The New Economy & Systemic Transformation (Part One of The Regenerative Activism Series, 2020)

Part One of The Regenerative Activism Series: Deep Change Participants: Ann Pettifor (Green New Deal), Shaun Chamberlin (Fleming Policy Centre, Transition Network & Dark Optimisim), Fran Boait (Positive Money). Moderated by Ruby Reed (Advaya & EcoResolution)

Ann Pettifor, an architect of the Green New Deal says, "We can choose to survive. But in order to survive, everything must change. Everything". This is the scale of the challenge that new economic thinking and radical collective action needs to face. The structure of our economic system, driving both environmental destruction and social fragmentation, needs a radical overhaul. This panel brings together activists and thinkers who are facing the scale of that challenge. Each of them is developing inspiring approaches to systemic transformation, asking deep questions about the assumptions and beliefs that drive the system and the specific structural changes that are needed.

This event is part one of the four-part Regenerative Activism Series by Advaya & Ulex Project https://advaya.co/ https://ulexproject.org/

About The Regenerative Activism Series 2020:

We are living at a critical moment which contains both great peril and promise. The challenges we face are simultaneously socio-political, cultural and spiritual. It is a historical point of disruption demanding radical transformation.

The fierce urgency of the climate crisis, the twilight of neoliberalism, impoverished political leadership, and an increasing sense of distributive injustice, are the cracks out of which something new must emerge.

The times are calling for renewed energy and adaptive capacities. To meet this crisis, we need strategies for deep change on multiple levels.

To answer this call we are bringing together activists, doers and thinkers who are trying to get under the surface of crisis, people who are asking deeper questions and constructing deeper responses.

Visit www.advaya.co & www.ulexproject.org

Contributors

Ruby Reed

Ruby co-founded Advaya in 2015 and works as a curator, creator, yoga therapist and free-diver fascinated by how we relate to the world around us.

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Ann Pettifor

Ann Pettifor is a political economist, author and public speaker. Her latest book, The Production of Money, published by Verso in Spring, 2017, explains the nature of money and the monetary system; tackles thorny issues like Bitcoin and QE, and is written to be accessible to a wide audience. Back in 2003, as editor of The Real World Economic Outlook Palgrave, 2003), Ann predicted an Anglo-American debt-deflationary crisis. This was followed by The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave September, 2006).

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Shaun Chamerlin

Since 2005 Shaun has devoted himself full-time to exploring the dominant cultural stories and ‘myths’ that chart the course for our society and, in particular, how we might change direction before we end up where we are headed. His efforts have been covered across the UK press, including by the BBC, Guardian, Sunday Times, Independent and Daily Express, as well as internationally by Time magazine, Bloomberg News and the Financial Times.

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Fran Boait

Fran is standing to become the next Labour MP for Gloucester. As Executive Director of Positive Money, Fran has led the UK and international expansion of Positive Money, a non-profit think tank, which campaigns for systemic change of the money and banking system to support a fair, sustainable, and democratic economy.

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