Democratizing Finance -- Video Panel CommonBound 2016
Channel: New Economy Coalition
Date: 2016-08-03

How can we assure that the material resources and tools are available to communities to meet their needs and elevate the quality of life? We will explore the movement to create democratic sources of financing to enable communities to build a democratic, just and sustainable economy.We will discuss the role of finance, fundamentals of non-extractive finance, and principles being used to develop a financial cooperative nationally, in close connection to grassroots front-line communities.The panel will use concrete examples of existing models.

View other panels and one-on-one interviews from CommonBound at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa_ZFgCXqR0h5du_X6_vHV3LQcHp79HMk

Speakers: 
Ed Whitfield (Fund for Democratic Communities),
Aisha Shillingford (Intelligent Mischief)
Kate Poole (Regenerative Finance)
Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan (Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project)
Brendan Martin (The Working World) 

Learn more about this session and others like it at http://commonbound.org

CommonBound is a project of the New Economy Coalition (NEC), a network of 150-plus organizations including PeoplesAction, 350.org, and the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. NEC partnered on the conference with the Buffalo-based Crossroads Collective.

Filmed at CommonBound 2016 in Buffalo, NY. Videography by the Extraenvironmentalists (http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com/ ).