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Day 1 of New Economy Week: The New Economy Isn鈥檛 New

Those who have suffered the most at the hands of an unfair economy are also the most experienced at imagining and building alternative futures.

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

Prompt 1: The new economy isn’t new.

Let鈥檚 get this out of the way at the start: There鈥檚 nothing really new in the 鈥渘ew economy.鈥 Ideas like cooperative economics, ecological justice, horizontal democracy, and the commons are ideas with a rich history鈥攅specially in the places most deeply affected by pollution, poverty, and racism. Those who have suffered the most at the hands of an unfair economy are the most experienced at imagining and building alternative futures. How can we honor that as we build a broad-based social movement to transform our economy?

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