Strategies for Strengthening Local Economies

by equity design

Join the Sustainable Business Network of Portland and the Economic Justice Action Group for an evening with author and economic activist Stacy Mitchell. She will discuss the growing movement around the country to rebuild and strengthen local economies, placing what’s happening in Portland into this larger, encouraging context as well as examining why local economies are so critical to meeting the challenge of global warming to ensure our economic and community well-being in the near future. She will also be offering key policies and strategies to help realize this vision.

Be sure to come early at 6pm for a celebration of our local economy with information, refreshments and representatives from various local community businesses and organizations.

Stacy Mitchell is a nationally renowned speaker and advisor to communities on retail development and independent business. A senior researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, she is the Chair of the American Independent Business Alliance . Mitchell regularly contributes articles and commentaries to magazines and newspapers, and produces an acclaimed monthly email newsletter, The Hometown Advantage Bulletin and lives in Portland, Maine

Thursday Nov. 20
pre-lecture activities 6PM
presentation at 7 PM
First Unitarian Church (map)
1011 SW 12th Ave
$10-20, no one turned away