Your Gift Guide for People Who Want to Change the World
These are the perfect gift ideas for people who want to make the world a better place: board games, books, apparel, art, and more.
Category: TESA News
Creating the Visual World of STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion
Whenever we design a game, one of our favorite things to do is to come up with the visual concepts. Who lives in the world of this game? What do the homes and schools look like? Is it a cartoony world, like in Space Cats Fight Fascism, or is it a serious world, like in[…]
Dogs, Games, and Cooperatives: Oh My
How we built a game and interactive curriculum to support new members in a dog-walking cooperative.
How to manufacture your game domestically, sustainably, and ethically
Based on our 10 years of experience, we developed a guide to printing your game in the United States and using sustainable materials.
Announcing our next board game: “STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion”
We at The TESA Collective are excited to announce that we have teamed up with the labor rights organization Jobs with Justice for our next board game: STRIKE! The Game of Worker Rebellion. We are thrilled to be developing this game in such close partnership with a nationally renowned leader on worker empowerment.
Lessons from 10 Years of Building the Cooperative Movement
When TESA first launched roughly ten years ago, it was hard to see a week into the future, let alone a decade. It’s incredible to reflect on so many years spent working with so many people on cultivating the cooperative movement. In this time, we have been committed to building a more just and democratic[…]
How We Developed a Program to Launch Childcare Cooperatives
For the last 18 months, we at the TESA Collective have been collaborating with WomenVenture, an SBA-designated Women’s Business Center focused on helping women start and grow profitable and sustainable businesses. Their focus is to train entrepreneurs, advise businesses, provide loans, and create jobs in Minnesota. We have been working to support the development of[…]
8 Conferences to Attend to Boost Your Social Justice Skills
Conferences can be an amazing way for social justice advocates to build skills, connect with others, develop networks, generate ideas, and help movements strategize. But there’s so many out there across a wide variety of topics, that it’s hard to know what your options are. To help you think about which ones might be best[…]
Print and Play This 100 Year Old Board Game About Fighting for Women’s Rights
Many may not know this, but board games have been used as a way to come together and imagine a better world for over 100 years. In the early 1900s, the British Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women’s suffrage group, was part of the distribution of two different board games about fighting for[…]
30 Years of Building a New Food System: An Interview with Equal Exchange
A little over 30 years ago, Equal Exchange started as a small company with a big mission: to change the food industry from the inside out. They understood that the farmers who put food on our plates were invisible to most consumers, and abused by the corporations who paid them meager amounts for their backbreaking[…]