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Cooperation Jackson
Cooperation Jackson is the realization of a Just Transition vision decades in the making. Its roots lay deep within the struggle for democratic rights, economic justice, self-determination, particularly for people of African descent in the Deep South, and dignity for all workers. They are working to replace the current socioeconomic system of exploitation, exclusion and the destruction of the environment with a proven democratic alternative built on equity, cooperation, worker democracy, and environmental sustainability to provide meaningful living wage jobs, reduce racial inequities, and build community wealth. See Cooperationjackson.org
Center for Partnership Studies
Center for Partnership Studies' mission is to catalyze movement towards partnership systems on all levels of society through research, education, grassroots empowerment, and policy initiatives. CPS’ programs focus on promoting Human Rights and nonviolence, gender and racial equity. They offer classes on building a Partnership World with Rianne Eisler, and Changing Our Story, Changing Our Lives: Riane Eisler's Cultural Transformation Course. See Centerforpartnership.org. You can also go to https://rianeeisler.com/ for her course Partnership 101.
US Solidarity Economy Network
US Solidarity Economy Network connects diverse organizations, and projects in the shared work of building and strengthening regional, national and international movements for a solidarity economy. Solidarity economy is about systemic transformation, and already exists in the form of worker-owned businesses, consumer and production co-ops, community land trusts, public banks, alternative currencies, the care economy and much more. See their map of the US solidarity economy at solidarityeconomy.us. You can also see the international solidarity economy at ripess.org.
Next System Project
Next System Project uses bold thinking and actions to address systemic challenges like economic inequality, racial injustice and climate change. They function as a research and development lab for political-economic alternatives for a better future, with the networks that can make them real. Their website at thenextsystem.org has a plethora of information. Their effort is headed by Gus Speth, Dean Emeritus of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Gar Alperovitz, author of America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy. See https://thenextsystem.org
The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is rising for justice demanding that the 140 million poor and low-income people in our nation are no longer ignored, dismissed or pushed to the margins of our political and social agenda, and that the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy/militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism all be ended. They rise to build power, moral activism, voter participation, and to lift the voices of poor and low income Americans with a vision of love, justice, and truth for America that says poverty can be abolished and change can come. See poorpeoplescampaign.org
Move to Amend
Move to Amend came out of a broad-based gathering of pro-democracy groups in the Fall of 2009, and went live on the day the Supreme Court handed down their decision in January 2010 to allow the wealthy class to spend unlimited amounts of corporate money on US political campaigns. Their US Constitutional amendment declares that corporations do not have constitutional rights, which corporations have used to plunder our democracy, and that money is not speech. Their petition has been signed by almost 500,000 people and multiple states and cities including Los Angeles and New York have passed resolutions supporting Move to Amend. See movetoamend.org
Women's Earth and Climate Action Network
Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network works with women globally to examine interlocking systems of oppression, and the need for a regenerative economy that prioritizes communities and a right relationship with people and nature. They want people to live in reciprocity with the earth and with each other, where people give what they have to share and receive from others without concern for equal value. For more information, see www.wecaninternational.org
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) provides communities with education, tools and legal advice to create Community Rights ordinances that give power back to the people, so they can protect their own communities. CELDF works with communities facing fracking, pipelines, factory farms, and other threats that have no way to stop these harmful projects.
CELDF realizes it will take a people’s movement to establish rights for humans and nature over the systems that control them, and is now at the forefront of that movement. See CELDF.org
CELDF realizes it will take a people’s movement to establish rights for humans and nature over the systems that control them, and is now at the forefront of that movement. See CELDF.org
