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Redistributing Wealth, Land and Power: Leveraging Privilege Towards Collective Liberation

The plenary, Redistributing Wealth, Land and Power: Leveraging Privilege Towards Collective Liberation, from our retreat, Making Money Make Change, is available to listen to on SoundCloud.

Listen to it here.

Panelists: Dominique Tan (RG member), Margi (RG member), Rye Young (Third Wave), and Braeden Lentz (Solidaire and RG board member).

Moderator: Burke Stansbury (Social Justice Fund NW, RG alumni, former RG board member).
Learn more about our retreat, Making Money Make Change, here.
 

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