Who we are
RIPESS LAC is a continental network that brings together various community-based, associative, co-operative and mutual organisations as well as citizens’ movements that work towards the implementation of solidarity economy in Latin America. We contribute the production and sharing of resources and knowledge that creates the basis of an alternative movement to the current capitalist system.
News from Latin Amercia and the Caribbean—
The VII Meeting of SSE of Latin America and the Caribbean is held this week in Costa Rica
The VII Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on Social Solidarity Economy (ELACESS VII) will take place in San José, Costa Rica, from 27 February to 2 March this year. […]
The 3rd Thematic World Forum of the SSE in Brazil, a great festive, activist and multicultural gathering
"For a society of "buena vida": for a global ethic". This was the slogan under which the 3rd World Thematic Forum of Solidarity Economy, as well as the XXV International Fair of Cooperativism was held in Santa Maria, in the South of Brazil was held. It took place from 12th to 15th July 2018 in the Dom Ivo Lorscheiter solidarity [...]
Brazil is preparing to host the 3rd edition of the World Social Forum of Solidarity Economy
The 3rd World Thematic Forum on Solidarity Economy will be held between July 12 and 15, 2018 in the Dom Ivo Lorscheiter solidarity economy centre in Santa María-RS. It will take place in the framework of the 25th International Cooperatives Fair (FEICOOP ) and the 3rd ECOSOL World Fair. There will be four days of conferences, seminars, meetings, presentation of [...]