CommonBound 2018

As part of year two of the New Economies Reporting Project, we are hosting a one-day media training led by Laura Flanders for the 2018 NEC Movement Voices fellows. The training will be hands-on, challenging, and designed with the specific fellows in mind. Taking place with a professional interviewer, in front of a camera, they will give participants an in-depth, firsthand look at what it takes to represent themselves and their work to modern media.

If you have questions, contact Eli Feghali at eli@neweconomy.net.

In this workshop we will explore how to center worker owner voices and/or those most impacted in the development of policy and advocacy strategies as we push forward efforts to support democratic ownership. What kind of training and capacity building is needed? What kinds of processes can we develop that help move policy efforts forward and also allow for significant feedback loops? What kinds of expertise do we need to translate real needs into policy asks, and help translate policy to be understood by those that have been historically left out of policy spaces in the past?

Throughout the country, post-industrial cities are rapidly developing through models of displacement, exploitation, and incarceration. In this workshop, participants will learn from members of Team TIF, a tax incentive reform collective, and Decarcerate STL, an anti-mass incarceration campaign, on how to use publicly sourced data to inform organizing. Topics will focus on the intersections of tax reform and public budgets, equitable development, and mass incarceration, although skills can be used in a variety of contexts.

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.

This interactive training will ask the question: How can we strengthen the new economy movement by living communally and sharing resources? We will look at historical examples of communities that have served as economic refuges for activists, and at ways that poor people can organize for their most basic needs to be met cooperatively. We will also look at identity-based communities as a way to strengthen and provide safety zones for traditionally marginalized groups.