Tuesday, October 13, 5pm PST/8pm EST
Tuesday, October 27, 5pm PST/8pm EST
WILPF’s Women, Money & Democracy Committee is co-sponsoring with our partner organization An Economy Of Our Own (AEOO) two free Zoom webinars in October.
AEOO is putting multicultural, multiracial women together for "deep conversation". They'll share innovative economic connections they are making to visualize an economy where all work is valued and remunerated, and where projects that invest in community can be funded locally
WILPF members will be inspired by these innovative solutions women are advancing in cities like yours, to fund projects that advance equity.
WHO IS AEOO? This short VIDEO says it all.
Why Are We Working With AEOO?
We know that when women have control of the way the economy works we collaborate to create potent solutions to inequity. We’re tired of being told there is not enough money for what we need and want. So women are devising creative ways to fund what communities need most: education, healthcare, affordable housing, clean water, national daycare, maintaining locally owned utilities, making student loans affordable, and providing people-centered relief efforts during national emergencies. These solutions can help us mindfully move the money from endless war, to projects that nurture life.
First Webinar
TUES., OCT 13th at 8pm-9:45 pm EST/5pm-6:45 pm PST
SHARED ECONOMIES: What If You and Your Community
Owned Your Own Bank and Your Own Corporation?
How can the collective approach of cooperative business models and banking in the public interest work in concert? Why would these make a difference for women? This webinar blends the projects communities most want to fund with innovative local investment strategies.
We’ll hear from Philly banking pioneer, Emma Chappell with the Public Banking Institute and Jamila Medley of Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance about the difference cooperatively owned businesses are making in their city, for communities of color facing gentrification in Philadelphia. And we’ll explore how the same kinds of innovations are working in Oakland California, hearing from Susan Harman with the East Bay Public Banking movement and Jhumpa Bhattacharya at The Insight Center for Community Economic Development.
Second Webinar
TUES., OCT 27th at 8pm-9:45pm EST/5pm-6:45pm PST
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN: Exploitation Beyond the Pay Gap
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.
Riane Eisler (feminist ROCK STAR and Caring Economy enthusiast who wrote The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations) will connect the links between the invisibility of care work, women’s discounted paychecks for care work, and what the pandemic has helped us see more clearly: all our work at home we’re expected to do for free.
Artist Patti Maciecz has created an invoice for all that invisible work and value. She calls it “Bill the Patriarchy”, part of her Invisible Labor Union.
WILPF’s own Martha Collins works for the Milwaukee area food bank and will bring the perspective of single moms who are doing it all, and often facing poverty.
What makes AEOO’s Zoom of Our Own talks unique?
Seeing and seeking connections seems to be women's ways of knowing. AEOO is putting multicultural, multiracial women together to talk about economic combinations and test them out in partnership. (Like a cooperative business and a bank to finance it. Or assigning value to, and counting, the things we love.)
Feminist economics is experienced in every day, often complex, interactions in real communities. The goal of these conversations is to model how women talking and learning together about economics can use what they learn to disrupt the rigged system that exists and create ‘an economy of our own’.
For more information about WILPF’s Women, Money & Democracy Committee, please contact the committee chair, Marybeth Gardam at mbgardam(at)gmail(dot)com.
