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SSE & Commons : a fruitful synergy
SSE and Commons : a fruitful synergy
By Josette Combes - The Commons have become an object of research and several initiatives are dedicated to advancing their concept and implementation. We have collected a few contributions to highlight…
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Focus on the Commons

Interview of Ruby van der Wekken, Oma Maa cooperative, Finland

Oma Maa is a food co-operative based on community-supported agriculture (CSA) as well as ecologically and socially sustainable food production methods. Together as a community we produce a large variety of produce at our community farm, the Lassila family farm in Tuusula, about 30 km from Helsinki. We are looking to grow into a community that can sustain 200 food members in total. 

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Video from Elisabetta Buccolo, author of "Antimafia : une histoire de solidarité" (Antimafia: a story of solidarity)

The capacity of organised civic actors (associations, cooperatives, collectives) to fight the mafia is regularly obscured by a vulgate that exalts the acts of the mafia. This sensational side has gradually overshadowed the scope of the civic movements which, throughout Sicilian history, have contributed to opposing it through their social, economic and political action. Reporting on this history, from the Unity of Italy to the present day, is a way of highlighting the civic engagement and discuss a postulate of inaction and the strength of connivance of the Sicilian people in relation to criminal networks.

Sicily is to be understood as an "area of the world", as the dynamics described in this book tell as much of its history as the dynamics than in other regions of the world where organised civil society helps to consume, produce, educate, raise awareness and mobilise against the forms of usurpation and violent subjugation produced by the criminal networks and the capitalist system that houses them.

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When SSE actors are committed to cultural rights to advance freedoms
By Patricia Coler, UFISC, France - From the creation of a show by an artistic team to the implementation of a festival in a village, from…
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Webinar : “Solidarity Economy and the Commons” - Ana Margarida Esteves, March 23rd
By Luciane Lucas dos Santos (Ecosol-CES, UC/RIPESS Europe/RedPES) I RedPES-RIPESS Series’ third seminar (March 23th), with Ana Margarida Esteves (ISCTE-IUL) : Regenerative development aims to promote human settlements and supply chains…
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Corona and the Commons : an article from the P2P Foundation
By Michel Bauwens, Peer-to-Peer Foundation, April 2020 - Before the Corona outbreak (..), I had been reviewing the literature on historical rhythms and cycles to set the stage for the current…
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Commonspoly: the counter-Monopoly game
The re-emergence of the commons and the strong solidarity bonds that it creates is a gamechanger in today’s hyper-privatised and oligopolistic society. So why not play the game! There is…
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The RIUESS Meeting on Commons (2016)
From 25 to 27 May 2016, the 16th RIUESS Meeting, organised by the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, focused on “commons” and the social and solidarity economy. What identities and what…
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The time has come to create a livelihood income by democratising money
By Eric Dacheux, The Conversation – May 13, 2020 (…) To remedy the economic and social crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic, many initiatives, in France, but also in other Western…
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The Coop des Communs project !
By Nicole Alix, Coop des Communs, France - Yesterday a subject for experts, commons are increasingly cited in the ecological and solidarity “transition”, referring to a jumble of third places, shared…
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Commons and Solidarity Economy: Italian networks create new synergies
by Virginia Meo, RIES The RIES – Italian Network for Solidarity Economy and the National Network of Emerging Commons and Civic Use met in November 2020 to identify common points…
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News from the network
WSF 2021 : Ripess Europe youth group, a new perspective on SSE
By Andrea Rodriguez, Ripess Europe - The session Setting the trends in activism for the economic transition was held on 27th January in the scope of…
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Cycle of webinars: Solidarity economy - an intercontinental perspective
By Laura Aufrère, Ripess Europe Scientific Committee - Lauch of the webinars co-organized by the RIPESS Europe Scientific committee and the College of Global Studies – FMSH : March 1st –…
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Award to the UNESCO CRESAÇOR Club
By Ana Silva, Cresaçor - The UNESCO CRESAÇOR Club wins the 1st edition of the Manuel António da Mota Foundation Award for UNESCO Clubs “Creating foundations in society, building bridges for…
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RedPES-RIPESS Workshop Series on Solidarity Economy!
By Luciane Lucas, RedPES, Portugal - And here we go for the second seminar of the RedPES-RIPESS Workshop Series on Solidarity Economy! This seminar will happen on February 23th, 19h (CET…
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Talking about SSE
The SSE, a growth alternative according to the UN
Article from the Portal de la Economía Solidaria, REAS, Red de Redes - 2 February 2021 - The Social and Solidarity Economy is highlighted as an alternative growth model in the UN…
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Agenda
For more information
Guidelines for Local Governments on Policies for Social and Solidarity Economy
AN UNRISD PUBLICATION, 28 jan 2021 - Authors: Hamish Jenkins, Ilcheong Yi, Samuel Brülisauer, Kameni Chaddha With growing awareness about the role of social and solidarity economy in facilitating inclusive and…
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Resources on the Commons (in collaboration with socioeco.org)
In the website socioeco.org, there is a keyword “The Commons” that collects a whole set of documents and videos, you will find below a few examples : More than 20…
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