Funder Briefing: Faith, Values And The Economy On January 23rd
Funders are invited to a special briefing on Faith, Values, and the Economy hosted by Open Society Foundations, Nathan Cummings Foundation and Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock.
The briefing will be on Monday, January 23rd at the Open Society Foundations Offices (400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019) from 11:00 to 1:00. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Heddy Nam at hnam [at] sorosny [dot] org.
Description:
The Occupy Wall Street protests accomplished in a matter of months what progressives have struggled to do for years by focusing the nation’s attention on corporate greed, economic injustice and inequality. Shared prosperity, economic opportunity and corporate accountability are being recognized by more people as fundamental American values. The time has finally come for a moral debate about the economy.
But powerful opponents of economic fairness have consolidated their power and built a formidable policy, communications, and grassroots alliance. They have already mounted successful anti-union and voter-suppression campaigns and now stand poised to thwart progress toward economic justice and gut all remaining progressive public policy achievements of the past century.
A key component of their strategy of gutting Medicaid, eliminating unions and privatizing Medicare and Social Security is casting their agenda as a morally responsible solution that resonates with the values of average Americans. Yet the Occupy Wall Street movement and the work of progressive faith communities over the past five years has shown us that a different set of values can have more universal appeal. A group of prominent advocates have come up with a strategy to do just that. Please join us for a short briefing and discussion of their plan.
This conversation will be exclusively 501(c)3 in nature. Please RSVP by January 13, 2012 to Heddy Nam at hnam [at] sorosny [dot] org. Thank you.
Featuring:
• Rob Stein, Founder of the Democracy Alliance
• Tom Chabolla, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• Jennifer Butler, Executive Director, Faith in Public Life
• Katie Paris, Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Media Matters
• David Brock, Founder & President, Media Matters
