Funding the Revolution?
Participatory Economics and Funding Activist Organizing in Chicago discussion with ZNet’s and Z Magazine’s Michael Albert (Author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism and Remembering Tomorrow)
In 2007, Chicago has seen may critical community gatherings and discussions focusing on the challenge of funding important and critical organizing in a climate of privatization, neoliberalism and the rise of the so called “non-profit industrial complex.” The Hull-House Museum ahs hosted a whole workshop series with Incite! Women of Color Against Violence—the authors of “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded” and in 2007 AREA Chicago and the Fire This Time Fund held an “How We Fund” event to discuss different alternative funding strategies being employed throughout Chicago.
At this event, the organizers would like to attempt to connect the critiques and challenges around resource sharing and funding critical organizing in a capitalist society with one of the most potent proposals for an economic system outside of capitalism.
This event should be relevant to students of economics and non-profit management, artists and activists and concerned curious people alike.
This event is part of AREA Chicago’s irregular “infrastructure” lecture series about self-organized infrastructure, strengthening critical networks and activist organizational structure. Website:
www.AREAchicago.org
About the speaker: Michael Albert is a longtime activist, speaker, and writer, is co-editor of ZNET, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has developed along with Robin Hahnel the economic vision called participatory economics (“parecon”). For more information about Parecon, visit
www.parecon.org
