The Solidarity Economy with Cheyenna Weber
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🗓️ 30 January 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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In this Upstream Conversation with spoke with Cheyenna Weber, co-founder of SolidarityNYC and a lead organizer of the Cooperative Economics Alliance of NYC. We spoke with her about the solidarity economy, where it came from, where it is right now, and where it might be headed. How did solidarity manifest during the Occupy Wall Street movement? Why is it important that we view co-operatives, credit unions, and other forms of alternative economics as part of a broader movement? What is the role of personal and cultural transformation in the movement? This interview is a part of our exploration of the Solidarity Economy. To listen to our Episode on The Solidarity Economy, visit upstreampodcast.org/solidarityeconomy For more information: Solidarity NYC: solidaritynyc.org CEANYC: https://gocoopnyc.com/
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to an upstream conversation with Shayanna Weber. |
| 0:04.0 | Shayanna is a Brooklyn-based writer, community organizer, and educator. |
| 0:09.0 | She is a co-founder and member of Solidarity NYC and a lead organizer of the Cooperative Economics |
| 0:16.0 | Alliance of New York City. We spoke with her as part of our exploration of the |
| 0:21.3 | Solidarity Economy. exploration of the solidarity economy. I'm a co-founder of Solidarity NYC and we are an all collective actually. We are unfunded. We've been around since 2009. |
| 0:47.2 | We formed after the US Solidarity Economy Forum that was hosted by the US Solidarity Economy Network in Amherst in 2009. |
| 0:59.0 | And the purpose of that group has been to support and connect New York City's |
| 1:05.2 | the economy organizations and organizers and people who are interested in this |
| 1:10.6 | work and the primary vehicle for that has been a mapping project where |
| 1:17.2 | we've demonstrated the ways that people are connected to the Solidarity Economy framework and made that possible for people to search |
| 1:26.9 | based on where they are in the city or good or service that they're looking for. |
| 1:32.0 | And we've also conducted a lot of research. |
| 1:34.3 | So the research and education part of it |
| 1:37.1 | was very intimately tied to a larger organizing project, |
| 1:41.2 | which has culminated in the creation of a cross-sectoral solidarity |
| 1:45.4 | economy network in the city that goes by the name Cooperative Economics Alliance of |
| 1:51.2 | New York City or Scenic as we call it. So Solidarity |
| 1:55.5 | and I see as a collective has been mostly focused on getting that network off the |
| 2:00.3 | ground for about seven years and this year we finally did we launched it and |
| 2:06.8 | Scenic now has its own board and is democratically controlled and is building |
| 2:10.4 | its programs and so Solidarity and I see is a collective of artists, media makers, organizers and |
| 2:16.3 | researchers is in a bit of a transition. |
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