Day 5 of New Economy Week: The New Economy Is Close to Home

From California to Mississippi, people are organizing to build local power and are seeing major victories. How do we support and encourage their work?

This article was produced in partnership with the New Economy Coalition as part of the 2014 New Economy Week. Each day this week, YES! will publish articles responding to different topic prompts.

Prompt 5: The New Economy is close to home.

Our current economy is undermining our aspirations for a democratic society and it seems unlikely that national governments are going to turn it around any time soon. But there are many examples of bold action emerging from local and regional contexts. From Richmond, Calif., to Jackson, Miss., people are organizing to build local power and are seeing major victories that could point the way to a new economy. How do we support and encourage work on the local level?

Our feature articles provide some insight:

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