Starting Monday, thousands of people and dozens of organizations will elevate the public conversation about the ideas that can transform society and build an economy where people and the planet matter.
Here are three ways you can participate in New Economy Week: From Austerity to Prosperity:
Register for an online panel
Voices Of New Economies: Opportunity For All
Hear from a diversity of leaders in Canada’s robust New Economy movement.
Organized by the Canadian CED Network and One Earth
Monday 11/9 at 1pm EST
Using the “C-Word”: Will the New Economy Be Capitalism, or Something Else?
Gar Alperovitz, John Fullerton, Julie Matthaei, Sohnie Black, and Keith Harrington
Presented by The New Economy Coalition and YES! Magazine
Monday 11/9 at 1:30pm EST
Cooperative Strategies For an Inclusive 21st Century Economy
Featuring organizers from Platform Cooperativism and The Union Co-op Symposium
Monday 11/9 at 3:30pm EST
Reparations: What It Looks Like and How We Get There
A conversation with Ed Whitfield
Tuesday 11/10 at 2:00pm EST
A Democracy for the 99 Percent: Millennial Movements Taking Power
Dante Barry, Yong Jung Cho, Varshini Prakash, Alexandra Flores-Quilty, Austin Thompson
Wednesday 11/11 afternoon (TBD)
What is Energy Democracy and Why Does It Matter?
Janet Redman, Denise Fairchild, Miya Yoshitani, and Meghan Zaldivar
Presented by The Energy Democracy Project, Next System Project, and the New Economy Coalition
Thursday, 11/12 at 2:00PM EST
Join an in-person event in your area
Community leaders around the US and Canada have stepped up to host over 50 in-person events for New Economy Week including dozens of free screenings of Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis’s new film This Changes Everything. Check out the full map here.
Contribute to the conversation on social media
Over the course of the week our partners and a wide range of online publications will be offering will be putting out articles, interviews, images, and videos, in response to five challenges (one per day) standing between us and a New Economy. Keep an eye out and add your voice to the conversation using the hashtag #NewEconomyWeek.