We are designing alternative practices, building institutions and infrastructure, imagining and changing our neighborhoods.
We are centering people and spaces that traditional investment or development lenses do not want to see.
We are facilitating our wild and beautiful ambitions.
We are doing us, uninterrupted.
The Assembly of Black Possibilities is our biennial national convening for solidarity economy practitioners and communities. The gathering brings together working-class individuals, Black and Indigenous communities, people of color, and solidarity economy practitioners.
If we are to build better systems, systems rooted in justice, we must first reckon with what we have normalized. The currently dominant economy tells us that extraction is inevitable, that individualism is survival, that those closest to harm should have the least say. That story is written not only into our policies, but also into our habits, our fears, our sense of what is realistic.
We are creating a different story: one where shared power is expected, where community is not a liability but a starting point. We are not inventing, we are remembering. And in that remembering, we are making way for life-affirming systems and ways of being.