The World We Want
When: June 16, 2018
Priory Street Centre, 15 Priory Street, York YO1 6ET
With speakers including:
- Jason Hickel, author of The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions
- Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central and Shadow Rail Minister
- Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now
- Anke Kleff from Barcelona en Comú (social and economic justice platform currently governing in Barcelona)
2pm-6.30pm, Saturday 16 June
View the final programme (pdf)
For decades we’ve been told that there is no alternative to a global economy run in the interests of corporations. Big business creates the wealth and lifts everyone up in the process. Yet when the richest 1% owns 82% of wealth globally, people are increasingly seeing through these lies.
Those who want a better world often spend their time fighting the latest encroachments of corporate power. But the movements we’re part of are also generating ideas for the world we want to see, and beginning to build them. These alternatives, from energy democracy to public and commons-based ownership of essential medicine, put the majority of the world’s people and the environment first. Together, they offer a much needed vision of the world we want, and are stepping stones to a better future, beyond the inequality and injustice of neoliberal capitalism.
With workshops and discussions on:
- Barcelona and beyond: the citizen platforms democratising cities
- Food sovereignty
- Public ownership
- The commons and access to medicine
- Energy democracy
- What good trade deals would look like
- UK aid as global redistribution
- Freedom of movement
- Growth and degrowth
Organised by Global Justice Now and York Trade Justice.
Advance registration for The World We Want is now closed, but it is still possible to turn up and register on the day.
The World We Want, together with our our AGM at the same venue in the morning, make up Global Justice Now’s 2018 national gathering.
Please note: The venue is between 5 and 10 minutes’ walk from York train station.
