Remaking the Economy:

Escaping Corporate Capture

Wednesday, September 18th, 2024

2:00pm - 3:30pm ET

What is “corporate capture” and how can people escape its effects—in our politics, our culture, our daily life, and in the nonprofit sector? How do people, in short, build an actual everyday politics and economics of liberation?

This was the organizing question for the summer 2024 issue of Nonprofit Quarterly. To addresses this question and expand upon their contributions, three authors from NPQ’s summer economic justice magazine will explore the concept of corporate capture and how movement-based groups can build viable escape routes to advance economic justice. Our panelists are:

Kali Akuno is the cofounder and executive director of Cooperation Jackson, based in Jackson, Mississippi.

Hannah Appel is cofounder of the Debt Collective, a professor of anthropology, and associate director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, based in Los Angeles, California.

Arlene Martinez is deputy executive director of Good Jobs First, based in Washington, DC.

Sara Myklebust is research director for Bargaining for the Common Good, based at Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor in Washington, DC.

This webinar will explore:

• What do we mean by corporate capture? How does it affect economic justice work? 

• How can debtors organize to build power and restrain the power of banks and financial institutions? 

• How can communities organize effectively to limit corporate tax breaks?
  

• How can workers and labor unions leverage trillions of worker pension dollars to advance an economy that prioritizes the common good?

• How does one build a solidarity economy on the ground?  

• What does it look like to transform racial capitalism? What are points of leverage and how do we engage for the long haul? 

• What is the role of cultural change in economic change work?

• What are the democratic economic structures that people want and need—and are worth fighting for?

Whether you’re a social movement activist, nonprofit leader, board member, or engaged in community-based organizing, this webinar will provide you with real-life examples and lessons learned that can inform your work in your own community.

Register to learn how nonprofits and movement activists are advancing strategies to address the economic and social inequalities of our time!

The moderator for this webinar is NPQ senior editor of economic justice Steve Dubb. Steve has worked with cooperatives and nonprofits for over two decades and has been both a student and practitioner in the field of community economic development. 

You can send your questions to webinar@npqmag.org to have them answered during the web event.