Join CCEDNet for the May installment of our Local Organizing for Fair Economies (LOFE) community of practice, "Organizing Across Sectors & Silos: Weaving Networks."

The conditions for social, economic, and environmental policy change are strongest when government hears a loud, collective voice from across communities. At the same time, it's hard to maintain deep principles of inclusion, autonomy, grassroots leadership while building unified messages and advocacy.

Sometimes we end up at such a high level that the specifics are lost. Sometimes there's too much compromise for collective effort to feel right. Other times there are 'too many cooks in the kitchen' or all the work gets lumped on one leader.

How do we bridge across movements and build powerful coalitions but also maintain strong collaborative, inclusive, and participatory practice? Can we avoid the pitfalls of consolidating or homogenizing our incredible movements and instead create 'economies of network' to build power?

Join us for a conversation exploring how we organize across sectors, break down silos, and weave our movements. We'll learn about the 'network weaving' model and then discuss other practical tools, practices, and principles for building collaborative and active organizing structures.

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This free virtual conversation is the first offering of our revised Manitoba Learns 2020 workshop schedule, which will highlight and feature diffferent conversations around Collaboration and Community Leadership In Crisis in response to the work happening in our sector to address the impact of Covid-19.

Shifting Ground: CED & Advocacy Towards a Just Recovery

Wednesday, May 13, 2020
10:30 am - 12:00 pm 

• free virtual discussion 
• delivered via Zoom 

Some stores, restaurants, and services are opening up in Manitoba. As more and more may open up, what does our new economic reality look like in this province? How can Community Economic Development (CED) and your work contribute to a Just Recovery from COVID-19?

While we're still adapting to the crisis, we offer this Manitoba Learns online session to consider what comes next. Let's talk about CED and the New Normal that's on the horizon.  

Communities are coming together already to make it happen. Let's discuss how we continue to come together to advocate for the necessary pieces of a just recovery.

What should our collective advocacy look like, and how can we make the biggest impact?

Join this virtual conversation as our sector pivots to consider CED, a Just Recovery and future policy action.

Facilitator: 

This conversation will be facilitated by Michael Barkman, CCEDNet Manitoba Public Policy Coordinator.

Learning and experiences will be encouraged from participants - though everyone is welcome to join the conversation. 

Humanity is facing one of the most serious and uncertain crises in recent history. The current globalization of the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed it to spread to all countries. Even remote populations are at risk, as are populations in war zones and those living in cramped conditions with poor hygiene such refugee camps, putting the lives of human beings at risk in an increasingly globalized world.

This webinar will firstly address how the present crisis is affecting the right to food and food security from both producers and consumers points of view, and then to explore how the existing social solidarity economy can provide an important part of the answer. It is essential to break with the neoliberal existing commodification of food to do so and build legislation to support connecting farmers to markets. 54 states and other bodies now have some form of SSE legislation in place. How can we use this to better implement the right to food, in both formal and informal economies?

As expressed in RIPESS’ statement, the challenge we face is how to build an alternative model of development, driven by the needs of all peoples and communities around the world, and the protection of our planet. The window of opportunity is now open to accelerate the process, capitalise on the thousands of ingenious solutions being created within communities and make positive change permanent and global in all its diversity.

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