I hardly see folks in the DSA sphere get involved with the movement for more liberatory worker cooperatives and cooperatives of all kinds -- or solidarity economy movements in general (ie New Economy Coalition, US Solidarity Economy Network, etc). Did you know the national network of Worker Cooperatives is gathering this weekend in Boston, for example? More solidarity is needed in these solidarity movements! [https://www.conference.coop/home/](https://www.conference.coop/home/)

  
"What actually is the solidarity economy?  
  
[**Zac Chapman**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacjchapman/): "One of the things that can make defining the solidarity economy hard is that it can means various things, so I'll anchor it in three things: a solidarity economy movement, solidarity economy principles and solidarity economy practices. And so, moving through each of them: the SE movement is a global social movement to build an economy where broadly speaking, we're democratizing all of the manifold aspects of our society and economy. So we're democratizing our workplaces, finance, land & housing, the economy -- there's umbrella terms you'll often hear 'participatory democracy ' or 'economic democracy' -- these are within this broader tent of this movement which grew out of Latin America and the global south, where the community needs are governed by every day people. It's also rooted in principles like responsive and participatory governance, in front-line leadership, in cultures of reparations and rematriation. Those are some of the principles which anchor this work to build deep democracy. Well that sounds great, but how do you do it? That's where the practices come through to provide real alternatives to racial capitalism."

[https://jordynmiddlebrooks.substack.com/p/season-2-episode-8-what-is-the-solidarity](https://jordynmiddlebrooks.substack.com/p/season-2-episode-8-what-is-the-solidarity)  


I want to see more DSA-ers acknowledge/participate in pre-figurative economic democracy experiments