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“In a world of abundance, billions of people are struggling, while
enormous wealth and power become concentrated in the hands
of a few. Why and how has this happened? What hidden forces fuel inequality, debt and instability? And what realistic and bold reforms could create an economy that works for everyone?”
— The American Monetary Institute
On Sunday, September 21st, International Day of Peace, Gwen Hallsmith will untangle how an exploitive money system is actually intentionally designed to create a permanent underclass and real solutions to transform that system into one that serves people and planet. It’s an issue that is extremely relevant to all who yearn for peace, because our money system props up militarism, weapons, conflicts and war. The zoom is co-sponsored by Alliance for Just Money, an ally of Women, Money & Democracy Committee.
Gwendolyn Hallsmith is an economist, and environmentalist, a community activist and musician. She makes complicated ideas accessible and manages to put a positive spin on what is clearly economic oppression on a grand scale.
Gwen is the Executive Director of Global Community Initiatives, a non-profit organization she founded in 2002. She is the author of six books on sustainable community and economic development and has worked with communities all over the world to foster caring communities, local economies, good governance, efficient services, and healthy ecosystems. She founded Vermonters for a New Economy to work on economic solutions at the state level, and the Headwaters Garden and Learning Center, an ecovillage in Cabot, VT. She and her husband, Michael Taub, sing in a folk duo called The New Economistas. This summer, she organized a flotilla in New York City to welcome Greta Thunberg to the U.S. and used a Facebook group called #YouGoGreta to do it. Her books, The Key to Sustainable Cities, and Creating Wealth, are available for no cost in the #YouGoGreta Group Files.
Facebook > https://www.facebook.com/groups/YouGoGreta
Instagram > @gwendolynhallsmith/
Twitter > @ghallsmith
Websites:
https://www.neweconomyvt.org
http://www.global-community.org
https://www.headwatersvermont.org
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