IAS panel at EcoNvergence Conference in Portland, OR
Saturday, October 3 at 9:15 a.m.
with Harjit Singh Gill, Paul Messersmith-Glavin, Andrej Grubacic, and Cindy Milstein

This panel starts from the premise that the ecological crisis is a social crisis; that the two are intimately bound up together and in fact inseparable. Thus, in order to create an ecological society, it is imperative to envision and work toward a world beyond capitalism, in which people’s needs and desires would instead be met in egalitarian, mutualistic, and directly democratic ways. Those powerful forces that not only exacerbated but also benefited from the twin crises are hard at work trying to manage the “recovery” to their own additional advantage. Our goal is to spark the imagination around grassroots strategies and visions that would address the root causes of these related crises, yet more important, would empower us all to begin building alternatives aimed a fundamentally different world—one that’s liberatory, just, and ecological.

For more info on EcoNvergence, see www.econvergence.org