This tool has been developed to encourage creative, grassroots participation in the discussion on: What kind of an economy do we want to create? Instead of “teaching” people the principles of a solidarity economy (that others have established), use this exercise to generate your group’s own set of guiding principles for a solidarity economy. You could then compare and contrast it with what another group has come up with. Either way, using this tool will help to ensure that participants hold genuine buy-in for the principles that are generated. Before using this tool, it is important to have had conversations/workshops on capitalism and the negative impact of our current neoliberal economic structure on low income working people. This tool is based on an assumption that we are unhappy with our current economic structure and want to work together to create a more sustainable and solidarity-based economy.
