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COMMONBOUNDMoving Together Toward a New Economy

Brought to you by:NEW ECONOMY COALITIONwww.commonbound.org

June 6-8, 2014

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OUR PARTICIPATORY ART TEAM

“In this era of broken systems—from healthcare to energy to education to the way our entire economy is structured—citizens must be able to conceive of and help create positive alternatives. To cultivate effective 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, offering 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, offer possible answers, share resources, and connect to one another. We hope that you’ll take a moment (or several) to contribute to our co-creation.

THE TEAM: Nadine Bloch, Jacklyn Gil

WELCOME TO COMMONBOUND! We are so grateful to you for taking the time to be here with us. There’s a ton of great programming planned for this weekend, and we hope you will take it all in. What we’re most excited about is the experience, wisdom, skills and stories you’re 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 you’re 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 profit. In order to do that, we’d like to propose the following working agreements for the weekend because we believe that the values at the core of the system we’re 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 agreements—and others you are bringing with you—will 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! We’re 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 clarification, or naming tension.

TAKE RISKS and ENGAGE TENSION, understanding this is vital to our collective growth.

RESPECT the space and the people in it.

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INDEXWelcome 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 Staff 35

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 isn’t 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 it’s time for deep changes to both our economy and our politics. We believe it’s 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 finance and toward reinvestment in our communities. An economy that puts people and planet first, 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 efforts, amplifying grassroots work, and identifying opportunities for collaboration, creating a whole far greater than the sum of our parts.

What we doWe 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 NarrativeWe 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 what’s possible and seize the economy as a category of popular discussion and imagination.

Education, Capacity Building & Technical AssistanceWe 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 CommunitiesSustainable 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 financial solutions in partnership with members of our coalition.

Program AreasWe 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.

Plenary SessionsAll plenary sessions will be held at Cabot Center at Northeastern University

All Conference Participatory Plenary: Moving Together Toward A New EconomySATURDAY, JUNE 7TH, 2:15 PM TO 4:45 PM

Come prepared to have conversations about collaborative efforts 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. We’ll 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 effecting 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 finance. We will hear stories of building power for a just transition at the grassroots, among workers, and among students—and the possibilities for intersectional movement building.

Deirdre SmithNational Divestment Organizer350.org

Jihan GearonExecutive DirectorBlack Mesa Water Coalition

Joe UehleinExecutive DirectorLabor Network For Sustainability

Christine Cordero (moderator)Program DirectorCenter For Story Based Strategy

Welcome and Opening KeynoteFRIDAY, JUNE 6, 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Ed WhitfieldCo-Founder / Managing DirectorFund for Democratic Communities

Marcie SmithExecutive DirectorResponsible Endowments Coalition

Bob MassiePresidentNew Economy Coalition

Intersecting Worlds: The One We’ve Got, The One We’re Building, The Ones We ImagineSUNDAY, JUNE 8, 12:45PM - 2:15PM

Now that we’ve explored many of the ingredients of a New Economy, what are we cooking up? Where does this all lead? In this closing plenary session, we’ll engage in conversation with three systems thinkers about their theories of system evolution; explore their understanding of the transitional moment we’re in; and envision paths to a just and regenerative economy.

Nikki SilvestriExecutive DirectorGreen For All

Cylvia HayesFirst LadyState of Oregon

David LevineCo-Founder and CEOAmerican Sustainable Business Council

Gus Speth (moderator)ProfessorVermont Law School

Gar AlperovitzLionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy - University Of Maryland

Gopal DayaneniStaff Collective MemberMovement Generation: Justice andEcology Project

Adrienne Maree BrownCo-editor Octavia’s BroodScience Fiction from Social Justice Movements

Rachel Plattus (moderator)Co-Director of OrganizingNew Economy Coalition

All Hands On Deck: Leveraging Business, Civil Society andGovernment for System ChangeSATURDAY, 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 effects. This session seeks to identify those leverage points and explore strategies that actors situated in different 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.

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 EconomyRoom 320/322Chief 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 reflect on the anti-monopoly thinking that guided America’s political economy from the country’s founding until the 1980s and how it might be resurrected in today’s 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 Buffalo)

Accessing Innovative Capital Streams Room 442The 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 profit 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 financing now for innovative economic enterprises.

This workshop is designed to help those seeking investment capital understand and access several streams of innovate finance 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

Deep Social Enterprise: Maximizing Impact through Structure and GovernanceRoom 340Innovative 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 find governance structures that maximize progress toward a social mission and that balance efficiency 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 nonprofit 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 444As the Regenerative Economy continues to emerge, with small-scale enterprises and projects depending on funding from a limited pool of mission-aligned financial capital, important questions about whether and how this economy can be scaled up, and financed, 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 Patagonia’s 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 financial 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

WORKSHOP SLOT 1 (continued) Saturday June 7, 10:15-11:30AM

Organized Labor: New Models For A New EconomyRoom 448Recent 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 offer exciting approaches to meeting the unique challenges of our time.

The Freelancers Union is the nation’s 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, we’ll have an opportunity to reflect 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 SustainabilityRoom 348Americans 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, we’ll show why progressives must champion time, as well as income, as an economic value.

We’ll 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 O’Keefe - University of South Alabama

Winning the “Battle of the Story” for a New Economy Room 342How 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 efforts 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 we’re fighting for. This session is being offered twice on Saturday. Each session will cover the same material.

• Christine Cordero - Center For Story Based Strategy

Worldview, Narrative and the New EconomyRoom 344Participants 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 318This 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 differing forms of leadership and new economy activity across communities.

• Penn Loh - Tufts University

• Ed Whitfield - The Fund For Democratic Communities

• Jacklyn Gil - New Economy Coalition

• Chris Schildt - PolicyLink

WORKSHOP SLOT 1 (continued) Saturday June 7, 10:15-11:30AM

Democratizing Land Access and OwnershipRoom 346Affordable 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 benefits of land access and ownership more broadly and equitably. Participants will hear from practitioners who have harnessed these models effectively 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 ComplexRoom 433In this workshop, we will explore the role of private prisons in perpetuating mass incarceration as well as emerging prison divestment campaigns taking off 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 efforts 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 we’ll 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-profit allies.

• Ian Trupin - Responsible Endowments Coalition

• Kamilah Moore - Afrikan Student Union at UCLA

Economic Democracy and Community Wealth in BostonRoom 440Exciting New Economy efforts are brewing across Boston neighborhoods. Hear about projects that are modeling democratic alternatives to “business as usual” and are doing it in relation to Boston’s grassroots organizing field.

Learn about participatory budgeting, community land trusts, green worker co-ops, youth led urban agriculture and local impact investing. Engage with some of Boston’s most innovative activists in large panel and breakout formats.

WORKSHOP SLOT 2 Saturday June 7, 11:45M - 1:00PM

Community Wealth Building and City Economic DevelopmentRoom 444A 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 firms, 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 Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity

• Steve Dubb - The Democracy Collaborative

• Penn Loh - Tufts University

Flexing Our Power: Movement Building for a Just TransitionRoom 320/322The 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 redefine 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

WORKSHOP SLOT 2 (continued) Saturday June 7, 11:45M - 1:00PM

Participatory BudgetingRoom 433In 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 city’s capital budget. Through participatory budgeting, young Bostonians are identifying projects to improve their communities, vetting those projects, considering trade-offs, 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 offer 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 PowerRoom 318The 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 fix it?

While many changes are needed to create a robust participatory democracy, this workshop will focus on efforts to prevent further erosion of voting rights and efforts to overturn two Supreme Court Rulings that have damaged our democracy and threaten innovative local efforts 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 EconomyRoom 340This workshop will focus on sharing stories and inviting insights and reflection from grassroots efforts to bring the new economy to life at the regional level. Many local grassroots groups working for resilience in the new

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. We’ll start with stories from regional efforts 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 reflections on working in a strategically defined 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 EcosystemRoom 440Join 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 342How 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 efforts 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 we’re fighting for.

This session is being offered twice on Saturday. Each session will cover the same material.

• Christine Cordero - Center For Story Based Strategy

WORKSHOP SLOT 2 (continued) Saturday June 7, 11:45AM - 1:00PM

Faith in Action: Creating the New Economy Across Religious CommunitiesRoom 344In the past, great movements for social transformation in the United States (antislavery, women’s suffrage, 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 offer 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 reflect 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 SystemRoom 442The 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 MovementRoom 348The first challenge in building any social movement group is to get diverse and new people in the door, literally and figuratively. 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 different classes approach recruitment and retention, identify pitfalls and examine what our own groups are doing now and what actions we can take to improve.

Based on the class culture findings from Dr. Betsy Leondar-Wright’s 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 EconomyRoom 346This 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 MovementRoom 448This workshop offers an introduction to the American Labor Movement with a focus on how to talk with different unions about different 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 today’s union movement.

We will also touch on the history of the movement, and its historical relationship to American Environmentalism, as that history significantly shapes current conversations around building the New Economy. Specific 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

WORKSHOP SLOT 3 Sunday June 8, 9:30-10:45 AM

Québec’s Social Economy: From Bread & Roses to a Framework LawRoom 444In the province of Québec, 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-profit 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 l’économie sociale in 1996, this workshop will recount the history, challenges and strategic choices that have influenced the successful organizing and growth behind an emerging economic alternative, culminating last fall in the unanimous adoption of a provincial framework law that officially recognizes the social economy and integrates it into government policies and programs.

• Béatrice Alain, Chantier de l’économie sociale

A Network Approach to Collective Impact: The Vermont Farm To Plate StoryRoom 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 effort 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 effect 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

The Cultural Work Of Building A New EconomyRoom 442 “Whenever we try to envision a world without war, without violence, without prisons, without capitalism, we are engaging in an exercise of speculative fiction.” - Octavia’s 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 fiction” 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 & PolicyRoom 348The move toward a more sustainable economy is being driven in part by businesses; large and small. While the voluntary efforts 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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Fossil Fuel Divestment: Leveraging our Institutions for Political Change Room 346In 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 effect change? How do we foster a political shift towards people and planet over profit? This workshop will offer 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 320/322This workshop will not directly address the issue of what’s 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 SectorRoom 340In order to build a new economy that puts people and the planet first, it is imperative that we first 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 dignified jobs. Unfortunately, people have a hard time understanding how the economy works, and they have a very limited sense of what government’s role could be in making it better.

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 offer 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 EconomyRoom 342Our 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 difference between the wealth owned by an average white family and that of a black or Latino family is the largest it’s 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 TransitionRoom 433Members of Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition (JP NET) and the Maypop Collective will present frameworksfor place based, affinity based organizing and share stories about the effectiveness 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

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 ChangeRoom 318The ‘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, affordable shelter, land reform and finance — 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 diffusing 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 LegacyRoom 344Modern 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. We’ll look at how North America’s 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 efforts to bring cooperativism to scale.

• Stacey Cordeiro - Boston Center For Community Ownership

Feminists, Queers, and Other EconomistsRoom 440This workshop is a space for woman-identified, gender non-conforming, and queer-identified 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

WORKSHOP SLOT 4 Sunday June 8, 11:00 AM - 12:15PM

Beyond GDPRoom 318Over the last five 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 first serious efforts 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 significant 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 320/322From neighborhood tool libraries, to municipal bike shares, to multi-billion dollar online platforms like AirBNB, collaborative consumption is on the rise rapidly. Of course, there’s 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 benefits 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 profits? 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 differ radically depending on the specific platform in question but it’s 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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Stronger Together: Building Bridges To Main Street BusinessRoom 340The 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 doesn’t 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 significant 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 we’ve 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 effective partners in reaching new audiences driving change.

• Joe Grafton - American Independent Business Alliance

Inclusion and Economic Democracy: Lessons From The Worker Co-op MovementRoom 342As 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 benefits, 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 benefits of working in a cooperative from an economic and social perspective as well as the specific 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 specific 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 DialRoom 348How can film advance campaigns for social and environmental justice and help move us into a new economy? This interactive session will focus on leveraging documentary films - online and off - to amplify your messages, expand your base of support, reach and rally communities, build coalition, and influence decision makers. The workshop will offer a framework, specific case studies, and time for planning and discussion about using film as an asset as you work towards a new economy. Featuring new and award-winning films — The Hand that Feeds, Citizen Koch, Inequality for All, Freedom Summer, Story of America, and more.

• Molly Murphy - Working Films

Care and the Economy: Rethinking Domestic LaborRoom 346A 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 Women’s Co-Op

Building Movement-Generous OrganizationsRoom 440The 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. We’ll start off by looking at the organizations behind the last major shift in the economy - towards neoliberalism in the 80’s, and use that story to pull out some lessons for modern day movement building around the New Economy.

We’ll then apply these lessons to our own organizations using a “movement star” exercise, finishing 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 ContextRoom 442Low-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 difficult to support a family or escape poverty. Notably, there has been a recent upswing in high profile resistance to low pay at workplaces ranging from Wal Mart to McDonalds. This has gone hand in hand with significant 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 fighting 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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Beyond Divestment to Community ReinvestmentRoom 444As 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 fledgling 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 efficiency 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 redefine 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 448The rise of Bitcoin has brought international attention to the fact that money is a social technology that can be redesigned to function in dramatically different 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.

In this workshop we’ll discuss various case-studies with an eye toward what it takes for new modes of exchange to go beyond niche pilot projects and actually effect 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 EconomyRoom 433Free Software means Free as in Freedom. Non-free software is inherently designed to restrict control and access to software for huge profits. For nearly 30 years, the Free Software Movement has sought to fight 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 Rogoff - Free Software Foundation

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Research Workshop on the New EconomyJuliet Schor - Boston College

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New Economy Tours of BostonBefore the official start of CommonBound, we are teaming up with JP NET and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative to

offer two new economy tours of Boston, one in Jamaica Plain and the other in the Dudley neighborhood.

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Raising Community Capital: Workshop on “Direct Public Offerings” to Raise Funds for Your BusinessCome to a free workshop for entrepreneurs to learn about Direct Public Offerings (DPO’s) as a tool to “CrowdSource” cap-

ital from your community. We’re all familiar with sites like Kickstarter to raise donations. With DPO’s, 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.

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Welcome and Opening KeynoteEd Whitfield - Fund for Democratic Communities, Bob Massie - New Economy Coalition,

Marcia Smith - Responsible Endowments

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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

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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-profits money

out of coal, oil and fracking companies. Discuss interim steps and share your ideas for community reinvestment.

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Interfaith Leaders and Activists LunchInterested faith-based activists, organizers, and religious leaders are invited to an informal meet and greet over lunch.

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Strengthening Ties, Uplifting Leadership: Youth & Student CaucusIf you identify as a youth, don’t miss this opportunity to explore our collective power. We’ll 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!


Weaving Bonds, Moving Forward: People of Color Caucus (dinner served)If you identify as a person of color, you don’t 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 BreakThis 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

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Sneak preview film screening: The Hand That FeedsAt the Hot and Crusty cafe, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee 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 fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been interested

in politics, but in January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight back.

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All Hands on Deck: Leveraging Business, Civil Society and Governmentfor System ChangeGus Speth - Vermont Law School, Nikki Silvestri - Green for All, Cylvia Hayes - The State of Oregon,

David Levine - American Sustainable Business Council

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Intersecting Worlds: The One We’ve Got, The One We’re Building,The Ones We ImagineAdrienne Maree Brown - Kresge Arts, Gar Alperovitz - Democracy Collaborative,

Gopal Dayaneni- Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, Rachel Plattus - New Economy Coalition

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Text “@commonbound” to 23559 to get updates on your phone*Join the CommonBound text loop to get conference-related announcements on your phone. We’re using cel.ly for this service. It’s free and there’s an iOS and android app if you’d prefer not to get texts. After joining the loop, you can text at us by texting the same number (25559). Texts will only go to NEC staff and replies will be private.

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Let the CommonBound website be your guideYou’ve probably already visited www.commonbound.org to register for the conference. Great! But make sure you return to check out speaker bios, the schedule, workshop descriptions, and more. We’re going to be updating the site in real-time all weekend with highlights, pictures, and updates. If you have a question, check there first!

Live-tweet the conference with #CommonBoundUse the hashtag #CommonBound to tweet pictures, quotes, questions, and observations throughout the conference. During plenary sessions, NEC staff will be monitoring Twitter for questions to pass along to the moderators. Each day, we’ll be compiling our favorite tweets into a storify that will live on past the weekend. Help us share the stories, lessons, and collective wisdom present at CommonBound with those who aren’t here! Oh and if you want to tweet at us, our handle is @neweconomics. Follow us!

Share your pictures, videos, notesWe know many of you will be capturing some incredible media throughout this weekend. We’ve setup a dropbox folder to collect anything that you’d like to share. Simply go to:http://dbinbox.com/neweconomy and drag your files over. The file limit is 50MB. If you have a larger file, email Rene at [email protected] and he’ll figure out how to get it from you.

Also, we’ll be updating the official conference photo album on Flickr throughout the weekend. Check it out here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/neweconomy/

We’re LIVEYou may notice a crew running around CommonBound with fancy cameras and microphones. Fear not: the NSA isn’t recording the conference (in person). Like everyone else, they’ll 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 atwww.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.

Join the chatroomRemember IRC? Yup, it’s still around and probably the best way to chat online. We’ll be in a CommonBound chatroom all weekend if you want to join the fun!

Server: vervet.foonetic.netChannel 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 weekendCome participate in our CommonBound sharing economy. Throughout the conference, we’ll be using Hackpad to collectively capture notes from each plenary and workshop. Go to https://commonbound.hackpad.com/, create a free account, and let’s capture the collective wisdom at CommonBound together!

Got a question about any of that? Email [email protected]!

Questions?For conference questions:Visit the info table in the Curry Student Center Atrium.If we’re not there, call us at (260) 632-7050 or email us [email protected] For housing questions:Visit the sign-in desk at Northeastern’s International Village. If we’re not there, and Northeastern staff are unable to answer your questions, email us [email protected] For emergencies:Northeastern public safety can be reached at (617) 373-3333. Missing something?

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Northeastern University, Basil Tree Catering & Caf, the Extraenvironmentalist, Palante Technology

Cooperative, Steven Garcia, Nadine Bloch, Jacklyn Gil, Fay Feghali, CommonBound Volunteers,

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NEC Board, NEC Coalition Members

And our amazing spring interns:

Kate Aronoff, Ella Belefer, Leigh Dodson, Nef Njonjo and Gabo Sub

New Economy Coalition Staff

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We make democratic ownership work for everyone.

The Source for Cooperative Business Development in the Northeast

Invest fossil fuel free.Because her future matters.

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You should carefully consider the Funds’ investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses before investing. To obtain a Prospectus that contains this and other information about the Funds, please email [email protected], call 1-800-93-GREEN, or visit www.GreenCentury.com. Please read the Prospectus carefully before investing. The Green Century Funds are distributed by UMB Distribu-tion Services, LLC. 11/13.

Before investing, consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Contact us for a prospectus containing this information. Read it carefully.The Domini Social Equity Fund is not insured and is subject to market risks such as sector concentration and style risk. You may lose money. DSIL Investment Services LLC, Distributor. 05/14

in·vest verb \in-ˈvest\1. To commit (money or capital) in

order to gain a financial return.

2. To spend or devote for future advantage or benefit.

3. To devote morally or psychologically, as to a purpose; commit.

At Domini, we believe it’s possible tomake money and make a difference at the same time.

All of our investment decisions are guided by twofundamental objectives: universal human dignityand the protection of our natural environment.

How do you invest? Commit yourself to a greener, morepeaceful future with the Domini Social Equity Fund.

www.DominiFunds.com1-800-762-6814

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Focusing exclusively on sustainable and responsible investing

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We are the oldest investment advisor exclusively focused on sustainable and responsible investing (SRI), managing equity and fixed income portfolios for high net worth individuals, foundations, endowments, and religious institutions since 1982. A leader in shareholder advocacy and public policy work, our goal is to deliver both impact and performance to our investors.

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