About this event:
Caring economies, circular economies, and degrowth economies can lead towards more gender justice and more eco-justice.
Shifting from devastating extractive and shortsighted greed and addiction-based economic models is imperative; we can shift to values in practice, including caring and partnership among people and with nature.
In the words of Audre Lorde, “the masters tools will not dismantle the master’s house”, and ending women’s poverty will not happen using individualistic pathways of financial achievement. New (and old) ways to share care, wealth, and community resilience will be explored in this session, along with the political pathways to make this possible.
Speakers will include:
Dr. Riane Eisler, President of the Center for Partnership Systems
- On Building a Caring Economy
- On Nurturing our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives and Future
Theresa Ardler: Aboriginal Activist, Artist and Director of Gweagal Cultural Connections
- Raising Attention to the World’s Oceans and the Devastating pollution of PFAS – Forever Chemicals
- A Woman’s Bid to Heal Country
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Executive Director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice
- The Poor People’s Campaign Vows to ‘Wake the Sleeping Giant of Low-Income Voters’
- The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
- We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People’s Campaign
Dr. Jason Hickel (invited), economic anthropologist, author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
About your host:
Grove Harris is an eco-justice advocate bringing diverse grassroots perspectives to an international arena. As Director of Global Advocacy and Representative to the UN for the Temple of Understanding, she works on climate change, food sovereignty, economic justice, gender equality, and more.
Grove was Program Director for the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions and Managing Director for the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. Her Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School (1996) incorporated studies of organizational development and business management into the study of religion and ethics.
Grove is a writer and artist, engaged in her home communities in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.