Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats, and Edget Betru

The Response

On this week’s show, we’ll be turning our focus towards the Solidarity Economy and what is meant by 'Resist & Build'.

Joining us for this conversation is Emily Kawano, Co-Director of the Wellspring Cooperative Corporation and Coordinator of the United States Solidarity Economy Network, Matthew Slaats, co-director of the Solidarity Research Center and the founder of the Virginia Solidarity Economy Network, and Edget Betru, an attorney who is on the boards of Community Movement Builders and the Organization for Human Rights and Democracy in Atlanta.

Together, we unpack what 'Resist & Build' looks like in practice, discuss the necessity of cross-movement dialogue and collaboration, and explore pathways for scaling up (and arguably, more importantly, scaling out) the solidarity economy.

Resources:

• Resist & Build
• US Solidarity Economy Network
• Virginia Solidarity Economy Network
• Community Movement Builders
• Organization for Human Rights and Democracy
• People’s Network for Land and Liberation
• Wellspring Cooperative Corporation
• Solidarity Research Center
• Stop Cop City Solidarity
• The Response: Stop Cop City with Jesse Pratt López & Nolan Huber-Rhoades

Episode credits:

Produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn

Edited by Robert Raymond.

Theme Music by Cultivate Beats

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