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🌱 We're building a post-capitalist world that puts people and the planet first!

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MA residents: SAVE THE DATE for the annual Massachusetts #SolidarityEconomy Festival & Gathering! October 4th + 5th in Holyoke, MA.

The day will be filled with connection, skill sharing, food, art, strategizing, education, & joy! Register at bit.ly/MASEN2025
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🏠 14 Winthrop St. will house a redesigned Neighborhood Birth Center, w/ more community space to come. Hopeful this is the design that crosses the finish line! 🤎

Learn more at movementcommons.co!

#BostonNeedsABirthCenter
September 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🗞️Big news about our effort to build movement space in #Boston! After our zoning setback, we & our Community Movement Commons partners found a creative path forward: The Archipelago. It's a multi-site campus model in which we propose to build across 2 sites in Roxbury. 🧵

#CommunityMovementCommons
September 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
At our #ResistAndBuild gathering, we asked: How do we create an economy that centers our needs?

From resisting ICE to mutual aid, from funding #WorkerCoops to building real safety - we explored what it means to care for each other in crisis & beyond.

#SolidarityEconomy #EconomicDemocracy
September 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome Lily Huang to our team - a powerhouse organizer & visionary leader who has spent over 15 years building collective power to win big for workers, immigrants, & our public schools. ✊🏽

🌱 With Lily, we’re ready to take our movement for #EconomicDemocracy to the next level. 🌎
September 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
📣SPEAK UP: support MA workers in collectively purchasing their workplaces. Opportunity to Own gives workers the chance to become business owners when their company's up for sale. Register for a Digital Art Build to amplify & win this visionary campaign: bit.ly/amplifyOTO

#OpportunityToOwnMA #Labor
September 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Join us in defending what we’ve won & creating the future we deserve. Subscribe to our newsletter for more quarterly updates & calls to action at economicdemocracy.us/get-involved...

#EconomicDemocracy #SolidarityEconomy
August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
And our bold, visionary coalition, COWOP, is on the rise...

🌱 Workers are organizing for the #OpportunitytoOwn their workplace

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August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🌱 People across the country are divesting from genocide
🌱 MA groups are seeding housing collectives, mutual aid efforts, & more
🌱 Workers are organizing for the #OpportunitytoOwn their workplace

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August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Another world is possible — & we are building it right now:

🌱 Capital holders are convening w/ movement groups to redistribute resources
🌱 Boston communities are organizing for direct democracy & community control of the city budget

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August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Communities are organizing, fighting back, & building alternatives rooted in care & solidarity that can better assure our basic needs are met.

This is where economic democracy shines: a vision of an economy that puts people & planet before profit. 🌎🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

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August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
✨Welcome to our first quarterly round up at CED, where we share the latest updates on all the work we we're moving to build a world beyond capitalism.✨

As our communities are under attack - facing rollbacks of essential services that have kept us housed, fed, & well - resistance is growing...🧵
August 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Calling our Massachusetts supporters of a #cooperative economy! Today, join us for this powerful social media training - learn how to speak up for the Opportunity to Own bill which will help workers buy their businesses when they're up for sale. REGISTER: form.typeform.com/to/hdhh0Mmy
June 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📣 As catalyst/steward of the Better Budget Alliance in Boston, we're calling on the City to release ALL the funds set aside for participatory budgeting! We also call on residents to help us build The People's Budget. Check out our letter in @bostonglobe.com today: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/20/o...
June 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚨MA residents: today by 4pm, submit your written testimony to help workers buy their workplaces when they're up for sale! Let's keep businesses local, preserve jobs & union rights, strengthen local economies & give owners a dignified exit. SEND TESTIMONY HERE: secure.everyaction.com/v3nZWmkkKECR...
June 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ACTION ALERT: MA residents, send a quick letter TODAY to MA legislators about Opportunity to Own! This bill will help workers buy their companies, run them democratically & share profits. Your letter counts as testimony after a key hearing today! Write here: secure.everyaction.com/v3nZWmkkKECR...
June 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🚨URGENT! Massachusetts residents: a beloved Worcester elder has been detained @ Boston Logan. The state-wide LUCE coalition for immigrant justice is mobilizing, join today at noon at Moakley Courthouse. If you can't make it, make a call or send an email via the action toolkit: 🔗bit.ly/SupportRuth
April 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We're welcoming our partner @citylifevidaurbana.bsky.social to Bluesky! They're one of the most effective #housingjustice groups in the US.

And congrats to City Life & Homes for All MA on the big turnout yesterday for #RentControl @ the MA state house! 🎉 Stable housing is key to economic democracy.
April 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📣 As a member & steward of the Coalition for Worker Ownership and Power, we’re asking MA residents to JOIN US THIS THURSDAY, 11am @ the MA State House. Call on lawmakers to pass #OpportunityToOwn, which helps workers collectively buy their businesses when they're for sale. Register: bit.ly/COWOPoto
April 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🚨 We're hiring! The Center for Economic Democracy is looking for a Co-Executive Director to help lead the movement for economic democracy and racial equity. Join us in building a just, sustainable future! 🌍💼

🔗 Apply now: www.dsgco.com/search/21989...
February 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Business as usual is not good enough — neither are traditional MBAs! The #NextEconomyMBA is a nine-month program from @lifteconomy designed to equip social impact leaders with the tools they need for transformative change. Learn more & register for a free intro: go.lifteconomy.com/mba.
February 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
At CED, we envision a world repaired and liberated from systems that extract and hoard wealth, in favor of sharing collective power, owning and governing our resources together. This new year, join us in building a world beyond capitalism! 🌱

Give us a like and follow, and we'll follow you back. ✨
January 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM