ArcHub: Economy

Gift Economy

Gift economy is the practice of freely giving what you dont need to those who do. It promotes cooperation and inclusivity, aiming to meet everyone's basic needs while reducing waste and overproduction. Some examples:

★ The Really Really Free Market [article] by CrimeThinc [website] [mastodon]

Swap Shops [article] - also known as free stores, freeshops, and give-away stores, swap shops are places for things to be freely given and taken

❤ FoodNotBombs.net [website] - collecting and redistributing unsold food

The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs [ebook]

Sirum.org - Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine

TrashNothing.com - Want free stuff? Got stuff to give away?

FreeCycle.org [website] - Giving and getting stuff for free in our own Towns

BuyNothingApp.com [website] - GIVE what you no longer need, ASK for what you want

Freeya.com - takes the headache out of giving and getting free stuff in your neighborhood

❤ CouchSurfing.com - Stay with Locals and Meet Travelers

❤ BeWelcome.org - BeWelcome the largest free hospitality community

❤ HospitalityClub.org - Hospitality Club aims to bring people together - hosts and guests, travelers and locals. Thousands of Hospitality Club members around the world help each other when they are traveling - be it with a roof for the night or a guided tour through town.

Librivox.org - Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.

Gutenberg.org - Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks

GiveWell, CharityNavigator, Effective Altruism Funds, Arab.org, CharityWatch or ProPublica - Charity Ratings / Resources

Annas-Archive.org - The largest truly open library in human history

❤ r/Random_Acts_Of_Pizza - Pizza Donation Subreddit

❤ r/RandomActsOfGaming - game donation subreddit

❤ r/Assistance

Library Economy

Library economy is a system that emphasizes shared access to resources and goods within a community, allowing individuals to borrow items instead of owning them. It promotes cooperation and inclusivity, aiming to meet everyone's basic needs while reducing waste and overproduction. Here is a video introduction:

We Need a Library Economy [video] - by Andrew Sage

And here are some examples:

Libraries of Things [article] - collections of physical objects that people can borrow instead of buying.

LittleFreeLibrary.org [website] - global network of volunteer-led book-exchange boxes

IBike.org bicycle share - Decentralized on-demand bicycle rental systems

r/borrow

Pianos.Pub [website] - find a piano to play

HooplaDigital.com - Your public library at your fingertips.

LibbyApp.com - Free ebooks offered from local libraries

Ethical Exchange

Alternative Currency

TimeBanks.org - TimeBanks track the hours members earn by helping others and the hours they spend receiving help.

Community-Exchange.org - exchange and share using a variety of exchange methods: record keeping, time exchange, direct exchange, barter, swapping, gifting and sharing

Vote With Your Dollars

★ Divestment Guide [article] - Simple first steps toward corporate divestment

Tax Resistance 101 [video] by Leeja Miller [yt]

EthicalConsumer.org - how to use your spending power to help change the world for the better.

ICEout - NOT WITH MY DOLLARS: ICE OUT OF MY WALLET is a nationwide boycott campaign against the corporations that profit the most from ICE's surveillance and abduction network. We refuse to let our dollars fund raids, surveillance, family separation, or the criminalization of immigrant communities.

BookShop.org [website] - connecting readers with independent booksellers

GoodOnYou.eco - Clothing Brand Sustainability Ratings

LocalHarvest.org - connecting people with farmers

⁠USDA Local Food Portal - Find Local Farms / Farmers' Markets (US only)

❤ CSACoalition.org - Find local organic CSA farms in your community and receive financial assistance to purchase CSA shares

Education and Organization

Economics4Emancipation.net - A Course on Capitalism, Solidarity and How We Get Free

❤ GEO.coop - decentralized collective of educators, researchers and grassroots activists working to promote solidarity economy

❤ NewEconomy.net - coalition of organizations building the solidarity economy in the U.S.

❤ USSEN.org - US Solidarity Economy Network

❤ USWorker.coop - Grassroots membership organization for worker cooperatives and democratic workplaces

WeAreOpen.coop - worker co-op of strategists, innovators, and facilitators designing and delivering strategies and tactics for organisations

WorkingClassHistory.com - To help record and popularise our grassroots people’s history, as opposed to the top-down accounts of most history books

Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strikes of 1934 [ebook]

Organizing.Work [website] - articles about the nuts and bolts of organizing from a militant and class struggle perspective.

❤ WorkerOrganizing.org [website] - Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is a joint project of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), EWOC offers phone consultations and training to anyone trying to take action together with coworkers.

❤ LaborNotes.org [website] Group that produces print and online magazine, books, conferences, and workshops in support and promotion of member-run unions.

The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots & Class Conflicts in the American West [ebook] by Mark A. Lause

The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History [ebook]

Making Cultures of Solidarity [ebook] - London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike

Which Side Are You On? [ebook] - 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs

Reformers to Radicals [ebook] - The Appalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty