BUILDING A PEACE ECONOMY

How to Defund War & Create a Peace Economy Through Right Valuing Land & Tading Billionaires’ Unearned Income

While billionaires accumulate vast unearned wealth through financial gains and land speculation, communities struggle for housing, heath care, and peace. This webinar explores how shifting our tax system — taking what people take from the commons rather than what they create – can fund the foundations of a truly peaceful society. . Our speaker will connect the dots and offer real solutions for which we can advocate. Questions: Contact mbgardam@gmail.com

WHAT WE’LL EXPLORE TOGETHER:
• Why billionaire wealth is largely unearned – and what that means for democracy.
• The history of privatizing land and resources, ‘the commons’ and the historic enclosure of the commons.
• Land value taxation as a tool for affordable housing & shared prosperity
• Real world examples of how it can work.
• The link between economic inequality, militarism and the peace we seek.

PRESENTER:
Alanna Harzok, a WILPF member, educator, activist and lecturer at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. Alanna is the author of The Earth Belongs To Everyone (Radical Middle Book Award). She is Co-Director of the Earth Rights Institute and a UN NGO Representative of the International Union for Land Value Taxation. She is the architect of landmark Pennsylvania land value tax reform legislation.

8pm-9:30pm ET / 7pm – 8:30pm CT / 5pm-6:30pm PT

Sponsored by the Women, Money & Democracy Committee and the Earth Democracy Committee of WILPF US