People are realizing that they cannot make it in the current Wall Street dominated corporate capitalist economy. It is not designed for most people to make it. Rather it is designed for a small percentage to profit while everyone else is exploited and economically insecure.

A new economic model is gravely needed and has in fact taken root worldwide and increasingly in the US. People are not waiting for Congress, and are instead taking action to create the new democratized economy in many areas from finance to employment to food, energy and health care....

The second national Democracy Convention will take place this August 7 to 11 in Madison WI. Once again, It’s Our Economy is organizing the economic democracy conference, this time in partnership with the Public Banking Institute. Our focus this year is to bring those who have been building the new economy together to share what they are learning so that participants can put new systems in place in their own communities.

The Economic Democracy Conference will bring together people who are working on the front lines to:

- Build sustainable local living economies
- Democratize the money supply
- Create publicly owned banks
- Create worker and consumer owned and operated businesses
- Develop participatory budgets
- Fight and prevent foreclosures
- Fight for health care reform and alternative health delivery systems


Sessions include (full descriptions coming soon!):
- Essential Information for Starting a Public Bank with Marc Armstrong, Public Banking Institute
- The Emerging Shape of the Next System with Gar Alperovitz, The Democracy Collaborative
- Re-Imagining Now: Taking the Next Steps with Lillia and Herb Frantin, People for a New Society
- Rethinking Money with Jacqui Dunne
- Saving the People's Post Office with Jim Sauber
- Models for Affordable Housing with Greg Rosenberg
- How to Stop the World's Largest 'Trade Agreement' with Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Josh Wise, and David Newby
- A New Kind of Corporation with Jim Armstrong
- Fighting the Debt-Based Economy with Thomas Gokey
- Public Banking Around the World with Kurt Von Mettenheim

It's Our Economy and the Public Banking Institute are the principal conveners of the Economic Democracy Conference. Contact Margaret Flowers at mdpnhp@gmail.com for more info.