Acting for Change, Creating Justice
A Shmita-inspired Speaker Series presents
Creating Economic Justice
Sunday March 21
10 - 11AM RMT | Noon - 1PM ET | 9-10AM PT
Greg Watson
Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics.
His work currently focuses on community food systems and the dynamics between local and geo-economic systems. Watson has spent nearly 40 years learning to understand systems thinking as inspired by Buckminster Fuller and to apply that understanding to achieve a just and sustainable world.
Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster (she/her) Deputy Director, T’ruah
Rachel is lead strategist on T’ruah’s human rights campaigns. She heads the organizing and training of more than 2,000 rabbis and cantors. Since 2007 she has organized against U.S-sponsored torture in the war on terror, initiated campaigns against human trafficking and forced labor, to end solitary confinement, to fight against mass incarceration, and for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. Rachel spearheads T’ruah’s critical partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida, and leads Jewish community in worker-led campaigns for corporate accountability.
Registration Required; Suggested donation $18 per session