What is Social Solidarity Economy?
Today, perhaps as never before, more people are becoming aware that capitalism has turned our lives and our planet into a commodity. A system that is environmentally unsustainable and socially unjust, and that it is not able to guarantee the happiness and dignified life conditions of all persons in any place on the planet.
Social Solidarity Economy includes a wide range of practices that span economic, social, environmental, political, communitarian or holistic dimensions.
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20th Anniversary in Building the SSE Movement
Interviews with Nancy Neamtan and Michael Lewis - originally published here, on the website of CCdeNet. Interviews conducted by Yvon Poirier, the Canadian CED Network’s representative to RIPESS. The Chantier de l’économie sociale and the Canadian CED Network (CCEDNet) are founding members of RIPESS Both of you attended a meeting in Dakar (Senegal) on December 18 and 19, 2002. At the occasion [...]
Feminism and Social Solidarity Economy: indisputably inseparable
Today, it is the alliance between capital and heteropatriarchy that creates the majority of oppressions suffered by women around the world. In this sense, reproductive work - carried out mainly by women - which involves the very reproduction of labour and care, is fundamental to the maintenance of the system, even though it is carried out in a subordinate way. [...]
Podcast – New Economy Network of Australia
Interview Brownen Morgan & Michelle Maloney New Economy Network of Australia, the only Oceania representative of RIPESS, was launched informally in October 2017 at the Brisbane Conference and was legally constituted as a cooperative in January 2019. NENA's priorities for 2022 include the well-being economy in Australia; networking workshops and indicators; growing the "Regen Cities" movement - Regen Melbourne, Regen [...]
What is RIPESS?
RIPESS is a global network of continental networks committed to the promotion of Social Solidarity Economy. The member networks themselves (Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) bring together national and sectorial networks, thus ensuring strong territorial anchoring.
The combined local and global scope gives RIPESS legitimacy to promote SSE, foster intercontinental cooperation, and advocate at different levels. RIPESS members believe in the importance of the globalisation of solidarity, and the ability to build and strengthen an economy that places people and planet at the centre of its activities.
