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How Can You Make Your Community Thrive?

September 26, 2026 Vicki Robinson, Resilience. , ,
A village can be a neighborhood, a town, a group, an extended family, a church, or a business where most people know most others, at least by sight or within three degrees of separation. Thriving is a quality of a village: its culture, webs of relationships, traditions and rituals, and volunteerism. We make the village by living. Maybe it’s a verb? We village. In a recent post, I explored the role of matriarchs in thriving communities. And how “thriving communities” – as documented in dozens of films – may be like Blue Zones, places on the planet where people seem to live longer and flourish.

Japan’s Volunteer Labour Bank

June 23, 2026 Mari Nishitani, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , , , ,
Teruko Mizushima is a founder of the Volunteer Labour Bank in Japan. If you are a time-bank enthusiast, you’ve probably heard her referred to as the creator of the world’s first-ever time bank. Have you ever wondered: how the “first-ever time bank” functioned? How big a thing was the time bank in Japan? Does Japan have a time bank as part of society now? This short article delves deeper into the story of the “world's first time bank.” Don’t worry! Her story will not disappoint you, and you will be even more fascinated with time banks by the time you finish reading.

A New Model For Worker-Led Organizing

September 8, 2024 Eric Blanc, New Labor Forum. , , ,
Tens of millions of workers in the United States want a union at their workplace, but do not have one.[1] This unfortunate state of affairs is normally blamed on external obstacles such as our country’s broken labor law regime. But there are also significant internal obstacles within the labor movement that prevent it from scaling up to meet the widespread demand for workplace representation.
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