Investing for Change: Feminist-ing Finance for People and Planet
Dec
4
2:00 PM14:00

Investing for Change: Feminist-ing Finance for People and Planet

A growing number of women are instead learning how to actively invest their values. Learn how they're growing the livelihoods of local communities, women and BIPOC entrepreneurs, and companies that care about the environment, fair and inclusive governance, and sustainability.

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DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES: A Zoom of Our Own Conversation on Capitalism, Technology, and the Fight for a Feminist Internet
Jun
27
8:00 PM20:00

DIGITAL POSSIBILITIES: A Zoom of Our Own Conversation on Capitalism, Technology, and the Fight for a Feminist Internet

How do capitalism, racism, and sexism shape our digital experiences? How can we build a feminist future online? Find out through this conversation with Communication and Science and Technology Studies scholar Breigha Adeyemo, journalist and DIGITAL SUFFRAGISTS author Marie Tessier, social systems scientist Riane Eisler, and AEOO’s Digital Director Carmen Rios!

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Counting on Women: Inside Mondragón with Georgia Kelly
Apr
25
8:00 PM20:00

Counting on Women: Inside Mondragón with Georgia Kelly

Georgia Kelly joined us to tell us much more about Mondragón in Spain, the largest worker-owned cooperative corporation in the world. Georgia has developed an educational seminar tour at the Mondragón Cooperatives in Spain—and from her experience at Mondragón, has focused on cooperatives as an ethical and socially just economic model for the 21st century.

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Public Banking Learning Circle (Sliding Scale Digital Series)
Apr
8
to Jul 22

Public Banking Learning Circle (Sliding Scale Digital Series)

Learn more about public banking in our learning circle for women—and become a skilled advocate for economic change in your community!

Public Banking can save the planet, close the equity gap, address systemic racism, stop funding weapons and global wars, and level the playing field for women and families. Learn more in the first series of our special and accessible workshops for women—and become a skilled advocate for economic change in your community!

This is an entirely digital, small-group series of six sessions offered at a sliding scale. We'll kick off our first session on Friday, April 8th at 8pm eastern/5pm pacific. Then we'll meet together five more Fridays, at the same time (8pm eastern/5pm pacific), on April 29th, May 20th, June 10th, July 1st and July 22nd.All registration fees are donations that will fuel our work to make this information widely accessible.

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Co-sponsored by An Economy of Our Own, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom US Section’s Women, Money & Democracy Committee, California Public Banking Alliance, and Public Banking Institute.

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WE ARE THE ECONOMY: A Zoom Of Our Own Conversation on Community Well-Being & Mutual Aid
Jan
17
8:00 PM20:00

WE ARE THE ECONOMY: A Zoom Of Our Own Conversation on Community Well-Being & Mutual Aid

Join dynamic women to learn about ways to create more resilient communities through revolving credit circles, cooperative businesses, trade agreements, services, and more. Women often lead these local efforts that economists traditionally call “informal,” but why? Would becoming more “formal,” as some are now urging, improve mutual trust and security, or undermine it?

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A Caregiver Wage: Our Time is Now
Sep
18
10:00 AM10:00

A Caregiver Wage: Our Time is Now

You won’t want to miss this FREE webinar featuring international feminist icons on a subject that just keeps getting more urgent as the pandemic lingers.

Last among industrialized nations, the United States has recently (and reluctantly) implemented a stripped-down and sanitized form of a “child allowance” to support caregiving work. Is that a victory? Or is it a deft maneuver to derail the movement for a just caregiver wage – indeed, to derail the movement for the fundamental right to the basic means of survival.

Panelists excavate the historical relationships between “women’s work” and capitalism, between capitalism and the degradation of people and the planet, and the ways that racism and other systems of supremacy are used to thwart action. But that’s not all! Recognizing the power of organized women and men to make history, they guide us to claim our right to do so using the practical steps we have learned to take in our daily caregiving work. Dialogue and brainstorming will follow the panel presentations.

This event is Co-Sponsored by Women's International League for Peace & Freedom US Section, The National Welfare Rights Union, and An Economy of Our Own. RSVP here.

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Public Banking Learning Circle (Sliding Scale Digital Series)
Aug
27
to Nov 12

Public Banking Learning Circle (Sliding Scale Digital Series)

Learn more about public banking in our learning circle for women—and become a skilled advocate for economic change in your community!

Public Banking can save the planet, close the equity gap, address systemic racism, stop funding weapons and global wars, and level the playing field for women and families. Learn more in the first series of our special and accessible workshops for women—and become a skilled advocate for economic change in your community!

This is an entirely digital, small-group series of six sessions offered at a sliding scale. We will meet first on Friday, August 27th at 8pm eastern/5pm pacific and work together through the fall, including during sessions on 9/10, 10/1, and 10/22. Registration is limited to 20. All registration fees are donations that will fuel our work to make this information widely accessible.

Register here.

Together with the guidance of a skilled advocate instructor, you’ll learn why public banking is currently taking off in cities and states around the US, what advantages and progress it’s offering locally, and how switching to a public bank from the too-big-to-fail Wall Street banks could save your state or city huge dollars better spent for affordable education, housing, and local loans for small businesses and farms.

You’ll also get convincing talking points, strategies and mentoring from experienced organizers to advance public banking locally, build your confidence and credibility in a male-dominated world, move past hesitations and objections and the well-heeled lobbying of big transnational banks; to most effectively support existing local initiatives, and start the dialogue from scratch with the folks who need to be at the table. You’ll find help to make your points effectively without ‘mansplaining’ and ‘manterruptions’, and how to be taken seriously, even if you have no banking experience behind you.

To register, select "donation." Please be mindful that this amount covers all six sessions. We value this course at $120, but even six dollars—one dollar per season—will get you on the roster. We offer programming on a sliding scale in keeping with our internal values of accessibility regardless of economic means. (If you can afford to give more, please do, so that we may be able to continue offering free and low-cost economic justice resources to the public!)

Co-sponsored by An Economy of Our Own, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom US Section’s Women, Money & Democracy Committee, and Public Banking Institute.

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Zoom Of Our Own: Fostering Climate and Economic Justice from the Ground Up
May
24
8:00 PM20:00

Zoom Of Our Own: Fostering Climate and Economic Justice from the Ground Up

What is security? On whose account? Our species faces a climate crisis, a water and food crisis, and a demented delusion that humans are natural overlords of earth’s domain. T-Rex probably believed that too. Then the weather got really bad...

An Economy of Our Own gathered some of the earthiest women we know to talk about sustaining our weather, our water, and our food. This talk provides solutions for climate change, rooted in current extractive agricultural & water policy, and resource-grabbing for private profit. It's a huge set of topics, but these just the women to help us make sense of it.

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Zoom of Our Own: Creating Money and Blowing Big Bubbles
Mar
29
8:00 PM20:00

Zoom of Our Own: Creating Money and Blowing Big Bubbles

If Wall Street and Silicon Valley have more billionaires than ever, how come Main Street’s people are living from paycheck to paycheck—and that’s if they’re lucky?! What is the nature of the currency we call the dollar? And how can we invest our privately earned dollars and our shared public dollars more wisely for the long term? What does the Robinhood GameStop story in the news tell us about the money systems we all count on, but that treats us very differently if we’re Black, brown, or female?

Learn how women are working now to more clearly explain our current money world, including the Federal Reserve, and working to change our money’s intent—not to enrich just a few winners at the cost of mostly losers, but to grant all of us a livable future—in this Zoom of Our Own.

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Zoom of Our Own: Envisioning Feminist Economic Futures
Feb
22
8:00 PM20:00

Zoom of Our Own: Envisioning Feminist Economic Futures

Much has been said about “the new normal.” After the pandemic, what will our world look like? The last four years (and the centuries before them!) have revealed that we must dream beyond “reform”—and envision and design real feminist futures that look entirely different from our lopsided reality that discounts our value.

Join us for a conversation on how we can truly “build back better”—by addressing the she-cession caused by COVID-19 and the underlying racism, sexism, and economic inequality that it has highlighted.

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THE LAUNDROMAT Screening and Discussion
Nov
14
6:00 PM18:00

THE LAUNDROMAT Screening and Discussion

Join WILPF-US and An Economy of Our Own for a virtual movie screening and discussion!

Bring your popcorn and settle back for an entertaining and enlightening glimpse of how the 1% evades billions in taxes and use corporate fraud to victimize ordinary people in the process! Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas head a cast of character actors you'll recognize in THE LAUNDROMAT, all of whom are working to raise awareness of this issue. The docudrama is based on the real life PANAMA PAPERS. A courageous woman journalist was murdered to keep her from releasing her story—but that's not the only blood on the hands of these Dark Money Criminals.

We'll watch together on the NETFLIX PARTY App. Immediately following the film, we'll meet in a ZOOM meeting to discuss what you thought of it.

Register for this FREE event through Eventbrite to get a CURRICULUM of resources, the Zoom Room link, and some SUGGESTED ACTIONS in your inbox!

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Zoom of Our Own: The Invisible Woman
Oct
27
8:00 PM20:00

Zoom of Our Own: The Invisible Woman

The work women do is mostly underpaid, always undervalued, and frequently invisible. That won’t change till we change the way we value women’s contributions, paid or unpaid. Our society values what we count and measure. Advocates for a Caring Economy insist we count and value how caring makes the world go around.

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Zoom Of Our Own: Shared Economies
Oct
13
8:00 PM20:00

Zoom Of Our Own: Shared Economies

What if you and you community owned its own banks and corporations? How can the collective approach of cooperative business models and banking in the public interest work together? Why would these make a difference for women?

Join us for a conversation about building shared economies between AEOO advisory board members Jamila Medley, of the Philadelphia Area Cooperative, and Jhumpa Bhattacharya, of The Insight Center for Community Development in Oakland; Emma Chappell, of the Public Banking Institute; and Susan Harman, a public banking activist in Oakland.

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