COMMONBOUND

Moving Together Toward a New Economy

Brought to you by:
NEW ECONOMY COALITION
www.commonbound.org
June 6-8, 2014
Notes:
OUR PARTICIPATORY ART TEAM
In this era of broken systemsfrom healthcare to energy to education to the way our entire economy is
structuredcitizens must be able to conceive of and help create positive alternatives. To cultivate eective co-
creators of new systems based in equality, non-discrimination, and sustainability, we must provide universal access
to empowering creative experiences that build empathy and social imagination. With renewed commitment, we
must encourage imaginative thinking and creative risks.
The US Department of Arts and Culture (not a Federal Entity)
We are excited to present you with a variety of opportunities to exercise your visionary muscles this weekend! Our
participatory art team will be present throughout CommonBound, oering easy ways for you to make tangible
demonstrations of the new economy we are building together. They will also help curate some wall space on which
you can ask questions, oer possible answers, share resources, and connect to one another. We hope that youll
take a moment (or several) to contribute to our co-creation.
THE TEAM: Nadine Bloch, Jacklyn Gil
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WELCOME TO COMMONBOUND!

We are so grateful to you for taking the time to be here with us. Theres a ton of great programming planned for
this weekend, and we hope you will take it all in. What were most excited about is the experience, wisdom, skills
and stories youre bringing with you.

Help us make this as productive a space as it can be by communicating with us and with each other about what
youre looking for. We want to work with you to dig into the what and the how of growing a new system that puts
people, place and planet before prot.

In order to do that, wed like to propose the following working agreements for the weekend because we believe
that the values at the core of the system were building must also be core to the work that we do.

We ask you to join us in agreeing to:


We celebrate the many identities, styles, and stories in this
room, and acknowledge that our existing political economic
system values some identities, styles, and stories over others.
We acknowledge harm so that we can build new ways of being
together. We hope that these agreementsand others you are
bringing with youwill help us to create the culture of respect
and generosity that will allow us to begin to write a collective
story.

We hope that you will use this time to get creative, connect
with new and old friends and collaborators, learn, and enjoy
yourself! Were thrilled to be working with you.

With excitement,
THE NEW ECONOMY COALITION TEAM

SHOW UP for CommonBound. This could mean silencing devices, listening actively and generously, and being
intentional about making new connections with the people here.
SPEAK FOR OURSELVES (use I statements and speak from personal experience) and
MAKE ROOM FOR OTHERS TO SPEAK. (NOTICE whose voices you are hearing.)
LISTEN.
ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMPACT of our words and actions, whether intentional or not.
TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES AND ONE ANOTHER. This might mean taking breaks, staying hydrated, or getting
a little sleep. This might also mean speaking up, asking for help or clarication, or naming tension.
TAKE RISKS and ENGAGE TENSION, understanding this is vital to our collective growth.
RESPECT the space and the people in it.

INDEX
Welcome To CommonBound 1
What is NEC? 2
What We Do 3
Plenary Panels 4
Workshops Slot 1 6
Workshops Slot 2 1 1
Workshops Slot 3 16
Workshops Slot 4 21
Schedule 26
Online Logistics 30
General Questions 3 1
Campus Map 32
Map of Vegan Friendly Food 33
Self Guided New Economy Tour Map 34
NEC Sta 35
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What is NEC?
The New Economy Coalition is a collaborative network of more than 110 organizations
working to build the movement for a more just, sustainable and democratic society.
What is the problem?
For the vast majority of people on this planet, the old economy isnt working. It poisons
our water, air, and land, concentrates resources and power in the hands of a few, deprives
communities of their agency, and destroys the ecosystems we depend on. Through persistent
racism and classism, communities of color and low-wealth communities are disproportionately
impacted, polluted upon, and displaced as they struggle on the frontlines of many of these
issues. Young people are being left to bear the brunt of decisions made by a generation that
excludes them from leadership and decision-making. Faced with interconnected ecological
and economic crises, we believe its time for deep changes to both our economy and our
politics. We believe its time for something new - a new economy.
All around the world people are rolling up their sleeves and experimenting with innovative
ways of doing business, practicing democracy, and sharing common resources. So many
strategies that could transform our economy are already available, and more are emerging
every day. But new policies and ideas are only as good as our will and capacity to bring them
to life.
What future world is possible?
We envision a new economy where we move away from extractive nance and toward
reinvestment in our communities. An economy that puts people and planet rst, requires the
sustainable use and stewardship of resources, protects and values cultural capital, strengthens
local economies, reclaims democracy and control of wealth, and invests in renewable forms
of energy.
How will we get there?
To take on the old system and build a new economy, we need a broad, intersectional, people-
powered movement with values of economic, racial and environmental justice at its core. The
New Economy Coalition exists to help build exactly that. We strive to be a movement support
organization, uniting eorts, amplifying grassroots work, and identifying opportunities for
collaboration, creating a whole far greater than the sum of our parts.
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What we do
We perform four important and interrelated functions to further the work of our coalition
members and the broader movement for a just, sustainable and democratic society:
Communications, Storytelling & Reclaiming Narrative
We work with coalition partners to craft powerful narratives about what
a better world can look like and how we get there. By lifting up stories of
alternatives and viable possibilities taking root in communities around the
world, we hope to transform the conversation on whats possible and seize
the economy as a category of popular discussion and imagination.
Education, Capacity Building & Technical Assistance
We provide training and technical assistance to facilitate a deepened
understanding of the problems inherent in the current economic system
as well as the alternative institutions and pathways needed to bring
about a new one. In partnership with many of our coalition partners, and
allies we provide popular education trainings, facilitate peer mentorship
opportunities, hold conferences and webinars, provide targeted capacity
building support and collaborate on curriculum development.
Listening, Facilitating & Convening Networks
As a movement support organization, we hold a big picture view of
institutions, partners, and the new economy movement as a whole, allowing
us to play the much needed role of facilitating vital connections between
organizations. We are able to do this through our annual convention, our
member communication channels, working groups focused by issue and
by function, and through the development of relevant sectoral and place-
based networks.
Resourcing, Regranting & Reinvesting in our Communities
Sustainable funding that is congruous with our vision is extremely
important to the success of the new economy movement. We are in the
second year of a microgrant program that enables small youth and student-
led groups to take the next step in advancing their work and allows larger
organizations to initiate their investment in the new economy. We are also
actively supporting the development of alternative nancial solutions in
partnership with members of our coalition.
Program Areas
We work with a wide range of organizations all doing essential work toward bringing about a
political and economic shift to a new economy -- with focus on working with communities that
are at the frontlines of the movement. We work with youth and student-led groups through
our Youth and Student Network, with organizations working with communities of color and
low-wealth communities through our Racial and Economic Justice Initiative, and with faith-
centered organizations through our Faith Based Communities Program.
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Plenary Sessions
All plenary sessions will be held at Cabot Center at Northeastern University
All Conference Participatory Plenary: Moving Together Toward A
New Economy
SATURDAY, JUNE 7TH, 2:15 PM TO 4:45 PM
Come prepared to have conversations about collaborative eorts to build a new economy with others in your area
of work and in your region. This is an opportunity to engage in the participatory process of building networked
movements. Well leave this visioning and strategy session with new ideas and partnerships for collective action.
A Just Transition: What Does It Look Like? How Do We Get There?
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 7:00PM - 8:30PM
What is involved in a just transition from an extractive banks and tanks economy to a regenerative and
democratic one? How can each of us play a role in planning and eecting this transition? We will hear about
the challenges of community-led just transition, discuss emerging sectors of the new economy, and explore
the potential for resourcing these sectors through non-extractive nance. We will hear stories of building
power for a just transition at the grassroots, among workers, and among studentsand the possibilities for
intersectional movement building.
Deirdre Smith
National Divestment Organizer
350.org
Jihan Gearon
Executive Director
Black Mesa Water Coalition
Joe Uehlein
Executive Director
Labor Network For Sustainability
Christine Cordero (moderator)
Program Director
Center For Story Based Strategy
Welcome and Opening Keynote
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Ed Whiteld
Co-Founder / Managing Director
Fund for Democratic Communities
Marcie Smith
Executive Director
Responsible Endowments Coalition
Bob Massie
President
New Economy Coalition
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Intersecting Worlds: The One Weve Got, The One Were Building,
The Ones We Imagine
SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 12:45PM - 2:15PM
Now that weve explored many of the ingredients of a New Economy, what are we cooking up? Where does this
all lead? In this closing plenary session, well engage in conversation with three systems thinkers about their
theories of system evolution; explore their understanding of the transitional moment were in; and envision
paths to a just and regenerative economy.
Nikki Silvestri
Executive Director
Green For All
Cylvia Hayes
First Lady
State of Oregon
David Levine
Co-Founder and CEO
American Sustainable Business Council
Gus Speth (moderator)
Professor
Vermont Law School
Gar Alperovitz
Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political
Economy - University Of Maryland
Gopal Dayaneni
Sta Collective Member
Movement Generation: Justice and
Ecology Project
Adrienne Maree Brown
Co-editor Octavias Brood
Science Fiction from Social Justice
Movements
Rachel Plattus (moderator)
Co-Director of Organizing
New Economy Coalition
All Hands On Deck: Leveraging Business, Civil Society and
Government for System Change
SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 5:15PM - 6:30PM
We know that deep change is needed urgently. Our dominant political-economic system has never been truly
equitable but growing concentrations of power and wealth, coupled with accelerating ecological destabilization,
are putting the squeeze on communities in dramatic and profound ways. Something has to change, but how?
Donella Meadows, the acclaimed systems theorist, wrote that systems can be changed through the strategic
harnessing of leverage points, places where small changes are likely to have major ripple eects. This session
seeks to identify those leverage points and explore strategies that actors situated in dierent places throughout
the system (the business community, civil society organizations, and government) can employ to drive the
transition to a truly just and sustainable economy.
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Workshops All workshops will be held in the Curry Student Center
Bios for all presenters can be found at www.commonbound.org/speakers
WORKSHOP SLOT 1 Saturday June 7, 10:15-11:30AM
A Localist Agenda: Policy and Politics for Building a Community-Scaled Economy
Room 320/322
Chief among the barriers we face in trying to transform our economic system is a web of local, state, and federal
policies that concentrate economic power, undermine community-scaled enterprises and systems, and strip
citizens of their capacity and authority to determine their own economic future. This workshop will focus on
crafting a countervailing political narrative and shared policy framework for devolving economic power and
advancing a just, sustainable, and community-scaled economy.
Speakers will reect on the anti-monopoly thinking that guided Americas political economy from the countrys
founding until the 1980s and how it might be resurrected in todays context; present an emerging policy agenda
that outlines concrete municipal, state, and federal proposals for countering corporate power and rebuilding
community-scaled enterprises; and explore organizing strategies to bring together small business, labor,
environmental, and community groups in new ways to advance policy change.
Stacy Mitchell - Institute For Local Self-Reliance
Barry Lynn - New America Foundation
Lew Daly - Demos
Aaron Bartley - People United For Sustainable Housing (PUSH Bualo)
Accessing Innovative Capital Streams
Room 442
The new economy conversation includes many aspirational ideas about transforming capital markets; including
changing market structures, governance, metrics and incentives, all to redirect investment away from short-
term private prot and toward long term public needs. While these ideas are exciting, the more immediate and
prosaic problem faced by those of us who are trying to build a new economy is how to access nancing now for
innovative economic enterprises.
This workshop is designed to help those seeking investment capital understand and access several streams
of innovate nance that exist today, including: Innovative Public Financing, Community Development Finance
Institutions and Credit Unions, Private Impact Investments, Program Related Investments, Philanthropic Grants,
and Crowdfunding.
Sarah Stranahan - Free Speech for People
Jenny Kassan - Cutting Edge Capital
Bonnie Rukin - Slow Money
Dominik Mjartan - Southern Bancorp
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Deep Social Enterprise: Maximizing Impact through Structure and Governance
Room 340
Innovative organizations are emerging everywhere in the new economy - worker cooperatives, social enterprises,
sharing economy enterprises, transition groups, time banks, land trusts, and much more. The governance
structures of these organizations will, in essence, build the governance framework for a new economy.
At the same time, many organizations and enterprises plow forward and begin operations without taking time
to think carefully about decision-making processes, composition and selection of governing bodies, systems for
transparency, and other key considerations. Many groups struggle to nd governance structures that maximize
progress toward a social mission and that balance eiciency with meaningful engagement of stakeholders.
Marjorie Kelly and Janelle Orsi will begin the conversation by highlighting key challenges and promising models,
drawing upon cooperative structures, innovative corporate governance structures, unique nonprot models,
holacratic governance structures, and principles for the management of common pool resources. Following
this, we will engage with participants to learn about their experiences with and thoughts about governance in
various organizational settings. One goal for this session is to narrow in on some common goals and principles
for organizational governance in the new economy.
Janelle Orsi - Sustainable Economies Law Center
Marjorie Kelly - The Democracy Collaborative
Is There a Place for Global Corporations in a Regenerative Economy?
Room 444
As the Regenerative Economy continues to emerge, with small-scale enterprises and projects depending on
funding from a limited pool of mission-aligned nancial capital, important questions about whether and how
this economy can be scaled up, and nanced, are at play.
How might a global corporation transform itself to operate in an economy that places equal value on all forms
of capital? Would it even be possible to overlay Patagonias radical business model, which so fully acknowledges
the challenges of doing business in a resource-constrained economy, onto say, a Wal-Mart? How can large
corporations foster New Economy enterprises through their supply chain practices? How can ratings drive
multiple-capitalism into nancial markets and the companies they serve?
Together with their audience, John, Allen, Hunter, and Rebecca will wrestle with these provocative questions, and
how the NEC could begin engaging such corporations and CEOs.
John Fullerton - The Capital Institute
L. Hunter Lovins - Natural Capitalism Solutions
Allen White - Tellus Institute
Rebecca Henderson - Harvard University
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WORKSHOP SLOT 1 (continued) Saturday June 7, 10:15-11:30AM
Organized Labor: New Models For A New Economy
Room 448
Recent decades have seen a marked decline in union density in the US and Canada due, in large part, to a
combination of increased political attacks on unions and the increased mobility of global capital. This panel
will highlight several innovative labor organizing models that oer exciting approaches to meeting the unique
challenges of our time.
The Freelancers Union is the nations largest group representing the growing independent workforce.
1worker1vote.org is a national organization advancing union co-ops, a model that elegantly combines the
democratic and entrepreneurial spirit of worker cooperatives with the political muscle, legacy, and resources of
traditional labor unions.
Coworker.org is an online organizing platform that lets workers launch campaigns for improvements in their
workplace.
After discussing the successes and challenges of these initiatives, well have an opportunity to reect on the
future prospects of alternative models of worker organizing, as well as have a conversation about the role of
these projects within the traditional labor movement and the emerging new economy movement.
Emily Hardt - New Economy Coalition
Kristen Barker - 1worker1vote / Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative
Michelle Miller - coworker.org
Caitlin Pearce - Freelancers Union
Taking Time Seriously: Sharing Work for Health and Sustainability
Room 348
Americans work too much, yet progressives have not yet recognized shorter work-time as an important organizing
issue for a new economy. Ecological economists realize that continued economic growth is unsustainable.
New technologies are not enough to decouple growth from overuse of resources and over-production of
waste.
This workshop will show how a campaign to shorten and share work can increase employment in the face of
increased job loss through automation, while improving health and social connection and preventing irreparable
environmental damage. With examples from around the world, well show why progressives must champion
time, as well as income, as an economic value.
Well use group exercise to experientially engage attendees more fully in the discussion about time-use, leisure
and quality of life on a personal and communal level.
John de Graaf - Take Back Your Time
Cathy OKeefe - University of South Alabama
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Winning the Battle of the Story for a New Economy
Room 342
How do you respond when someone asks you about the new economy? The power of stories shapes our
understanding of the world around us. When it comes to this work, telling the story about the need for structural
change is not easy.
Our eorts as organizers, advocates and communicators to build a new economy movement require an
understanding of how to win the Battle of the Story for public opinion. Center for Story-based Strategy (www.
storybasedstrategy.org) will cover the fundamentals of story-based strategy: framing, memes, elements of story,
and narrative power analysis, with an eye toward new economy movement building.
We will look at some of the dominant assumptions that must be challenged, and begin investigating what
winning narratives we need to get the just, sustainable, democratic economy were ghting for. This session is
being oered twice on Saturday. Each session will cover the same material.
Christine Cordero - Center For Story Based Strategy
Worldview, Narrative and the New Economy
Room 344
Participants in the workshop will unmask the dominant worldview and the narratives that sustain the status quo
and generate a set of narratives that point to a new economy. We will practice using these narratives on several
issues of current concern, including austerity and mass incarceration. Special attention will be paid to theological
elements in these narratives.
Richard Healey - Grassroots Policy Project
What Color Is The New Economy?
Room 318
This session will explore the challenges and opportunities of building an inclusive new economy movement.
Historically, race has been a critical dividing factor in the economy as well as social movements. Panelists will
discuss strategies for building cross-race solidarity, addressing a highly racialized economy, and recognizing the
diering forms of leadership and new economy activity across communities.
Penn Loh - Tufts University
Ed Whiteld - The Fund For Democratic Communities
Jacklyn Gil - New Economy Coalition
Chris Schildt - PolicyLink
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WORKSHOP SLOT 1 (continued) Saturday June 7, 10:15-11:30AM
Democratizing Land Access and Ownership
Room 346
Aordable access to land is a key component of economic justice. Control over resources empowers communities,
and ownership enables the building and recycling of wealth. In this workshop, we explore how shared equity
models of ownership for land and buildings can spread the benets of land access and ownership more broadly
and equitably. Participants will hear from practitioners who have harnessed these models eectively to rebuild
and stabilize urban areas, empower residents of mobile home parks, and protect small family farms producing
for their region.
David Abromowitz - Center for American Progress
Rebecca Fletcher - The Equity Trust
Maureen Carroll - Cooperative Development Institute
Harry Smith - Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Divesting from the Prison Industrial Complex
Room 433
In this workshop, we will explore the role of private prisons in perpetuating mass incarceration as well as
emerging prison divestment campaigns taking o at colleges and in communities around the country. The
Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO group are the two largest private prison companies in the
country and are making billions by locking people up. These same companies are heavily involved in lobbying
eorts with groups like ALEC that are calling for more laws that target immigrants and communities of color,
like SB1070 and stand your ground laws.
Divestment campaigns are bringing to light the relationships between many institutional investors and the
private prison industry, and are using divestment as a tool both to de-legitimize these companies and to help
shift the dialogue around the punishment industry. In addition to providing an overview of these campaigns
well create space to explore questions of community reinvestment, reparations, and other ways universities and
other institutions can be moved to have a more positive relationship with the communities most targeted by the
carceral state and its for-prot allies.
Ian Trupin - Responsible Endowments Coalition
Kamilah Moore - Afrikan Student Union at UCLA
Economic Democracy and Community Wealth in Boston
Room 440
Exciting New Economy eorts are brewing across Boston neighborhoods. Hear about projects that are modeling
democratic alternatives to business as usual and are doing it in relation to Bostons grassroots organizing eld.
Learn about participatory budgeting, community land trusts, green worker co-ops, youth led urban agriculture and
local impact investing. Engage with some of Bostons most innovative activists in large panel and breakout formats.
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WORKSHOP SLOT 2 Saturday June 7, 11:45M - 1:00PM
Community Wealth Building and City Economic Development
Room 444
A new generation of progressives are taking leadership roles in city economic development. This creates a
promising opening to advance initiatives in community wealth building - such as using city policies and anchor
institution strategies to support locally and broadly owned enterprises such as cooperatives, community land
trusts, employee-owned rms, and municipally owned companies.
On this panel we will hear from leaders in this movement and discuss approaches that are working, and what
a city-based agenda for the future might look like as the momentum for locally owned, inclusive economic
development begins going to scale.
Tracey Nichols - Director of Economic Development, City of Cleveland
Eva Gladstein - Philadelphia Mayors Oice of Community Empowerment and Opportunity
Steve Dubb - The Democracy Collaborative
Penn Loh - Tufts University
Flexing Our Power: Movement Building for a Just Transition
Room 320/322
The scale, pace and implications of the ecological erosion we are currently experiencing and will continue to
experience demands that we fundamentally reshape the economy based on the principles that govern living
systems, and that we realign our movement strategies with the healing powers of planet earth.
This will demand a new kind of organizing and campaigning, grounded in communities - simultaneously building
economic and political muscle and bridging traditional sectors of the social movement.
Luckily, this movement for a Just Transition is happening all around us, and growing quickly. Join the Our Power
Campaign to learn about innovative translocal organizing that is working to create a new center of gravity in our
movement by advancing, amplifying and aggregating the struggles of diverse communities working together to
remake economy and redene the very shape of governance.
The workshop will share the real-world experiences of visionary organizing and will lay out the framework of the
campaign.
Gopal Dayaneni - Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project
Jihan Gearon - Black Mesa Water Coalition
Sara Pennington - Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
Kalila Barnett - Alternatives for Community and Environment
Lor Holmes - CERO Worker Cooperative
Deborah Frieze - Boston Impact Initiative
Eliza Parad - Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
Michael Liu - Chinatown Community Land Trust
Aaron Tanaka - Center For Economic Democracy
Ashley Rose - Participatory Budgeting Project
Aslin Perez - The City School
Timothy Hall - CERO Worker Cooperative
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WORKSHOP SLOT 2 (continued) Saturday June 7, 11:45M - 1:00PM
Participatory Budgeting
Room 433
In January 2014, the City of Boston launched a groundbreaking participatory budgeting (PB) process to engage
Boston youth in directly deciding how to spend $1 million of the citys capital budget. Through participatory
budgeting, young Bostonians are identifying projects to improve their communities, vetting those projects,
considering trade-os, and voting on how to spend the $1 million. Participatory budgeting originated in Brazil
in 1989 and has been successful in U.S. cities including New York, Vallejo (CA), and Chicago. There are now more
than 1,500 participatory budgets around the world and that number is growing rapidly.
This session will oer an introduction to participatory budgeting as well as an opportunity for youth organizers
involved in the process to share their stories.
Ashley Rose - Participatory Budgeting Project
Aaron Tanaka - Center For Economic Democracy
Reclaiming Democracy and Reining In Corporate Power
Room 318
The US Government is failing to govern at the most fundamental level, let alone to address challenges like
record levels of inequality or climate change. Meanwhile, corporate power grows unchecked: big companies
freely violate environmental regulations, receive government bailouts and tax breaks, give dizzying executive
pay packages, and write trade, internet, and energy policy. What ails our democracy? And how do we x it?
While many changes are needed to create a robust participatory democracy, this workshop will focus on eorts
to prevent further erosion of voting rights and eorts to overturn two Supreme Court Rulings that have damaged
our democracy and threaten innovative local eorts to create a new economy: Buckley v Valeo, which ruled
that election expenditures cannot be limited (on the grounds that money is speech), and Citizens United, which
ruled that corporations have the right to unlimited election expenditures (on the grounds that corporation
are people). The panelists will discuss the movement to defend voting rights and to restore democracy and
challenge the misuse of corporate power.
Gus Speth - Vermont Law School
Josh Silver - RepresentUS
Lee Ketelsen - Move To Amend
Bryan Pearlmutter - NC Vote Defenders
Organizing For Regional Resilience: Protecting The Commons & Building
The New Economy
Room 340
This workshop will focus on sharing stories and inviting insights and reection from grassroots eorts to bring
the new economy to life at the regional level. Many local grassroots groups working for resilience in the new
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economy are realizing the need to collaborate across communities and municipalities, and even states, as we need
to address regional systems of transport, energy, water, food, and challenges of equity between communities.
Our goal is that the workshop embody the organizing work of ensuring grassroots voices are heard in the
decisions that shape our destiny. Well start with stories from regional eorts to organize around resilience and
the commons in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, New York City, and the Northwest Atlantic. Then, in World Cafe
mode workshop participants will be invited to share stories and reections on working in a strategically dened
region with grassroots groups--World Cafe allows rotation between tables and maximizes spaces of dialogue
between participants.
Orion Kriegman - Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition
Lauren Hudson - Solidarity NYC
Pamela Boyce Simms - TransitionUS
Niaz Dorry - Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Weaving the Movement: A Participatory Session to Identify Patterns and
Synergies in the New Economy Ecosystem
Room 440
Join us for an interactive session that is part of an ongoing collective inquiry by the Post Carbon Institute, based on
interviews with movement leaders, and group conversations conducted prior to the conference. This process will
inform the NEC Annual Meeting that follows the conference, and will also continue beyond that with additional
interviews and virtual dialogue.
Ben Roberts - Conversation Collaborative
Marissa Mommaerts - Post Carbon Institute
Ken White - Post Carbon Institute
Winning the Battle of the Story for a New Economy
Room 342
How do you respond when someone asks you about the new economy? The power of stories shapes our
understanding of the world around us. When it comes to this work, telling the story about the need for structural
change is not easy. Our eorts as organizers, advocates and communicators to build a new economy movement
require an understanding of how to win the Battle of the Story for public opinion.
Center for Story-based Strategy (www.storybasedstrategy.org) will cover the fundamentals of story-based
strategy: framing, memes, elements of story, and narrative power analysis, with an eye toward new economy
movement building. We will look at some of the dominant assumptions that must be challenged, and begin
investigating what winning narratives we need to get the just, sustainable, democratic economy were ghting
for.
This session is being oered twice on Saturday. Each session will cover the same material.
Christine Cordero - Center For Story Based Strategy
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WORKSHOP SLOT 2 (continued) Saturday June 7, 11:45AM - 1:00PM
Faith in Action: Creating the New Economy Across Religious Communities
Room 344
In the past, great movements for social transformation in the United States (antislavery, womens surage, civil
rights) have often been powered at the grassroots by organized people of faith. Can this be true today for
the emerging movement to create a New Economy? Panelists in this session will oer several perspectives on
the ways congregations and faith-based organizing groups across religious traditions are already moving to
transform their economies: internally, in their local communities, and beyond. Participants will be invited to
reect on opportunities for engaging their own communities of faith and spirituality.
Felipe Witchger - Community Purchasing Alliance
Nicholas Hayes - New Economy Coalition
Joy Anderson - Criterion Institute
Tim Lilienthal - PICO National Network
Fighting for our Food: Building a Just and Equitable Food System
Room 442
The purpose of this panel is to share stories of Urban Food Justice movements around the country and explore
opportunities for synergies between systems. Across the food supply chain from production to access,
communities of color and low-wealth communities are disproportionately, negatively impacted.
Community based organizations, Student Groups, Policy Organizations, and Urban Food Security Networks are
working to address rights for farm workers and food service employees, and to increase access to sustainable,
local sources of healthy food. The focus of this panel will be to highlight grassroots approaches to food justice
and to identify opportunities for collective action.
Esteban Kelly - New Economy Coalition
Tamika Francis - The Move
Anthony Giancatarino - Center For Social Inclusion

Jovana Garcia Soto - Grassroots International
Where Is Everybody?: Confronting Class and Building An Inclusive Movement
Room 348
The rst challenge in building any social movement group is to get diverse and new people in the door, literally
and guratively. Recruitment and retention problems are consistent among both working class and middle class
groups, and the one dimensional recruitment and retention techniques account for class homogeneity in most
activist groups. One important tenet of the climate justice movement is to raise the voices of working-class and
poor people, but what if there are none at the table to speak?
In this interactive workshop, participants will gain valuable information and generate ideas for moving our
own groups forward to becoming more inclusive. We will explore how activists of dierent classes approach
recruitment and retention, identify pitfalls and examine what our own groups are doing now and what actions
we can take to improve.
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Based on the class culture ndings from Dr. Betsy Leondar-Wrights new book, Missing Class: Strengthening Social
Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures, this workshop applies the research in a way that puts it into motion
on the ground.
Anne Phillips, Class Action
Liz Padgett, Class Action
Youth and Student Leadership In The Solidarity Economy
Room 346
This panel discussion and question & answer will explore the current and future role of young people and students
in the solidarity economy. Representatives from CoFED, Grand Aspirations, Responsible Endowments Coalition,
and NASCO will share case studies of exciting solidarity economy work students on campuses and young people
in communities are making happen.
This panel will cover case studies of campus food cooperatives, community-directed infrastructure projects,
housing co-ops, and campaigns for the reinvestment of campus endowments. This panel is directed both at non-
students and non-youth who want to learn more about how those constituencies are engaging, and at young
people and students looking for ways to get involved.
Jackson Koeppel - Grand Aspirations
Lauren Ressler - Responsible Endowments Coalition
Morgan Crawford - North American Students Of Cooperation
Jennifer Roach - Grand Aspirations
Yahya Alazrak - CoFED
Ruby Levine - CoFED
Allies for a Just Transition: Understanding and Partnering with the Labor Movement
Room 448
This workshop oers an introduction to the American Labor Movement with a focus on how to talk with dierent
unions about dierent issues, and how New Economy thinking is received within organized labor. Drawing on both
the extensive experience of the Labor Network for Sustainability and our recently completed Labor Landscape
Analysis we will explain the structure, function, and culture of todays union movement.
We will also touch on the history of the movement, and its historical relationship to American Environmentalism,
as that history signicantly shapes current conversations around building the New Economy. Specic emphasis
will be placed on developing engagement strategies and talking points that build common ground and create
opportunities for collective impact.
Jeremy Brecher - Labor Network for Sustainability
Joe Uehlein - Labor Network for Sustainability
Brendan Smith - Labor Network for Sustainability
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WORKSHOP SLOT 3 Sunday June 8, 9:30-10:45 AM
Qubecs Social Economy: From Bread & Roses to a Framework Law
Room 444
In the province of Qubec, Canada, the social economy has become a powerful force in advancing a plural
economy that serves communities and the common good, meeting community hopes and needs. Non-prot
and co-operative social economy enterprises ensure collective control and the sustained economic, social and
cultural vitality of communities.
Going back to the creation of the Chantier de lconomie sociale in 1996, this workshop will recount the
history, challenges and strategic choices that have inuenced the successful organizing and growth behind an
emerging economic alternative, culminating last fall in the unanimous adoption of a provincial framework law
that oicially recognizes the social economy and integrates it into government policies and programs.
Batrice Alain, Chantier de lconomie sociale
A Network Approach to Collective Impact: The Vermont Farm To Plate Story
Room 448
The foundation of the burgeoning local food movement is built on personal relationships among producers and consumers
and our collective desire to eat food that is healthy, fresh, tastes good, and supports those who produce it.
The need for highly networked communication and coordination among food system enterprises, markets, technical
assistance providers, advocacy organizations, and state government regarding products, activities, and services is
more acute than ever.
The Five Conditions of Collective Impact framework informed the development of the Farm to Plate Initiative -
arguably the most comprehensive food system planning and implementation eort in the United States.
This adaptive network, systems approach which mimics the interconnectedness of ecosystems and how they evolve
over time is showing real promise for its ability to accelerate system level change in the food economy.
In this workshop, we will explore the Collective Impact framework at play in Vermont as a case study for how to
eect systems level change. This framework has broad applicability for transforming our economy from one based
on extraction and extreme competition to one based on the principles of sustainability and cooperation.
Marta Ceroni - Donella Meadows Institute
Scott Sawyer - Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
Jake Claro - Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
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The Cultural Work Of Building A New Economy
Room 442
Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we
are engaging in an exercise of speculative ction. - Octavias Brood (Co-Edited by adrienne maree brown and
Walidah Imarisha)
What kinds of culture have we constructed to support the current extractive economy? What is the role of culture
in resisting that economy? Does political economy lead culture, or the other way around? This workshop explores
the ways in which creative and cultural capital matter in the transition to a new economy, and presents strategies
and frameworks for using arts and culture to leverage speculative ction into a just, sustainable world you can
see and feel.
Sarah Baird - Center For A New American Dream
Andrew Boyd - Beautiful Trouble
Nadine Bloch - Beautiful Trouble / The Ruckus Society
Esteban Kelly - Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance (AORTA)
Businesses For A Sustainable Economy: Shifting Markets & Policy
Room 348
The move toward a more sustainable economy is being driven in part by businesses; large and small. While the
voluntary eorts of these companies are essential, we also need public policies (e.g. legislation and regulations)
to move us forward.
Such policies provide clear market signals to companies about the importance of, among other things, reducing
their carbon footprint, green buildings, creating better workplaces, safer chemicals and products and creating
a sustainable food system . This session explores the important role that business can play in creating a just,
vibrant and sustainable economy by championing market shifts and policies.
David Levine - American Sustainable Business Council
Susan Labandibar - Climate Action Liaison Coalition
Michael Green - Climate Action Liaison Coalition
Julie Gorte - PAX World
John Abrams - The South Mountain Company
Jim Boyle - The Sustainability Roundtable
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WORKSHOP SLOT 3 (continued) Sunday June 8, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Fossil Fuel Divestment: Leveraging our Institutions for Political Change
Room 346
In the last several years, students across the country have begun building a powerful movement around fossil fuel
divestment. Calling upon their educational institutions to cut ties with extractive industries, these students are
learning how to build political power for a more just economy and climate. Now the divestment tactic has spread
to communities who are pushing our cities, churches, and states to commit to progressive political change. In
total, there are nearly 300 active fossil fuel divestment campaigns across the country.
What has made divestment such a widespread political tactic? How do we best leverage our institutions to eect
change? How do we foster a political shift towards people and planet over prot? This workshop will oer an
introductory overview to fossil fuel divestment: the mechanics of moving our money, current campaigns, and
the growing national movement.
Chuck Collins - Institute for Policy Studies
Varshini Prakash - Responsible Endowments Coalition
Tony Cortese - Second Nature
Lauren Ressler - Responsible Endowments Coalition
How Do We Change The Economic Curriculum?
Room 320/322
This workshop will not directly address the issue of whats wrong with what is now taught in economics courses;
it will start from the assumption that quite a lot is wrong. Nor will it prescribe exactly what should be done to
improve the curriculum, but will instead start from the question: Suppose we agree on what should be taught
in economics curricula, how can such change be brought about? To answer this question will require discussion
of the forces that now act as barriers to change, as well as strategic approaches for overcoming these barriers.
Neva Goodwin - Tufts University
Keith Harrington - International Student Initiative for Pluralist Economics
Jigar Bhatt - Columbia University
Helen Scharber - Hampshire College
Making the case for a New Economy: How the American Public Understands the
Economy and the Role of the Public Sector
Room 340
In order to build a new economy that puts people and the planet rst, it is imperative that we rst understand
how the American public understands how the economy works and the role of the public sector in ensuring our
values as a country. Americans are rightly concerned about our economy - growing inequality, the slow pace of
recovery and the lack of dignied jobs. Unfortunately, people have a hard time understanding how the economy
works, and they have a very limited sense of what governments role could be in making it better.
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This workshop is designed to help participants understand default perceptions about the economy that create
barriers to the policy and systems level changes we need. And it will oer ways to talk about the economy that
help people understand that public investments and public systems are the foundation of a strong and equitable
economy and that together we can choose policy changes that can create opportunity for all of us.
Anika Fassia - Public Works
Closing the Racial Wealth Gap to Build an Equitable Economy
Room 342
Our old economic model is broken, and the communities of color who have faced the worst impacts of our
unsustainable and unjust system are quickly growing to become the new majority. The Great Recession destroyed
half of all the wealth owned in black and Latino communities, and today the dierence between the wealth
owned by an average white family and that of a black or Latino family is the largest its ever been, and growing.
These wealth inequities did not emerge by chance, they are the product of a deep history of discriminatory
public policies that excluded people of color from wealth building opportunities. In this session, learn strategies
to help advance your work to build wealth equitably, and engage in a thoughtful conversation of how the new
economy movement can close the racial wealth gap and build a more equitable economy.
Chris Schildt - PolicyLink
Alexandra Bastien - PolicyLink
Local Resilience, Local Power: Small Group Organizing As A Lever For Transition
Room 433
Members of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (JP NET) and the Maypop Collective will present frameworks
for place based, ainity based organizing and share stories about the eectiveness of these models in supporting
community resilience and a just transition to a new economy in Boston and Philadelphia.
Sarah Byrnes - Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition
Sachie Hopkins Hayakawa - Maypop Collective
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WORKSHOP SLOT 3 (continued) Sunday June 8, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
From Community Economic Development to Co-Operative Economic Democracy:
How Grassroots Actions Leverage Systemic Change
Room 318
The construction sites where the New Economy is being built are found at the messy intersections of a volatile
and challenging glocal (global and local) context, where diverse actors are engaging in resistance and building
actions at multiple scales - local to national to international, and in-between.
In these spaces, local and regional actors are often focused on building alternatives and spreading and scaling
proven innovations. Food, energy, aordable shelter, land reform and nance each of which are fundamentally
important to shaping the places we live are common priorities for local and regional action.
Community Economic Development (CED) with its traditional focus on poverty reduction, community
empowerment, and revitalization has contributed to this work since the late 1960s. However, policy and systemic
factors, always important, have become increasingly so.
Deregulation, the success of neo-liberal ideology placing constraints on States, and the emergence of climate
change as an overriding glocal issue all serve to increase the importance of diusing and scaling proven
innovations at multiple levels. CED as Co-operative Economic Democracy appears to be a more generative
framework for conceptualizing and organizing given the volatile context. Drawing on emerging research this
session will present examples of innovation-scaling strategies that can accelerate the transition to sustainability
across sectors, regions and scales.
Mike Lewis - Canadian Community Economic Development Network
Inheriting the Cooperative Legacy
Room 344
Modern day cooperatives are having an ever-growing impact on our local, regional and national economy and
this is not by chance. This session will serve as an introduction to the cooperative business model, its history,
principles, and unique sectoral permutations. Well look at how North Americas diverse landscape of worker
co-ops, consumer co-ops, producer co-ops, credit unions, and various hybrids came into being, how they can
create opportunities in a more democratic and sustainable economy, and current eorts to bring cooperativism
to scale.
Stacey Cordeiro - Boston Center For Community Ownership
Feminists, Queers, and Other Economists
Room 440
This workshop is a space for woman-identied, gender non-conforming, and queer-identied people to connect,
communicate, and organize. We will ask questions about the role of gender and sexuality in the new economy,
cultivate strategies for coalition, and plan steps for moving forward.
Leigh Dodson - New Economy Coalition
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WORKSHOP SLOT 4 Sunday June 8, 11:00 AM - 12:15PM
Beyond GDP
Room 318
Over the last ve years, we have seen the rise of a far-reaching global movement to dethrone GDP and its
corresponding economic model of resource-intensive, distribution-blind, and highly-externalizing market
growth. This movement is gaining traction in global institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank,
and the OECD; among business leaders; and among political leaders in the United States, particularly at the
state level. The rst serious eorts at implementing alternatives to GDP as part of governance and policy
development are now underway, and, at the same time, broader public awareness of the GDP problem is
opening up signicant new space for political debates about economic system change centered on well-being
and sustainability, beyond market growth.
In the U.S. 4 states recently adopted a Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and leaders in 16 more states are working
to advance GPI initiatives in collaboration with a national network of researchers.
In this session, we will hear from three active leaders in the Beyond GDP movement, combining an overview of
global institutional progress with detailed U.S. political perspectives at the state level.
Lew Daly - Demos
Cylvia Hayes - First Lady Of Oregon
Marta Ceroni - Donella Meadows Institute
The Sharing Economy and Social Justice: Can Collaborative Consumption
Advance Equity?
Room 320/322
From neighborhood tool libraries, to municipal bike shares, to multi-billion dollar online platforms like
AirBNB, collaborative consumption is on the rise rapidly. Of course, theres nothing new about sharing, but
new technologies and cultural trends are making it increasingly easy to substitute access for ownership. The
sustainability and community-building benets of this shift, a departure from the culture of wasteful and
isolating post-war consumerism, have been widely lauded.
Nonetheless, in recent years, there have been a growing number of critiques leveled against the promise and
practices of the sharing economy. Who has access to these platforms? Who prots? Who sets the rules? Do
they really build authentic connection across race and class lines? What safeguards exist to protect workers,
users, and communities? Answers dier radically depending on the specic platform in question but its clear
that some hold more promise than others. In this session, panelists will discuss the rapidly changing state of the
sharing economy as well as ways in which collaborative consumption could be, and in some cases is starting to
be, a truly transformative force for social and environmental justice.
Millicent Johnson - Peers
Juliet Schor - Boston College
Tom Llewellyn - Shareable
Janelle Orsi - Sustainable Economies Law Center
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WORKSHOP SLOT 4 (continued) Sunday June 8, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Stronger Together: Building Bridges To Main Street Business
Room 340
The proliferation of big box stores and chains in cities and towns across America has led to an economic
geography that is considerably less interesting, sustainable, equitable, and democratic than most of us would
like, but it doesnt have to be that way. Over the past decade, The American Independent Business Alliance
(AMIBA) has built a network of Independent Business Alliances whose work to build strong communities and
sustainable local economies has created a signicant impact. Currently representing over 24,000 local and
independent businesses across 36 States and a wide variety of geographies, the AMIBA network is established
and growing. In this session, participants will learn about the impact these organizations have had on local
economies and the lessons weve learned through our experience supporting the growth and development of
on the ground networks. The session will also identify the built infrastructure of Independent Business Alliances
and how they can make eective partners in reaching new audiences driving change.
Joe Grafton - American Independent Business Alliance
Inclusion and Economic Democracy: Lessons From The Worker Co-op Movement
Room 342
As the worker cooperative business model is increasingly recognized as an important economic alternative, it is
essential that the model is expanded within the economically and socially marginalized communities that need
it most. This panel will take an honest look at the benets, challenges and barriers to be overcome in building
worker owned cooperatives and movements in economically and socially marginalized communities.
Worker owners and cooperative developers will speak about the benets of working in a cooperative from an
economic and social perspective as well as the specic challenges faced in doing cooperative development in low
income communities. Panelists will also address how they have and have not been included in their cooperatives
and the cooperative movement, and how systems and structures can be better organized to facilitate this
participation with a specic eye towards concrete steps and lessons learned that New Economy organizations
can draw from.
Joe Rinehart - US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Melissa Hoover - US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Stacey Cordeiro - Boston Center For Community Ownership
Carolyn Edsell-Vetter - Yard and A Half Landscaping Cooperative
Reel Power: Using Film to Move the Dial
Room 348
How can lm advance campaigns for social and environmental justice and help move us into a new economy?
This interactive session will focus on leveraging documentary lms - online and o - to amplify your messages,
expand your base of support, reach and rally communities, build coalition, and inuence decision makers. The
workshop will oer a framework, specic case studies, and time for planning and discussion about using lm as
an asset as you work towards a new economy. Featuring new and award-winning lms The Hand that Feeds,
Citizen Koch, Inequality for All, Freedom Summer, Story of America, and more.
Molly Murphy - Working Films
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Care and the Economy: Rethinking Domestic Labor
Room 346
A large and growing number of people - primarily women - work as domestic workers in the US, providing care
for children, the elderly, and disabled, and cleaning homes. This work underpins our whole economy, making all
other work possible. Despite the essential importance of this work, domestic workers themselves have historically
been underpaid and denied basic labor rights.
Some of the most exciting organizing and social innovation happening today is being led by domestic workers.
This panel will explore several routes that domestic workers are taking to revalue domestic work and transform
the working conditions in the industry, from legislative campaigns, to cooperative businesses to social enterprise.
Palak Shah - National Domestic Workers Alliance
Aisha Shillingford - New Economy Coalition
Lydia Edwards - National Domestic Workers Alliance
Lucimara Rodrigues - Vida Verde Womens Co-Op
Building Movement-Generous Organizations
Room 440
The movement for a New Economy must be built on strong organizational foundations. This interactive session
is a chance to think about how movement - generous your organization is. Well start o by looking at the
organizations behind the last major shift in the economy - towards neoliberalism in the 80s, and use that story
to pull out some lessons for modern day movement building around the New Economy.
Well then apply these lessons to our own organizations using a movement star exercise, nishing up with an
open discussion about the blocks and biggest barriers that stop us collaborating better to build the New Economy.
This will be a practical session full of opportunities to think about the the under-the-radar infrastructure that
holds us all together and enables us to to turn individual victories into momentum for system change
Dan Vockins - New Economics Foundation
Low Pay Is Not OK: The Living Wage Fight In Context
Room 442
Low-wage and minimum wage workers have struggled for decades as the cost of living has outpaced increases
in pay and made it more and more diicult to support a family or escape poverty. Notably, there has been a
recent upswing in high prole resistance to low pay at workplaces ranging from Wal Mart to McDonalds. This
has gone hand in hand with signicant victories in raising the minimum wage in cities and states across the
country but there is still a long way to go. This panel will explore the current state of low-wage worker organizing,
political opportunities on the horizon, and the relationship between ghting for necessary reforms and creating
opportunities for deeper systemic change.
Chuck Collins - Institute For Policy Studies
Tim Lilienthal - PICO National Network
Michelle Miller - Coworker.org
Alex Galimberti - Restaurant Opportunities Center United
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WORKSHOP SLOT 4 (continued) Sunday June 8, 11:00AM - 12:15PM
Beyond Divestment to Community Reinvestment
Room 444
As institutions across the United States and the world increasingly feel pressure to stop investing in fossil
fuel industries, the question remains of where these funds should be. In response, a edgling reinvestment
movement has come into being, calling on investors to switch to green mutual funds, Community Development
Financial Institutions (CDFIs), and projects in renewable energy and eiciency infrastructure.
This workshop seeks to prod and develop this conversation by posing the question of how reinvestment can
transform the relationship between institutions and their constituencies, broadly conceived.
With many educational, religious, and city-based institutions situated amidst communities experiencing social,
economic, and environmental stress - often as a consequence of climate change or industrial excess - and lacking
the resources to power real, sustainable, and equitable solutions, a paradigm shift is in order.
Rather than viewing communities as pools of resources such as labor, or as an empty stage for rampant
development, colleges, religious institutions, and local governments must be pushed to redene their institutional
citizenship.
Possibilities include exploring the complementary roles of local investment and local purchasing - whereby
institutional investment in New Economy solutions is supported by sourcing commitments that can help nurture
new ventures, as well as mobilizing the resources of local institutions to support community-based research and
projects.
Deirdre Smith - 350.org
Gopal Dayaneni - Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project
Brendan Martin - The Working World
Hannah Jones - Responsible Endowments Coalition
Timebanks, Community Currencies, and the Search for an Inclusive Transition.
Room 448
The rise of Bitcoin has brought international attention to the fact that money is a social technology that can be
redesigned to function in dramatically dierent ways than most of us are used to. This realization, while startling
to some, has long been the premise of a growing alternative currency movement.
For decades, monetary innovators have experimented with local currencies, time banks, and other forms of
alternative exchange designed, in principle, to strengthen local economies, create opportunity, and build
community cohesion and resilience.
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In this workshop well discuss various case-studies with an eye toward what it takes for new modes of exchange
to go beyond niche pilot projects and actually eect transformative change in the context of diverse and
structurally inequitable communities.
Scott Morris - Ithacash
Linda Hogan - hOurworld
Lisa Conlan Lewis - New HOPE Time Exchange
Sarah Byrnes - Institute for Policy Studies
Opening Access To The Digital Means Of Production: Free Software For A More
Equitable Economy
Room 433
Free Software means Free as in Freedom. Non-free software is inherently designed to restrict control and access
to software for huge prots. For nearly 30 years, the Free Software Movement has sought to ght freedom-
restricting non-free software.
Now that proprietary technology dominates modern life, using Free/Libre software has become essential to
providing access and tools for justice movements. What important roles do Free/Libre Open Source Software
(FLOSS) play in developing the New Economy? What kinds of challenges do we face when Google, Microsoft,
and Facebook dominate the tech industry? These panelists will discuss the free software movement and its vital
role in creating the technological infrastructure in which a New Economy can thrive.
Rene Perez - New Economy Coalition
Zak Rogo - Free Software Foundation
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Friday, June 6th
11:30 AM to 4:30 PM
2:00 PM to 4:00PM
CURRY STUDENT CENTER 320/322
Research Workshop on the New Economy
Juliet Schor - Boston College
JAMAICA PLAIN & ROXBURY/NORTH DORCHESTER
New Economy Tours of Boston
Before the oicial start of CommonBound, we are teaming up with JP NET and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative to
oer two new economy tours of Boston, one in Jamaica Plain and the other in the Dudley neighborhood.
Schedule
TOBIN COMMUNITY CENTER - 1481 Tremont Street, Roxbury 02120
Raising Community Capital: Workshop on Direct Public Oerings to Raise Funds
for Your Business
Come to a free workshop for entrepreneurs to learn about Direct Public Oerings (DPOs) as a tool to CrowdSource cap-
ital from your community. Were all familiar with sites like Kickstarter to raise donations. With DPOs, you can crowdsource
a range of investments from your supporters to start or grow your business. Hosted by the Boston Impact Initiative and the
New Economy Coalition.
CABOT CENTER
Dinner Served
CURRY STUDENT CENTER ATRIUM
Doors open for registration and visiting display tables
6:00 PM to 7:00PM
CABOT CENTER
Welcome and Opening Keynote
Ed Whiteld - Fund for Democratic Communities, Bob Massie - New Economy Coalition,
Marcia Smith - Responsible Endowments
CABOT CENTER
A Just Transition: What Does It Look Like? How Do We Get There?
Deirdre Smith - 350.org, Jihan Gearon - Black Mesa Water Coalition,
Joe Uehlein - Labor Network for Sustainability, Christine Cordero - Center for Story Based Strategy
3:00 PM to 9:00PM
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
PLENARY SESSION
PLENARY SESSION
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Saturday, June 7th
8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
9:00 AM to 10:05 AM
10:15 AM to 11:30 AM
11:30 AM to 11:45 AM
11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
CURRY STUDENT CENTER ATRIUM
Doors open for registration and visiting display tables
CABOT CENTER
Morning welcome and performance by Climbing PoeTree
Workshop Session 1 (see page 6)
Workshop Session 2 (see page 1 1 )
CABOT CENTER
Lunch Served
Break
CABOT CENTER
Lunch session: Free up Your Money to Do Good: Divest from Fossil Fuel Companies to Invest
in Greener Solutions.
With Brett Fleischman, Senior Analyst, 350.org and Leslie Samuelrich, President, Green Century Capital Management. Grab your
lunch and join us to meet others interested in moving individual investments, retirement plans and churches and non-prots money
out of coal, oil and fracking companies. Discuss interim steps and share your ideas for community reinvestment.
CURRY STUDENT CENTER, ROOM 320/322
Interfaith Leaders and Activists Lunch
Interested faith-based activists, organizers, and religious leaders are invited to an informal meet and greet over lunch.
All religious traditions welcome.
CABOT CENTER
All Conference Participatory Plenary: Moving Together Toward A New Economy
2:1 5 PM to 4:45 PM
PLENARY SESSION
8:45 PM to 10:45 PM
CURRY STUDENT CENTER, ROOM 442/444
Strengthening Ties, Uplifting Leadership: Youth & Student Caucus
If you identify as a youth, dont miss this opportunity to explore our collective power. Well share our stories, move our bodies,
and strengthen bonds as we explore the beauty and challenges of weaving intersectional movements. We will map our work,
plan next steps, and articulate and raise up our personal and collective visions for a just, regenerative, and democratic future. Join
movement leaders and other young people at CommonBound in this act of collective imagination. See you there!
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CURRY STUDENT CENTER, ROOM 442/444
Weaving Bonds, Moving Forward: People of Color Caucus (dinner served)
If you identify as a person of color, you dont want to miss this opportunity to explore our collective power. Together, we
will move our bodies, share our stories, and infuse 2-d mediums with our beauty. In this creative space we will weave bonds,
map our work, plan next steps, and hold each other as we explore the bittersweet nature of hybridity. At the caucus, we
will articulate and raise up our personal and collective visions for the just, sustainable new economy future. Join movement
leaders and other CommonBound participants of color in this act of collective imagination. See you there!
Dinner Break
This meal is not provided at the conference, expect for those participating in the POC Caucus. For some ideas on where to eat
nearby, see the map on page 32
6:45 PM to 8:45 PM
6:30 PM
CURRY STUDENT CENTER, ROOM 340
Sneak preview lm screening: The Hand That Feeds
At the Hot and Crusty cafe, residents of New Yorks Upper East Side get bagels and coee served with a smile 24 hours a
day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive
managers who will re them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma Lpez has never been interested
in politics, but in January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to ght back.
8:00 PM to 10:00
CURRY BALLROOM
Evening social: open mic and dance
8:30 PM to 11:00
CABOT CENTER
All Hands on Deck: Leveraging Business, Civil Society and Government
for System Change
Gus Speth - Vermont Law School, Nikki Silvestri - Green for All, Cylvia Hayes - The State of Oregon,
David Levine - American Sustainable Business Council
5:15 PM to 6:30 PM
5:00 PM to 5:15 PM
CABOT CENTER
Performance by Climbing PoeTree
Break
4:45 PM to 5:00 PM
PLENARY SESSION
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CABOT CENTER
Intersecting Worlds: The One Weve Got, The One Were Building,
The Ones We Imagine
Adrienne Maree Brown - Kresge Arts, Gar Alperovitz - Democracy Collaborative,
Gopal Dayaneni- Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, Rachel Plattus - New Economy Coalition
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
PLENARY SESSION
CABOT CENTER
Lunch Served
Break
12:45 PM to 1:00 PM
12:15 PM to 12:45 PM
Break
Workshops Session 3 (see page 1 6)
Workshops Session 4 (see page 21)
10:45 AM to 11:00 AM
9:30 AM to 10:45 AM
11:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Sunday, June 8th
9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
CURRY STUDENT CENTER ATRIUM
Doors open for registration and visiting display tables
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Rene at rene@neweconomy.net and hell gure out how to get it from you.
Also, well be updating the oicial conference photo album on Flickr throughout the weekend. Check it out here:
https://www.ickr.com/photos/neweconomy/
Were LIVE
You may notice a crew running around CommonBound with fancy cameras and microphones. Fear not: the
NSA isnt recording the conference (in person). Like everyone else, theyll be watching live online at www.
commonbound.org/live where our friends at the Extraenvironmentalist be livestreaming. The feed is free to all
participants and anyone who applied for a scholarship. Check your email for the password!
Think your friend will want to tune in? Tickets are pay what you can! Register at
www.commonbound.org/register.
All videos recorded at the conference -- including all plenary sessions, 8 workshops, interviews with speakers,
and more -- will be made available for free on our YouTube channel after the conference. Check em out at www.
youtube.com/efssociety.
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Join the chatroom
Remember IRC? Yup, its still around and probably the best way to chat online. Well be in a CommonBound
chatroom all weekend if you want to join the fun!
Server: vervet.foonetic.net
Channel name: CommonBound
Alternatively, go to www.commonbound.org/live and use the chat interface there. Check your email for the
password to access the page.
Help us capture collective notes from the weekend
Come participate in our CommonBound sharing economy. Throughout the conference, well be using Hackpad to
collectively capture notes from each plenary and workshop. Go to https://commonbound.hackpad.com/, create
a free account, and lets capture the collective wisdom at CommonBound together!
Got a question about any of that? Email rene@neweconomy.net!
Questions?
For conference questions:
Visit the info table in the Curry Student Center Atrium.
If were not there, call us at (260) 632-7050 or email us at
helpdesk@neweconomy.net

For housing questions:
Visit the sign-in desk at Northeasterns International Village. If were not there, and Northeastern sta are
unable to answer your questions, email us at
helpdesk@neweconomy.net

For emergencies:
Northeastern public safety can be reached at (617) 373-3333.

Missing something?
Try the lost and found at our info table in the Curry Student Center Atrium.
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THANK YOU
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Cooperative, Steven Garcia, Nadine Bloch, Jacklyn Gil, Fay Feghali, CommonBound Volunteers,
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