We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a new project designed to help expand the reach of other organizations from across the globe that are dedicated to developing methods of resistance at the community level and beyond by curating and presenting them across the Democracy at Work platform. From community land trusts to ecological safety shelters and more, the efforts of these organizations represent the kinds of actions we must all get involved in as the attacks on and dismantling of social safety nets, regulatory systems, and consumer protections escalate on a daily basis.

The Build & Fight educational series is streamed onYoutube, Facebook, Instagram, and other socialmedia platforms the second Tuesday of everymonth at 7 pm EST, 6 pm CST, 5 pm MST, and 4pm PST. The series will center aroundpresentations given by Kali Akuno but will includespecial guests for various sections who will sharetheir experiences and learnings to add to theformula and how it can be employed to build eco-socialism from below.The Build and Fight Formula is both an argument and a proposedmethodology on how to build eco-socialism from below, meaning through theself-organized activities and institutions of the working class and oppressedpeople.We hope this series will provide organizers and activists with some criticalanalytical tools and methods to improve their practice and to encourage us tobetter coordinate and plan our productive activities and to horizontallyfederate in order to build and aggregate our social and political power toadvance our liberation.

The CHE aims to become a hub for achieving economic justice and a more humane society. We aim to organically combine the expertise of lived experience and the expertise of academic rigor. To counter dominant narratives, the CHE seeks to provide sturdy theoretical tools that empower and sharpen common sense. Our Center endeavors to train young scholars in the broad tradition of heterodox economics, encouraging them to learn from real-life problems and engage in the world around them. The CHE breaks the walls of academia to foster popular economic agency while building transformative knowledge grounded in real-life experience. We endeavor to engage with local communities and organizers to connect academic work with real-world challenges, explore policies that collectively enhance human dignity, and ensure that economic systems serve society, not vice versa. In this way, the CHE becomes an academic institution and a platform for intervention in the concrete.