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While billionaires accumulate vast unearned wealth through financial gains and land speculation, communities struggle for housing, health care, and peace. This webinar explores how shifting our tax system -- taking what people extract from the commons, rather than what they create – can fund the foundations of a truly peaceful society.
This is a timely subject and one that peacewomen everywhere should be aware of. W$D member Alanna Hartzok will address the web of issues that encompass the challenges of changing the way we value land and earned vs. unearned income. Our speaker will connect the dots and provide potential solutions for changing our tax system and valuing the sacredness of our land and water.
WHAT WE’LL EXPLORE TOGETHER:
- Why billionaire wealth is largely unearned – and what that means for democracy.
- The history of privatizing land and resources, ‘the commons’ and the historic enclosure of the commons.
- Land value taxation as a tool for affordable housing & shared prosperity
- Real world examples of how it can work.
- The link between economic inequality, militarism and the peace we seek.
PRESENTER:
Alanna Hartzok, a WILPF member, educator, activist, and lecturer. Alanna is the author of The Earth Belongs To Everyone (Radical Middle Book Award). She delivered the 21st Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture, titled "Democracy, Earth Rights, and the Next Economy." Twice a candidate for US Congress (Green Party and Democratic Party) she has worked extensively on economic solutions, including with the UN HABITAT's Global Land Tool Network. She is Co-Director of the Earth Rights Institute and a UN NGO Representative of the International Union for Land Value Taxation. She is the architect of landmark Pennsylvania land value tax reform legislation.
Co-Sponsored by two focus areas of WILPF US:
Women, Money & Democracy Committee and Earth Democracy Committee
For more information Contact Women, Money & Democracy.
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