Building Our Solidarity Economy Conference View Other Sessions

This workshop builds on workshop A1, bringing us from theory to practice. In this session, community groups from across the Great Lakes region will talk shop about how they are engaging in solidarity economy practices such as housing cooperatives, land trusts, and food sovereignty. We will hear stories about how they are building creatively in each context, moving people and resources into the solidarity economy. Facilitators include ShuNahSii Rose and Nora Berry from True Earth, Monika Perry and Nic Botek from the Toledo Permaculture Network, Tera John a Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians member, and Antonio Cosme.

Got class privilege and want social justice? Resource Generation is a national community for young people with wealth and class privilege take individual and collective actions towards wealth redistribution and economic justice. This session is for you if you are curious how your personal money story links with movements for reparations, landback, and democratic philanthropy -- and want to learn how to organize families and communities towards a more just world. In this session, RG members from across the US will share our money stories, why and how we organize rich kids, and how you can get involved. If you are a young person who comes from class privilege or if you expect to earn a high income after graduation, this session is for you! Those above 35 with wealth and/or class privilege are also welcome to attend.

In this theatre-based workshop, we will explore how economic differences shape our experiences as part of a campus community. Through storytelling, creative expression, witnessing and debriefing we will find new ways to connect with and surface difficult topics. All students are welcome, including students from outside of UM, as well as university staff, employees, and faculty. This workshop will be led by Pink Flowers, Director of Education and Training at the Inter-Cooperative Council, and is co-organized with UM student organization Not Rich at UMich. This topic was selected by popular demand during our pre-conference workshop.

This workshop builds on workshop A1, bringing us from theory to practice. In this session, community groups from across the Great Lakes region will talk shop about how they are engaging in solidarity economy practices such as housing cooperatives, land trusts, and food sovereignty. We will hear stories about how they are building creatively in each context, moving people and resources into the solidarity economy. Facilitators include ShuNahSii Rose and Nora Berry from True Earth, Monika Perry and Nic Botek from the Toledo Permaculture Network, Tera John a Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians member, and Antonio Cosme.

Join us on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94607301050