The Next Economic System with Gar Alperovitz and Ed Whitfield - 27:44
written by building bridges radio
at Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Getting Serious About the Next Economic System
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In an era when systemic critique of the
economic and political institutions of the United States is poised on the edge
of mainstream consciousness: the realities of a changing climate, an
irrationally destructive financialized economic system, a long and steady
historical trajectory concentrating political power along with wealth, are
becoming impossible to ignore. How can we consciously come together around this
opportunity to offer a coherent vision of what a "next system" might
look like? Gar Alperovitz is a leading proponent and practician of local socialized Alternatives to the current economic
system. He here summarized some of the concrete experiments in social change happening and being proposed across
the country including Worker cooperatives, municipal and state economic
enterprises, state and municipal banks, land trusts, and single payer health
insurance and lays out a new initiative to expand visibility and support for an
alternative economic system: The Next System Project : New Political-Economic
Possibilities for the 21st Century.
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Ed Whitfield, Co-Managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities speaks and writes on issues of cooperatives and economic development while continuing to be interested in issues of war and peace, as well as education and social responses to racism and is active in the call by the Southern Grassroots Economies Project (SGEP) to develop a Southern Reparations Loan Fund
More and more people are
disenfranchised from and disenchanted by our economic system with its
long and steady historical trajectory concentrating political power along
with wealth amongst the few, and a monstrous apparatus of prisons and
policing that are increasingly prevalent. And, Ed Whitfield is one of the
theoreticians/activists who offers us a coherent vision of what building a
"next system" might look like. Whitfield talks about his work in the South and
beginning to build for a far for equal and justice society.
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Ed Whitfield, Co-Managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities speaks and writes on issues of cooperatives and economic development while continuing to be interested in issues of war and peace, as well as education and social responses to racism and is active in the call by the Southern Grassroots Economies Project (SGEP) to develop a Southern Reparations Loan Fund
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