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Puerto Rico: Building a Social and Solidarity Economy
December 5, 2018 @ 6:30 pm
Doors open 6pm / Event begins 6:30pm
By invitation of Vamos Puerto Rico! Eric Leenson traveled to the island November 7 – 13th this year. While there he visited a number of community-based organizations including Boricuá Agroecologico, start up cooperatives and mutual aid centers as well as Nuestra Escuela. Additionally he met with several mayors and business leaders.
The purposes of the La Peña event are to give an update on community economic development after the first year anniversary of Hurricane Maria and to engage in a conversation with Bay Area residents interested and active in solidarity with Puerto Rico.
Eric is coordinator of the project Caribbean North American Laboratory of Social Economy (CANAL). CANAL’s mission is to stimulate a regional approach to the implementation of social economy initiatives through information transfers and transnational collaborative projects. CANAL includes among its participants, social economy organizations from Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States.