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Holiday capitalism takes a vacation for the evening as Edgar Villanueva, author of the recently-released bestseller “Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance” joins us for a special event. Villanueva will expose the racial and colonists dynamics within finance and philanthropy, including our most popular aid organizations and nonprofits, and will provide a framework for a better way.
Going beyond rhetoric, Villanueva is leading a revolution out of what has come to be known as the “Non-Profit Industrial Complex,” showing the world of philanthropy that non-oppressive wealth redistribution to communities and causes is possible. “Decolonizing Wealth” is a call to action for wealth redistribution in ways that will repair, heal, empower, and unite.
After a talk about his book, Villanueva will be joined in conversation by:
Sarah Frank, an organizer and Board Member with Resource Generation, a multiracial membership community of young people (18-35) with wealth and/or class privilege committed to the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power.
Yusuf Nuruddin, a lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Nuruddin is the author of an article entitled "Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations," which appeared in the journal of Socialism and Democracy, and conducted an interview of Reparations activists, Sam Anderson and Muntu Matsimela, entitled "The Reparations Movement: An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism." His work has appeared in Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow and Their Legacies, edited by Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto (Duke University Press, 2007).
This FREE event will include a Q & A, and a book signing with the author will follow the program.