Do you feel looted with the recent and ongoing bailouts? Are you skeptical of the scapegoating that has blamed the poor (subprime), or one party or another, or regulation or deregulation? Do you wonder why the circle of Wall Street advisors around our president continue to push to resurrect a cancerous financial system? Does you feel like you’ve witnessed a game of fantasy finance?
Join us for a two part series where we will explore the roots of the current economic crisis and ways to respond by building real wealth in our communities. We will use David Korten’s new book Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth as the starting point for our discussion.
You frustrated with the injustices happening with the current financial bailout? You curious to know more? Do you remember those WTO days where you may have first heard that large corporations wield a bit of power and don’t always have others’ interests in mind (read: community, environment, laborers, etc). Here’s an event that promises to do similar type of education on the financial industry with the intent to do something about it. (read more…)
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.
Join us Monday the 17th for our November Community Commons as we partner with the Real Wealth of Portland and explore local food through an economic justice lens.
Two great community events coming up! Check out the film Sick Around the World and/or attend a forum on the local effects of international trade agreements.
Hope in the midst of large and overwhelming global issues. That is my conclusion as I learn of so many individuals and groups choosing to take action based on the unrest see or they themselves feel.
First it was Paul Hawken’s description of “the largest movement in the world.” …
CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history.
Barbara Ehrenreich and Chuck Collins are visiting us Wed. July 16th to talk about economic inequality.
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