Réseau Repas

Réseau Repas is a network of exchanges and alternative and supportive practices.

For around fifteen years, the Network of exchanges and alternative and solidarity practices has brought together around thirty companies throughout France. These have concretely implemented economic practices which have objectives other than profit, the race for consumption or the whole economy and which inscribe their meaning in the concrete of free and united practices. They recognize a common culture even though they have different professions: when they are in agriculture, they create a collective structure bringing together partners around diversified production and marketing involving consumers. When they are transforming a local resource, they adopt cooperative structures and stimulate economic and social development in their environment by generating or participating in a proliferation of activities. When they are in the cultural or social sector, they implement dehierarchical management methods where everyone is a person before being a performance. The network is open and is regularly enriched with new encounters

The R stands for network The network weaves links and allows exchanges in a horizontal and scalable manner. It changes depending on projects and meetings. Around fifty companies have participated in network meetings, around thirty of which have been regular participants for several years.

The E stands for exchanges. This is why the network was born in 1994: the aim of the meetings of the network's companies is to compare their experiences, question their practices with "peers" engaged in similar cultural actions.

The P stands for practical This is perhaps the most important word. The legitimacy of our companies, their testimony and their existence lies in the real and concrete implementation of alternative and supportive practices.

The A and the S stand for alternatives and solidarity Alternatives because our practices sing a little tune that stands out from the great orchestra of globalization-commodification-economization of the world...

Solidarity because they favor the association of individuals, the pooling of projects and goods and cooperation between people rather than individualism, privatization and competition.

Image-ReseauRepas2