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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RIPESS IN COLOMBIA – Where to find RIPESS LAC and RIPESS Intercontinental during these days?
Everything is ready for the events before and during #COP16, including, the #Ibero-AmericanDiverseEconomiesMeeting, #ECOOVIDA and other side events where RIPESS delegations from 4 continents will participate in #Bogotá and #Cali in the green and blue zone. Here is the agenda of all the places where you can meet us. Our mission: to show how #ESS entities can facilitate biodiversity protection [...]
Milestone and successful RIPESS LAC presentation of the DIPLOMATE in PUBLIC POLICIES AND SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY POPULAR ECONOMY
Text by Majo Varela, RIPESS LAC https://youtu.be/AtRSpe4cIuY?si=akcLivN42O35oUO3 The Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean is marking the intercontinental path by presenting the Diploma in Public Policies and the Popular, Social and Solidarity Economy with great success on 28 September in an online event. This diploma course has been a huge success [...]
On World Food Sovereignty Day, Nyéléni Process kicks off towards India 2025
Nyéleni is a rural town in Mali where, in 2007, 500 people gathered around food sovereignty and peasants' rights. The name of this town has given its name to a process that has since grown in scope and vision, bringing together and collectivising struggles for a greener, more autonomous, more feminist, supportive, responsible, healthy, egalitarian and, in general, a world [...]
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.
