September 26, 2009 10:00 AM - 9 attended

Festival of Grassroots Economics (Oakland Uptown)

Humanist Hall (map)

Selected By: Raines Cohen

THE FESTIVAL OF GRASSROOTS ECONOMICS

Saturday, September 26 from 10-4pm

Come join us at an East Bay Cohousing table (hopefully joined by other aligned groups) at the first Festival of Grassroots Economics where together we will be celebrating and creating together a new economy for the people and the planet.

Worker cooperatives helping to support new cooperatives, tenants organizing to own housing collectively, people working to grow food in the city together, bicycle mechanics teaching neighborhood kids, organizations doing renewable energy and greywater installations, people organizing to share resources through timebanks, and many more projects will be there. It is a kind of bottom-up trade fair to show what people working together can do to collectively meet each others' needs at the local level.

Panels will be discussing how to start a worker cooperative, financial and other support resources for the grassroots economy, urban food security, and building the alternative by creating synergies between the different aspects of the grassroots economy and environmental and social justice organizations.

It’s free to the public so bring your friends and family. Se habla espanol. Wheelchair accessible. For more info go to [url]http://www.jasecon.or...[/url]



Co-op 101: An introduction to worker cooperatives
A brief survey of the organizational, legal and financial aspects. A must for those who are thinking of joining or forming a cooperative. Kasper Koczab and Dave Karoly - Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC)


Resources for the Grassroots Economy:
Financial and development resources to meet community economic needs. Panel of experts will discuss the means by which community projects can make use of resources.

Erin Kilmer-Neel - One California Foundation
Jenny Kassan - Katovich Law
Ian Winter - Northern California Land Trust
Rhea Serna - Mission Asset Fund

Moderator - Janelle Orsi – Attorney and author of "The Sharing Solution"



Urban Food Security:
Communities must take food back from global capital. How are we building just,
sustainable, locally-based food systems that meet our communities’ needs and
provide meaningful work?

Building the Alternative:
The grassroots economy is a solution to the economic crisis and holds a vision
of the world we want to create. How can we nurture a local economy that gives
working folks power and control over the economy and their work lives,
leveraging available resources? How can social and environmental justice work support the development of a new economic paradigm? How we can create more synergy and interdependence between grassroots
economic projects? How can we build a just, sustainable economic alternative to
scale?

Moderator/Facilitator: Gopal Dayenini -GAIA and Movement Generation

Panelists:

Ali Ar Rasheed - West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project
Rhea Serna - Mission Asset Fund
Tom Wetzel – SF Community Land Trust
Heather Young – Bay Area Community Exchange



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9 attended
5.00 5.002 (2 ratings)
  • Event Host
    Raines Cohen
    Cohousing Coach and Aging In Community Author, Co-Organizer
  • David Kirwin
    Former Supporting EBCOHO Member through 12/31/2010
    Fantastic. Really important, vital economic information was provided including alternates to our present economically failing systems. I also learned many day to day solutions for individual help, like that small grey water systems are now allowed statewide w/o requiring a permit as long as the system has a single source such as a shower or washing machine. Met many wonderful people as well. I have already blogged locally about this Fest and the need to get my city's "Economic Sustainability Committee" to the next one of these. I have not yet digitized my notes, but already many are asking for specific resources. A really big success.
  • stephen kelly
    Mr. Fun/EcoVillage 510 founder&EBCOHO supporter til 10/1/11
  • Kathy Labriola
    Bay Area Community Land Trust boardmember
  • A former member
  • A former member
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