How can we keep wealth in our communities? Can we make an democratic economy that works for everyone, rather than everyone having to work for the economy? Can we create an economy that does not mean ecological and social exploitation? Commons Network and Nantes en Commun guided us into these and other questions, hosting the European Municipalist Network’s first skillshare session of the year in March 2023.
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#1 Building A Democratic Local Economy
How can we keep wealth in our communities? Can we make an democratic economy that works for everyone, rather than everyone having to work for the economy? Can we create an economy that does not mean ecological and social exploitation? Commons Network and Nantes en Commun guided us into these and other questions, hosting the European Municipalist Network’s first skillshare session of the year in March 2023.
Nantes En Commun is a movement for local autonomy, commons, popular ecology and participative democracy: for residents to reclaim France’s sixth-largest city Nantes near the Atlantic coast. Commons Network is an Amsterdam-based collaborative think-and-do tank, focusing on transformative systemic change, including Community Wealth Building in their home city. Commons Network is also one of the caretaker organisations within the EMN network, and they coordinated the series of skillshares.
