Register today!! Worcester Solidarity and Green Economy Conference

[Matt Feinstein]

Dear Friends and Allies,
Check out the updates and register to attend the

2013 Solidarity and Green Economy Conference:

November 9-10, 2013 (Sat. 9-6 & Sun. 9-2)

At Worcester Youth Center, 326 Chandler St, Worcester, MA

REGISTER HERE (SLIDING SCALE)

Worcester SAGE announces the 3rd Annual Solidarity and Green Economy Conference: Place, Politics & Potential!

Please plan on joining activists, organizers, educators, community leaders, non-profits and other individuals and organizations who are committed to forging more equitable and sustainable ways of organizing our economies and communities.  

Featured themes:

• Collective Housing Power - Eviction Reistance to Community Ownership - (with Malcolm Chu of No One Leaves - Springfield, others)
• Resources for the Solidarity Economy Movement - community finance - (with Darlene Lombos, Green Justice Coalition/ Community Labor United; Tom Sgouros, journalist and author; Micha Josephy, Cooperative Fund of New England; Andy Posner, Capital Good Fund).
• Collective Provisioning: Organizing consumers to promote Solidarity Economy initiatives - ex. Italian model (with Cristina Grasseni and Co-op Academy participants)
• Mapping & Organizing Project

Conference also features speakers and workshops on the following:

• What is the global movement for Solidarity Economy? With Emily Kawano 
• Theater of the oppressed with Giseli Vasconcelos
• Why co-ops fail (and how to prevent it)
• Transforming Where We Live: Suburban Permaculture
• Intro to Economic Democracy
• Participatory Consent
• Dismantling Racism
• The limits of co-ops: Participatory Democracy
• Youth in Solidarity Economy
• Language Justice
• Art and Activism in Brazil and the US

As the increasing efforts across the state around sustainable, cooperative and alternative economics attest, another economy is possible. In order to embrace and support the growing movement, this year's conference will take place over the course of 3 days. Sessions, workshops, and discussions will help to plan and enact solidarity economy initiatives and relationships, launch new and support existing campaigns, and discuss the possibilities of a statewide solidarity economy initiative.

To learn more about Worcester SAGE, to get involved in planning this year's conference, and to watch comprehensive video footage of last year's conference, go to http://www.worcestersagealliance.org

LIST OF CO-SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS is GROWING!  ADD YOURS!

Worcester SAGE Alliance

Worcester Roots Project

Clean Water Action

Worcester Youth Center

Worcester Energy Barnraisers

EPOCA

Co-op Power

US Solidarity Economy Network

Center for Popular Economics

Greenwork

The Shop

Starship X Collective

Stone Soup

Regional Environmental Council

ARTichoke Food Co-op

Nuestro Huerto

Atelier Legrange

East African Community Outreach

Good Orneing

Cooperative Fund of New England

Project 401

Matt Feinstein

Co-director, Media and Organizing Coordinator

Worcester Roots Project

c: 508-335-7783

w: 508-343-0035

5 Pleasant St 3rd floor

Worcester, MA 01609

Co-op Academy

Future Focus Media Co-op

Central Mass Film Fest

Toxic Soil Busters Co-op

Youth In Charge

Diggers Co-op