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DESCRIPTION:Thursday, November 4, 2021\n4:00-5:30pm PT (7:00-8:30pm ET)\n\nJoin us for 
 an event with prominent national policy advocates and social movement 
 leaders in conversation with Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor on their 
 forthcoming book Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements 
 Matter.\n\nEvent registrants will receive a link to download a free copy of 
 the e-book. \n\nSolidarity Economics is an economic frame that recognizes 
 that people are not just individuals, but also members of broader social 
 groups and communities; that people are motivated not just by 
 self-interest, but also by caring for others and a desire for belonging; 
 and that we can and should build our economy not on an embrace of 
 individuality and competition, but rather on a sense of the commons and our 
 shared destiny.\n\nThis conversation delves deeply into the concept of 
 Solidarity Economics, its meaning and how to enact change that is real in 
 terms of policy and power. It also discusses how we can expand the notion 
 of Solidarity Economics in our movements and how Solidarity Economics can 
 provide a useful framework to change the narrative of OUR 
 economy.\n\nFeatured Speakers\n\n* Chris Benner, Professor, Director of the 
 Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz\n* Manuel Pastor, 
 Distinguished Professor, Director of the Equity Research Institute at the 
 University of Southern California\n* Taifa Smith Butler, President of 
 Demos\n* Jennifer Epps-Addison, Network President & Co-Executive Director 
 of the Center for Popular Democracy\n* Joseph Tomás McKellar, Executive 
 Director of PICO California\n* Felicia Wong, President and CEO of the 
 Roosevelt Institute\n\nCo-sponsored by: UCSC Institute for Social 
 Transformation and USC Dornsife Equity Research Institute.\n\nMeet the 
 Authors\n\nChris Benner is a Professor of Environmental Studies and 
 Sociology, Director of the Institute for Social Transformation, and 
 Director of the Everett Program at UC Santa Cruz. Rooted in an urban 
 political ecology approach, his research examines the relationships between 
 technological change, urban and regional development, and structures of 
 economic opportunity.\n\nManuel Pastor is a Distinguished Professor of 
 Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity and Director of the Equity 
 Research Institute at the University of Southern California Pastor’s 
 research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and 
 social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social 
 movements seeking to change those realities.\n\nFeatured Speakers\n\nTaifa 
 Smith Butler\n\nNamed one of Atlanta’s 500 most powerful leaders in 2020 
 and 2021 by Atlanta Magazine, Taifa has served on various local,state and 
 national committees and boards. Taifa brings more than 20 years of 
 experience in strategic communications, public policy research and data 
 analysis in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.\n\nPrior to joining 
 the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute team as deputy director in 2011, 
 she served as the policy and communications director for Georgia Family 
 Connection Partnership where she co-managed the Georgia KIDS COUNT project 
 and monitored public policy and its impact on children, families, and 
 communities.\n\nJennifer Epps-Addison\n\nJennifer Epps-Addison serves as 
 the President and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy 
 and CPD Action’s network of partner organizations throughout the country. 
 As President, Jennifer leads CPD’s racial justice campaigns and works 
 closely with its network of local affiliates. Jennifer boasts over 20 years 
 of community organizing experience, advancing systems-change campaigns for 
 economic and racial justice.\n\nEpps-Addison is the recipient of the 2013 
 Edna Award from the Berger-Marks Foundation, which honors an outstanding 
 young woman each year for her leadership in fueling social change. In the 
 same year, she was named an ‘Activist to Watch’ by Bill Moyers. 
 \n\nJoseph Tomás McKellar\n\nJoseph Tomás Mckellar is Executive Director 
 of PICO California, the largest faith-based organizing network in 
 California, whose mission is to catalyze faith-based and 
 spiritually-centered people power in California to create systemic change 
 for the most vulnerable so that all Californians can belong and thrive. 
 Joseph guides PICO’s statewide campaigns to transform the criminal 
 justice system, protect and promote immigrant families, increase 
 affordable, family-sustaining housing, advance structural tax reform, and 
 create an inclusive economy. \n\nHe also helps lead PICO’s Faith Votes 
 campaign, dedicated to significantly expanding the California electorate to 
 include millions more young voters, low-income voters, and voters of color 
 around a vision for a State of Belonging. \n\nFelicia Wong \n\nAs the 
 President and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute, Felicia Wong directs the 
 organization’s mission, vision, and strategy in pursuit of an economy for 
 the many, not the few. Under her leadership, Roosevelt has grown more than 
 four-fold, and now regularly works with the nation’s top public 
 officials, academic experts, and progressive movement organizers. Her own 
 research focuses on post-neoliberal thought and the intersection of race, 
 economics, and social stratification.\n\nFelicia is the author of The 
 Emerging Worldview: How New Progressivism Is Moving Beyond Neoliberalism 
 (Roosevelt Institute, 2020) and the co-author of The Hidden Rules of Race: 
 Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Her 
 work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, 
 Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, and the Boston Review.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/05/18845426.php
SUMMARY:Solidarity Economics: OUR Movement, OUR Economy
LOCATION:Online event. Register now: 
 https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BnNGUpXYQ8u5h2QNQje2iw
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/10/05/18845426.php
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