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Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project Created April 2012 Building Economy for People and Planet: Ideas for Action What Is It? This is a half day workshop, developed in collaboration with PODER (San Francisco), for community members and community based organizations to explore what we mean by economy, its relationship to ecology, and to learn about steps we can take to create a more just, sustainable and participatory economy for workers, community members and the planet. Why Do it? Redefine what is commonly understood as Economy, and highlight its relationship to Ecology. Empower the group to see themselves as economic experts. Introduce and provide opportunities for the group to share economic practices that emphasize cooperation, sustainability and participation. Time: Minimum 3 hours 1 Welcome, ground rules 15 min 2 Icebreaker 10 min 3 Brainstorm on economy/Framing 20 min 4 Getting by, Getting Ahead, or Getting Together 25 min 5 Comparing Economic Models – game 80 min 6 Large group discussion 20 min 7 Evaluation/Closing 10 min Materials needed: Agenda, goals, and group agreements on butcher paper Solidarity Economy cards (attached) Pens, markers, and butcher paper Powerpoint of Images: Eco, Ecosystem, Ecology, Economy; Getting By, Getting Ahead, Getting Together Handout – “The Meaning of Home” Remember: Photocopy the Cards onto card stock. If you are doing the workshop in Spanish and English, put the Spanish version on one side and the English version on the other

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Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project Created April 2012

Building Economy for People and Planet: Ideas for Action What Is It? This is a half day workshop, developed in collaboration with PODER (San

Francisco), for community members and community based organizations to explore what we mean by economy, its relationship to ecology, and to learn about steps we can take to create a more just, sustainable and participatory economy for workers, community members and the planet.

Why Do it?

• Redefine what is commonly understood as Economy, and highlight its relationship to Ecology.

• Empower the group to see themselves as economic experts. • Introduce and provide opportunities for the group to share economic

practices that emphasize cooperation, sustainability and participation. Time: Minimum 3 hours

1 Welcome, ground rules 15 min 2 Icebreaker 10 min 3 Brainstorm on economy/Framing 20 min 4 Getting by, Getting Ahead, or Getting Together 25 min 5 Comparing Economic Models – game 80 min 6 Large group discussion 20 min 7 Evaluation/Closing 10 min

Materials needed:

• Agenda, goals, and group agreements on butcher paper • Solidarity Economy cards (attached) • Pens, markers, and butcher paper • Powerpoint of Images: Eco, Ecosystem, Ecology, Economy; Getting

By, Getting Ahead, Getting Together • Handout – “The Meaning of Home” Remember: Photocopy the Cards onto card stock. If you are doing the workshop in Spanish and English, put the Spanish version on one side and the English version on the other

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DIRECTIONS:

1. Welcome / Ground Rules / Agenda Review (15 min) Take some time to ground this workshop in the ongoing work of your organization, in stories that you have heard from members, in the larger economic and ecological realities that the community is facing. If this is a group unused to working together, here are suggested group guidelines: SAMPLE GROUND RULES

• Be yourself (speak from your experience) • Bring your whole self (physical, rational, emotional, etc.) • Stretch yourself (learning happens at the edge of our abilities) • Step up/step back • Respect yourself and each other • Mine for understanding • Expect unfinished businesses

Take a couple of minutes to go over the agenda so participants know what to expect.

2. Icebreaker (10 min) Ask the group to break into pairs and ask each other a question related to economy. Sample questions: • If you were Mayor, and could change one thing about the local economy,

what would it be? • What is wrong with the current economic system? • If you could grant one wish to your family, what would it be?

Give the group 5 minutes to talk in pairs, and then use the remaining time to harvest ideas from the group by asking what they heard that was inspiring, or that connected to their experience

3. Brainstorming / Framing (5 min) Brainstorm Large Group Discussion - This is a chance to unpack what economy means to folks in the room. When you hear the word, “ECONOMY” what do you think? Additional questions that can be used to keep the brainstorm going:

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• What is the economy supposed to do? • What are the different parts of the economy? • What are the things you hear in the news about the economy?

(Facilitators note: here people will usually say things about “the economy” including, money, corporations, jobs, unemployment, profit, etc.)

Unpacking the Term “Economy” – Presentation (15 min) See the Presentation Guide A (below). Take time to review the suggested language in the guide and in the handout so that you feel comfortable during the presentation, the language below is a guideline. The purpose is to:

• Emphasize the relationship between ecology and economy • Make economics something that we can all relate to – demystify

Use the IMAGES (see Powerpoint) and pepper the presentation with lots of questions.

4. Getting By, Getting Ahead, or Getting Together (25 min) Present the “Getting By” image by using PART 1 of Presentation Guide B for this section (below). Do the Stepping Into the Circle exercise: Read the following prompts, if it is true for participants ask them to take one step into the circle. The goal is to have all participants in a tight knit group at the end. Step in every time a statement is true for you:

1) You regularly run out of money at the end of every month, with bills left to pay

2) You have had to buy groceries on a credit card 3) You can’t get a credit card 4) You have had to move more than once in the past two years 5) You have lost your job or had to look for work in the past 3 years 6) You have to work (or have had to work) 2 or more jobs to just get by 7) You or someone you know has been out of work for more than 6 months 8) You or someone you know has been out of work for more than 1 year 9) You are smart and creative when it comes to money and resources 10) You are strong and will continue to survive even when times are hard (You can make up more on the spot if needed.)

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Note: you can say, “you or someone close to you...” if you want to keep it more open. With youth, you could include things such as:

• You have been late to school or work because of public transportation. • You or someone close to you is incarcerated (in the prison system)

At this point, when everyone is clustered in the middle, ask the participants to: • Raise their hands in the air. • Take the hands of two other people with their hands. • Without letting go of anyone’s hands, untie the knot.

Sample framing and directions: “Now we can all see that there are many ways that the dominant economy doesn’t meet our needs and puts pressure on us – we all feel the squeeze, one way or another. Everyone put your hands in the air. Now take the hands of two other people with your two hands. We are now in a big circle in a knot. And like any ecosystem, we are all connected. The economy is how we make and manage those connections together. Untie the knot. Working together we can all have the space we need and the connections we need.” The group moves around to untangle the knot without letting go of any hands. Present the “Getting Ahead” and “Getting Together” images by using PART 2 of Presentation Guide B (below).

5. Comparing Economic Models Game (80 min) Introduction (10 mins) We will be breaking into small groups and looking at some different examples of how Our Economy works. The goal is to decide for ourselves whether we think the examples are about Getting By, Getting Ahead or Getting Together. Then we will look more closely at the ways of Getting Together and see what we think about them. Please select a person or persons to report back

Small Group Discussion (45 mins) Break participants into 4 groups. Each group gets a set of cards (cards are attached - facilitator should feel free to eliminate cards that are not needed).

Group 1 – Land and Housing Group 2 - Food Group 3 - Work Group 4 – Currency and Exchange

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Ask each group to divide the cards into “Getting By, Getting Ahead or Getting Together” Once they have chosen their Getting Together cards, participants should ask the following questions:

a. How would this benefit your community, if at all?

b. What are the advantages of the model?

c. What are the limitations and/or drawbacks of the model?

d. How can the model support social justice and movement building or challenge capitalism?

e. Which model is your group's favorite?

Note: Write these questions up on paper for each group as reminders.

Report backs (25 mins) Facilitator, choose one depending on the time you have and the size of the group:

-­‐ Briefly describe each Getting By and Getting Ahead card and why your group felt they belonged in the category you chose. Or

-­‐ Give one example of a card that was controversial Then Ask each group to:

-­‐ Pick one “Getting together” solution to share, that your group found most interesting.

If there is time, go back through the groups asking for their second choices. 6. Large Group Discussion (20 mins)

If you have time, this may be an opportunity to give folks a chance to share how the conversation has added to their thinking around economic justice. Sample questions could be:

• What is one idea from this session you would share with someone else? • What are some of the ways you see solidarity economy in your home

country? • Did anything from this session surprise you, or make you think about

something differently? Explain? • On a scale from 1-5 how strongly do you think we could create a

solidarity economy? Why?

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• What are some next steps we could take from here 7. Evaluation / Closing (15 mins)

If you have time and it’s helpful to your organization, ask the participants to share what worked for them and what they would change. Close this session in a way that connects to ongoing conversations, campaign work in your community/organizations. Try to draw on the main points made during the presentation, connect to participant’s ideas, and make connections. Here’s an example: “All over the world, in some of the most poor and oppressed communities, everyday people are remaking their relationship to economy and rediscovering their relationship to ecology. By struggling to reclaim land and resources, and simultaneously building the schools, workplaces, farms, and community centers that they want to see.”

ADDENDUM

PRESENTATION GUIDE A :: Unpacking the Term “Economy”

Image - Eco Let’s start with Eco. Eco - literally means home. There are many ways to think of home- house, neighborhood, even mother earth (house, neighborhood, and earth) Image - Ecosystem Ecosystem is “all the relationships in your home – from the plants and animals to friends and neighbors. We are all part of ecosystems, even in the city. Ecosystems can be as small as a drop of rain – bugs, water, dirt - or as big as the whole planet. Image - Ecology Ecology means “knowing your home”. There are many ways that we know, study or understand our home, from gardening to getting to know people, to making a budget of what we have to spend (or the resources we have to work with). Gardening, greeting neighbors are examples. Image - Economy Economy is “management of home.” There are many ways to take care of our home. It includes our work, our relationships with each other, how we meet our needs, how we make decisions, etc. At this point in human history we are experiencing a massive change in how economy works. Our economy is now global.

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IF YOU SCREW UP THE ECONOMY, YOU SCREW UP THE ECOSYSTEM If you decide to dump waste into your river, it gets polluted and the fish die and you can't drink the water. And... IF YOU GLOBALIZE THE ECONOMY, YOU GLOBALIZE THE ECOSYSTEM (if your food comes from china, then china is part of your food shed, or food economy). And...….. IF YOU SCREW UP THE ECONOMY AND YOU GLOBALIZE THE ECONOMY – then what happens? (Climate change, forced migration, hunger, poverty, etc.) The consequence of the global “mismanagement of home” is the breaking down of the life support systems of the planet, and that means the loss of cultures and living things. The first step to taking care of our home, is taking control of our work, and taking care of each other. If we control our work and work in our collective interests, we are much less likely to over exploit.

NOW What does THE ECONOMY mean? THE Economy means the particular way we “manage our home” right now – work, needs, goods and services - Capitalism (exploitation of the natural world – including work), financial markets, speculation markets (making money off the future value of things – like land and housing). They started calling it “THE ECONOMY” back in the 40's and 50’s. One reason is to make it the only thing possible. But we have always had ways of meeting our needs that don’t depend completely on “the economy” – on capitalism, exploitation, greed, and hoarding. “Solidarity Economy” is a new term, but it is an old idea. Our peoples have been sharing, gifting, cooperating, and co-creating, forever – back in our home countries, in our traditions and even how we live today. What are the ways we meet our needs or help each other meet our needs that don’t depend on “the economy? E.g. Cooking for each other, helping a neighbor fix their bike, cooking meals for people when they have a baby, “handing down” clothes, taking care of each others’ kids, elder care, and working for justice and equity. This is how we do Economics. This is Solidarity Economics.

PRESENTATION GUIDE B :: Getting By, Getting Ahead, or Getting Together

PART 1 Image – Getting By When we look around our communities, what we see are a lot of folks Getting By. Trying to make ends meet; putting food on the table, paying the rent; trying to keep our heads above water from one week to the next.

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PART 2 Image - Getting Ahead: The answer to Getting By, we are told, is Getting Ahead. The current economy thrives on the aspiration (hope) that you can do better if you just work hard enough. But who are we getting ahead of? Who gets left behind to only Get By Possible questions:

• Who in our society is Getting Ahead? • Have you ever experienced others getting ahead by taking advantage of you or

others, or not sharing fairly? Image - Getting Together Getting Together is the idea that we can all be better off, and nobody left behind, if we focus on the economics of “WE” rather than “ME.” There are lots of ways we are already getting together, which we talked about before. Now we are going to look at the different kinds of economic models so that everyone in the community can get ahead together. Note: We don’t need an economist to explain to us how the economy works or what kind of solutions we need. We live the economy every day, we know what our families, neighbors and communities need, and we understand what holds us back. We are the experts we have been looking for.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Workshop development led by Marc Mascarenhas-Swan for Movement Generation. This workshop was created in collaboration with People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER). www.podersf.org Images designed by Design Action Collective. www.designaction.org This workshop has been adapted from exercises designed by:

Center for Popular Economics. Stepping Stones to Creating a Solidarity Economy. 2004. www.populareconomics.org PILA (Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action). Action Steps toward a Solidarity Economy.

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