an architect building a world where agroecological concepts and queer practices are used... Read More →

Carol Ramos

Graduate Student, Environmental Planning-University of Puerto Rico

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
CEC Classroom 217-218 D

Workshop Block C

Track Food Sovereignty, Climate Solutions for a Just Transition
Tag 101, International Content, Español

9:30am EDT

Asian American Solidarity Economies: Intersections and Possibilities

Asian Americans have been practicing mutual aid and cooperative economics since we first immigrated to the U.S. People lent money, shared resources, and provided mutual support when we were formally excluded from financial institutions, labor unions, and social protections. This is still true today. Our panel will explore the history of collective economic agency in Asian diasporic communities and connect it with contemporary examples and experiments in the United States.

Speakers

Parag Khandhar

Yvonne Liu

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 206

Workshop Block C

Track General
Tag 101, Migrant Justice, Racial Justice

9:30am EDT

Better Living in Mutual Aid Networks

We will lead participants in a visioning exercise for how they would realize their dreams for their community through organizing fun and practical resource-sharing and -exchange activities in service to desired outcomes. We will then do a couple exercises - posh-terity budgeting and a Common Fund game - to show participants how they could apply their learning in a very practical way.

Speakers

Rebecca Kemble

Alderperson, City of Madison, WI

Rebecca Kemble is a worker-owner at Union Cab Cooperative where she drives taxi on the weekend night shift. She is the past President of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives and serves on the Executive Board of CICOPA worldwide. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the... Read More →

Stephanie Rearick

Creative Director, Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks

Stephanie Rearick is founder of the Dane County TimeBank (DCTB) - a 2800+-member timebank devoted to building a just and inclusive economy - and Project Coordinator of Mutual Aid Networks. In addition to her work in timebanking and promoting grassroots-up economic and community regeneration... Read More →

Emanuel Taranu

Carpentry coach/ director of production, Citizen Carpentry

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 205

Workshop Block C

Track General
Tag 101

9:30am EDT

Building Blocks for City Campaigns for a New Economy

While federal policy breakthroughs are rare, there have been a range of breakthroughs at the local level. On this panel, we will cover some of these emerging new economy policies, including victories in worker cooperatives, community land trusts, and local procurement policy‚ as well as identify some of the strategies and tactics can be employed to achieve those wins. This session will be highly interactive and will include small group breakouts.

Speakers

Steve Dubb

he/him, Nonprofit Quarterly

Steve Dubb is senior editor of economic justice at NPQ, where he writes articles (including NPQ’s Economy Remix column), moderates Remaking the Economy webinars, and works to cultivate voices from the field and help them reach a broader audience.Steve has worked with cooperatives... Read More →

Eric Griego

Consultant, UNM Center for Health Policy

Eric Griego is currently a strategic consultant working on local economic development issues for local governments, foundations and non-profit organizations. He was a former Assistant Secretary of Economic Development for the State of New Mexico, where he coordinated local and... Read More →

Kimber Lanning

Mike Sandmel

Campaign Organizer, New Economy Project

Mike Sandmel is an organizer with New Economy Project working to coordinate coalition efforts to advance cooperative economic development and economic democracy in New York City. He previously served for five years as Membership Director for the New Economy Coalition. Mike graduated... Read More →

Ana Siria Urzua

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
CEC Pro Dev 204

Workshop Block C

Track Policy and Organizing

9:30am EDT

Centering Love in Finance

How do we shift from investing in to being invested in the next economy? This training will explore relationship- and trust-based approaches to investing, including shifting power, personal anti-oppression work, and centering values in our financial work. We'll draw on the practices and tools developed by Be Invested, Regenerative Finance, and the Buen Vivir Fund to support participants in taking deeper shared risks while they're becoming invested in the next economy.

Speakers

Nwamaka Agbo

Nwamaka Agbo Consulting

Amaka Agbo is a project consultant for Democratizing Capital East Bay (DCEB). She has a range of experiences in grassroots organizing and voter engagement from her time at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Oakland Rising. Amaka led the initial work at Transform Finance and... Read More →

Ari Sahagun

Be Invested Co-Founder; Network Weaver

Talk to me about being mixed heritage + embodying dualities, about network weaving and analysis, about redistributing power, about investing that centers love, reparations and decolonization

Aaron Tanaka

Director, Center for Economic Democracy

Aaron Tanaka is a Boston-based community organizer, grantmaker, and impact investor. As the director of the Center for Economic Democracy, Aaron stewards funding and technical assistance to grassroots groups that build power and vision in low-income communities of color for a new... Read More →

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
CEC Classroom 213-214 B

Workshop Block C

Track Activating Community Capital
Tag Gender Justice, Racial Justice, International Content

9:30am EDT

Clean Power to the People! Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions

Energy Democracy‚ allowing for democratic decision-making over our energy system by energy users themselves, rather than by monopoly utilities and corporate fossil fuel companies‚ is key to a just, renewable energy transition. This collaborative session will examine case studies of programs and projects that have successfully incorporated principles of Energy Democracy.

Speakers

Shiva Patel

Energy Justice Campaigner, Center for Biological Diversity

Shiva leads campaigns in the Energy Justice Program to advance an equitable and just clean-energy transition through coalition building, innovative legal strategies, community organizing and policy advocacy. He serves on a variety of regional and national coalitions and working groups... Read More →

Jacqui Patterson

Charles Taylor

Strategic Consultant, One Voice

Jessica Tovar

organizer, Local Clean Energy Alliance

Energy DemocracyCommunity Choice EnergyClean Energy SolutionsEnvironmental JusticeClimate Justice

Liz Veazey

Network Director, We Own It

Since late 2015, Liz Veazey has been excited to put her skills and experience to work for We Own It, the national network for cooperative member rights, education and training as Network Coordinator. Liz has a range of communication, project management, technology, and organizing... Read More →

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Auditorium

Workshop Block C

Track Climate Solutions for a Just Transition
Tag Racial Justice, Livestreamed

9:30am EDT

Creating Localized Farmland Commons

Come learn about innovative new models that evolve the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement to further and more holistically engage communities, strengthen farmland tenure security for local sustainable farms, create a long term structures to address soil and ecological stewardship, and bring forward a new relationship between money, soil, and humans for the benefit of community.

Speakers

Ian McSweeney

Organizational Director, Agrarian Trust

Ian’s career and his life’s work has been focused on the human connection to soil and food. He first worked as a social worker focused on developing and operationalizing outdoor experience based education programs and later sought more direct work with the connections to soil... Read More →

Jean Willoughby

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 214

Workshop Block C

Track Land and Housing, Food Sovereignty

9:30am EDT

Creating Participatory Bylaws For Distributed Power and Equity

Organizational bylaws can be tools to create equitable, inclusive, and democratic spaces for collaboration. They can also be jargon-laden documents that give power to only the few people who understand them. In this workshop, we will deconstruct traditional legalistic approaches to bylaw drafting, and explore how to create participatory bylaws for cooperatives and nonprofits that democratize knowledge, build leadership within your organization, and protect our organizations from cooptation. (Bonus: there will be cartoons!)

Speakers

Simon Mont

Catalyst, Harmonize: People, Power, Process

I help us build just, joyful, and effective organizations. I live in the space where governance, decision-making, healing, strategy, and liberation come to meet. I steward the Nonprofit Democracy Network, consult with directly with organizations, and offer community/personal healing... Read More →

Chris Tittle

Director of Organizational Resilience, Sustainable Economies Law Center

Chris is a staff member at Sustainable Economies Law Center, a collective nonprofit in Oakland, CA. He co-leads the Law Center’s Housing, Worker Self-Directed Nonprofits, and Money & Finance Programs, and supports with grassroots fundraising, grant writing, and internal governance... Read More →

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 204

Workshop Block C

Track Building Functional and Democratic Organizations, Worker Cooperatives: Struggle and Growth Together

9:30am EDT

Fired Up & Burnt Out: Keeping It Together in Uncertain Times

How can we keep ourselves grounded as we participate in this movement moment? In our current political climate, we're seeing many new activists and increasing momentum but also increasing burnout and despair. This workshop shares strategies for how to collectively address burnout and make sure our movement work is sustainable. This hands-on workshop will use The Icarus Project resources, group exercises, and role plays to help activists get tools for sustainable resistance.

Speakers

Byul Yoon

Operations Director, The Icarus Project

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 219

Workshop Block C

Track Wellness; Healing and Self-Care
Tag 101

9:30am EDT

Health Equity for Workers

Health care is a vital need for all, and one of the biggest challenges for organizations. The U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives seeks to build partnerships to strengthen and share solutions to address the health of workers in the new economy movement as well as their families.

Speakers

Mo Manklang

Communications Director, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives

Mo Manklang is the Communications Director for the USFWC. She leads policy efforts at the federal level, as well as working with our membership on state and local initiatives, and heading up health benefits initiatives. She has been convening people in cooperatives and social impact... Read More →

Daniella Preisler

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 215 3026 Laclede Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103

Workshop Block C

Track Worker Cooperatives: Struggle and Growth Together, Wellness; Healing and Self-Care
Tag Gender Justice, Migrant Justice, Racial Justice

9:30am EDT

Making Art & Remaking Ourselves: A New Arts Economy for Justice

Artists are an important but often neglected part of the movement for a new economy. They are experimenting with new ways to meet their communities needs and express themselves in a time of great social turmoil. On this panel, we will discuss the movement for a new creative economy and strategize on how to harness the power of art for social change and in a time when art has become a tool in maintaining the status-quo.

Speakers

Pink Flowers

Organizer, Falconworks Theater Company

Reg Flowers began their career as a theater artist, on and off- Broadway, with several guest starring television appearances. They are founder of Falconworks Theater Company a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) that uses popular theater techniques to build capacities for civic engagement and... Read More →

Noemi Gizpensc

Adam Horowitz

Chief Instigator, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture

Adam Horowitz is an artist, instigator, cultural organizer, and founder of the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC). He’s also a co-convener of Nuns & Nones, bringing Women Religious and Millennials together in new communities of contemplation and social action. Adam wa... Read More →

Caroline Taiwo

Economic Opportunity Program Director, Springboard for the Arts

Caroline is the Economic Opportunity Program Director at Springboard for the Arts, a nationally recognized economic and community development organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Since joining Springboard in October 2017, Caroline has piloted the 20/20 Artist Fellowship program... Read More →

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
CEC Classroom 215-216 C

Workshop Block C

Track Culture Shift
Tag Racial Justice

9:30am EDT

Move Your (or Your Organization's) Money

This workshop is for people and organizations who want to move their money out of corporate banks and into values aligned institutions and need help figuring out how to do so. The workshop will guide people through a template of items to consider, help them find better banking options, and work through the challenges that may arise.

Speakers

Emma Guttman-Slater

Policy Advocacy & Field Building Director, Beneficial State Foundation

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 203

Workshop Block C

Track Activating Community Capital
Tag 101

9:30am EDT

Sources of Community Capital

This workshop will use an analysis of sources and accumulations of surplus value to describe the mixed strategies of channeling capital back into the communities from which it was extracted.

Speakers

Ed Whitfield

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
CEC Classroom 211-212 A

Workshop Block C

Track Activating Community Capital
Tag 101, Racial Justice

9:30am EDT

The Leap Manifesto: People's Platform as Organizing Tactic

The Leap Manifesto is a roadmap for how we can transition beyond fossil fuels in a way that creates a more just, fair, and caring world. The manifesto was initiated in the spring of 2015 at a two-day meeting attended by representatives from Canada's Indigenous rights, social and food justice, environmental, faith-based and labour movements. This experiential workshop presents some of the lessons from organizing the Leap Manifesto coalition, and what's happened since. We will also explore whether members of the NEC community see spaces and places around the country where a Leap-like process might be useful for ongoing work.

Speakers

Bianca Mugyenyi

Co Executive director, The leap

Bianca Mugyenyi is Co-Executive Director of The Leap, an organization that builds in the Leap Manifesto, a document that addresses and seeks solutions to the overlapping crises of climate change and inequality. She is an activist and author based in Montreal who has spent the past... Read More →

Sunday June 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
HGA Classroom 218

Workshop Block C

Track Policy and Organizing
Tag International Content