This public forum will investigate how the creation of worker owned businesses can be an innovative and effective response to the complex and pressing issues facing humanity in every corner of the earth.
The meta-crisis (also known as the poly-crisis) is a perspective that tries to comprehend and explain how the multiplicity of crises such as climate change, species extinction, habitat destruction, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) threat, nuclear proliferation, unending wars, disease, wealth polarization and poverty can all be happening and interacting at the same time.
In the last two SBE discussions at Black Spark we have examined how the far right have been responding to these vexing circumstances through both right accelerationism and what Naomi Klein cals 'end-times fascism'. This time we want to examine a response from the radical left...
Charlie Phillips is co-founder of the Earthworker Smart Energy Coop (ESEC) and will outline why community wealth building and economic democracy in the workplace are central principals of the worker coops, and fundamental to his involvement in the movement.
Colin Long is a long-time trade unionist and supporter both of Earthworker and the practices of a 'just transition'. He will tackle the big picture issue of responding to the meta-crisis head on.
The third speaker will be announced soon!
All welcome. $5 entry.
A home-cooked Palestinian meal will be available from Wissam Shaweesh at $15 a plate.
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