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People’s Summit Against the G20
Luther Place 1226 Vermont Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States
Creating Another World: The World Social Forum 2009 Reports Back
Center for International Environmental Law 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC, United StatesAt the end of January over 100,000 people gathered on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for the 9th World Social Forum. Participants spent a week imaging a new world rising out of the ashes of today’s economic, ecological, and cultural crises.
Please join DC-based friends and colleagues for a brown-bag conversation featuring short reflections on climate justice, indigenous rights, labor, financial crisis and environmental issues and proposals that emerged from the Forum. If you were at the World Social Forum, we invite you to share your experience, too. Bring your own lunch and join the discussion!
A Bold Agenda for Change: Voices from the Front Lines of the Economic Crisis
Cannon House Office Building 300 New Jersey Ave SE, Washington, DC, United StatesRepresentatives from poverty-fighting networks from across the United States will testify at an ad-hoc hearing hosted by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The people who will testify come from all over the United States: from Los Angeles to New York; from New Orleans to Boston. They include people most severely affected by the economic crisis, including day laborers, domestic workers, and people fighting the eviction of people from their homes. This event is part of an effort to forge a bold agenda that creates good jobs and advances economic and environmental justice here and abroad.
Members of the Inter-Alliance Dialogue — an emerging coalition of networks representing domestic workers, janitors, day laborers, housing activists, worker rights advocates, and others from the front lines of the economic crisis — will speak, including:
Jobs with Justice: Sarita Gupta and Elce Redmond
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance: Jihan Gearon and Tammy Bang Luu
National Day Laborers Organizing Network: Jacinta Gonzales
Right to the City: Roxan McKinnon, Wanda Salaman, and Melonie Griffiths
National Domestic Workers Alliance: Jocelyn Gill-Campbell
This event is FREE and open to the public.
POSTPONED: Workshop: Economic Worries? Hey, Join the Club!
The Festival Center 1640 Columbia Road NW , Washington, DC, United StatesWhat’s a Common Security Club? It’s a new way for group leaders and trainers to help congregations and communities help themselves in these troubled economic times.
The Adventures of Unemployed Man
Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DCCome down to Busboys & Poets to witness experience this action-packed story in THE ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN—a fearless, brilliant, and provocative book that ASTOUNDS with incisive wit and AMAZES with stunning insights into the desperate situation so many heroes find themselves in today
Toward a Moral Economy with Chuck Collins
First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco 1187 Franklin Street at Geary, San Francisco, CA, United StatesWith Congress deadlocked over the future of the Bush-era tax cuts, what are the prospects for progressive tax policies? How serious is the deficit issue – and what are progressive proposals to reduce it? What type of tax and revenue system will move us toward a new economy that reduces inequality and is ecologically sustainable?
Economic Meltdown: Let’s Not Get Fooled Again
Festival Center 1640 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, DC, United StatesCome to a movie night of the Academy Award Winner Best Documentary, Inside Job, a comprehensive analysis exposing the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs.
Meeting Needs of Developing Countries: The Role of Innovative Financing
Center for Strategic & International Studies 1800 K Street NW, B1 Conference Room, Washington, DC, United StatesAround the world, entities ranging from governments to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to the private sector have been giving more serious consideration than ever before to alternative financing mechanisms for development, climate change, education and other needs. IPS Global Economy project Director Sarah Anderson will speak on financial transactions taxes at this forum on innovative financing.
Briefing On Financial Transaction Taxes
Capitol Visitors Center S-115 First Street and East Capitol Street, NE, Room SVC 203 and SVC-202, Washington, DC, United StatesIPS is co-sponsoring this educational event on proposals to place small taxes on trades of stocks and other financial instruments as a way to generate massive revenues and discourage short-term speculation.
Author Event: America Beyond Capitalism
Busboys & Poets - 14th & V 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DCCelebrate the release of the new edition of Gar Alperovitz' America Beyond Capitalism, a sweeping analysis of the emerging long-term pathways toward an evolutionary reconstruction of our economic system. Thousands of experiments across the country are building new forms of cooperative and community controlled economic institutions and quietly laying the groundwork for a transition away from capitalism, to a new system grounded in ecological sustainability, the democratization of wealth, and real democracy.
Taxes! Taxes! Taxes!
Center for Community Change 1536 U St NW, Washington, DC, United StatesCome one, come all, and join Resource Generation in hosting author Chuck Collins for a tax day inspired conversation about the wealth gap and what we in DC can do about it.