While there are too many candidates for this election season to count, a few (see here and here) have raised the profile of a particularly obscure and little-understood framework for economic transformation: the solidarity economy. …

by Ashar Foley (originally published in Voices of Lefferts, Volume 3, Number 1 in Fall of 2020.) “¿Señorita tienes guantes?” a man in a winter sports jacket asked me through the chain-link fence that surrounds Q Gardens, a small triangular community garden at Church Avenue and East 18th Street. “¿Guantes?”…

Squeezed out of traditional philanthropy, underrepresented in policymaking, and generally ignored by traditional banks and lenders…

by Cliff Rosenthal Back in 1989, Congress instructed regulators to “preserve the number of minority depository institutions; preserve the minority character in cases of merger or acquisition;[and] promote and encourage creation of new minority depository institutions” (Section 308 of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act — FIRREA). It…

by Cheyenna Layne Weber and Ali Issa [This piece was submitted in November, 2020 and originally published early January, 2021 in the Japanese-language magazine Social Movements, in collaboration with The Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Union (Seikatsu.) Founded in 1965, Seikatsu is a consumer co-op federation of 32 autonomous cooperatives spanning…