Timeline

Three researchers are recruited to join the IWW SRC and transform how the union uses strategic research.

The three researchers start to partner with grassroots movements beyond the union, including farmworkers and food chain workers.

We incorporate as a nonprofit organization, establish a worker cooperative, and join the US Solidarity Economy Network.

The worker cooperative is dissolved, two researchers leave to start Research Action, and one researcher stays with nonprofit to focus on racial justice and solidarity economies.

We explored the contours of the solidarity economy for BIPOC communities in two webinars. The first a five-part webinar series on solidarity and cooperative economics targeted to the assets and needs of Asian American immigrant and refugee communities, inspired by the scholarship by our mentor Jessica Gordon Nembhard. The second a livestreamed panel discussion between Black, Indigenous, and people of color organizing autonomous communities and liberated economies from Los Angeles to the Navajo Nation to Jackson, Mississippi, at the Red Nation conference.

We launch two municipalist projects to build movements for participatory and economic democracy: Los Angeles for All and the Municipalism Learning Series.