John -- Making Money Make Change is just one week away, and it’s not too late to register!
Young people (18-35 years old) with access to wealth and class privilege attend our conference Making Money Make Change for community, shared direction, and ways toward deeper solidarity with each other, our world, and social justice. We hope people leave feeling connected, re-energized and re-committed to building a world where land, wealth and power are shared.
This two day version of the annual conference will take place Friday October 15th and Saturday, October 16th from 10am-3pm PT / 12pm-5pm CT / 1pm-6pm ET. Register here by October 11!
This year's workshop topics will explore issues related to Internationalism and Global Solidarity, cross-class organizing for Climate Justice, Actualizing Land Returns and Transformative Investing. We’ll be joined by leaders and organizers from the NDN Collective, Movement Generation, Thousand Currents, the Movement for Black Lives, the Center for Popular Democracy, and more. You won’t want to miss it :)
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*If you have attended an RG conference or virtual praxis before and would like to lead a pod at MMMC 2021 please fill out this form!
Will you join us this fall for a virtual version of Making Money Make Change (MMMC)? This two-day version of the annual conference will take place Friday October 15th and Saturday, October 16th from 10am-3pm PST / 12pm-5pm CST / 1pm-6pm EST.
This year's workshop topics will explore issues related to Internationalism and Global Solidarity, cross-class organizing for Climate Justice, Actualizing Land Returns and Transformative Investing. The panels will focus on the demands of social justice organizers in this political moment, best practices for young donors and examining class privilege. We’ll spend time in small groups sharing stories, planning, and connecting. We'll hear from leaders within RG's campaign partner organizations, the Movement for Black Lives and Center for Popular Democracy, as well as powerful speakers from the NDN Collective, Movement Generation, and from RG's very own membership!
Check out the MMMC schedule, including confirmed speakers and panels!
Friday, October 15th
1:00-2:15 Opening Session - Members of RG’s Staff team will open our shared space, share RG’s core beliefs and offer a shared framework for understanding class and classism.
2:15-3:30 Small Groups
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Workshops
Climate Catastrophe and Capitalism
- We live in a time of planetary emergency. Ours is the era of rising waters and super storms, of refinery fires and foreclosed futures. It is the age of mass incarceration & mass deportation, of mass unemployment & mass extinction.
- Learn about the Just Transition Framework, and the pivotal role we can all play in bringing forth local, living, loving, linked economies, as we are simultaneously dismantling the banks & tanks economy.
- Presenter: Mateo Nube of Movement Generation
Internationalism and Global Solidarity
- Learn more about the role of young people with access to wealth in fighting back against colonialism and the US Empire.
- Presenters: Jessie Spector and Katherine Zavala of Thousand Currents
5:30-6:00 Close out
7:00 Opt in evening fun time
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Saturday October 16, 2021
1:00-2:30 Workshops
- Land Returns and Indigenous Sovereignty
- In this workshop, we'll learn about the work of the NDN Collective to return native lands to native hands and explore the role young people with wealth can play in actualizing land returns at the individual and systemic levels. Most philanthropic institutions were not built to support indigenous sovereignty; in fact many of them serve to keep indigenous lands in the hands of settlers. We'll engage questions about how we relate to institutions of philanthropy and how we can shift towards returning stolen land, wealth and power.
- Nick Tilsen of the NDN Collective
- Transformative Investing as a Tool for Building Solidarity Economies
- Earlier this year, RG launched the Transformative Investment Principles (TIPs) to guide our members in divesting from Wall Street and reinvesting funds, resources, and energy into building solidarity economies. The TIPs offer a vision for young people with wealth supporting community wealth building, shared ownership, and the self-determination of BIPOC and poor & working class communities. Join this session to learn what it looks like for RGers to turn these principles into action through specific examples and frameworks. No familiarity with investing or solidarity economies concepts will be assumed or expected.
- Presenters: Nadav David, Emily Wyner, Mohit Mookim of Resource Generation
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:15 State of the Movement Plenary (Staff lead: Yahya)
- We’ll have an opportunity to learn from our movement partners at the Center for Popular Democracy and the Movement for Black Lives about the state of our movements and what’s on the horizon. Panelists will speak to the political moment we’re in and what’s possible in the years to come.
- Panelists: Damareo Cooper, Arlenis Morel, Jamecia Gray, and Blu Lewis
4:15-5:30 Pods
5:30-6 Closing
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MMMC is an intimate space that uses workshops, storytelling, and skill-building to create a space for young people with class privilege and wealth to explore questions of identity and responsibility in a supportive environment. MMMC programming is dynamic and specific to young people with wealth who are interested in social justice. Whether you have been grappling with what it means to have class privilege and value social change for some time or are new to thinking about these topics, we invite you to attend and explore these topics in community.
Get more info about this conference and registration here.
Hope to see you there!
In community,
The RG Team
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