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Solidarity Economy 101

Join us to learn about the solidarity economy and how you can apply its principles to your life and community. The facilitator will present remotely but participants can attend in person at Crown.

Please join the Evanston Public Library and  Evanston Development Cooperative in this workshop, in which we will explore the values, framework, and real-world applications of the solidarity economy (SE), and start a conversation on how you can bring SE initiatives to your community.

The solidarity economy is an alternative development framework with community at its center. Its main values are:

• Solidarity, mutualism, and cooperation
• Equity in all dimensions: race/ethnicity/nationality, class, gender, LGBTQ
• The primacy of social welfare over profits
• Sustainability
• Social and economic democracy
• Pluralism and organic approach, allowing for different forms in different contexts, and open to continual change driven from the bottom up 

This VIRTUAL session will be facilitated by Mike Strode, founding coordinator of the Chicago's Kola Nut Collaborative and member of U.S. Solidarity Economy Network. 

Participants are welcome to attend the session in person in the Programming Room at the Robert Crown Library Branch, where a co-facilitator will be enabling small group, in person discussions.

If you prefer to attend on Saturday, April 16th (in English) look here

If you prefer to attend this workshop in Spanish, sign up for the April 14th session here. 

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