CommonBound 2016 Program

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p e o p l e a r e awa r e that
they cannot continue in the same old

way but are immobilized because they
cannot imagine an alternative. We
need a vision that recognizes that we
are at one of the great turning points
in human history when the survival of
our planet and the restoration of our
humanity require a great sea change
in our ecological, economic, political,
and spiritual values."
grace lee boggs
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Welcome to CommonBound!
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What Is NEC?
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What Is the Crossroads Collective?
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What Is the New Economy?
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Agreements and Accessibility at CommonBound
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Arts & Culture: Infringing on CommonBound
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Schedule Overview
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Thank You to Our Sponsors
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Credits
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Getting Here and Away
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Table of Contents
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Welcome to CommonBound!
Were thrilled that youre here.
Joining you are more than 800 people from California to Maine, Cuba to Japan, and many places in between. They are migrant farmers, community bankers, worker owners, grassroots organizers, union members,
immigrants, students, teachers, and more all hungry for the deep changes our communities desperately need.
Chances are that if youre here at CommonBound, youre not content with just saying no to the things we dont
want. You want to both resist injustice and advance real solutions that put people and planet first. Thats what this
conference is all about.
We know the stakes are higher than ever. All around the globe, the forces of austerity, war, and climate change
are devastating our communities. Fascist and white supremacist movements are gaining ground in US and
Europe. For so much of the world, particularly in the global south and in marginalized communities everywhere,
the need for new economies is a matter of life and death.
Often its in the face of those stakes that communities rise up and prove that there is a better way forward.
Everywhere we look, people are building powerful examples of economic democracy: cooperative businesses,
participatory budgeting initiatives, community land trusts, and so much more. Were also seeing our movements
channel grassroots energy into political victories as we set our sights to larger-scale impact and transformation.
In this moment of extremes, of tremendous risk and opportunity, how we will rise to the challenge? Whats our
vision and strategy? How do we weave together the many distinct threads in our movements?
Over the next few days here at CommonBound, we invite you to grapple with those questions. Lets take advantage of the powerful group of visionary leaders and activists here to think, learn, and strategize together. The
most important ingredient that will make this conference a success is the relationships we build. We encourage
you to step outside your comfort zone. Have that conversation youve been wanting to have. Share the hardest
challenge youre struggling with. Connect with someone doing work in a sector you are totally unfamiliar with.
We also hope you will take time to get to know the people and groups that make this place, Buffalo, New York,
an important hub of the new economy story. Faced with the same disinvestment that has torn through countless
towns and cities along Americas Rust Belt, Buffalonians working across issues from affordable housing, to
refugee rights, to community-owned renewable power have been at the forefront of some of the most visionary
organizing happening in this country. Thats why weve partnered with the Crossroads Collective, comprised
of eight Buffalo-based community groups, to ensure that the conference adds fuel to local efforts and grounds
visitors in the work happening in Western New York.
Lastly, we want to celebrate our incredible volunteers and supporters. Inspired by the decentralized model of the
Allied Media Conference, CommonBound is a collaborative effort shaped by more than 80 volunteer coordinators who have curated workshop tracks and network gatherings so that this conference reflects many of the
organizations and communities leading our movements. Thank you to them and to the workshop presenters,
funders, volunteers, and random acts of generosity that make a conference like this possible!
We hope that the next three days will be filled with inspiration, as we build our collective knowledge and power,
and prove that another world is possible.
With gratitude and excitement,
The New Economy Coalition
The New Economy Coalition (NEC) is a network of organizations imagining and building a future where
people, communities, and ecosystems thrive. Together, we are creating deep change in our economy and
politicsplacing power in the hands of people and uprooting legacies of harmso that a fundamentally
new system can take root.
Our network advances change in three main ways:

1. We convene and connect leaders to tackle common challenges
in their work to build a new economy.
NEC is made up of over
150 member organizations
from across the US and
Canada. See the full list at
neweconomy.net/members!
2. We amplify stories, tools, and analysis, weaving a collective

new economy narrative that can build shared identity, shift culture
and policy, and promote a clear vision of the next system.
3. We lift up the work of communities on the frontlines of
interrelated economic and ecological crises who are organizing for
transformative change, through right relationships and direct support.
Our Vision:
At the New Economy Coalition, were driven by a belief that all our strugglesfor racial, economic,
and climate justice; for true democratic governance and community ownership; for prosperity rooted in
interdependence with the earths natural systemsare deeply interconnected. Rising to the challenge of
building a better world demands that we fundamentally transform our economic and political systems.
We must imagine and create a future where capital (wealth and the means of creating it) is a tool of the
people, not the other way around. What we need is a new systema new economythat meets human
needs, enhances the quality of life, and allows us to live in balance with nature. Far from a dream, this new
economy is bursting forth through the cracks of the current system as people experiment with new forms of
business, governance, and culture that give life to the claim that another world is possible.
WHAT IS THE CROSSROADS COLLECTIVE?

The Crossroads Collective is committed to building a new community economy. It is a new,
first-of-its-kind alliance based in the city of Buffalo. We are activists, creators, growers, grassroots educators, organizers, and researchers who realize that all of todays major battles for
community justice are linked and equally important. Crossroads is about grassroots movements
throughout our city joining forces and winning on critical community concerns.
CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE COLLECTIVE INCLUDE:
Coalition for Economic Justice
Open Buffalo
Massachusetts Avenue Project
Partnership for the Public Good
Public Accountability Initiative

PUSH Buffalo
Ujima Company
WASH Project
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What Is The New Economy?

The new economy represents an emerging vision for a just,
sustainable, and democratic future.
Justice
A new economy must work for

all people, starting with those
who have historically been
marginalized and exploited by
racism, imperialism, classism,
patriarchy, and other systems of
oppression.
Sustainability
A new economy supports

regeneration of both human
and natural systems. It builds
community resilience by rooting
wealth and power in place and
in service of human needs on a
finite planet.
We believe that centuries of economic extraction have

undermined aspirations for a democratic society. Concentration of power in the hands of a privileged few is incompatible with the long-term health of our communities and
our ecosystems. Structural racism and inequality, coupled
with unsustainable consumption and an addiction to fossil
fuels, allow this system to persist while spelling out a future
with less opportunity and more vulnerability for the vast
majority of people.
We can choose to accept this fate or we can demand
something different.
All around us, innovators are building cooperative, ethical,
and community-rooted enterprises, reclaiming the commons, and democratizing and reorienting finance. We are
finding new ways to share skills and goods, measure success, and meet growing human needs on a finite planet.
At the same time, our growing mobilizations in the streets
are building power to resist and replace unjust systems.
Through all of these efforts, a movement is emerging that
could change our society and the world.
NEC exists to support this movement.
This movement is not ideologically rigid or one-size-fits-all.
Under unjust systems, exploited communities have long
experimented with different ways of building community
economies as a means of survival. These groups have deep
and valuable experience imagining and creating alternatives. We celebrate and learn from the work that came before us, striving to listen and follow leadership from frontline
communities in building this new economy for all.
Democracy
A new economy incorporates

democratic principles into the
management of economic
and civic life.
Whats new about

the new economy?
Economic democracy, ecological
justice, and the commons are
concepts and strategies with a rich
historyespecially in the places
most deeply affected by injustice.
People who have suffered the most
at the hands of unfair systems are
the most experienced at imagining
and building alternative futures.
We must honor that as we build
broad-based social movements
to transform our economy. We
must also acknowledge that many
communities around the world use
different language to describe this
work. For example, many call it the
solidarity and/or social economy.
Our intention is not to rebrand
or colonize work thats been
happening for centuries. Rather we
seek to hold space for practitioners
from diverse traditions to sharpen
their thinking, deepen connections,
and imagine possibilities for a
fundamentally new system.
We know that the new economies we envision are rooted in access, justice, and equity, unlike the current
economy built on dominance, greed, and exploitation; true accessibility means that any person of any
identity or ability would be able to fully participate in any part of CommonBound 2016 that they choose.
As we strive to make our conference space model our visions of resilient and restorative economies, we
are taking steps towards a culture of accessibility at CommonBound and we invite you to join us in making
CommonBound more welcoming for everyone.
Partici pant Agreements:

1. Be Present - We will silence devices in
group spaces, listen actively and generously,
and be intentional about making connections.
2. Make Space / Take Space - We will be
aware of how were participating in workshop
spaces, balancing speaking, listening, and
making space for others to participate.
3. Respect the Right to Self-Identify - We
will ask peoples preferred gender pronouns,
and refer to people in/on their own terms
around name, race, age, ability, and other
identities.
4. Acknowledge Impact - We will take
responsibility for how our words and actions
impact others, whether intentional or not.
5. Take Care - We will take care of ourselves
and those around us by maintaining our
health, well-being, and energy throughout the
weekend.
And we invite you to support some of the systems
of accessibility weve set up:
Children and young people welcome
What you can do: Celebrate and appreciate
the presence of kids, young people, and their
parents or guardians at CommonBound.
Spanish-English and ASL interpretation
What you can do: When participating in a bior multilingual space, speak slowly and clearly
so interpreters can do their job!
Physical accessibility What you can do:
keep all wheelchair lanes passable for people
using wheelchairs, and leave priority seating
available for people who have hearing, sight,
or any other access needs. Use the wheelchair
lanes, wheelchair-accessible entrances, and
priority seating if you need them! Do not doubt

or question peoples use of these spaces.
Fragrance-free conference space What
you can do: Refrain from wearing stronglyfragranced perfume, cologne, or other
cosmetic/health products for the duration
of the conference out of care for all of our
fellow conference goers who have chemical
sensitivities.
Culture of learning accessibility What
you can do: Avoid jargon, ask and answer
clarifying questions, explain names and
acronyms, and speak from the I about
individual experiences, truths, and opinions.
Gender inclusivity What you can do: Use
the bathroom that makes sense for you and let
others do the same! All conference spaces will
have gender inclusive bathrooms.
We welcome all to join in making this conference
a safer space for people who identify as women,
trans, gender non-conforming or genderqueer,
people of color, people with disabilities, youth,
people from low-wealth communities, and
people of all identities to participate. No sexism,
homophobia, racism, classism, transphobia,
xenophobia, or other forms of oppression or
violence will be tolerated at CommonBound.
To see the full list of accessibilty measures taken in
preparing for CommonBound, please go to www.
commonbound.org.
Please contact Ash Trull with any accessibility
needs, questions, or feedback during or after the
conference at commonbound@neweconomy.net or
call our CB Info Desk at (716) 780-2216.
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Language Justice at CommonBound 2016

As we gather together across movements, across geographies, across identities, and across borders, the
space we create is gathering people across languages too! CommonBound is a multilingual space striving
towards language justice. Language justice is the belief that all people have the right to communicate in
the language in which they feel most comfortable and best able to communicate. Language is a system of
power; when one language is dominant over others, it creates power structures among speakers of different
languages. Interpretation is essential to bridge communication gaps between movements and build
solidarity across the organizing in different language communities, locally, nationally, and internationally.
You will see interpretation happening at CommonBound!
In plenary spaces and workshops where we have speakers presenting in a language other than English
to a large crowd, you will see consecutive interpretation. A presenter speaks and then pauses to
allow for the interpreter to repeat what has been said in the other language to the audience.
In labeled bilingual workshops where we have presenters and workshop participants speaking in
English and Spanish you will see simultaneous interpretation. Using special audio equipment that
allows interpreters to interpret what speakers are saying as they are talking, a person speaks while
the interpreter follows along simultaneously in the other language, speaking quietly into a microphone
attached to a transmitter that broadcasts to anyone using a receiver and wearing headphones. This
form of interpretation allows everyone to participate in real time, regardless of their preference for
either language.
If you need language support, interpretation, or other information about language justice please visit the Info Desk.
Si necesita soporte de idiomas, interpretacin, u otra informacin acerca de la justicia de lenguaje, por
favor visite el sitio de informacin.
ARTS & CULTURE
Buffalo infringement Festival (BiF) artists will be let loose to infringe in

spaces around CommonBounds scheduled programming. Look for them
during evening gatherings and lunchtime breaks, striking up spontaneous
jam sessions in quiet corners, performing live music, dancing, painting, and
duetting on the lawn of Rockwell Hall, or pulling in CommonBound attendees
to participate in acts of creation and collaboration.
What is infringement?
BiF is a non-commercial, nonhierarchical resource-sharing

www.infringebuffalo.org
economy dedicated to the expression
ioCB organizers: David
of experimental, controversial, and
Adamczyk, Andrew
anti-establishment artwork of all forms. Taking place in multiple,
Delmonte, Heather Gring
often unconventional, venues in and around Buffalo, the festival is an
annual 11-day event running from the last weekend of July through
the first weekend of August. Every artist proposal is accepted, and
artists participate for free. Their festival in Buffalo is only one of a
growing international infringement movement, with a shared mandate, that holds festivals in a number of
North American cities.
The BiF philosophy and approach
BiF is dedicated to the belief that art has a greater purpose than to entertain or to make a quick buck.
Unfortunately, the modern-day arts world is increasingly degenerated by commercialism, elitism, and
closed-mindedness. In this climate, the vast majority of art inevitably grows more and more toothless,
perfunctory, and irrelevant. To counter this,
we have undertaken to claw out a small niche
where artists are freeboth ideologically and
financiallyto create as they wish.
BiF is rooted in the belief that cooperation
among artists, venues, and audienceenables
art to happen, anywhere. And wherever
these spaces exist, infringement is possible.
This belief, and the space we seek to create
for art and artists in our communities and
in our economic system, is a radically
different approach and one we feel strongly
complements the vision of deep systemic
change upon which CommonBound and a
new economy is founded.
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FRIDAY, JULY 8TH
SC H E D U L E
OV E RV I E W
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Network Gatherings
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Light Dinner (Rockwell Patio)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Welcome and Opening Panel / Keynote
(Rockwell Theater)
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Opening Social (Rockwell Patio)
SATURDAY, JULY 9TH

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Breakfast (Campbell Lobby

@ Campbell Student Union)
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Workshop Block A
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Workshop Block B
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch (Social Hall

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Flexible Time: Emerging Conversations,

Caucuses, and Local Tours

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Workshop Block C
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Evening Plenary (Rockwell Theater)
7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Dinner & Party (The Plaza next to
Campbell Student Union)
SUNDAY, JULY 10TH
8:30 am - 9:30 am


9:30 am - 10:45 am
Workshop Block D
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Workshop Block E
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Lunch (Social Hall

1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Workshop Block F
3:05 pm - 4:45 pm
Closing Plenary (Rockwell Theater)
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for info!
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CommonBound would not be possible without...

Generous grants from:
And generous
sponsorshi ps from:
Chorus Foundation
Allies
Fund for Democratic Communities
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
Cloud Mountain Foundation

Gardeners Supply Company
M&T Bank
Dr. Bronners
Equal Exchange
Fund for Democratic Communities
Try-It Distributing Co., Inc.
The Paul & Edith Babson Foundation
Supporters
New England Grassroots Environment Fund
Boston Impact Initiative

Corporate Accountability International
Dollars & Sense
National Cooperative Bank
Trillium Asset Management
Beanfields Snacks
Capital Institute
Cooperative Development Institute
Cooperative Fund of New England
Resurgence Brewing Co.
RSF Social Finance
The Working World
The Laura Flanders Show
Germeshausen Foundation
The John R. Oishei Foundation
GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS,

including those from the Solidaire community, also made it possible
for CommonBound to be as accessibleand as representative of
our powerful movementas possible.Theres still time to support a
CommonBound scholarship.
Donate at supportcommonbound.causevox.com.
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Online
Got a question about online logistics? Email helpdesk@neweconomy.net!
But is there WiFi though?

Yes. Username: EventsMgtGuest
Password: CommonBound2016
Your Sched
If you registered on eventbrite, youve probably
already checked out cb16.sched.org or schedule.
commonbound.org. Thats our online home for
speaker bios, the schedule, workshop descriptions,
and more. You can even see the full list of attendees,
including bios and affiliations if people have chosen
to share those publicly. When you have a moment,
we recommend logging in, updating your profile,
and checking off the sessions youre most interested
in. Think of Sched as part online directory, part
social network for CommonBound.
You should also check out the main conference website, commonbound.org, and our CommonBound
2016 Facebook event page at bit.ly/cb16-facebook. Throughout the weekend, were going to be
updating those sites in real-time with highlights, pictures, and updates.
Download the CommonBound app

Yup...theres an app for this conference! Thanks to the fine people at Sched we are able to offer a free
smartphone app available on the iTunes and Google Play stores; just search CommonBound in either
store to download the app for free. The app has all the basic functionality of the Sched website.
If youd rather not download another app, you can also visit cb16.sched.org/mobile on your mobile browser.
#CommonBound
Use the hashtag #CommonBound to post pictures, quotes,
questions, and observations on social media. During plenary
sessions, NEC staff will be monitoring Twitter and Facebook
for questions to pass along to the moderators. Each day,
well be compiling our favorite tweets into a storify that will
live on past the weekend. Help us share the stories, lessons,
and collective wisdom present at CommonBound with those
who arent here!
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You may notice a crew running around with fancy cameras and microphones. Fear not, the NSA isnt
recording the conference (in person). Like everyone else, theyll be watching live online at
commonbound.org/live where our friends from the Extraenvironmentalist will be livestreaming. The feed is
free to all attendees. Check your email (and spam folder) for the password!
Think your friend will want to tune in? Tickets are pay what you can! Register at bit.ly/cb-live.
All videos recorded at the conferenceincluding all plenary sessions, 8 workshops, interviews with
speakers, and morewill be made available for free on our YouTube channel after the conference.
Check em out at youtube.com/efssociety.
Text @commonbound to 23559 to get updates on your phone.
Join the CommonBound text loop to get conference-related announcements on your phone. Were using
cel.ly for this service. Its free* and theres an iOS and android app if youd prefer not to get texts. After
joining the loop, you can text at us by texting the same number (25559). Texts will only go to NEC staff
and replies will be private.
*USA mobile phones only. Msg & Data Rates May Apply.
Photography guidelines
We strongly encourage you to document the conference! Take notes, videos, photos...anything! (Except no
google glass plz.) We want you to capture what youre seeing and learning, and at the same time we ask
that you respect the wishes of other attendees who do not consent to (or cannot) be documented in your
media. Thank you!
We will be offering bright yellow lanyards to anyone who wishes NOT to be photographed or have their
presence otherwise documented. Please visit the registration table if youd like one!
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Workshop Tracks
Tracks are a set of sessions (i.e., workshops, panels, or
trainings) that share a common theme.
At CommonBound there are 17 tracks organized by volunteer coordination teams representing dozens
of organizations and sectors of the new economy. We welcome you to enjoy workshops from all corners
of the movement. You could choose to dive deep into one or two tracks or bounce around to different
workshops from several. Its up to you!
Advancing the Global Movement for a Social Solidarity

Economy
All over the world, networks and initiatives to transform our economic reality are gaining strength. For
historical and cultural reasons, different countries may use different terminology. But there is a growing
international convergence around the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) framework, which seeks to build
an economy and society grounded in shared values of solidarity, equity in all dimensions, participatory
democracy, sustainability and pluralismhardly the one size fits all approach of todays reigning economic
dogma. What is the state of the SSE movement internationally now, and what should it be working toward?
How can it strengthen local solidarity economy practicesworker, consumer, financial and housing
cooperatives; social currencies; CSAs; community land trusts; participatory budgetingto build a more
equitable, sustainable economy centered around peoples needs and aspirations.
Track Coordinators: Batrice Alain (Le Chantier de lconomie sociale), Emily Kawano (US Solidarity
Economy Network), Yvon Poirier (Canadian Community Economic Development Network)
The Art of Futuremaking: Cultural Strategies for a New

Economy
History tells us that in order to shift our political economy we must shift the culture that underpins it.
Before progressive social changes are concretized into laws and institutions, public opinions shift through
exposure to new stories that expand our ability to act more empathically toward ourselves, others, and the
world around us. These new ways of thinking and being circulate through society via art and culture. Our
current extractive economy relies on outdated cultural myths (e.g. scarcity, competition, etc.) to survive.
To usher in a new economy, we must engage the public in changing these limiting narratives. Artists
and cultural workers, when engaged as vehicles for social change, can do just that by tapping into the
transformative power of human connection. Art and creative cultural interventions animate democratic
processes, create space for transformative dialogue, and allow us to propose and rehearse new realities.
Together, session leaders and participants alike will share thoughts and experiences on how art and
culture can act as catalysts for the creation of the new economy, and how local economies can better
support change-minded artists and cultural workers.
Track Coordinators: Jax Gil (Resist), Terry Marshall (Intelligent Mischief), Aisha Shillingford (Intelligent
Mischief)
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Beyond Borders: Migrant Justice and Land Sovereignty in the

New Economy
No human being is illegal. All people have the right to self-determination. What was once stolen must be
returned. One dayif our movements succeedthese statements will no longer be radical. They will be
foundational principles that guide humanity in the face of resource scarcity, nationalism, and ecological
pressures. This track will explore stories and strategies to help us imagine what a world beyond borders
looks like. Topics were interested in include: indigenous sovereignty, fair global trade, restorative justice,
reparations, refugee rights, anti-racism and collective liberation, just migration policies, and more. This
track will center the experiences and voices of migrant and indigenous peoples.
Track Coordinators: Nikki Marin Baena (Fund For Democratic Communities/Southern Grassroots
Economies Project)
Beyond Business As Usual: Community Enterprise and the

Sustainable, Democratic Future of Business
As inequality and climate change mount, business cannot be sustainable without replacing the core
of capitalisms extractive enterprise model. The future of business points toward deep questions of
ownership, investment, control, and management. A new model called Community Enterpriseincluding
businesses that are family run, worker-owned, community or minority-owned and consumer consciousis
showing a way forward. In recent years, these innovative firms have illustrated how productive, valuesdriven business is driving the turn toward an economy that provides sustainable, just, democratic, and
cooperative livelihoods for all. This track will examine the transformative relationships being forged
among the workers, community members, lenders, investors, and municipal governments that, together,
are propelling a shift to workplace and economic democracy. In each session, participants and presenters
alike will explore how community enterprise can become a leading force and foundation for the just
transition to a new economy.
Track Coordinators: Theodora Rodine (US Federation of Worker Cooperatives), Esteban Kelly (US
Federation of Worker Cooperatives), Zen Trenholm (Democracy At Work Institute)
Black Lives, Labor, and Liberation in the New Economy

The legacy of our economys foundationon the theft of indigenous lands and lives, slavery, and
colonialismlives with us in many ways. An entrenched racial wealth gap leaves black and brown
communities without basic economic security, and a growing prison economy profits off the misery of
those same communities. Excluded from the mainstream, marginalized communities have been forced
to innovate, reimagine, and challenge the status quo economy just to survive. Now, as more and more
Americans of all colors are confronted with economic and ecological crisis, the resilient practices of
frontline communities can serve as models for transforming all of society. This track will outline a vision
and strategy for building an economy that values the labor and lives of people of color, providing
attendees with the tools to imagine and work toward economic goals that center disinvestment from
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WORKSHOP TRACKS
institutions that harm black life while building up alternative economies, institutions, and community control.
Participants will walk away from CommonBound ready to envision a multi-dimensional, radically inclusive
plan for economic justice.
Track Coordinators: Jana Bonsu (Black Youth Project 100)
Building a 21st Century Labor Movement

From the fight for the 8-hour day to the sit-down strikes that ushered in the New Deal, worker organizing
has always played a central role in envisioning and building an economy that works for everyone.
Yet today, unions find themselves on the defensive, struggling to respond effectively to coordinated
attacks and the structural challenges of globalization, automation, and an economy pushing up against
ecological limits. This track will explore some of the most dynamic strategies being employed to build a
visionary labor movement for the 21st century. Participants will hear from leaders in unions and worker
centers incubating worker and union co-operatives, gain insight into building power with community and
environmental justice groups, learn tools demanding transformative reforms, and more.
Track Coordinators: Rachel LaBruyere (coworker.org), Libby Sholes (1worker1vote), Kati Sipp
(National Guestworker Alliance / Hack The Union), Harper Bishop (OPEN Buffalo)
Building the New Economy in Red and Rural America

Working people generally, and rural folks in particular, feel alienated from progressive economic, political,
and environmental movements, even as their lives and livelihoods have been shredded by conservative
policies and governments. In this track we will assess both how we got to this place, and, more importantly,
what emerging strategies hold the potential to turn the tide in rural areas and among working people. We
will explore a handful of bottom up economies that are emerging in unlikely places (beyond coastal
cities, in flyover country), identify common elements, and brainstorm through workshops how to rapidly
and dramatically bring this model of transformation to other parts of the country. Involving long-time
activists, thinkers, and doers and rural and urban participants alike, track sessions will identify effective
strategiesand pitfalls to avoidin building a progressive, new economy movement that links practice with
policy.
Track Coordinators: Eric Dixon (Appalachian Citizens Law Center), Anthony Flaccavento (Bottom Up
Economy), Derrick Von Kundra (Bottom Up Economy)
Creating Just, Ecological, and Democratically Controlled Food

Economies
Our current food system is unjust, ecologically unsustainable, and built on the backs of those who grow,
raise, catch, and handle our food. The explicit and hidden costs of food injustice are evident throughout
our economy: from young families to seniors, schools to healthcare institutions, and workplaces throughout
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the country. Opportunities to create a more just food economy offer the potential to effect positive lasting
change while dismantling the very practices that have led to the pervasive impact of food inequities. We
must build a new food economy through innovative ecological businesses that prioritize racial equity and
food justice, and we must ensure all those along our entire food chain can live healthy lives with integrity.
This track will inform an evolving narrative and support a growing food movement that is democratically
controlled, transparent, racially equitable, economically just, and ecologically responsible while leading
to more vibrant, healthy, and resilient communities.
Track Coordinators: Niaz Dorry (Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance), Tom Kelly (University of New
Hampshire), Curtis Ogden (Interaction Institute for Social Change), Anim Steel (Real Food Challenge),
Rebekah Williams (Massachusetts Avenue Project)
Democratizing Energy
Addressing climate change means creating a new economy. And that new economy requires a
fundamentally new, decentralized, and equitable energy model to power it. Energy democracy means
bringing energy resources under public or community control and ownershipa key aspect of replacing
our current corporate fossil-fuel economy with one that puts racial, social, and economic justice at the
center of the transition to a 100% renewable energy future. Thats no small task. This track will explore the
many aspects of democratizing energy: political strategies, necessary policies, the grassroots and frontline
community organizing needed to implement them, reconceptualizing the electrical grid, and the financing
needed to build community-based renewable energy systems. Workshops covering these topics will
highlight the experiences and challenges of each as well as their interdependencies. In this way, the track
will serve to lift up and promote energy democracy as a key pathway to a just transition of the energy
sector. The track will help build the collaboration and unity needed for energy democracy to contend with
the mainstream goal of a decarbonized corporate economy premised on growth and thereby strengthen
the movement to bring about a more equitable, sustainable economy.
Track Coordinators: Jessica Azulay (AGREE), Shiva Patel (Energy Solidarity Co-op), Jacqui Patterson
(NAACP), Colette Pichon Battle (Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy), Al Weinrub (Local Clean Energy
Alliance).
Development Without Displacement

Gentrification, segregation, and displacement are growing problems for neighborhoods across the
country. Low-income neighborhoods in major, prosperous cities are disappearing rapidly. In the face of
these trends, many ask whether equitable community development is possible. Workshops in this track will
explore examples of community organizing, as well as successful policy and communications strategies
used by grassroots advocates to fight gentrification and ensure that community change doesnt lead to
the displacement of long-time residents and institutions. Participants will learn how to identify underlying
economic, cultural, and environmental conditions that enable institutions (banks, government agencies,
corporations) and individuals (real estate developers, civic boosters, elected officials) to advance projects
and policies that create unjust and inequitable cities and how we can work together across sectors and
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issue areas to build power within vulnerable communities. Participants will also walk away with strategies
to implement in their own communities and grounded in a belief that equitable development is possible,
that community organizing is critical, and that vulnerable communities have a direct role to play in building
and controlling truly sustainable development models.
Track Coordinators: Clarke Gocker (PUSH Buffalo), Jenifer Kaminsky (PUSH Buffalo), Carl
Nightingale (University at Buffalo)
Funding the Future: Resourcing the New Economy

Our current economic system drives capital to seek the highest financial returnsbut how can it be
deployed to support regenerative and transformative agendas? We hope to engage Commonbound
participants in discussion, learning and reflection on the role of capital in changing capitalism. Sessions in
this track will examine efforts to repurpose public capital to fight privatization, expand the commons, and
redefine public investment priorities. Workshops will also look at attempts to transform private investment
through impact investing, non-extractive finance, and shared ownership structures. Sessions in this track
will further explore philanthropic grantmaking that democratizes decision-making and redirects money to
grassroots activism for economic and ecologic justice.
Track Coordinators: Cheryl King Fischer (New England Grassroots Environment Funders), Jennifer
Ladd (Class Action), Leslie Meehan (Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory), Sarah Stranahan
(New Economy Coalition)
The Internets New Economies

The Internet economy is, increasingly, determining the shape of the economy in general. Whether its the
rise of the on-demand economy (through companies like Uber and TaskRabbit), the spread of sophisticated
logistics software, the new just-in-time scheduling software being adopted across industries, or the use of
technology to surveil shop floors, were all affected by technology at work in new ways. This track seeks
to show how those of us who want to build a New Economy can react to those tools, and adapt them for
our own projects as well. This track will explore points of intersection among Internet culture, cooperative
economies, and labor organizing. Through the sharing of best practices and reflection on common
challenges, we will forge some of the critical connections necessary to build a more democratic and just
economy, online and off. Expect to learn about emerging tools for cooperative enterprise and online
organizing, as well as movements to reverse the inequality-generating tendencies of the Internet economy.
This is a chance to help build the real sharing economy.
Track Coordinators: Leah Feder (Sarapis), Nathan Schneider (The Internet of Ownership / University
of Colorado), Kati Sipp (National Guestworker Alliance / Hack The Union)
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Making Trouble, Growing Solutions: Creative Resistance and

the New Economy
How do protest, policy, and practice interact to create powerful movements? How can we build strategic
connections between resistance to racism, imperialism, and global capitalism and efforts to build a
better world? How does working in these intersections change how we think about our movements, our
communities, and the scale of transformation?
This track investigates how people around the world are working with courage, genius, and love across
sectors, methods, and identities to shift ownership and control of economy and governancelocally,
nationally, and globally. Through peoples stories of the work they are doing in their communities, and
through telling our own stories, we will focus in on key intervention points for changing unjust systems and
explore big questions. Participants will walk away with case studies, frameworks, tools, and relationships
to support their work toward a just, sustainable, and democratic future.
Track Coordinators: Nadine Bloch (Beautiful Trouble), Eli Feghali (Beautiful Solutions / New
Economy Coalition), Rachel Plattus (Beautiful Solutions), Elandria Williams (Beautiful Solutions /
Highlander Research and Education Center)
The Means of (Re)production: Gender Justice in the New

Economy
What role do gender and sexuality play in the transformation of our economy? What would it look like
to center work that has been made invisible in the current economy due to patriarchy, white supremacy,
heteronormativity, and the devaluation of domestic labor? This track will explore the intersection of
gender and economic justice, as made visible by movements for reproductive justice, domestic workers
rights, LGBTQ rights, and feminist economics. Bringing together voices from all parts of the economy and
representing paid and unpaid labor, we will interrogate the state of families, reproduction, care-work, and
birthing in a capitalist system, and envision new worlds and new systems that value emotional, relational,
and care labor.
Track Coordinators: Sachie Hayakawa (New Economy Coalition), Tori Kuper (New Economy
Coalition / Cooperation Buffalo), Ash Trull (New Economy Coalition, White Noise Collective)
Pathways to the Next System

Massive inequality, ecological degradation, a politics dominated by money, and a predatory financial
sector are among the symptoms of a system in crisis. The seeds of system change are already being
nourished in diverse ways across many countriesfrom food and finance, to renewable energy, land
reform, and social care. Can these cohere around a vision of a system that generates deeper community
ties, economic equality, ecological sustainability, and rooted democracy? Drawing on the innovations
and insights of the new economy ecosystem, Pathways to the Next System will host a bold and
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participatory conversation to develop the design and vision of a new political economy together, rooted in
the experience of practical projects that point to systemic alternatives.
Track Coordinators: Keane Bhatt (Next System Project), Dana Brown (Next System Project), Michael
Lewis (Canadian Centre For Community Renewal), Noel Ortega, John Restakis (Community Evolution
Foundation)
Transformative Policy: the New Economy Action Project

Our current economy is the product of public policies that have favored concentrated ownership, globally
scaled systems of production, and ways of measuring value that ignore the health of the planet and
our communities. If we want to truly transform the economy and ensure that more democratic models of
production and ownership move from the margins to the mainstream, we need to change the laws and
regulations that structure the economy. This track will take a deep dive into how we can develop and move
policies that foster economic democracy, build community wealth, and expand local self-reliance. Together
with participants, we will explore the new economy as a framework for policy-making, with a focus on
local and state policy tools that community groups can use to change the rules of local development and
governance. We will present effective policies to democratize finance and foster local and community
ownership of business. We will discuss ways to integrate new economy policy and tools into existing
community organizing efforts and shine a light on successful local campaigns on new economy policy that
are already underway.
Track Coordinators: Steve Dubb (The Democracy Collaborative), Stacy Mitchell (Institute for Local
Self-Reliance), Joel Rogers (COWS)
Network Gatherings are day-long gatherings happening the

first day of the conference, Friday, July 8. These gatherings
range from day-long trainings and bridge-building meetings to
strategy sessions and mini-retreats.
Each of the 16 gatherings is organized by a volunteer team representing many different organizations in
the new economy movement. Some gatherings are open to all CommonBound attendees, while others are
closed or invitation-only meetings.
Asian American Solidarity

Economies
TIME: Friday, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
LOCATION: Rockwell Hall 304
I N V I T E O N LY
Commons Rising: From

Ownership to Relationship
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Learning the language of commoning and
decolonization is a radical act.
This network gathering will launch an Asian

American Solidarity Economy cohort, which will
meet for one year with three goals.
The first is to develop a framework for the theory
and practice of solidarity economies in Asian
American communities. We believe that there
are historical and cultural particulars to the Asian
American experience that make equitable and
cooperative economic development distinct.
Second, we aim to create a participatory toolkit
on the different facets of solidarity economies
(including worker-owned cooperatives, community
land trusts, and participatory planning) targeted to
and translated for Asian American communities.
Last, we will develop a peer network of Asian
American solidarity economy practitioners that
will, on the one hand, make visible experiments
emerging in communities across the nation and on
the other, provide support to local projects. The
overarching intent is to cultivate ideas, tools, and
resources so Asian American communities can selfdetermine a new economy that is radically inclusive,
just, sustainable, and democratic.
The words themselves change how we think as

they highlight many of our cultures fundamental
misconceptions. Our four facilitators are offering
this workshop as medicine for some of the things
that are ailing us at a deep level. As we build a
new economy together, lets move forward in a
way that unites us at the core with other beings, the
natural world, and ourselves.
Coordinators: Yvonne Yen Liu (Solidarity

Research Center), Parag Rajendra Khandhar
(Baltimore Activating Solidarity Economies,
Solidarity Research Center)
#CoopYouth Campaign
Strategy Session
This network gathering explores these topics

with conversations and illustrations about the
commons (all that we share, inherit, and pass
on), decolonization (ending control over people,
land, and language), reparations (restoring equity
among all people and all things) and rewilding/
reindigenation (embracing the wild in us and
around us and recovering our indigenous roots).
Coordinators: Lynn Benander (Co-op Power), Jenny
Ladd (Class Action), Strong Oak (Visioning B.E.A.R.
Circle Intertribal Coalition), Scott Reed (Co-op Power)
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm

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How do we ensure that the cooperative movement
is grounded in antiracism, justice, sustainability,
and participatory democracy? At CommonBound,
the USA Cooperative Youth Council (USACYC)
will host a Peoples Movement Assembly
process with a national group of #CoopYouth to
explore how other movements have effectively
addressed this challenge. Our goal is to make the
cooperative movement stronger by engaging young
cooperators around this question in a meaningful
way that promotes their continued engagement.
We will use this network gathering to:
Strategize about how we build a truly antiracist cooperative movement.
Share tools to make our cooperatives and
movements more participatory.
Continue to challenge the notion that cooperative
movement spaces are politically neutral.
This network gathering is open to all attendees who
identify as youth (while youth means different
things in different contexts, we define youth as late
teens to age 30).
Coordinators: Emily Lippold Cheney
(USA Cooperative Youth Council, Traveling
Cooperative Institute), Payam Kaveh Imani (USA
Cooperative Youth Council; Lorin District Business
Association Berkeley, CA; Alchemy Collective
Cafe & Coffee Roasters)
Entrepreneurs Cafe
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
This network gathering will engage participants in
testing and improving a new way to invent, start, and
grow new economy enterprises. In the gathering
we want to see how quickly the participants can
understand the purpose and the process that we have
in mind, conduct exercises in accordance with our
instructions, and provide feedback to help us design
a creative and productive process. The Entrepreneurs
Caf is proposed as a place where prospective
entrepreneurs will meet to talk about new businesses

that they might start. In addition to imagining new
kinds of businesses that meet new economy standards,
they will make contact with people who can help
them with their startups, such as prospective partners,
accountants, lawyers, venture investors, etc. This
network gathering is open to all CommonBound
attendees. Come and learn with us how to pull idle or
underused resources together to build an enterprise
that will both generate income for its members and
serve the communitys needs.
Coordinators: Andrew Collver (Community
Builders of Long Island), Paul DAscoli (Community
Builders of Long Island)
Foreign Trade and Investment

in the New Economy
TIME: 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
This gathering will cover the main challenges that
neoliberal, corporate-driven trade paradigms pose
to a thriving new economy, explore alternative
frameworks, and discuss which networks, coalitions,
and bases of power could come together to transform
our trade paradigm to one centered on justice and
sustainability. Throughout the day, we will:
Learn about the work that has already been
done to develop principles that could frame
foreign trade and investment in the new
economy and discuss successes and limitations
in advocating for these alternatives.
Hear from organizers working to rebuild
and strengthen local economies who have
been challenged by trade rules limiting local
procurement and reinvestment policies.
Strategize ways to build power through grassroots
movements and networks of progressive cities
to advance an alternative trade and investment
framework centered on justice, sustainability, and
equitable development.
Coordinators: Arielle Clynes (SustainUS), Adam
Hasz (SustainUS)
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Fossil Fuel Divestment

Student Network Leadershi p
Gathering
TIME: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
LOCATION: Ketchum Hall 111
I N V I T E O N LY
The Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network (DSN)

is building a powerful, multiracial student movement
that aims to stigmatize the fossil fuel industry and
create popular support for a just transition. The
DSN trains, mentors, and coordinates students
running nonviolent direct action campaigns for
divestment and reinvestment, supporting them
to become lifelong organizers. As we enter into
a long-term strategy process over the course of
2016, we aim to bring together 30-50 of our most
dedicated leaders across the network to build
long-lasting relationships, workshop our story and
strategy, and gain input and buy-in to the direction
of our movement long-term. This network gathering
will be open to folks holding explicit leadership
in our national staff, major working groups, and
regional networks.
Coordinators: Michaela Mujica-Steiner (Fossil Fuel
Divestment Student Network), Jess Grady-Benson
(Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network), Morissa
Zuckerman (Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network)
How Racism is a Roadblock

to the Next EconomyAnd
What We Can Do About That:
Movement Strategy Centers
Transitions Lab
TIME: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
How do we transition from a world of domination
and extraction to a world of resilience and
regeneration? is the organizing question for
Movement Strategy Centers (MSC) Transitions

Initiative and Community Driven Climate
Resilience Planning networks. MSC focuses on
placing movement and community building at
the center of its work to transform the world. As
inequality grows and our economy teeters on the
edge of collapse, we need to determine not only
what will take its place, but also how we will not
repeat the past failures of the old exploitative
and extractive economy. We need to develop the
capacity and practices to form a next economy
that is centered on whole and healed people
and communities, where people can bring their
full selves to all that they do. This gathering
invites leaders from multiple fields to explore the
practices that will put racial and ecological justice
at the center of the next economy. Our networks
include practitioners working on a host of diverse
issues from climate justice to education reform to
economic justice to political organizing and much
more. In this gathering we will use interactive,
experiential processes to help generate the
principles that can help us transition to Local,
Living, Loving Economies for Life. This network
gathering is open to all CommonBound attendees.
Coordinators: Nwamaka Agbo (Movement
Strategy Center), Rosa Gonzales (Movement Strategy
Center), Jovida Ross (Movement Strategy Center)
International Research Lab

TIME: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Assembly Hall
I N V I T E O N LY
The International Research Lab will convene

new economy researchers and thought leaders
from around the world helping to root the
conference in the research, academic work, and
thought leadership needed to guide direction,
strategy, and goals. This full-day focused event
will open dedicated space for researchers
and thought leaders to askand take concrete
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steps to answerdifficult, big-picture questions.
For example, this is an opportunity to discuss
strategies for addressing climate change while
creating a more equitable global economy,
the role of capitalism in our vision for the new
economy, how we might truly live within planetary
bounds, and what the new economy movement
has to say about economic growth. Participants
will work together to identify key leverage points
with the potential to shift systems, working together
to refine theory of change and core strategies.
New York Cooperative

Network: Building the States
New Economy through CrossSectoral Collaboration
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
We know from experience that when cooperatives
work together across silos, their impact on justice,
sustainability and democracy exponentially
increases. And yet, cooperation among
cooperatives is overwhelmingly dictated by place
and sector. We do business with other co-ops in
our proximity; we partner with co-ops that share
our business model: food co-ops working with other
food co-ops, credit unions working with fellow
credit unions. This gathering of the New York
Cooperative Network seeks to realize the potential
for cooperation between and among these silos.
To build a solidarity economy in New York State
and beyond, we need a strong web of co-ops
of all kinds, an ecosystem with a rich pattern of
connections. This gathering will:
Outline specific initiatives for expanding the
cooperative economy in New York State
through strategic partnerships.
Establish a framework to grow our informal
network of cooperators into a statewide
Cooperative Business Association (CBA),
including determining an organizational form
and laying out a start-up action plan.
Coordinators: Frank Cetera (NYS Onondaga

Small Business Development Center), Krys Cail
(GreenStar Cooperative Market, DE Squared), Joe
Marraffino (Democracy at Work Institute, American.
coop, New York Cooperative Network), Meagan
Weatherby (Cooperative Federal, Syracuse Real
Food Co-op)
Organizing Community Power

for the New Energy Economy
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
I N V I T E O N LY
The impacts of climate change coupled with

the continued economic deterioration of our
communities pose urgent challenges for grassroots
community organizing. New systems rooted in
justice and new economic models are needed to
empower our communities and pave the road to a
new energy economy.
One such challenge is to close the cultural divide
and knowledge gap between grassroots community
organizations and new economy advocates. Many
community organizations build political power
fighting defensive battles while new economy
alternatives lack a base and political power. We
will create a space for community organizations,
environmental justice groups, and new economy
groups to engage with one another to close this
gap. This network gathering will be an opportunity
to share experiences and challenges in combining
community organizing models with just, sustainable
economic development.
The goals of the network gathering are to:
Support the mobilization of grassroots
communities to engage in organizing for new
alternatives, new programs, and new energy
economy development.
Have shared dialogue and knowledge of
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with advocates, intermediaries, and catalyzers
Share perspectives and takeaways on how
to organize and build community power for
development of the new energy economy.
Build relationships and trust and support
pathways for collaboration among community
organizers, catalysts, developers, policy
advocates.
Develop a shared narrative on organizing
power for the new energy economy.
Coordinators: Jordan Estevao (Peoples Action),
Michael Guerrero (Climate Justice Alliance), Al
Weinrub (Local Clean Energy Alliance), Clarke
Gocker (PUSH Buffalo), Anthony Giancatarino
(Center for Social Inclusion)
PB 101: An Introduction to
Partici patory Budgeting
TIME: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
At this network gathering attendees will learn the
history of Participatory Budgeting (PB) in the US
and North America; will experience the inner
workings of neighborhood assemblies, budget
delegate meetings, and voting through demo
exercises; and will gain a better sense of strategies
and next steps for moving PB forward in their cities.
This network gathering is open to all and especially
recommended for people interested in planning
and advocating for PB in their community.
The workshop is especially recommended for
organizers, public employees, planners, and
elected officials looking to gain a solid foundation
in PB before deciding if and how to move a process
forward locally.
Coordinators: Maria Hadden (Participatory
Budgeting Project)
Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed

and Moses Start a Co-op:
Faith Communities Building an
Inclusive Economy
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Join in an interactive gathering to learn and reflect
on what it takes to build a new and inclusive
economy that promotes green and healthy jobs.
This includes locally driven renewable energy
projects and food systems, co-ops, community
purchasing programs, affordable housing and
access to credit in low-income communities. In
this way we are building resilient communities in
the face of an economic system that puts profit
before people.
Coordinators: Chloe Schwabe (Maryknoll Office
for Global Concerns, Faith Economy Ecology
Transition Working Group), Marianne Comfort
(Sisters of Mercy), Susan Thompson (Medical
Mission Sisters)
Reinvest in Our Power

Convening
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
I N V I T E O N LY
The climate crisis is a crisis of ownership. While

corporations control our resources and labor,
those facing the greatest impacts of the crisis are
prevented from building the solutions needed for
our survival. Climate justice calls for divestment
and reinvestment in an oppositional economy that
builds power for communities on the frontlines of
the crisis. The Reinvest in Our Power Network will
be hosting a closed gathering for active members
of the network that will allow project partners to
dig into shared visioning and working through key
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challenges. At this gathering, we hope to:
Bring together different wings of the Reinvest
in Our Power Network to build stronger
relationships between individuals and
organizations.
Grapple with key strategic questions and
develop a program plan for the next 1-2 years.
Shift infrastructure to support decentralization.
Coordinators: Betamia S. Coronel (350.org),
Audrey Irvine-Broque (Fossil Fuel Divestment
Student Network)
Self-Governance: Walking The

Talk in Our Organizations and
Movements
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Many nonprofits talk the talk of shared power but
internally still operate with a traditional top-down
hierarchy. Within the New Economy, we have a
number of ways of creating ownership: workers,
producers, employees, and consumers. But many
of us are still struggling to accompany ownership
with effective participatory governance based on
egalitarian principles. Similarly, many social change
organizations promote equality but internally, they
still suffer from unhealthy power dynamics. What
is the alternative? In this network gathering we will
explore a variety of aspects of governance: meeting
dynamics, facilitation, decision-making processes,
and organizational structures. What are the power
of personalities and the communication challenges
we each bring with us? What is the power of the
facilitator role? Does the hierarchy of our organization
match our values? What is the relationship between
absence/presence of hierarchy and responsibility
and accountability? If what Gerard Endenburg
said, Behavior is determined by the prevailing
form of decision making, is true, then what are the
impacts of decision making by consensus and by
majority vote? This network gathering is open to all
CommonBound registrants.
Coordinator: Jerry Koch-Gonzalez (Class Action)
Southern Movement Assembly,

Southern Peoples Initiative
TIME: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
I N V I T E O N LY
Before the South became synonymous with the

US South, it was a global south slave colony and
plantation. Therefore the US South is an extension
of the Greater Caribbean region of colonial
slavery. We work against the historical legacy of
slavery in the US and Global South by working
to ensure a just transition, jobs, equitable pay,
and working conditions along with an improved
impact on environment and climate. We need a
new sustainable economy for the South. The labor
laws and practices in the US South are of a 20th
century capitalist economy and today we are in
a 21st century globalized economy. We need
to form a new social economy that is not just the
profiteers and corporations, but includes workers
at the negotiation table. To that end our network
gathering will bring Southern Organizers from
throughout the Southern Movement Assembly to
gather, assess, and plan how our efforts and the
current Southern Peoples Initiatives have met the
goal of advancing Southern movement power,
education, and communication.
This network gathering is open to all Southern
Peoples Initiative Participating Organizations.
Coordinators: Emery Wright, (Project South),
Ash-Lee Henderson (Project South), Jovan Julien
(Project South), Stephanie Guilloud (Project South)
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WealthWorks Regional Hub

Gathering
TIME: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
I N V I T E O N LY
WealthWorks is an approach to local and

regional economic development that brings
together and connects community assets to meet
market demands in ways that build capacities and
livelihoods that are sustainable over time. Our
approach aims to advance a regions economic
prosperity and self-reliance, strengthening existing
and emerging sectors to increase individual
and community wealth. Our approach works
for people, businesses and organizations and
in communities of all sizes, shapes and success
levels. At this gathering, the WealthWorks Regional
Hubs will come together to clearly articulate our
niche in doing economic development differently;
finalize the structure of the network; further define
the network leadership; establish and maintain a
national presence; and promote inclusivity of all
partners.
Coordinators: Ines Polonius (Communities
Unlimited), Carol Cohen (Rural Community
Assistance Partnership), Melissa Levy (Community
Roots), Dawn Espe (Region Five Development
Commission), Andrew Crosson (Rural Support
Partners)
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FRIDAY, JULY 8
Detailed Schedule
Please note. Due to the large number of presenters we have not included presenter bios in the this
program. Presenter bios are available online or in a printed insert available at the registration table.
Speakers:
F R I . J U LY 8, 2016
9:00am - 5:30pm: Network
Gatherings (Rockwell Hall or
Ketchum Hall)
See the Network Gatherings section of the
conference program for the full list of network
gatherings, including detailed descriptions,
locations, and times. Some gatherings are open
to all CommonBound attendees, while others are
closed or invitation-only meetings.
5:30pm - 6:45pm Light Dinner

(Rockwell Hall Patio)
Light dinner will be provided for all CommonBound
attendees at the Rockwell Hall Patio.
7:00pm - 9:30pm Welcome

and Keynote Panel (Rockwell
Theater)
Achieving SelfDetermination And
Sovereignty For Our
Communities
This opening plenary panel will explore what it
means for our movements to win. Grounding us
in a framework of decolonization, community selfdetermination and sovereignty, we will dive deep
into why we do this work. Each of the panelists will
share their perspective on what is unique about this
moment in history from the political and economic
level, to the cultural and ecological. The panel will
leave the audience with some guiding questions
and big ideas as we embark on the next two days
of the conference together.
Chrystel Cornelius
First Nations Oweesta
Corporation
Chrystel is the executive
director of First Nations
Oweesta Corporation located
in Longmont, Colorado. Ms. Cornelius has worked
with Native communities for most of her professional
career, with more than 16 years of experience working
in the Native economic development field. Chrystel
is of Chippewa and Oneida descent and has a BS in
Business Management from the University of Mary in
Bismarck, ND.
Malachi Garza
Community Justice Network
for Youth, W. Haywood
Burns Institute
Malachi Larrabee-Garza
currently serves as Director
of the Community Justice Network for Youth at the
W. Haywood Burns Institute. Before coming to the
BI, Malachi spent 5 years at the School of Unity
and Liberation (S.O.U.L.) as the Advanced Political
Education Director. Malachi co-founded the Brown Boi
Project in 2006 and currently sits as Board Chair of its
Board of Directors.
Elandria Williams
Highlander Research and
Education Center, Beautiful
Solutions
Elandria Williams is CoEditor of Beautiful Solutions
and is on the Education Team and Organizational
Leadership Team of the Highlander Research and
Education Center. She coordinates the Southern
Grassroots Economies Project, co-leads the
Governance and Economics curriculum, and supports
community leaders and organizers in the South and
Appalachia. Elandria lives in Knoxville, TN.
SATURDAY, JULY 9 | WORKSHOP BLOCK A
Join hosts YES! Magazine and The Laura Flanders

Show to connect with media covering the New
Economy movement. Share your work, pitch your
stories, or just come and relax--drink tickets available
for the first 100 guests!
9:30pm - 11:00pm Opening

Social (Rockwell Patio)
We will have a reception with drinks and light fare.
Come connect with old friends and meet new ones
as we welcome everyone to Buffalo! A casual and
unstructured space to build connections with other
CommonBounders. Entertainment will be curated
by Buffalo Infringement Festival. Drink tickets will be
available for purchase.
SAT. J U LY 9, 2016
8:30am - 9:30am Breakfast
(Campbell Lobby @ Campbell
Student Union)
WORKSHOP BLOCK A:
9:30am - 10:45am
Banking and Finance for
a New Economy
SPEAKERS: Stacy Mitchell, Deyanira Del Rio,
Saqib Bhatti, and Lew Daly
TRACKS: Funding The Future | Transformative
Policy (NEAP)
LOCATION: Bulger Communication
Center East 2
How can we overhaul the financial system so
that our collective capital is directed to meeting
community needs and making productive investments
in building an equitable economy? This session will

demystify finance by exploring what finance is really
for and looking at how megabanks fail to meet these
core purposes. Well then spend the bulk of the time
exploring innovative policies, strategies, and models
for restructuring banking and investment. Participants
will come away with both a long-range vision and
strategies for getting there.
Building Power to
Transform our Food System
SPEAKERS: Lorette Picciano, Georgia Good,
Diana Robinson, and Mardy Townsend
TRACK: Creating Just, Ecological, and
Democratically Controlled Food Economies
LOCATION: Bulger Communication Center West
A just and ecological food system is rooted in an
agricultural and fisheries systems that provides
nourishing and affordable food to all communities,
employment with fair wages, production with fair
prices, access to credit, and a widely held protection
of land and water rights of tribal, fisher, and traditional
communities. This session is an overview of efforts
to advance food justice, and share case studies,
examining collaborative/innovative local/regional
models of farming and fishing that model the type of
food system we seek to create.
Exploring Post-Capitalist
Alternatives
SPEAKERS: Francisco Perez, Aaron Tanaka
TRACK: Pathways to the Next System
LOCATION: Bulger Communication Center East
What is economic democracy? To answer this
question we will consider what lessons we can
draw from socialist experiments throughout the
world and examine some of the big debates
around a future post-capitalist economic system,
such as the appropriate mix of democratic planning
and markets. Participants will have a chance
to discuss and contrast different alternatives
to capitalism, the possible advantages and
disadvantages of each approach, and what
policies will be necessary for a just transition.
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9:00pm - 11:30pm Media

Happy Hour With YES!
Magazine and The Laura
Flanders Show
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Do-It-Yourself Video for

Activists and the New
Economy
SPEAKER: Chris Landry
TRACK: The Art of Futuremaking
Video can be one of the most powerful tools
available to organizations. And with smartphones
in most of our pockets, we have what we need
to tell good stories on a budget. In this session
well focus on three aspects of the craft. Well talk
briefly about the components of a good video story,
well look at useful gear and apps, and well spend
time talking about good video technique and shot
selection. Participants will leave with more confidence
in their ability to use video in their work.
Combatting Economic
Violence in Baltimore and
DC: Black Workers Centers
and Cooperatives as Tools
for Liberation in the New
Economy
SPEAKERS: Jennifer Bryant, Dorcas Gilmore
TRACKS: Black Lives, Labor and Liberation |
Building a 21st Century Labor Movement
LOCATION: Rockwell 304
The death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore shined
a light on the connections between police terror
and economic violenceboth direct byproducts
of structural racism. In this session, well explore
the development of Black workers centers and
worker-owned cooperatives in Baltimore and DC
as responses to economic violence. Well discuss
the roots of economic inequity in these two cities
and the process of creating local workers centers
and a national network through the National Black
Worker Center Project. Well also explore the (re)
emergence of cooperatives as a tool for survival
and community control. Participants will walk away
with strategies for connecting Black labor to the
new economy.
From One Owner to Many:

Why and How to Convert
Small Businesses to Employee
Ownership (And Why Now Is
the Time to Do It)
SPEAKERS: Ramona Rodriguez-Brooks, David
Hammer, Nathan Hixson
TRACK: Beyond Business As Usual
LOCATION: Ketchum 315
The large-scale retirement of baby-boomer business
owners is set to create a wave of small business
closures and ownership transitions. The new economy
movement can leverage this unique situation to
preserve local businesses and create stable, dignified
workplaces by using employee ownership as a
realistic and attractive alternative to closure, strategic
buyers, or venture capital. We will discuss how and
why businesses transition to employee ownership
through co-ops or ESOPs (employee stock ownership
plans.) Real-life examples of successful transitions
will be highlighted, and you will walk away with
the knowledge and resources to promote employee
ownership in your communities.
New York Renews: Uniting

Climate with Social and
Economic Justice to Build
Power and Win a Renewable
& Equitable Energy Economy
for All
SPEAKERS: Brittny Baxter, Isaac SilbermanGorn, Annel Hernandez
TRACKS: Democratizing Energy |
Development Without Displacement
LOCATION: Bulger Communication Center West 2
Winning transformational change requires diverse
coalitions, tactics, capacities, and communities. NY
Renews connects 50+ community, labor, environmental
justice, environmental, and social justice groups. We will
look at how we have tried to balance diverse theories
of change and constituency as we set out to make NY
State act boldly on climate, create tens of thousands of
good jobs, and build a more equitable society. We will
discuss the challenges and benefits of bringing together
diverse partners and navigating differences.
Nonprofit Workplace
Democracy: Self-Governance
for More Just and Resilient
Movement Organizations
SPEAKERS: Chris Tittle, Rek Kwawer, Michelle
Mascarenhas-Swan, Evan Casper-Futterman,
Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
TRACK: General
How can social justice nonprofits prefigure
the world we are working toward in our own
organizations? This session will explore models and
practices for workplace democracy in nonprofit
organizations through the stories and experiences
of several existing organizations. Participants will
leave with tangible examples and practical tools for
implementing democratic self-governance in their
own organizations, and they will leave connected
to an emerging community of practice within the
new economy movement.
Keynote Case Study:

The 15M and Podemos
Movements in Spain
Keynote Caso Practico:
Los Movimientos del 15M y de
Podemos en Espaa
BILINGUAL WORKSHOP/
TA L L E R B I L I N G E
SPEAKER: Jacobo Rivero

TRACK: Advancing the Global Movement for
a Social Solidarity Economy | Making Trouble,
Growing Solutions
This session will feature Jacobo Rivero, one of
Sundays keynote panelists, diving deep into his work
in the anti-austerity (indignados/15M) movement
in Spain and the subsequent rise of Podemos as a
political force in the country. This workshop will be
conducted in English and Spanish. All are welcome;
all non-bilingual participants will be provided
headsets. Limit: 40 participants
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Este taller se llevar a cabo en Ingls y en Espaol.

Todos son bienvenidos; todos los participantes no
bilinges se les proporcionaran equipo auriculares de
interpretacin. Lmite: 40 participantes no bilinges
Our Money,Our Voices:

Participatory Budgeting in
Buffalo
SPEAKERS: Maria Hadden and Natasha Soto
TRACKS: Funding The Future |
Advancing the Global Movement for a Social
Solidarity Economy
Tired of your tax dollars being used to help
everyone but you? What if you could decide how
to use those funds to improve your city? A Council
district in Buffalo is doing just that with Participatory
Budgeting (PB), a democratic process that gives
community control over public dollars. Participants
will learn about PB in the U.S. and hear directly
from Buffalo residents about how they gained real
power over their money.
Scaling Up the New

Economy in Red and Rural
Communities: Best Practices
from the Field
SPEAKERS: Becky Cain Ceperley, Kimber
Lanning, Liz Veazey, Jake Schlachter
TRACK: Building The New Economy in Red
and Rural America
This session will explore innovative strategies that build
the new economy in rural and Red (Conservative)
communities and which are scalable or replicable
or that help build leadership and broadly based
support. Four organizations We Own It (Madison,
WI), One Voice (Mississippi) Local First Arizona
(Arizona) and the Appalachia Funders Network
(Central Appalachia) will briefly highlight examples
of their work, including democratizing energy and
rural electric cooperatives, leveling the playing field
for local businesses, and investing in the transition
to a post-coal economy. This session will be highly
participatory.
Side by Side: Building

Solidarity Economies in
Jackson,MS and Madison,WI
SPEAKERS: Kali Akuno and a community
leader from Madison, WI
TRACK: Making Trouble, Growing Solutions
Come hear community leaders from Jackson, MS
and Madison, WI talk about their work to build
solidarity economies, and compare and contrast
approaches. We are choosing to include these two
case studies side by side as an invitation to develop
deep analysis and assessment in communities on
the frontlines of building new economies.
Sustainable Development
Goals and Social Solidarity
EconomyLessons from the
Grassroots,Impacting Macro
Economy
SPEAKERS: Yvon Poirer, Denison Jayasooria,
and Shigeru Tanaka
a Social Solidarity Economy
The UN adopted in September 2015 the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the
2016-2030 period. The workshop will explore
ground examples of people challenging the
dominant economic models. Through micro
case studies from Asia: Nepal, India, Sri Lanka,
Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the
Philippines, ordinary people are making the
change and challenging the stereotypes. The
workshop will present micro case studies and draw
lessons from an SDG framework. Participants will
walk away knowing that small actions put together
can have a major impact but that this requires
systematic documentation and data collection.
The Internet of Ownership:

Cooperative Platforms for the
Online Economy
SPEAKERS: Kati Sipp, Nathan Schneider,
Krystyna Soljan, Micky Metts, Mario Liebrenz
TRACK: The Internets New Economies
As the online sharing economy devolves into
poor labor conditions and monopolistic practices,
the concept of platform cooperativism offers
a hopeful vision for a more democratic online
economy. This new wave of entrepreneurs,
investors, and business developers are merging
offline cooperative economics with the Internet in
creative ways. Well discuss how far this emergent
movement has come and explore some of the
challenges it faces in the struggle for the future of
the online platforms we increasingly depend on.
Unions and Co-ops Together

SPEAKERS: Libby Sholes and Harper Bishop
TRACK: Building a 21st Century Labor
Movement
Theres a groundswell of activity among labor
unions exploring worker cooperatives as a way
to create and preserve jobs, and one of the most
exciting efforts in this growing movement is the
development of the union co-op model which
articulates a business structure that combines
the benefits of worker ownership and workplace
democracy with the strengths of organized labor.
This session will provide an overview of the
union co-op model, its successes nationally, and
opportunities in the Buffalo region and beyond.
What Do We Mean by
Energy Democracy?
SPEAKERS: Al Weinrub, Miya Yoshitani,
Denise Fairchild, and Clarke Gocker
TRACK: Democratizing Energy
LOCATION: Rockwell Theater
This is an Energy Democracy for Beginners

session in which a few panelists draw out the vision
and political framework of Energy Democracy and
what it means in their respective communities and
organizing work. Panelists will each provide an
example project and briefly share their perspectives
on strategies for democratizing energy and building
the energy democracy movement. Participants
will be asked to raise questions and to provide
additional examples they know about.
Whats in the Pipeline:

Strategy for Regional
Cooperative Development in
Philadelphia
SPEAKERS: Kristin Schwab, Michaela Holmes
The workshop will present the strategies and
successes of the Philadelphia Area Cooperative
Alliance (PACA), a cross-sector association, as the
basis for a conversation about regionally rooted
approaches to co-op development. In the past
year, PACA has focused on engaging community
partners, supporting the existing co-ops in and
around Philadelphia, and planning for the growth
of the regional cooperative economy. We want
to share our model and inspire others to consider
similar approaches while asking the question how
can we do this better?
WORKSHOP BLOCK B:
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Budgets for Black Lives
SPEAKERS: Maria Hadden, Biola Jeje, Natasha
Soto
Funding The Future
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SATURDAY, JULY 9 | WORKSHOP BLOCK B
How can we #FundBlackFutures? Take control

of your $ with participatory budgeting (PB). Our
session will explore how integrating demands for
PB in your campaigns could advance your goals.
Well highlight campaigns for economic justice led
by Black Youth and discuss whether PB could be a
tool used to achieve movement goals at the local
level. We hope participants will leave with a new
tool to use in their struggles for liberation and a
bit more empowered to take control of their public
funds. NOTE: All will be welcome in this space, but
the voices of Black-identified folks and people of
color will be given priority in this session.
them in a value chain and jointly filling the gaps.

Utilize this unique opportunity to learn about WW.
Building Rain Resilience and

Green Jobs
Participants will consider how to effectively

challenge entrenched power, by building a base
of economic and political power among people
historically marginalized by race and class.
Cooperation Jackson (Jackson, MS) the Black
Mesa Water Coalition (Navajo Nation, Arizona)
and the Mountain Association for Community
Economic Development, or MACED (Berea, KY),
will launch the discussion with lessons learned from
their work in Native American, African American
and Appalachian communities. Cooperatives,
community wealth building, and capturing
traditional knowledge will be among the tools
discussed. This session will be highly participatory.
SPEAKERS: Maris Grundy, Satya RhodesConway, Julie Barrett ONeill, and Burrell Poe
TRACK: Transformative Policy (NEAP)
LOCATION: Bulger Communication Center East 2
Its raining opportunities to stop flooding from
rain while building a new economic system. Join
experts working to organize communities and build
policy to end the inequitable impact of flooding
from rain while creating good local jobs in green
infrastructure. Participants will learn about strategies
and programs that can be applied in their own
neighborhoods and cities.
Building WealthWorks Food

Value Chains
SPEAKERS: Roger Gonzalez, Michelle Decker,
and Ines Polonius
TRACKS: Creating Just, Ecological, and
WealthWorks (WW) value chains create deep
collaborations between all members of a food
system to create eight forms of wealth and ensure a
just, locally controlled, and inclusive economy. They
interconnect rural and urban economies to benefit
both. We will draw on the experience of ten WW
coordinators at the conference to provide training
on the many WW tools. We will learn how to
leverage existing food system players by integrating
Challenging Entrenched
Power Through New
Economy Work in Red and
Rural Communities
SPEAKERS: Brandon King, Robert Nutlouis,
Ivy Brashear
and Rural America
Community Benefits
Agreements: Making them
Solid,Making them Stick
SPEAKERS: Carl Nightingale, Molly Ranahan,
Sam Magavern, John Washington
TRACK: Development Without Displacement
Community Benefits Agreements are an important
tool for making sure that all residents benefit from
large-scale development projects. Community
Benefits Agreements can make the difference
between projects that benefit a few and projects
that can further the cause of racial and economic
justice. The speakers on the panel will present
research that addresses some of the issues in
negotiating strong, accountable Community
Benefits Agreements and what it takes to enforce
them once the projects are underway.
Community Investing
Innovations & Challenges
SPEAKERS: James Frazier, Marnie Thompson,
Glynn Lloyd, Brian Beckon
TRACK: Funding The Future
In recent years, weve witnessed an unprecedented
array of innovations in our financial system that are
transforming how people in communities invest in
each other. Well examine the tools, both fringe and
mainstream, with the greatest potential for building
the New Economy, and share practical examples
of how they can work. Then, bring your real-world
community funding challenges to share with our
session, and well collectively brainstorm solutions to
help move you forward. We hope youll be inspired
and invigorated by the possibilities!
Divesting from a Corrupt

System: Lessons Across
Movements
SPEAKERS: Zakaria Kronemer, Natalie Casal,
Alana Krivo-Kaufman, and Greta Neubauer
TRACK: General
How can divestment movements share strategy
and tactics to scale up our winning campaigns?
Activists from three divestment movementsprivate
prisons, fossil fuels, and Palestine Solidaritywill
explore their different stages, reactions theyre
generating, and cross-movement points of similarity.
Presenters will discuss the connections between
these movements, sharing lessons learned through
campaign wins and losses. Participants will leave
with intersections between these movements and
ideas on how to better link our struggles.
Economic Autonomy in the

Immigrants Rights Movement
Economia autonoma en el
movimiento de derechos a los
inmigrantes
BILINGUAL WORKSHOP/
SPEAKERS: Pancho Arguelles, Alejandro

Guizar, Felipe Vargas, Esmeralda Baltazar
TRACK: Beyond Borders
As we build a more robust movement towards
economic autonomy, it is necessary for us to build
accountability to different peoples struggles for
self-determination. As the fight for immigrants
rights continues, it is necessary for us to explore
the capitalist exploitation of immigrants and how
to overcome it. This will be a space to consider
these and other topics pertaining to the crossover
between the new economy and immigrants rights.
bilinges se les proporcionaran equipo auriculares
de interpretacin. Lmite: 40 participantes no
bilinges.
Listening to Those Working in

Americas Fields
SPEAKER: Julia Taylor, Jeannie Economos
TRACKS: Beyond Borders | Building A 21st
Century Labor Movement | Creating Just,
Ecological, and Democratically Controlled
Food Economies
Every year, farm workers harvest 80% to 90% of
the hand-picked produce we eat in this country
what happens to them and what do they propose
to change the system in which they work? In
any discussion of economic systems, we need to
hear the voices of farm workers. This session will
feature an overview by the National Farm Worker
Ministry, a faith-based organization which supports
farm workers as they organize for justice and
empowerment around the country. It will be co-led
by a farm worker organizing partner.
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New Systems: Possibilities

and Proposals
SPEAKERS: Emily Kawano, Mike Lewis, Gus
Speth, and Ed Whitfield
Want to understand the alternatives to business as
usual? We know the current system does exactly
what it was designed to do: line corporate pockets at
the expense of real peoples health and livelihoods,
destroying the environment while fueling the war
machine. But we also know that another world
is possible. Many models for radically different,
sustainable, inclusive and democratic societies, exist
and we have invited a few of their proponents to
present their ideas, debate the options and answer
your questions about what a better world looks like
in detail. Join us for a deep dive into next system
solutions for a better future!
Power to the Parents: Building

Strong Caregiver Networks
Through Popular Education
SPEAKER: Kate ORourke
TRACK: The Means of (Re)production
Caregivers do crucial work, but often feel exhausted,
isolated, and invisible. How can we build stronger
support networks and tap into our tremendous
economic and political power? Using principles of
popular educationeveryone teaches, everyone
learnswell engage in thought-provoking games,
storytelling, & brainstorming. How can building selfworth help to confront a system that ignores our worth?
How can we rouse gentle souls to fight the good fight?
Well leave with new connections, ideas, and practical
tools for community organizing.
Queering Labor: Worker

Cooperatives as a Model for
Leadership Development and
Economic Stability
SPEAKERS: Rachel Isreeli, Maria LopezNunez
TRACK: Beyond Business As Usual | The
Means of (Re)production
This session will be situated from an explicitly queer
and feminist lens, examining how worker coops
queer and problematize status-quo (patriarchal,
heteronormative, and capitalist) notions of labor,
hierarchy, profit, leadership, ownership, power,
and relationships. We will discuss how worker
coops provide benefitsand value laborthat are
traditionally not identified as such and thus serve
as a socially just economic and organizing strategy
for all people, especially those whose voices and
experiences are historically marginalized.
Race,Power & Energy

Democracy
SPEAKER: Colette Pichon Battle
TRACKS: Democratizing Energy | Black Lives,
Labor and Liberation
This session will explore race, privilege and equity
and their connections to the energy democracy
movement. Using popular education techniques this
session will define concepts of just transition and local
control of energy infrastructure to address energy
and economic issues at the intersection of the global
climate crisis and social inequity. This session lays
a foundation for participants to develop an internal
analysis around power, privilege and accountability
to assist participants in strengthening partnerships with
communities on the frontline of climate change.
The Shocking Impact of

Boring Energy Policy
SPEAKER: John Farrell
TRACKS: Democratizing Energy |
Transformative Policy (NEAP)
How can communities seize the opportunities of
a decades-old energy system being rocked by
distributed power? We will explain how boringsounding policy and regulatory decisions about net
metering and the grid are shaping the future of the
electricity system, and how these boring-sounding
issues have serious implications for an equitable
energy economy. Participants will leave armed
with knowledge of key issues and prepared to hear
stories of communities taking charge in Grassroots
Community Meets Energy Technocracy.
Updating Cubas Economic

Model: The Role for Social
and Solidarity Economy
Practices
SPEAKERS: Eric Leenson and Rafael
Betancourt
Cuba has been transforming its economic model
since 2011, and re-established relations with the
US in 2014. By engaging in an active question
and answer format we will explore what these
profound changes mean for a socialist economy
and the challenges of protecting the social gains of
the Cuban revolution while creating a more robust,
efficient economy. Our goals are to provide a
realistic appraisal of events, often not available in
US media, and to foster opportunities of exchange
between Cuban and US practitioners of New
Economy strategies.
Urban Gardens: Growing

Health,Wellness and Justice
in Diverse Communities
SPEAKERS: Vivian Logan, Allison DeHonney,
Marianne Cufone, and Yemi Amu
Urban gardens are providing fresh food and other
services to increase community wellness, especially
in underserved and food desert areas, addressing
obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and other
illnesses, and creating new jobs and providing
green space for outdoor activities. Some of these
are innovativewater farms, versatile gardens that
are space and energy efficient and recycle and
re-use water and waste. Meet the women making
all this happen and join the discussion about the
green future of urban farming and its contribution to
healthier communities.
When Coal Plants Retire,Who

Should Pay?
SPEAKERS: Rebecca Newberry, Richard
Lipsitz, Peter De Jess, Peter Stuhlmiller
TRACK: Building A 21st Century Labor
Movement
The energy economy is shifting. Coal-fired power
plants are closing due to lack of growth in electricity
demand and noncompetitive prices. This shift
has impacted private and public sector jobs and
communities where these plants are located.
This session highlights a campaign between an
environmental justice organization and organized
labor to face the challenge of a coal plant retirement.
We will share strategies and success in our fight for
a just transition. Participants will analyze how lessons
learned can impact national organizing.
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch (Social Hall @ Campbell
Student Union)
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SATURDAY, JULY 9 | FLEXIBLE TIME
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Flexible Time: Emerging
Conversations, Tours, and
Caucuses
Conferences can be exhausting, especially
if you spend the entire time running between
different workshops and panels trying to absorb
information. This block, right in the middle of the
conference, is intended as an opportunity for you
to shake things up a little bit.
You can take a guided tour of work happening here in
Buffalo or take yourself on a walk in the neighborhood.
You can participate in an identity-based caucus,
continue a conversation you started earlier in the day,
organize a few quick meetings, check out some art,
go take a power nap, or participate in an emerging
conversations process designed to create room for
those urgent and emerging questions where you really
want to tap the collective wisdom of the conference.
Do whatever feels right and remember to take good
care of yourself!
Emerging Conversations:
We Need The New Economy
Movement More Than Ever
TIME: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Social Hall @ Campbell
Student Union
We live in turbulent times. Climate change,
growing structural inequality, mass incarceration,
and the subversion of democracy are just a
few manifestations of the way our political and
economic systems are increasingly failing our
communities. In a moment like this it becomes easy
for reactionaries to exploit peoples fears and to
scapegoat the vulnerable, and it becomes essential
for those of us who value fairness to not just play
defense but to present positive, inclusive visions of a
better way to do things.
This session will utilize a modified version of open

space facilitation to initiate conversations on the
strategic, tactical, and practical questions that we
each bring to this space as new economy activists
who are all wrestling with the larger question:
How do we use this unique moment to advance a
fundamentally different kind of economy?
If you have a topic, idea, or proposal

youd like to discuss as part of this
process, please drop by the Social Hall on
Saturday morning or during lunch and put
it up on the big board.
2:00pm - 4:00pm
New Economy Tours
All bus tours will depart at 2pm at Cleveland
Circle and return before 4pm.
New Economy Tour of

Tonawanda
Across the country the energy economy is
shifting. Coal-fired plants are closing due
to lack of growth in electricity demand and
noncompetitive prices. As a result of this shift,
there are impacts to private and public sector
jobs and the communities where these plants
are located. The tour will include a visit to a
coal-fired power plant in the decommissioning
process and demonstrate a joint campaign
built between a local environmental justice
organization and organized labor in response to
the power plants retirement.
Green Development
Zone Tour
The West Side Tour will focus on three local Buffalo
organizations: PUSH Buffalo, Massachusetts
Avenue Project, and the WASH Project.
PUSH Buffalos Green Development Zone (GDZ)
is a place-based initiative focused in a 25-block
district on Buffalos West Side. Renewable
energy projects, green housing rehabilitation,

urban farming, and green infrastructure
installations have transformed over 200
parcels within the zone.
Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) has built
cultural, economic, and political power by
engaging youth in food justice campaigns and
community planning processes and by helping
to lead the creation of community-controlled
social enterprises in the food sector that
advance the self-sufficiency and localist elements
of the new economy.
The WASH Project engages residents in
planning the future of their communities by
integrating interactive visual and performing arts
projects with regional organizing initiatives.
Development Without
Displacement Tour:
Community First Alliance
The Community First Alliance (CFA), comprised
of a diverse array of stakeholders, including
Fruit Belt residents, entrepreneurs, social and
economic justice advocates, and labor leaders,
is currently leading a campaign to negotiate a
Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) with the
Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC),
ground zero for current economic development
in the region. The CFA has been a champion
for high road economics that put people and
neighborhoods first.
Its important that Buffalo has a comeback
for all, not just the few. If you care about rents
going up, come on this tour. If you care about
strategies to create economic opportunity
without displacement, come. If you want to
know what decision-making at the local level
looks like, come. If you want to see and
support longtime residents of one of Buffalos
most historic and diverse neighborhoods,
come. Wed love to have you.
Identity-based Meet-ups
and Spaces
Decolonizing Our Solidarity
Economies: A Conversation
for People of Color
TIME: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
If you identify as a person of color, please join us
for a conversation about the shared challenges and
strategies of decolonizing our solidarity economies.
Growing Stronger Together:

Youth and Student Caucus
TIME: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
If you identify as a youth or student, please join
us for this energizing session focused on building
the visionary leadership, imagination, and skills of
young people. The Youth Caucus is a closed space
for you to come together with other young people
at CommonBound 2016 and learn from each other
about the work you are doing around the country.
Caucus participants can organize around issues of
interest to the group, hear about the New Economy
Coalitions youth organizing and grantee network,
and participate in dialogue to further the new
economy. We will map our work, get to know each
other, and lift up our visions for a more just future.
Disability Justice Caucus

TIME: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
This caucus is for people with disabilities to
discuss how disability informs our work for social
justice. Discussions will be participant-driven and
may include topics such as disability justice, the
politics of the built environment, and the ways in
which disability intersects with race, class, gender,
sexuality, and nationality.
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Challenging Cultures of
Domination Working Spaces
White People Disrupting
Racism and White Supremacy
TIME: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
This is a working space for people to gather and
talk about how white people can be active agents
in disrupting racism and white supremacy in our
minds, our relationships, our communities, and our
movements. Join us in a working session to reflect
on your experience of race, privilege, and white
supremacist culture. This conversation will use tools
and values from the organization Showing Up for
Racial Justice (SURJ).
*This is a working space, not a caucus, and is open to
anyone of any identity.
Challenging Cultures of
Domination Working Spaces
Men Challenging Sexism,
Patriarchy, and Toxic
Masculinity
TIME: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
This is a working space for men to gather and
talk about how men can be active agents in
disrupting sexism and patriarchy in our minds, our
relationships, our communities, and our movements.
Join us in a working session to reflect on your
experience of gender, privilege, and a culture of
toxic masculinity. This conversation will use tools
and values from the organization Showing Up for
Racial Justice (SURJ).
*This is a working space, not a caucus, and is open
to anyone of any identity.
WORKSHOP BLOCK C:
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Abolish Corporate
Personhood: Democratize
the Law
SPEAKERS: David Cobb, Virginia Rasmussen,
and George Friday
TRACK: General
The current US legal system protects property
rights rather than human rights and facilitates
individualism/competition/capitalism rather than
communalism/cooperation/democracy. This
session will explore how the illegitimate, courtcreated doctrine of corporate constitutional
rights has legalized the theft of self-government.
We will learn about the growing movement for a
constitutional amendment to abolish this doctrine.
We will provide participants with the opportunity to
plug into this existing concrete campaign.
Bitcoin and Beyond: The

Problems and Prospects of
New Digital Currencies
SPEAKERS: Scott Morris, Mario Liebrenz,
Nathan Schneider, Stephanie Rearick, Chris
Hewitt
Can new technology enable us to reinvent the
money system? This session will introduce some of
the emerging opportunities and dangers among
digital currencies and financial platforms, including
Bitcoin and lesser-known alternative currencies.
We can expect to understand better not only the
workings of these systems, but what they mean for
efforts to create a more just economy.
Building the Business

Movement for a New
Economy
Building Your Communitys

Blueprint for Economic &
Energy Democracy
SPEAKERS: April De Simone, Nabeel Ahmed,

Bob Rossi, and Niaz Dorry
SPEAKERS: Meghan Zaldivar, Wanda

Salman, Claude Copeland, Alexis Francisco
TRACKS: Democratizing Energy, Development
Without Displacement
Business leaders are mobilizing to shift market and

policy for a just and sustainable economy. They are
building political power to counter the dominant
corporate interests and to build the new economy
at the local, state and national level. From shifting
business practices to policies on access to capital,
advancing social and microenterprise, new corporate
forms, rebuilding low income communities, and
just transition to high road business practices and
democratization in the workplace, they are creating
the new models and path forward.
Building the Global Social

Solidarity Economy
Movement
SPEAKERS: Yvon Poirer, Emily Kawano, Peter
Utting, Shigeru Tanaka
Learn about the international Social Solidarity
Economy Movement (SSE): what people are doing
at the grassroots, at the country and continental
levels, and the work with other social movements
(fair trade, the commons, food sovereignty, human
rights, solidarity finance, gender, anti-discrimination,
against exclusion, etc.) to promote SSE in international
institutions such as the UN Taskforce on SSE and other
international institutions. The participants will become
acquainted with the global movement and its work.
How can untapped community assets and the

skills of our community members be the building
blocks for community control of energy and our
economy? In this session, participants will learn
about community-led projects across the Bronx
and Buffalo that leverage community assets to
build healthy, resilient community and collective
ownership and decision-making for low-income
people of color. In this session, participants will
experience popular education tools and assetmapping strategies that PUSH Buffalo and the
Bronx Co-op Development Initiative/NWBCCC
have developed in their respective communities to
build power around energy democracy. Participants
will walk away with a set of resources and exercises
they can use to envision, plan for, and achieve
energy democracy in their communities.
Changing the Public Debate

by Telling the Stories of the
Emerging Economy in Red
and Rural Places
SPEAKERS: Ivy Brashear, Kimber Lanning, Liz
Veazey, Michael Goldberg
and Rural America
This session will dive into issues of language, framing,
communications, media, and getting beyond typical
progressive language and preoccupations, in order
to make new allies. Local First, AZ will describe how
theyve forged common ground with conservatives
and the business community, using practical results
and deliberate framing; Mountain Association for
Community Economic Development, or MACED,
will discuss the long term process of building support
for an economic transition away from extractive
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industries; and We Own it will share elements of

their strategy that reframe the debate around energy,
ownership and democracy. This session will be highly
participatory.
Confronting Capitalism in
the Solidarity Economy
SPEAKERS: Julia Ho, Tia Byrd
Making Trouble, Growing Solutions
How can we develop campaigns that make an
immediate material difference in peoples lives AND
build long-term political and economic power in our
communities? This session will dive into some potential
strategies for how we can run direct action campaigns
that confront capitalism while simultaneously building
the world that we want to live in. We will create space
for people to share stories about their work and
explore questions around how we relate the solidarity
economy to other movements for justice.
Confronting Utility Power

SPEAKERS: Jessica Azulay, Mariel Nanasi,
and Allison Fisher
How does the community exert control over
municipal and state decisions about our energy
system? How do we arm and mobilize the
grassroots to contend with regulators, career
bureaucrats, and utilities regarding energy
decisions? This session will feature conversation
about challenging the power of both public and forprofit electric utilities and their regulators in order
to shift decision-making power into the hands of the
public. Well hear from leaders who have waged
successful campaigns in New York, Washington
DC, and New Mexico.
Democratizing Finance
SPEAKERS: Brendan Martin, Aisha
Shillingford, Kate Poole, Michelle
Mascarenhas-Swan, Ed Whitfield
How can we assure that the material resources and
tools are available to communities to meet their needs
and elevate their quality of life? We will explore the
movement to create democratic sources of financing
to enable communities to build a democratic, just,
and sustainable economy. We will discuss the role
of finance, fundamentals of non-extractive finance,
and principles being used to develop a financial
cooperative nationally, in close connection to
grassroots frontline communities.The panel will use
concrete examples of existing models.
Fighting Privatization:
Policy Tools for Corporate
Accountability
SPEAKERS: Joel Rogers, Greg LeRoy, Sarah
DeLuca, Jayme Montgomery Baker, and Lars
Negstad
Strengthening accountability about private
influence in public policy and funding will be
critical if we are to build a new economy. Join
leading advocates for corporate accountability
to learn about policy strategies that will give
activists tools to ensure that public funds are
used for public good. Participants will leave
with concrete information about subsidy
accountability and privatization that they can
apply in their own communities.
Growing Food and Power:

Food Sovereignty in the
United States
Organizing Workers in the

New Economy, Online
and Off
SPEAKERS: Chris Bradshaw, Brandy Brooks,

Dara Cooper, and Heather Retberg
SPEAKERS: Kati Sipp, Don Charter, Michelle

Miller, and Eric Shih
TRACKS: The Internets New Economies |
Building A 21st Century Labor Movement
How do we advance food sovereigntythe

right of communities to control their own food
systemsin the United States? In this session, you
will hear from leaders across the country working
to create systemic approaches to community
health and self-determination. Examples include
cooperative enterprise, direct action to defend
land and water rights, grassroots organizing to
change economic and political power structures,
and rights-based ordinances. Attendees will learn
how such tools can be used to support food
sovereignty in their communities.
How Can Decentralized,

Self-Organized Networks
Help us Build a Healthy
Movement Ecosystem?
SPEAKERS: Tamara Shapiro, Pablo Benson
TRACK: General
How do the mass popular social movements of our
time, from Occupy to Black Lives Matter, create new
opportunities for decision-makers, organizations,
and political parties to make political and economic
change possible? How can organizing in these
decentralized movements help us learn how to
create the just world we want? In this session,
Movement Netlab, a think tank created by and
for activists, will share how decentralized social
movements function and how they help us build
movement ecosystems that will lay the groundwork
for our future.
In the 21st century, worker organizations

increasingly need to (and can) reach workers
through digital means. Hour Voice, the Good Work
Code, and Coworker.org have all developed
innovative models for educating workers about
their rights, creating standards within industries, and
aggregating worker power to change the playing
field at specific employers. Panelists will discuss
the role their specific efforts are playing within the
larger movement for workers rights.
Overworked and
Undervalued: Race, Gender
and the Economy
Agobiada/o y menospreciada/o:
Raza, gnero y la economa
BILINGUAL WORKSHOP/
SPEAKERS: Jeannette Huezo, Riahl OMalley,

and Indira Garmendia
TRACKS: Beyond Borders | The Means of (Re)
production | Black Lives, Labor and Liberation
GRUPOS TEMTICOS: Ms all de las
fronteras, Los medios de (re)produccin, Vidas
negras, la fuerza laboral y liberacin.
While economic inequality has received increased
attention in recent years, less visible is the role
racism and patriarchy play in the growing divide.
This popular education workshop asks participants
to reflect on their experiences of the economy and
think about the structures that have contributed
to the ongoing exploitation of work performed
by women, immigrants, and people of color. This
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workshop will be followed by a discussion: How

can we use popular education to build a shared
intersectional analysis of economic inequality?
Mientras que la desigualdad econmica ha tenido
un aumento en atencin en los aos recientes,
menos visible ha sido el papel que el racismo y
el patriarcado juegan en esta creciente divisin.
Este taller de educacin popular le pide a los
participantes que reflexionen en sus experiencias
de la economa y piensen en las estructuras que
han contribuido a la continua explotacin del
trabajo hecho por mujeres, inmigrantes y personas
de color. Este taller ser seguido por una discusin:
Cmo podemos nosotros usar la educacin
popular para crear un anlisis interseccional
compartido de injusticia econmica?
This workshop will be conducted in English
and Spanish. All are welcome; all non-bilingual
participants will be provided headsets. Limit: 40
participants.
bilinges se les proporcionaran equipo auriculares de
interpretacin. Lmite: 40 participantes no bilinges.
What Is the Next System?

SPEAKERS: Gar Alperovitz, Keane Bhatt,
Gus Speth
At a moment in which corporate capitalism seems so
deeply entrenched, could there be a just, sustainable,
and democratic alternative? What feasible path is
there to get us there? Renowned environmentalist
James Gustave Speth and political economist Gar
Alperovitz answer those questions with a resounding
yes! Co-chairs of the Next System Project, launched
just last year, they will recount the Projects major
ambitions and accomplishments, discuss the historical
moment in our politics and economy, assess the
opportunities that are emerging to transform our
society, and highlight the work already underway to
build toward the next system.
When the City Steps In:

Institutionalizing City
Government Support for
Worker Cooperatives
SPEAKERS: Zen Trenholm, Jasmine Vasandani
TRACKS: Beyond Business As Usual
City governments around the US are supporting
the growth of worker cooperatives as a strategy for
preserving local business and alleviating economic
inequality. NYCs Worker Cooperative Business
Development Initiative is the countrys largest
municipal program of its kind. Administered by SBS,
this initiative funds a coalition of organizations to
develop and grow worker cooperatives and their
ecosystem of support. This workshop will explore
how the initiative evolved and how the city is
institutionalizing support for worker cooperatives.
Youth-Led Solutions
SPEAKERS: Jarrel Strong, Jenny Feraud, and
Bhakti Williams Brown
This participatory workshop will feature youth
talking about about the work they are doing
in their communities to build a more just,
sustainable, and democratic future. How do we
support intergenerational and youth organizing?
In particular, how do we understand the ways
that young people move differently in doing this
work? What are some amazing examples of
young people organizing to have control and
ownership over their lives and communities? We
will explore those questions and more!
EVENING PLENARY:
5:30pm - 7:30pm,
Rockwell Theater
Snapshots of Buffalos New
Economy Movement
This panel will explore some of the powerful
organizing happening here in Buffalo, NY.
Speakers:
Sam Magavern (moderator)
Co-Director, Partnership for the Public Good (PPG)
Rebekah Williams
Youth Education Director, Massachusetts Avenue
Project (MAP)
Khadijah Hussein
Mobile Market Specialist, Massachusetts Avenue
Project
Andrew Delmonte
Co-Founder, Cooperation Buffalo
Rebecca Newberry
Executive Director, Clean Air Coalition of WNY (CAC)
Clarke Gocker
Director of Policy and Initiatives, People United for
Sustainable Housing (PUSH) Buffalo
India Walton
Member, Community First Alliance (CFA)
Taking Our Visions To

Scale: Lessons from
Abroad
Outside of the US, there are a number of powerful
examples of new economies at scale. This plenary
panel will look at a few of those international
stories as we explore what economic democracy
can look like at the level of a city, state, region,
nation and world. From Italy and Quebec
to Cuba and El Salvador, we will hear about
cooperative ecosystems that are not alternatives
because they are, in fact, part of the mainstream.

We will explore how some of these examples came
to be, what challenges they face, and what global
solidarity looks like in the face of an international
economic system of domination.
Speakers:
Federica Bandini
Director of the Course in
Management for Social
Economy at the School
of Economics, Bologna
University
Federica Bandini is Director of the Course in
Management for Social Economy at the | School of
Economics at Bologna University. Federica was also
Director of the Master on Management of Social
Enterprises at L. Bocconi University in Milan from
2008-2014. Federica has numerous publications
on the topics of social economy, social enterprise
management, and cooperative firms.
Rafael Betancourt
Colegio Universitario San
Gernimo de La Habana,
SOL ECONOMICS
Rafael J. Betancourt is
a professor of urban
economics at Colegio Universitario San Gernimo
de La Habana and is on the Editorial Board of
Revista Temas. He frequently speaks on social
and solidarity economy, socially responsible
entrepreneurship, and foreign investment in Cuba.
Nancy Neamtan
Chantier de lconomie sociale
Nancy Neamtan is a
co-founder and former
Executive Director of
Chantier de lconomie
sociale. Over the past 30
years, Nancy has been at the heart of the social
and solidarity economy movement, working first as
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a community organizer, then as Executive Director

of RESO, a community economic development
corporation, and since 1998 with Chantier.
Oscar Recinos Morales
El Salvadors Federation of
Agrarian Reform Cooperatives
of the Central Region
Peasant leader and co-op
farmer organizer Oscar
Recinos Morales is a
49-year-old Salvadorian. He organizes one of the most
important co-op federations of El Salvador and has
more than 25 years of experience in the co-op world.
Emily Kawano
(moderator)
US Solidarity Economy
Network, Intercontinental
Social Solidarity Economy
Network (RIPESS)
Emily Kawano is a founder and coordinator of the
U.S. Solidarity Economy Network and is on the Board
of the Intercontinental Social Solidarity Economy
Network. She is also the founder and co-director of
Wellspring Cooperative in Springfield, MA. She was
born in New Jersey, earned her Ph.D. in economics
from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and
currently lives in western Massachusetts.
7:30pm - 11:30pm
DINNER & PARTY (The Plaza
next to Campbell Student
Union)
Join us in celebrating the CommonBound community
with food, music, and dancing! Dinner will be
served buffet style in Bulger Lobby and seating and
entertainment will happen under the large tent in the
Campbell Plaza. We will have performances by Skiffle
Minstrels, Paul Chander, Rhyson Hall and Gr& Phee,
and Afrobeat Orchestra. There will be two bars and
drink tickets will be available for purchase. Please note
that the last shuttle busses back to off campus dorms
and hotels will depart Cleveland Circle at 11:30pm.
S U N ., J U LY 10, 2016
8:30am - 9:30am
WORKSHOP BLOCK D:
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Anchor Institutions and
Frontline Communities
SPEAKERS: Matt Feinstein, Dania Flores, Ali
Soofi, Jeuji Diamondstone
Universities and hospitals buy more than $1
trillion each year in the US, but how much is
going to support co-ops / new economies? They
can be a vehicle for rapid scaling up and longterm sustainability (especially in food systems),
but have been criticized for driving a top-down
process with unhealthy race and class power
dynamics. This interactive workshop will explore
successes and challenges of organizing anchor
institution campaigns that have workers, people
of color and youth at the forefront.
Basic Income as a First

Step Towards a CareCentered Economy
SPEAKERS: Liane Gale, Ann Withorn
The concept of Basic Income has much potential
as an element of a feminist and post-patriarchal
economic system that values contributions to
society by everyone. This workshop seeks to
explore the various dimensions of how bringing
together the concepts of a Basic Income and a
Care-Centered Economy solidifies the vision of
a new economic system, where caring for self,

each other, and the planet is the primary focus.
We are also committed to providing space for
spontaneous relationship-building and horizontal
decision-making processes as means of arriving
at grassroots-formulated strategies and solutions
to global issues and problems.
Decolonizing the Economy

from the Ground Up: Case
Study, Boston Ujima Project
SPEAKERS: Esteban Kelly, Nia K. Evans,
Deborah Frieze, Maya Gaul, Lisa Owens, Aaron
Tanaka
TRACK: Black Lives, Labor and Liberation,
Pathways To The Next System
What will an anti-imperialist economy look
like? What will it take to decolonize economic
structures in pursuit of liberation? After introducing
frameworks for building a movement for sustainable
business, community and worker ownership,
workplace democracy, and thriving family
businesses well go local. Well hear lessons from
Boston, where grassroots organizations, small
businesses and investors are working together to
model an alternative to the capitalist economy at
a local level. Participants will learn from leaders of
the Boston Ujima Project about their efforts to fight
poverty and displacement through the formation
of a community capital fund, a Good Business
Certification, and an alternative local currency.
Participants will learn about Bostons unique new
economy project and engage in the opportunities
and limits of this community development strategy.
Employee Ownershi p:
Policy Levers to Build
Community Wealth
SPEAKERS: Steve Dubb, Chris Cooper,
Camille Kerr, and Yassi Eskandari-Qajar
TRACK: Transformative Policy (NEAP) |
Beyond Business As Usual
A baby boom generation is retiring. As many

as 150,000 businesses could be candidates for
employee ownership in the next 10-20 years.
In this workshop, we will explore policy options
to promote the use of worker cooperatives and
employee stock ownership plans (ESOP), both as
start-ups and conversions. We will discuss both
policy levers and campaign mechanics. Participants
will walk away with tools and strategies that can
be employed to promote more equitable ownership
of business assets and empower employees to
become owners in your cities.
Financing Energy Democracy

SPEAKERS: Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan,
Shiva Patel, Miya Yoshitani
TRACKS: Funding The Future, Democratizing
Energy
What are some of the new financing models being
developed to propel community-based renewable
resource development, from just transition zones
to non-extractive and full-spectrum capital to
anchor institutions to divestment/reinvestment
campaigns. How do these approaches scale?
What are the barriers and what are people doing
to create mechanisms to overcome these barriers?
Participants will leave understanding how frontline
communities are organizing a wide array of allies
to engage in shifting resources and power on an
unprecedented scale.
Growing Cooperation and

Equity on Land and Sea
SPEAKERS: Jonah Fertig, Hussein Muktar,
Mohamed Dekow, and Dough Finney
How do we grow a cooperative food system
in the Northeastern US? Through presentations
and discussion, we will weave our rich history
of cooperative food businesses in the Northeast
together with new organizing to establish
cooperatives farms by Somali Bantu refugees
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in Maine, a fishermans co-op in Massachusetts

working on a model to sell their catch cooperatively
to a wide range of consumers and new models
of multi-stakeholder cooperatives providing
food service to institutions. Through a facilitated
discussion, we will use our collective wisdom,
experience, and connections to envision a food
economy that increases equity, food access, living
wages, and democracy.
Harnessing New Economy

Work in Red and Rural
Areas to Change Public and
Institutional Policy
SPEAKERS: Brandon King, Robert Nutlouis
and Rural America
Challenges and successful strategies for policy
change among institutions and local, state, and
federal government will be considered, with
Cooperation Jackson and the Black Mesa Water
Coalition offering insights into how to challenge
policies of exclusion through organizing and
building new economic structures. This session will
be highly participatory.
Housing Is A Human Right:

Organizing For Community
Land Trusts
SPEAKER: Lauren Wilfong, Alexis Smallwood
Housing insecurity, displacement and homelessness
are rampant and rising. Learn how groups are
organizing for community land trusts (CLTs)
and other community-led development models
in NYC and beyond, to address root causes of
displacement, segregation and homelessness. New
to CLTs? Never fear! This workshop will include
an overview of the structure and history of CLTs
before diving into lessons learned from the NYC
CLT movement and the strategies were using to
build the social, political and economic support
needed to spread CLTs across our city. BONUS:
This workshop includes a live session of Trustville,

our new board game that teaches players about
the benefits of CLTs.
Indigenous Peoples
Network: the Future is in
the Past
Red de Personas Indgenas: El
futuro est en el pasado
BILINGUAL WORKSHOP/
SPEAKERS: Dania Flores, Chief George

Spring Buffalo
TRACKS: Advancing the Global Movement for
a Social Solidarity Economy | Beyond Borders
We cannot create a future if we do not know the
past. We cannot face the future if we are not clear
on the past, are not sure what really happened,
and do not know how to heal from the wounds and
mistakes of our ancestors.
No podemos crear un futuro si no conocemos
nuestro pasado. No podemos enfrentar el futuro
si no tenemos claro el pasado y no estamos
seguros de lo que realmente ocurri y no sabemos
cmo sanar las heridas y los errores de nuestros
ancestros.
participants.
bilinges.
Intro to the Solidarity

Economy: Finding Common
Ground Across Nation,
Culture, and Language
SPEAKERS: Emily Kawano, Julie Matthaei
There is a growing global movement to build an
economy and society that puts people and planet at
its heart. We will explore how the solidarity economy
is building a common vision across differences
of nation, culture, history, politics, and economy.
Participants will engage as learners and teachers
and will come out of this participatory process with a
deeper understanding of the solidarity economy in the
U.S. and around the world.
Keynote Case Study: The

Cooperative Movement in
Emilia Romagna
SPEAKER: Federica Bandini
This session will feature Federica Bandini, one of
Saturdays keynote panelists, diving deep into the
history and present of the cooperative movement in
Emilia Romagna and throughout Italy.
The History and Future of

The Community Development
Finance Movement
SPEAKERS: Kristen Cox, Dey Del Rio, Melissa
Marquez
Community development credit unions have
long been carrying the struggle for racial justice
and innovation in economic justice. People
just dont know it. Part of the larger community
development finance institution (CDFI) sector, these
institutions continue to provide access to capital in
marginalized communities today and are boldly

lending to undocumented immigrants, fighting
predatory lending, preserving historic Black and
farmworker credit unions, financing worker coops
and land trusts, and building radical partnerships
to fund the new economy. Part history lesson, part
show and tell, and part participatory debate, three
practitioners from the field will lead a workshopstyle session to engage folks on how to think
about racial justice strategies for our banking and
investing and how to work with CDFIs locally in our
organizations as partner institutions to help build
and sustain the new economy movement.
The Power of Going Local

SPEAKER: Franzi Charen, Andrew Delmonte
Local movements are transforming the way we think
about economic development. We will explore the
connection between Local First campaigns and
their potential to pollinate cooperative enterprises
through marketing and branding strategies. We will
learn creative ways to build local and coop loyalty
by partnering with a localist movement or getting
one started in your community. Participants will
walk away with an understanding of the connection
between democratizing ownership and strong local
movements and how they can benefit each other.
Reclaiming Economic Theory

with the Personal Manifesto
A Guided Arts Workshop
SPEAKERS: Pampi D, Linda Jenkins
How do we release creative potential so we too can
contribute to new economy theory? A first step is to
represent our truths. In this workshop we will create
personal manifestos that both vision global movement
towards new economy rooted in local need and remain
true to our innate creative expression. The mission is to
get clarity for ourselves and inspire conversation when
disseminating our manifestos to our communities. When
people see their neighbors articulating economic theory
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in a creatively unconventional and critical non-didactic

way, the hope is they too may get inspired to engage
topics typically made to appear daunting.
Side by Side: Building

Solidarity Economies at
ACENet/Rural Action and in
Quebec
SPEAKER: Leslie Schaller, Nancy Neamtan
Come hear community leaders from ACENet/
Rural Action and Quebec, Canada talk about their
work to build solidarity economies, and compare and
contrast approaches. We are choosing to include
these two case studies side by side as an invitation to
develop deep analysis and assessment in communities
on the frontlines of building new economies.
TimeBanking for
Changemakers
SPEAKERS: Edgar Cahn, Christine Gray,
Debra Frazer
TRACK: General
TimeBanking provides a currency to enlist capacity
the market does not tap, engage a work force it
devalues or excludes, and generate critical work:
the work of raising healthy children, building
strong families, caring for the elderly, revitalizing
neighborhoods, preserving the environment,
advancing social justice, and sustaining democracy.
TimeBankings new software enables any
community to honor and reward that kind of work.
Come learn about a strategy and a tool with a track
record of redefining whats possible. A sample grant
proposal will be provided with illustrative problem
statement, narrative, goals, tasks and timelines.
New TimeBank software has just been released;
it operates on smart phones, tablets, laptops,
desktops. The session will include a hands-on demo
so bring your laptop or smartphone; learn
how to take access to the software home.
Values Added: Working

from Trust, Connectivity and
Alignment
SPEAKERS: Niaz Dorry, Ora Grodsky, Brett Tolley
TRACK: General
How do we stand strong, clear, and powerful when
the winds come? How can we bend but not break?
In this session we will explore the power of having
clear, shared values within an organization and/or
a network. We will hear Northwest Atlantic Marine
Alliances story about how their values guide
their work and build power in the face of constant
challenges. Participants will walk away with an
understanding of the power of values and ways to
help their organization or network articulate their
shared values.
Workshop Block E:
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Breaking Down the Silos:
Establishing a Culture of
Consent, Gender Equality
and Reproductive Justice in
the New Economy
SPEAKERS: Mo Kessler, Farzana Serang
This session will explore how to build bridges
between our bodies, our movements and our new
economies. We will explore why reproductive
justice and gender equality are consistently
underrepresented in radical organizing and
how we build a culture of consent within our
movements. Participants will have the opportunity
to share common experiences around gender
and reproductive violence, develop a deeper
understanding of consent beyond the bedroom and
leave with practical tools to center these issues in
their own organizing efforts.
Building an Information
Commons for the New
Economy
SPEAKERS: Leah Feder, Devin Balkind, Annie
McShiras, and Greg Bloom
In this session, well explain what #opendata
is, why its useful and how you can benefit from
it. Well explore how #opendata is being used
by humanitarian aid communities and local
governments to improve peoples lives and sector
performance. Well then explore how #opendata
can open new possibilities for the new economy
and lead exercises to get people comfortable using
#opendata in their organizations and communities.
Participants will walk away with a deeper
understanding of how data can empower the new
economy.
Building Another World:

Community Spaces as a
Transformational Tool for
Collective Liberation
SPEAKERS: Jen Burt, Dania Flores, and Shane
Capra
TRACKS: Making Trouble, Growing Solutions
| The Art Of Futuremaking
How do we build community ownership and
transformative relationships within the oppressive
system? Stone Soup Community Center is collectively
owned by 12 groups working for social justice. You
will find a meeting of the Jobs Not Jails Coalition,
a workshop on cooperative business or a Puerto
Rican poetry night. We will explore how shared
physical space can create amazing cross-pollination
and solidarity. You will leave with a story of how a
community with limited financial resources but rich in
love and ideas can create a liberatory home.
Challenging a Rigged
Market: Policy Tools to
Enable Local Businesses to
Thrive
SPEAKERS: Stacy Mitchell, Kimber Lanning,
Devita Davison, and Chris Schildt
TRACK: Transformative Policy (NEAP), Beyond
Business As Usual
For too long public policy has rigged the market to
favor big corporations, undermining small, locally
owned businesses, especially those launched by
women and people of color. Now local businesses
and activists across the country are working to
change the rules to instead support community
enterprises. Join leaders of these efforts for a look
at how cities and states can expand financing
for local businesses, keep commercial space
affordable, end corporate subsidies, better support
entrepreneurs of color, and more. Participants will
come away with concrete policy tools for building
a robust ecosystem for local businesses, as well as
new insights on engaging small businesses as allies
in building a new economy.
Collective Courage:
Creating Beautiful Solutions
in Our Communities and
Our Everyday Lives
SPEAKERS: Elandria Williams, Rachel Plattus,
Samir Hazboun
This participatory workshop will explore systems
of economics and governance and how they play
out in our communities, offering a broad range
of case studies and an opportunity to learn more
about Beautiful Solutions and the Highlander
Research and Education Centers Economics and
Governance Curriculum. Highlander and Beautiful
Solutions are partnering to help communities
explore their own situations and develop ideas for
moving forward. Come join us to be inspired by
the stories of solutions happening around the world
and those created by people at CommonBound!
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Dismantling the Low-Wage

Economy: The Fight for 15
and Beyond
SPEAKERS: Kim Gibson, Somalia Doyle
TRACK: Building a 21st Century Labor
Movement
A few years ago, many dismissed the demand for
a $15 minimum wage as a fantasy, but today its
shaping the national debate. This breakthrough is a
result of efforts by thousands of workers across the
nation, including in Buffalo. This panel will feature
participants from the Fight for 15 and will discuss the
campaigns lessons and how to advance the fight to
dismantle a low-wage economy beyond fast food.
Participants will walk away with an understanding of
recent victories for low-wage workers as well as the
significant work left to be done.
Energy Democracy Models

SPEAKERS: Shiva Patel, Jessica Tovar, Eric
Walker, Adam Flint, and Al Weinrub
LOCATION: Bulger Communication Center
West 2
What are the mechanisms driving forward Energy
Democracy? The demand and development of
community-driven and -owned clean energy has
followed a number of models: from small communitybased projects to worker-owned and multistakeholder
cooperatives to community-shared solar to municipallevel programs like Community Choice Aggregation.
How does the community, especially low-income
people and people of color, become organized and
empowered through these different models? This
panel will share their work with a variety of successful
community-driven models.
Getting Impact Capital to

the Grassroots
SPEAKERS: Cara Matteliano, Nwamaka
Agbo, Julia Dundorf, and Alexie Torres-Fleming
Center East 2
How do we fund grassroots experimentation? We will
discuss systematic divestment from a global to a more
local economy requiring grant making, Project-Related
Investments, Mission-Related Investments and creating
a long-term commitment between philanthropic
partners and those in the field. We will share our
stories from the national and local scales to illustrate
the emergence of strategies that target place-based,
system-scale solutions.
Grassroots Community
Economic Development
For Racial Justice: The
Community as Developer/
Accessing Capital and
Markets as Cultural Practice
SPEAKERS: Sohnie Black, Dave Reed, John
McKeone, Michelle Holler
TRACK: Beyond Business As Usual | Black
Lives, Labor and Liberation
This will be two-part presentation, where the
Community as Developer will be explored by the
Fund for Democratic Communities, and Accessing
Capital and Markets as a Cultural Practice will
be presented by WEDI. The Fund for Democratic
Communities will discuss their work with cooperative
business development in Greensboro, NC, focused
on making the community its own developer. WEDI
will discuss its micro-finance and incubation work as
a reimagining of prevailing commercial and banking
fundamentals as an act of culture. The goal is to
share specific successes within the context of common
success strategies, which invites the ideas and
imagination of participants. The sought outcome is a
collective conversation around the possibilities of real
economic change.
Immigrant Communities in
the New Economy
Is System Change Possible?

Long-Term Strategies
Comunidades inmigrantes en la
nueva economa
SPEAKERS: Gar Alperovitz, Esteban Kelly,

Julie Matthei, Keane Bhatt
TRACK: Pathways To The Next System
BILINGUAL WORKSHOP/
SPEAKERS: Nikki Marin Baena, Rosalia

Guerrero-Luera, Alberto Luera, Armando
Robles, Teresita Perez
TRACK: Beyond Borders
Economic autonomy is a key component of selfdetermination and our liberation. In this session,
you will hear from several projects that immigrant
communities are undertaking that can help us
build an understanding of what a new economy
could look like.
La autonoma econmica es un componente clave
de la autodeterminacin y nuestra liberacin. En
esta sesin, escucharemos de diferentes proyectos
en los que trabajan comunidades inmigrantes
que nos pueden ayudar a desarrollar un mejor
entendimiento de cmo lucira la nueva economa.
participants.
bilinges.
The new economy is rich in experiments and

examples, but can these various efforts actually
build up to challenge, displace, and ultimately
replace our current economic system? Our three
panelists will explore ambitious yet pragmatic
strategies over the long term for our organizing,
activism, and institutional development. Clear,
articulated theories of change can better guide the
movement to boldly transform corporate capitalism
and create a just and sustainable future.
Mapping the New Economy

SPEAKERS: Benjamin Brownell, Emily
Kawano, Jules Peck, Gus Speth
Panelists will map out the emerging next system
by exploring the landscape of organizations and
networks that comprise the new economy and
engage with the audience about gaps, obstacles,
and common principles and how to build on one
anothers efforts to collaboratively work towards a
more capable, credible, and coherent movement
for systemic change.
This workshop will include presentations of this
mapping work to date and a discussion of the results,
ongoing challenges, and what tools, data, or support
might be missing from the system we all work in.
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PUSH Buffalos Green

Development Zonea
model for Development
Without Displacement
SPEAKER: Jenifer Kaminsky, Jason
Kulaszewski, Edwin Padilla
PUSH Buffalos Green Development Zone is a placebased initiative anchored in a 25-block section of
Buffalos West Side that includes green affordable
housing construction, community-based renewable
energy projects, housing weatherization, green jobs
training, and urban agriculture. This session will
include presentations on different aspects of the model
and how the comprehensive community development
approach creates opportunities to build wealth and
equity in our neighborhoods.
Reparations: How Are We

Doing it?
SPEAKERS: Ed Whitfield, Aisha Shillingford
TRACK: Black Lives, Labor and Liberation
How can we move the discussion of reparations
beyond making the case for it and being angry at
those who do not agree? This strategy session will
engage the room in looking at potential tools in the
fight for securing reparations now and putting them
to work to repair our communities. We will develop
a broad understanding of why development is key
and multiple approaches to engaging in this work
now. Participants will leave with ideas of how to
fund work in communities that we can initiate to
repair the damage of slavery and exploitation.
Shifting Our Power

Together: Building Youth and
Community Engagement in
Energy Democracy
SPEAKERS: Michael Zytkow, Sean Estelle,
Arielle Clynes
The clean energy transition is happening. And

rather than accept a corporate clean energy
status quo, we can leverage our power as young
people to transform our energy system to be
localized, just, and sustainable. This session will
present opportunities to learn about existing
campaigns and organizing strategies that advance
a democratized energy system. From campaigns
for a just transition to 100% clean energy by 2030
for your campus to campaigns that reinvest college
and university endowmentswe invite participants
to build on these frameworks and strategize for
themselves, and the movements we work in, how
to move forward energy democracy work on
campuses and in communities. By exploring ways
that environmental, education, social justice and
health advocates have come together in North
Carolina to demand 100% renewable powered
schools in an intersectional campaign, participants
will walk away with ideas for how to bring this
effort to their communities and have a platform from
which to engage by articulating their own strategic
objectives and next steps.
Strategy Framework for a

Just Transition
SPEAKERS: Gopal Dayaneni and Michelle
Mascarenhas-Swan
TRACK: General
To shift from a Banks & Tanks economy to
Economies for Life requires aligning our analysis,
vision, and strategies. Movement Generation has
been working with frontline community groups,
resilience practitioners, folks in the labor movement,
and others to craft a strategy framework for a just
transition. We will share this framework as a tool for
systems change across food, energy, water, waste,
transit, energy, and housing. Participants will walk
away with a framework to situate our strategies to
reclaim land, labor, and capital.
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch (Social Hall @
Workshop Block F:
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Community Energy
Cooperatives
SPEAKERS: Shiva Patel, Tim DenHerderThomas, Isaac Baker, Krys Cail, and Jake
Schlachter
Center East
How can we control and own the energy
resources we depend on? How can we work
together across class and race to build a more
just and resilient future? Join this dynamic
session for energy cooperatives and people
interested in developing them to look at the
opportunities before us, the challenges were
facing, best practices, and the ways were
making a real difference creating a more just
and sustainable energy future for all. Youll hear
from leaders working to build and grow clean
energy cooperatives, to transform incumbent
rural electric co-ops, and to utilize food co-ops
and other non-energy cooperatives as a lever for
advancing energy democracy.
How Class Continues to

Impact our New Economy
Initiatives
SPEAKERS: Dani Motze, Brian Kelly, and
Daniel Egusquica
TRACK: General
How can we overhaul the financial system so
that our collective capital is directed to meeting
community needs and making productive
investments in building an equitable economy?
This session will demystify finance by exploring

what finance is really for and looking at how
megabanks fail to meet these core purposes.
Well then spend the bulk of the time exploring
innovative policies, strategies, and models
for restructuring banking and investment.
Participants will come away with both a longrange vision and strategies for getting there.
Keynote Case Study: The

Cooperative Movement in
Post-War Central America
Keynote Caso Practico: El
Movimiento Cooperativo en
Amrica Central de la Posguerra
BILINGUAL WORKSHOP/
SPEAKER: Oscar Recinos Morales

a Social Solidarity Economy | Making Trouble,
Growing Solutions
This session will feature Oscar Recinos Morales,
one of Saturdays keynote panelists, diving deep
into his work in the cooperative movement in El
Salvador and other regions in Central America.
participants
Este taller se llevar a cabo en Ingls y en
Espaol. Todos son bienvenidos; todos los
participantes no bilinges se les proporcionaran
equipo auriculares de interpretacin. Lmite: 40
participantes no bilinges.
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Leveraging Procurement for

Community Wealth-Building
and Local Jobs
SPEAKERS: Satya Rhodes-Conway,
Shanelle Smith, Jessica Kingston, and Mariah
Montgomery
Cities should align their procurement practices
with policy goals to encourage community wealthbuilding while creating high-quality jobs for local
residents. Join successful organizers and local
government leaders applying these principles.
Attending this panel will provide activists with
actionable strategies and policy tools that can be
used in other communities.
Multisolving: Equity,
Systems Analysis and
Community Engagement
in Service of Green
infrastructure in the City of
Atlanta
SPEAKERS: Elizabeth Sawin, Nathaniel Smith
TRACK: Pathways To The Next System
Sustainable, human-centered infrastructure can
deliver health, equity, and economic benefit and
climate protection. But in communities with a history
of fractured and inequitable decision making, it
can be hard to achieve this potential. This session
shares lessons and tools from a project aimed at
influencing infrastructure decision making in the city
of Atlanta based on principles of equity, systems
thinking and community building. We will share
tools and processes prototyped in Atlanta, and
that participants can adapt for use in their own
communities.
New Economy DiscoTech

FACILITATOR: Leah Feder
Discover Technology for the new economy! Are you
working on a technological or knowledge-sharing
solution you want to share with others? Have you
been facing technological/information challenges
in your work? The DiscoTech is a facilitated open
space for you to learn about, share, and build
technology with others in the new economy. You
dont need a projectjust a desire to learn and
build our collective capacity. Join us!
Planning for Liberation:

Strategy Tools from the
Popular Education Spiral
to the Power Analysis and
Beyond
SPEAKERS: Nadine Bloch, Elandria Williams,
and Samir Hazboun
Come to this jam session/open lab ready to roll
your sleeves up and dig into several strategic
tools & frameworks for your specific projects
because behind fantastic, winning campaigns is a
commitment to planning and assessment, and the
capacity to do both. To start, well dig into the the
Popular Education Spiral, the S.C.O.P.E. power
analysis, and the Beautiful Trouble Creative Activism
Strategy Game.
Poetry: Not Just An

Afterthought in the New
Economy
SPEAKER: Tawana Petty
Toni Cade Bambara said, the role of the artist
is to make the revolution irresistible. This session
will explore the role of poetry in movements
and highlight poetry as an avenue for visionary
resistance and as an art form worthy of political

study and investment. We will explore poems,
including some authored by the facilitator. We
will dissect poems and assess their contributions
to political movements, theory and livelihood.
Participants will walk away with collectively written
poetry and an understanding of the role of the poet
in narrating and ushering in a new world and new
economy.
Power Mapping for the

New Economy
SPEAKERS: Rob Galbraith, Gin Armstrong
TRACK: General
LOCATION: Bulger Communication Center
West 2
Existing institutions and entrenched power structures
often stand in the way of creating a new economy
based on social, economic, and environmental
justice. We will explore how to support movements
by researching powerful people and institutions
and creating power maps to understand their
relationships. Using LittleSis, a free tool for
conducting and organizing power research, we will
share local victories aided by power research and
participants will learn how to build maps for any
local, regional, or national movement.
Preserving Naturally
Occurring Affordable
Housing in Chicago
SPEAKERS: Joyce Bell, Vivien Tsou, Jen Ritter,
Norm Kaesburg
People of color and low-income people are being
displaced from Chicagos north side and from
the city overall in huge numbers. ONE Northside
is working on a campaign to preserve naturally
occurring affordable housing that aims 1. to pass
citywide legislation that would regulate the sale
of rental housing and 2. that would generate
revenue for those sales by taxing activities that
spur gentrification. In this session, we will outline
the policy proposal and our action plan, and we

will hear from participants about their solutions to
displacement.
Redesigning Work and

Joyfully, Voluntarily
Redistributing Wealth
through Mutual Aid
Networks
Speakers: Stephanie Rearick and Chris Petit
TRACK: General
Weve designed a new type of cooperative, with
expanded core principles (based in Rochedale,
Commons governance, and timebanking values)
where people come together around a common
goal and steward various resource exchange
tools to meet everyones needs. These tools are
timebanking, mutual credit, shared resources,and
savings pools. The mission is to create means for
everyone to discover and succeed in work they
want to do, with the support of their community, it
will spring up locally everywhere, linked in a global
coop of mutual support
Strategies to Increase
Impact on Policy and the
Public Debate across Red
and Rural America
and Rural America
The final session in this track will be a roundtable
discussion among all participants and presenters
focused on two questions: What have we learned
over the past 1 days that could strengthen or
accelerate our own work? Where do/can we go
from here in order to significantly strengthen the
new economy in rural and Red State communities?
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Strategizing for Racial

Justice in the Cooperative
Movement
Youth and Emerging

Leadershi p in Just Food
Economies
SPEAKERS: Jason Rodney, Ellery Wealot,

Michaela Fisher
TRACKS: Beyond Business As Usual | Black
Lives, Labor and Liberation
SPEAKERS: Rebekah Williams, Shira Tiffany,

Khadijah Hussein, and Bobby Anderson
Can you imagine a mainstream cooperative

movement taking bold risks for racial justice?
Well practice using a campaign strategy chart
together to make that dream real. Well build on
the brilliance emerging from network gatherings
earlier in the week and discuss strategies to: amplify
the leadership of cooperators of color; dismantle
white supremacy within coop institutions; and
put coop resources where they will most rapidly
foster racial justice. Well share stories about how
coops support and inhibit racial justice movements,
pinpoint key leverage points in the coop movement,
and commit to action.
We will: Demonstrate how young people and

the next generation of leaders are engaged in
shifting our food system and food economies.
Share models of youth engagement and emerging
leadership in food justice organizations and
networks. Learn about strategies and commitments
to youth leadership, nurturing the next generations
through the lens of racial equity and food justice.
Explore various models of engaging youth and
emerging leaders in food justice work and new
food economies.
3:05pm - 4:45pm
CLOSING PLENARY
What is the Story You Seek (Rockwell Theater)
to Change? A Conversation
with David Korten
Moving Forward With A
Plan To Win
SPEAKERS: David Korten, Fran Korten
TRACK: General
Stories, while often unspoken, are implicitand

very much alivein the organizations, coalitions,
and communities that power the New Economy
movement. Each of us plays a vital role in turning
the human course by exposing the fallacies of
prevailing cultural stories and offering alternatives.
One such alternative is the Living Earth Economy
story that David Korten offers. Join us to reflect on
and share the deep cultural stories and assumptions
you and your organization seek to change.
If our movements are serious about changing the

system, what are the strategies that get us from
here to there? We know this work is about more
than just building projects or winning elections. Its
about governing society for the benefit of all and
implementing our visions for the economy at all
levels. With that in mind, what do we need to shift
in our thinking for our movements to succeed? What
are we not doing enough of? What are we doing
too much of? What are the opportunities in front
of us in this particular historical moment? This last
plenary panel will reflect on these questions with
a powerful line-up of community leaders who will
bring their diverse and broad experiences to the
table.
Speakers:
Kali Akuno
Cooperation Jackson,
Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement
Makani Themba
(moderator)
Higher Ground Change
Strategies
Kali Akuno is a cofounder and co-director

of Cooperation Jackson.
He served as the Director of Special Projects and
External Funding in the Mayoral Administration of
the late Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, MS. Kali is
also an educator, writer, and organizer with the
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
Makani Themba is Chief

Strategist at Higher Ground
Change Strategies based in Detroit, Michigan.
Previously, Makani served as the founder and
executive director of The Praxis Project, a nonprofit
organization helping communities use media and
policy advocacy to advance health justice. Makani
has published numerous articles, books, and case
studies on race, class, media, policy advocacy, and
public health.
Jacobo Rivero
Rodrguez
City of Madrid, Spain
Jacobo Rivero works in the
Department of Culture and
Sports in the city of Madrid,
Spain. He is an activist, author, and journalist, who
has published two books on Podemos, and three
books on ethics and sports.
Erica Smiley
Jobs with Justice,
Highlander Research and
Education Center
Erica Smiley is the
organizing director for Jobs
With Justice. She sits on the
board of the Highlander
Research and Education
Center.
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Getting Here and Away

Conference Location
The primary location for CommonBound is:
Buffalo State College/SUNY Buffalo

1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY
Conference Dorm Housing is located at:
Buffalo State University
Cassety Hall
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY
Canisius College
Bosch Hall and Frisch Hall
2001 Main St
Buffalo, NY
University at Buffalo - South Campus

Goodyear Hall and Clement Hall
119 Goodyear Hall
Buffalo, NY
Transportation from Points of

Arrival
24 Hour Taxi companies:
Buffalo Airport Taxi Service: (716) 292-4425
Liberty Yellow Cab: (716) 877-7111
Public Transit: NFTA Metro
Connecting between Buffalo

State and Points of Lodging
Shuttle:
Shuttle service starts at 8am and ends 30 minutes after
the last programming of the day has ended. Shuttles will
run more frequently in the morning from 8-10 am, and
every 40-60 minutes throughout the rest of the day. Our
on-campus shuttle station will be at Cleveland Circle at
Buffalo State College. Shuttles will be clearly labeled,
so youll sure to get on the right bus.
Friday: 8 AM - 11:30 PM
Saturday: 8 AM - 12 AM
Sunday: 8 AM - 5:30 PM
There will be continuous shuttles running to and

from Buffalo State on four circuits!
Routes
A - Hyatt Shuttle will run direct service to and
from the Hyatt Regency (Huron St. entrance)
B - UB Shuttle will run direct service to and from the
Main-Bailey Lot by Clement and Goodyear Halls.
C - Canisius Shuttle will run direct service to and
from Eastwood St and Main St by Dugan and
Frisch Halls.
D - Holiday Inn Downtown will run direct service
to and and from The Holiday Inn Downtown
Attendees staying anywhere near these shuttle stations
are welcome to catch a bus to CommonBound!
Bike Rental
Rent a bike while youre in town to pedal from point
A to point B and see all the sights in between!
Spinlister Bike Rental
Campus Wheel Works Bike Rental
Parking at Buffalo State

You may park in any of the student/faculty lots
without a permit. Ticketing in these lots will be
suspended for the duration of the conference. The
conference will be held in Rockwell Hall, Ketchum
Hall, Bulger Communication Center, and Campbell
Student Union. These buildings are nearest to the
Rockwell Road entrance off of Elmwood Avenue. The
closest parking lots are I-30, I-32, R-2, and R-12.
Contact Info
In the event of an emergency
Buffalo State University Campus Police:
(716) 878-6333
Shuttle Services
Call or text: (716) 217-0079
Info Desk
Call or text: (716) 780-2216
Housing
Call or text: (716) 780-2272
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NOTES
SCH E DU LE
OV E RV I E W
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Network Gatherings
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Light Dinner (Rockwell Patio)
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FRIDAY, JULY 8TH
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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Welcome and Opening Panel / Keynote
(Rockwell Theater)
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Opening Social (Rockwell Patio)
SATURDAY, JULY 9TH

8:30 am - 9:30 am


9:30 am - 10:45 am
Workshop Block A
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Workshop Block B
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch (Social Hall

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Flexible Time: Emerging Conversations,

Caucuses, and Local Tours

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Workshop Block C
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Go to page 38
for info!
Evening Plenary (Rockwell Theater)
7:30 pm - 11:30 pm
Dinner & Party (The Plaza next to
SUNDAY, JULY 10TH
8:30 am - 9:30 am


9:30 am - 10:45 am
Workshop Block D
In the event of an
emergency
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Workshop Block E
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Lunch (Social Hall

Buffalo State University

Campus Police:
(716) 878-6333
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Workshop Block F
3:05 pm - 4:45 pm
Closing Plenary (Rockwell Theater)
Contact Info
Shuttle Services
Call or text:
(716) 217-0079
Info Desk
Call or text:
(716) 780-2216
Housing
www.commonbound.org
Call or text:
(716) 780-2272

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