There is obviously an infinite number of ways to start your own collective but we hope to share what we did to help others get started.

Find others in your local area who are interested in Parecon. You can do this through e-mail discussion groups, hosting your own workshops and presentations or simply talking to others.

After we met, we decided to start our own mailing announcement list, create a web page and distribute flyers. For a web site and mailing list try your own local community or activist net. We use Resist!ca

We also created powerpoint presentations to help guide our workshops. You can download and alter all our flyers and presentations to fit your local environment. Here's our introductory brochure (pdf version, you need acrobat reader to read it, you can also modify it by downloading the Microsoft publisher version, after unzipping it) that introduces us and Participatory Economics.

Click on the appropriate link to download our powerpoint presentations. You'll then have to uncompress it (use "winzip" or an equivalent) to view it with powerpoint.

This presentation we use for talks.

This older presentation was too wordy to use for talks, however it's a better media to introduce yourself or others to parecon with.

We've also constructed a Parpolity presentation, a candidate political system consistent with parecon, based on the work of Steven Shalom. This is still a rough presentation that we are modifying, it is not yet ready for a talk.

Send us an e-mail if you have any questions