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  • America Latina - Economia Social y Solidaria

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 takes now part in the Nyéléni process Steering Committee

RIPESS had the great opportunity to participate in the Nyeleni Global Forum Preparation Meeting in Rome, last 10-11, June 2023. The purpose of this meeting was to include in the food sovereignty process and structure social movements that are close to the concept and values of food sovereignty/agroecology with different origins and backgrounds. The meeting was a participatory quest among [...]

RIPESS keeping the work up as observers for the UNTFSSE in its last meeting of the year.

Hamish Jenkins updates about the last UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) taking place last 13 December 2023 according to him, one of the most important meetings of the UNTFSSE’s history. Prior to the meeting, two major processes were underway: 1.       A joint letter by #UNTFSSE observers that have a historical background in the global #SocialSolidarityEconomy movement [...]

Feminist leadership in the Social Solidarity Economies: Keys to socio-economic transformation through the creation of new id/entities.

Collaborative document (REAS Euskadi, RIPESS Europa, RIPESS Intercontinental) - Intervention at the side event: Women Leaders in the Social Economy at the European Social Economy Conference, San Sebastian, 14 November 2023. This intervention aims to contribute elements for debate in the process of understanding the impact of the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) on equality processes from an intersectional perspective and [...]

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.

CSA, cohousing,biocoops, recycling,, renewable energy cooperatives, food coop… What is it that allows these thousands of initiatives, this system of values that underpins the social and solidarity economy, to form a system? To create a movement? How can they be made more visible?

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