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The systems that artists want are not only possible—they already exist, and can be strengthened & cultivated with intention. A report and future hub 🌱

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BRIC Foundation @bricfound.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
📢 Now Accepting Applications: 2026 Animation Co-op Grant! BRIC & @legendsanimated.bsky.social are awarding $10K to support the formation of an animation creator cooperative committed to inclusive storytelling 🚀 Learn more + access co-op resources: bricfoundation.org/animationcoop ⏰ Apply by June 7
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
After 5 years co-building Art.coop — from "Solidarity Not Charity" report to a worker-self directed org in 2023 — co-founders @carolinewoolard.bsky.social & @naticonrazon.bsky.social transition to new movement work. Art.coop continues with a strong team! Full dispatch: mailchi.mp/art.coop/new...
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Subvert @subvert.fm · 07/10/2025
Artists need a solidarity economy. A solidarity economy needs artists.
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Kenneth Rainin Foundation @krfoundation.org · 26/11/2025
Sustainable Economies Law Center, Vital Arts and Movement Law are hosting their last Artist Legal Cafe of the year on December 4. A 30-minute "nano-training" will be followed by a one-on-one sessions with a lawyer to get answers to your questions about entity formation, contracts, governance & more.
Green graphic with beige text that reads, "Free Artist Legal Cafe | One-on-one support with licensed attorneys, solidarity economy experts and cultural workers | Now serving artists, art collectives and organizations | Partners: Vital Arts, Sustainable Economies Law Center, Movement Law"
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mirlo @mirlo.space · 06/08/2025
The music industry does not work for artists or listeners and needs a radical reimagining. Mirlo hosts a community of artists, listeners, organizers, and coders who are daring to do just that. 📣🐦‍⬛ mirlo.space/pages/about #Music #MusicIndustry #BrokenRecord #SolidarityEconomy #Organising
The music industry does not work for artists or listeners and needs a radical reimagining. Mirlo hosts a community of artists, listeners, organizers, and coders who are daring to do just that: taking lessons learned from working in the solidarity economy and applying them to our platform. 📣🐦‍⬛

Picture shows a group of red birds on a white background. The birds are listening to music and one is playing a synth.
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shiftedshaped - emily mae @shiftedshaped.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
ART AGAINST THE REGIME Jan 24th 12-6pm in St. Paul Ash & I will be there 4-6pm. Do consider joining, friends! Artwork & service donations being accepted until the 22nd. I can swoop, we can meet, or I can reimburse for shipping Getting word of the musicians gathering to perform, and oh my talent!
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Art against the regime 
Silent Auction/Fundraising event
Live MUSIC!
Join Artists of Minnesota who are donating their works and services to raise badly needed funds for LOCAL organizations who are on the front lines, supporting those directly affected by the tyranny of raids conducted by ICE.
If we stand together, we can show the world we are strong.
Let's Art Against the Regime!
Our immigrant community needs us.
Buy Art.
Bring a nonperishable food item.
Donate funds.
Funds raised will be donated to Neighborhood
House
organization

Be a part of the solution.
January 24th 12-6pm
Hosted at Blackheart
Studios
106 Water St W, Suite 411,
Saint Paul
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I have bought so much art this week. I will buy every single piece put out. I hope Minnesota artists bankrupt me over this.
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Where We've Been & Tomorrow: Media By Us, For Us 📺 mailchi.mp/1ffefd47301b...
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MEANS TV @means.tv · 17/10/2025
NOW STREAMING: Class of Struggle One of the most radical acts of working-class filmmaking ever made: means.tv/programs/cla...
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Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
🎨🌎Artists and activists from around the world gathered in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, for the Second Global Artivism Convening.
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
That's why art.coop created this free course last year with Creative Study on Guaranteed Income and various pilots focused on artists in the United States! Take the course alone or with your collective or group: creativestudy.com/course/guara...
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Everyone’s talking about Artist Basic Income again with the news of Ireland’s basic income for artists (BIA) pilot turning permanent. But how do we go from pilots - like we've had in the US - to policy? Popular education and awareness campaigns!
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Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"AMPLIFY" - A new multicolor risograph print from @werdmvmnt.bsky.social in the shop today! justseeds.org/product/ampl...
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
our gorgeous poster for our 5th anniversary celebration and slash need's record release show is finally here! grab your tickets here: dice.fm/partner/ndy-...
NDY & New feeling co-op present SLASH NEED, HRT, Doctor Cement November 15 St Stephen in the Fields $20 Adv 8pm. A Slash Need record release and NEw Feeling Co-op 5 year anniversary celebration
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DianaResists @dianaresists.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’ The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...
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Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’
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indiespacenyc.bsky.social @indiespacenyc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
We have several special guests from the Co-Op community joining us! Sruti Suryanarayanan from @artcoop.bsky.social will be in person and available to chat throughout the day about how everyone can embrace cooperative values and principles, within and beyond the co-operative structure.
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
It's a critical time to be building the liberatory cultural front in the US. People's assemblies are movement and solidarity economy technologies we must access in this moment. Who will be in New Orleans next month? Thank you National Performance Network and Project South! npnweb.org/ac2025/
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Ignacio Pato @ignaciopato.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
El colectivo Artists Against Apartheid llenó Wembley en 1988 en un concierto por el 70º cumpleaños de Mandela. Eurythmics, Bryan Adams, Salif Keita, Miriam Makeba, Al Green, Tracy Chapman, Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Joe Cocker, Simple Minds... 10 horas y la BBC.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
We love to see it! Fontaines D.C.at All Together Now last night. Our artists do us proud and represent us as they stand with the Palestinian people, and against apartheid Israel's genocide. #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
looking forward to this!
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"We need to make our businesses and our nonprofits as radical as the ideas in our artworks.” Take our "No Starving Artists, No Sellouts" course FOR FREE: creativestudy.com/course/no-st...
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Emergency Committee for Rojava @defendrojava.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
In case you missed it, here's the video from our recent event with our friends at @movementgeneration.bsky.social and @us-neweconomy.bsky.social discussing lessons of the Rojava revolution for social movements around the world. 🎬 youtube.com/watch?v=O3qsEB
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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
We’re reintroducing the Living Wage for Musicians Act, and to celebrate we’re throwing a show/happy hour in DC with Julia Holter, Alexia Roditis, and Dior Ashley Brown! Let’s get the LWMFA passed & get artists paid fairly from streaming 💪 RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/julia...
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Featurrre: (Art) Worlds We Want: Book Reading Mood Machine With Liz Pelly by Art.coop, @us-neweconomy.bsky.social, NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives and @umaw.bsky.social at Prime Produce ---------- Creatives are building the solidarity economy now rrratcity.com/featurrres/L...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Jesse Welles
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Louise Simonsen @louistonehill.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
All this talk about censorship really has me wanting to dig into the irish surrealist movement of the later half of the 20th century, because as far as I remember that was a protest against church censorship - and I want to see how artists and writers have fought back in the past
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"We built systems to care for ourselves. Mutual aid societies. Churches. Co-ops. Cultural spaces. These weren’t nonprofits. They were infrastructures of survival, resistance, and self-determination." - Damien Davis for @hyperallergic.com Yes! hyperallergic.com/1021609/june...
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Juneteenth Is the Story of a Freedom Withheld
In the art world, as in America at large, spectacle is welcomed more readily than structural change.
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Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🔥Still buzzing from my convo w/ Boots Riley at #Socialism2025. We talked art, communism & revolution—and he was into my book Teach Truth (even caught the “Heven Tonite” lyric I quoted). Grateful for the brilliance & the laughs. Can’t wait for his new film “I Love Boosters”! www.TeachTruthBook.com
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liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
i have two mood machine-related events in nyc next week that i am really looking forward to! tues july 15 @ prime produce co-op w/ @artcoop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/art-worlds... weds july 16 @ creative time for w/ @kamalasankaram.bsky.social hq.creativetime.org/calendar/opp...
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(Art) Worlds We Want: Book Reading "Mood Machine" With Liz Pelly
How do we build the (art) worlds we want? Join Liz Pelly, the author of "Mood Machine" and Nati Linares of Art.coop for a reading and convo!
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The music industry is one of the most consolidated and exploitative industries. Join @lizpelly.bsky.social, author of the harrowing "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" for a book reading at Prime Produce in NYC on July 15th! www.eventbrite.com/e/art-worlds...
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Climate Justice Alliance @cjaourpower.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Artists receive political education in frameworks including the Solidarity Economy, Ecological Justice, and Just Transition. Working with organizations on the frontlines of our movements, we distribute art to the people and places where it is meaningful, beloved, and strategic.
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Love Glasgow Hate Racism @lghr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Bob Vylan 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🔦Today’s "Remember the Future" highlight goes out to LA & the folks at Question Culture 🔦 “Question Culture practices transformative justice & cooperative economics & spreads it through pop culture through artist management, media production & creative direction.” www.art.coop#rememberthef...
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
How does building a community stop fascism? Learn how to build a solidarity economy.
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The art at the heart of the protests: Barbara Kruger’s “Questions.” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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The downtown L.A. mural that was a prophetic backdrop to ICE street protests
ICE protests downtown had a powerful backdrop: the 1990 Barbara Kruger mural 'Questions,' which interrogates the very nature of power and control.
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Sliding Scale Pricing Workshop by Emma Dulski on June 26: "This will be a space to learn from models of mutual aid, solidarity economy, and gift economy, to work individually on starting your own practice, and to discuss what interdependence within this community." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I’m spending this weekend visiting co-ops throughout the state on the Ohio Co-op Solidarity Tour. It’s awesome to workplaces putting solidarity economy principles into practice in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincy!
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Joost @almodozo.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hell of a photo
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The ONLY way we deal with this is with WAY more people. There needs to be 100k people between ICE and ppl they’re trying to grab constantly.
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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The sheer determination it takes to write a novel on TOILET PAPER because you've been imprisoned by your country for your previous novel. 📚💙
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times." - Nina Simone
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
you love to see it!
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Hussein Rashid, PhD @husseinrashid.com · 09/06/2025
This is such a cool #NYC idea. Spread the word. @artcoop.bsky.social might be of interest.
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Art.coop took some time to smell the roses in the wake of the horrible news about the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) widespread cuts and had some reflections: OUR TIME IS NOW 🌹🌹🌹 Entire statement is here: www.instagram.com/p/DJm5T6pTazI/
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A few of the groups/projects I find most promising for building that world: The New Economy Coalition, made up of 200+ orgs building the solidarity economy in the US: neweconomy.net
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Home - New Economy Coalition
We’re a coalition of 200+ organizations building the solidarity economy in the U.S. and showing that another world is not only possible — it’s already happening.
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Beloved Community Incubator @dc-bci.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Our next Solidarity Economy Social Hour is May 15th from 6-9pm at @kaloramamarket! Whether you’re a worker-owner/co-op member, union member, organizer, mutual aid-er, or just curious about what’s going on with the solidarity economy in DC, join us! The social hour is free, RSVP with the QR code.
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msafri.bsky.social @msafri.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
New primer video from The Conscious Citizens for explaining the solidarity economy- and amazing usage of the USSEN map we (me + @craigborowiak.bsky.social @mpavlovskaya.bsky.social & @stephenhealy72.bsky.social) helped develop! (at around the 1 minute mark)
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What is the Solidarity Economy?
https://youtube.com/shorts/6TQZhHNBe74?si=3mzLVa7e-wM6XGlE From @theconciouscitizens and @raytrospectively, also on Instagram
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Watch out hegemony. We coming for you! @thisisreframe.bsky.social & Rad Comms gathering the peoples to make that change. #NPS #ChangeTheStory
Standing banner at the registration table of the Narrative Power Summit. The banner has an organizer with fist raised in the air and is speaking into a megaphone with rainbow streaks coming out. It reads “Narrative Power Summit ‘25” and has the name of the two sponsoring organizations at the bottom: REFRAME & RadComms.
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Art.coop @artcoop.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"We talked about alternative economic systems (...) that weave together things like worker-owned cooperatives, community land trusts, popular assemblies and mutual aid networks to build a world that prioritizes people and planetary health over economic growth." truthout.org/articles/no-...
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“No Tariffs on Sharing”: Tool Libraries Offer Resilience Amid Federal Chaos
As Trump imposes tariffs, tool libraries can serve as a sustainable alternative to consuming more products.
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Jonathan Welle @wellejonathan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The goal of People’s Community Land Trusts goal is to stabilize prices in Black neighborhoods. Here’s their beautiful property in the English Ave neighborhood.
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