Solidarity Economics: Building Sustainable Social Relations

Organizers all around the world are working to build ways of managing resources that serve human and ecological needs. But how can these projects be more than small islands of solidarity and sustainability surrounded by oceans of domination and environmental destruction?

Cynthia Kaufman is the Director of the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action De Anza College and is the author of Consumerism, Sustainability, and Happiness (2023), The Sea is Rising and So Are We (2021), Challenging Power (2020), Ideas for Action (2016), and Getting Past Capitalism (2013).