Decolonizing Economics 2024: Earth Day to May Day

• Educate about decolonizing economics in purpose and practice.
• Devise strategies to create an explicitly post-capitalist society using the “Solidarity Economy” framework:
  • – Solidarity, cooperation, and mutualism
  • – Equity in all dimensions–race/ethnicity/nationality/class/gender/sexual orientation/(dis)ability
  • – Participatory democracy
  • – Sustainability

• Strengthen existing organizations, especially those doing solidarity economy work.
• Create a space for organizations to share best practices and collaborate across issues and constituencies toward collective liberation.
• Co-create concrete “next steps” for how we can implement cooperative economic practices in our community.
• Feature panels, presentations, performances, and skill-shops which address the various perspectives and approaches of grassroots organizations, community activists, educators, students, and others committed to social, economic, and environmental justice.

Decolonizing economics is an explicit challenge to ourselves and participants to center Indigenous wisdom, perspective, and knowledge. Decolonization is not a metaphor, it is the path towards just social, political, and economic institutions. A call to decolonize economics acknowledges that in order to build the movement for reparative justice, we need to first understand the extent to which colonialism has influenced/continues to influence our modern economy. Our summit aims to demonstrate real solutions to heal the land and people, through educating attendees about our economic system, the failings of putting profit over people, and the ways in which groups around the world are working towards economic and social justice.