Current members of the collective are:
- Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo [0] (Washington, D.C.)
- Annie McShiras (Brooklyn, NY)
- Cheyenna Weber [0] (Manhattan, NY)
- Christina Clamp [0] (New Hampshire)
- Elizabeth Bowman [0]and Bob Stone [0] (Mexico)
- Ethan Miller [0] (Maine & Australia)
- Jessica Gordon Nembhard [0] (Washington, D.C./New York)
- Jim Johnson [0] (Washington, D.C.)
- Joe Marraffino [0] (Ithaca, NY)
- Joel Schoening [0] (Oregon)
- John Lawrence [0] (New York, NY)
- Ken Estey (New York)
- Len Krimerman [0] (Connecticut)
- Michael Johnson [0] (Staten Island, NY)
- Sonia Pichardo (The Bronx, NY)
SolidarityNYC [1]. My other overlapping passion is developing tools and strategies for young activists who are struggling with their individual and collective ability to become the change they wish to see. When I'm not working on these projects or supporting GEO's efforts to raise the profile of the solidarity economy movement you can find me hoop dancing by the East River, sailing in New York Harbor, or experimenting with seasonal produce in a tiny New York City kitchen. Hey, the resistance has to be irresistible, right?
Please don't hesitate to be in touch if you have ideas or questions related to any of my work: cheyennawebernyc AT gmail DOT com.
c.clamp@yahoo.com [2]
Walking along La Concha Bay in Donostia-San Sebastian on the Bay of Biscay in the provincial capital of Guipuzkoa province, where Mondragon is located. Caitlin Gianniny, my older daughter, is looking towards the water. She is currently living in Mondragon and working as a conversational English coach funded on a teaching fellowship by the Spanish government. Megan Gianniny is facing the camera. The picture was taken in February.
www.globaljusticecenter.org [3] They have long worked on a book manuscript titled Sartre's Morality and History: An Introduction to the Ethical Writings of the mid-1960s. They hope to finish it.
Data Commons Project [4], working to create a cooperative directory of solidarity economy initiatives in North America (and perhaps beyond); in the Riotfolk Collective [5], a group of radical musicians who I'm proud to share a website and a heart-felt kinship with; in the Community Economies Collective [6], an international network of reasearchers working to re-think economy and foster the emergence of new forms of economic knowledge and practice; and, finally, the JED Collective [7], my home-- a cooperative homestead in Greene, Maine. We are a small, close-knit community of adults and kids who live together, maintain a subsistence-oriented farm, care for a very special part of the Earth that we call "the Giant's Belly," and support each other in our diverse forms of work for personal and social transformation. Yes, I'm really into collectives.
I'm currently far from home, however, in Australia, with my sweetheart Kate. We'll be back-and-forth between Sydney and Maine over the next 3 years as I finish a PhD in social and political thought at the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy [8], University of Western Sydney. My research focus is on developing tools for thinking about "economy" and our larger webs of livelihood that can help to enable creativity, empowerment and possibility in collective work to build new kinds of economies.
www.american.coop. [9]
lenmvgeo@mindspring.com [10]; 860-487-0008(h); 860-918-8709(c).
MICHAEL JOHNSON
1. Born in the panhandle of Texas in 1942 of an Irish lass and a Mississippi gentleman...Grew up deeply Catholic in a bible belt with a nurse, a doctor and three brothers, on land as flat and rolling as the ocean, under an enormous vault of sky either full of sun or moon, and in the face of constant wind...Got the message at 16 that "the world doesn't work."
2. Entered a Kansas monastery in '63, left in '66; entered law school in NYC in fall of '67 and left in winter of '67; became an 'outside agitator at Columbia in April of '68 and discovered that the far left can be as top/down as the middle and right...deeply involved in group dynamics and community organizing in NYC '68-'73...bottomed out in Phoenix '73-'76. A member of the desegregation unit of Austin school system '76-'80.
3. Co-founded an intentional community in Staten Island, NY in '80, in part an experiential research center in democratic culture...still there 30 years later...immersed in the worker co-op and solidarity economy movements since 2007 with the Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives (New England), GEO, and the Community Economies Collective.