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In today’s Economic Democracy Weekly, we examine the connection between power building and the pursuit of economic justice. First, our latest State of the Movements ([link removed]) column profiles a national solidarity economy conference that seeks to build power to both resist authoritarianism and advance a liberatory economics ([link removed]) . Next, two former fund directors discuss lessons learned from a failed effort to shift economic power from the Global North to a Global South ([link removed]) through impact investing—and how those learnings are informing a new effort in the same direction.

We follow those articles with two news stories. One is on the State of the People Power Tour ([link removed]) , which launched a 10-city tour in Chicago in April 2025 to support community organizing. Finally, at REI, the nation’s largest co-op, a story of how, after two labor-backed candidates were kept off the ballot, the union organized 115,000 members ([link removed]) to reject a Board-backed candidate slate, giving a shot in the arm both to internal co-op democracy and the union contract campaign.
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Solidarity Economy Organizers Gather in Atlanta to Build Toward Liberation ([link removed])
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How the State of the People Power Tour Is Building Power and Amplifying Black Voices ([link removed])
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REI Co-op Members Back Workers, Reject Board-Imposed Candidate Slate ([link removed])
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“The union hopes the vote makes two things clear to REI: It’s time to negotiate…to reach a fair contract, and it’s time to start listening to co-op members again.” Read more... ([link removed])

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