Solidarity Economy Shorts Episode #9
A collaboration with New Economy Coalition
Solidarity Economy Shorts are conversations with frontline organizations & individuals that are putting solidarity economy principles into practice. They are using different strategies to build an economic system where communities are meeting their own needs outside of capitalism.
Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) is a hub for legal education, research, advice, and advocacy that supports the transition to localized, resilient economies. Their work focuses on practices that promote justice and sharing, including cooperatives, community currencies, community enterprises, local investing, cohousing, urban agriculture, and other innovative economic strategies.
In this episode I speak with Mwende Hinojosa, the director of communications and strategic storytelling at the law center. We discuss the gap the co-founders were seeing that led them to step up to be a legal resource for the solidarity economy movement, what democratizing land, labor, and law looks like in practice, cooperative models as a pathway to ownership for undocumented immigrants, the revitalization of a former Black self-sufficient community, and how organizations can show up with care and intention for immigrants in their community.
Show Notes
Sustainable Economies Law Center Website (https://www.theselc.org)
Co-op (http://co-oplaw.org/) Law Website: online legal resource library supporting democratic, worker-owned businesses
SELC Legal Cafe (https://www.theselc.org/cafe_calendar): free trainings and 1:1 legal support
Mutual Aid Toolkit (https://www.theselc.org/mutual_aid_toolkit): FAQs from mutual aid organizers answered by SELC lawyers
State by State Guide to Apprenticeships (https://likelincoln.org/state-by-state-guide-to-apprenticeships/): eight states’ rules for becoming a lawyer without attending law school
Ban Land Grabs One Pager (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dbvGKppHrJTBFPqqYV7vhSJTgLtc0qJqiQWQ0fGCaWo/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.mls6l97h4rsr): advocating to ban for-profit, non-cooperative business entities from buying residential property in Richmond and individual mega landlords
Prospera Co-op (https://prosperacoops.org/): co-creates community wealth for Latina entrepreneurs
Allensworth Progressive Association: (https://www.allensworthpa.org/) community-led nonprofit dedicated to the revitalization and self-determination of Allensworth, California
16 Jul 2026
Mommune: A Village for Single Mom’s with Motherful
Solidarity Economy Shorts Episode #8
A collaboration with New Economy Coalition
Solidarity Economy Shorts are conversations with frontline organizations & individuals that are putting solidarity economy principles into practice. They are using different strategies to build an economic system where communities are meeting their own needs outside of capitalism.
Motherful is a matriarchal collective by and for single mothers rooted in non-hierarchy, mutual care, and shared resources. They are reimagining a future of motherhood where all single mothers are valued as sacred and worthy of support.
In this episode I speak with co-founder Lisa Woodward and housing director Amanda King. Lisa grounds us in Motherful’s origin story and how they are meeting the needs of single moms through offerings like their pantry, resource garage, and basic income program. We discuss what it means to be a matriarchal and non-hierarchical collective and how they maintain those principles with an evolving membership of over 2,000. Amanda shares their newest initiative, an eco-village in Ohio for single mothers to shape their housing, community, and the conditions they need to thrive. This conversation offers a tangible vision for what is possible when we shift from care being an individual responsibility to a collective one.
Show Notes
Motherful Website (https://www.motherful.org/)
Heide Göttner-Abendroth: (https://goettner-abendroth.de/en/biography) an advocate for matriarchal studies
Matriarchy Now (https://www.matriarchy-now.com/): an alliance of organizations whose shared mission is to move society towards matriarchy
Up Together (https://www.uptogether.org/): organization that co-funded the Ohio Mother’s Trust and is working to working to disrupt the status quo approach to ending poverty
Rise Together Innovation Institute: (https://www.rtiico.org/) organization that co-funded the Ohio Mother’s Trust and is working to to disrupt structural racism and issues of poverty in Franklin County
6 Mar 2025
Solidarity Economy Shorts #7: Feedback is a Gift with Cooperate Western North Carolina
Solidarity Economy Shorts Episode #7
A collaboration with New Economy Coalition
Solidarity Economy Shorts are conversations with frontline organizations & individuals that are putting solidarity economy principles into practice. They are using different strategies to build an economic system where communities are meeting their own needs outside of capitalism.
Cooperate Western North Carolina weaves cooperative economics and ecological design to nurture a regional-scale mutual aid network to meet community’s basic needs with trust at the foundation.
In this episode I speak with the founder Zev Friedman. We discuss the relationship between regeneration in natural and human cooperative ecosystems, how they are practicing regional mutual aid through models like bulk purchasing and savings pools, conflict as an opportunity transformation, finding the balance between relational trust building and practical work, and tools for shifting from individualism to a collective way of life.
Show Notes
Cooperate WNC (https://cooperatewnc.org/)
WNC Food Coalition (https://wncfoodcoalition.org/): Regenerative food system coalition in Western North Carolina
Asheville Nuttery (https://www.ashevillenuttery.com/): Cooperatively run nut processing facility in Asheville, NC
Community Purchasing Alliance (https://www.cpa.coop/): A network of local cooperatives that leverage the buying power of community institutions through bulk purchasing in Washington D.C.
Silver Run Forest Farm (https://silverrunforestfarm.org/): Co-founder Jonathan McRay teaches organizers about the process of conflict systems
Transformative Justice Collective (https://batjc.org/): Community group based out of Oakland, CA working to build and support transformative justice responses to harm and violence
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