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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‘Play the change you want to see in the world’: Learning and spreading Transformative Economies through playing
Last November, Athens became the place chosen to launch the final version of ‘The Change’, a board game in which nobody wins and everybody learns about Transformative Economies and real projects that have been collected in this virtual map of initiatives. This game is already an educational tool that seeks to bring the principles of the Social and Solidarity Economy [...]
RIPESS LAC shares the bulletin of activities for the last months of 2024 together with lines of work for 2025.
RIPESS LAC, with the co-coordination representing a diverse CoR (Steering Committee) and working on different lines of work with a new technical secretariat since the beginning of the year, presents the following newsletter. An English translation (only of the text) can be reached here. Boletín Nº4- cierre2024 y proyección 2025.pdf de Andrea EFM
And for you, what is care? First webinar of the year on care and Social Solidarity Economy
This webinar will be held on 29 January at 15h CET (21h Indonesia, 11h Chile, 9h Canada) and requires pre-registration here. The gender commission of RIPESS Intercontinental, which brings together women and gender non-conforming people from all RIPESS continental networks around the world, is organising this intergenerational dialogue on the weaving of care networks from solidarity economies together with RIPESS Europe. Recognition of the importance of [...]
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.
