New Economy Coalition is inviting NEC people to join us for our new workshop Series Care For the People - A Series that will take place the third Wednesday of every other month at 1pm et, 12pm ct, 10am pt.

NEC is hosting a series that will ground us in lessons fro movements, change makers, and organizers that engage different approaches to creative collective solidarity. It is becoming increasingly clear that people will have to rely on and care for each other more and more after years of purposeful abandonment from those in power. This series will highlight concrete ideas, strategies,and practices for creating solidarity and conditions where care is centralized. If we are to resist policies of violence and economies of war what are our alternatives? How can we expand our ideas? How can we encourage collective consciousness and reject apathy and individualism?

Care For The People Series Event Abolitionist Care Ethics:

A conversation on justice-impacted peoples leadership, care-centered practices in ATL’s Black Mamas Bailout and the contradictions present in who we fight with for Black Liberation w/ Bridgette Simpson from Barred Business.

Join us to learn about Bridgette’s work with Barred Justice. She will share about her work on multiple fronts, and her concrete wins for Protections for Justice Impacted people in Atlanta and beyond. She will share about mutual aid work, business fund, and their “S.T.A.B.L.E. Program, they provide organizing and advocacy training, political education, leadership development, housing, and wraparound programming and support for formerly incarcerated Black women who are returning to their communities and are living in the S.T.A.B.L.E. house or in the community. Bridgette will share her approach to grounding in radical ethics while navigating resistance to state institutions.

After grounding in Bridgette’s work, we will discuss what abolitionist care ethics look like in our work. If Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s free, how do we reflect on who we are leaving out in our movements? What do we do when we are committed to freedom but we are still carrying harmful ideas, thoughts, and perspectives? How do we balance our individual freedom with our dreams of collective liberation?

About Bridgette:

Bridgette Simpson is a passionate abolitionist who draws from her experience as a formerly incarcerated survivor to drive social justice reform. She’s the co-founder of Barred Business and the Formerly Incarcerated Small Business Rescue Fund, In Atlanta, she launched the S.T.A.B.L.E. program and led efforts to pass legislation protecting formerly incarcerated people as a legal class.