Kate Raworth, Raj Patel, Ashish Kothari, Lauren Paremoer
Moderator: Laura Flanders

The pandemic should have been a turning point towards a new economy centered around essential workers and essential needs. Instead it has sparked speculative profiteering, a surge in prices for essential goods, the revival of an austerity economics and a disturbing growth in poverty and precarity. What changes are needed to bring back control over food and essential services, to put care rather than greed at the centre of our economy and to protect rather than destroy our environmental life-systems?

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0:00 PART 1: Laura Flanders: Introduction of the panelists.
02:23 Raj Patel: Health and global food systems.
16:49 Lauren Paremoer: Global health governance and colonialism.
31:10 Ashish Kothari: People's responses to global crises.
41:52 Kate Raworth: Doughnut economy.

52:38 PART 2: How do grass-roots intervene in this moment of crisis to pull people together with so many strong forces pushing against us and a rise of some sort of strongman rule all across the world?
55:59 Answer by Raj Patel
59:00 Answer by Ashish Kothari
1:05:11 Answer by Lauren Paremoer
1:09:52 Answer by Kate Raworth

1:13:25 PART 3: What are the next steps in building an alternative economy?
1:14:45 Answer by Lauren Paremoer
1:16:40 Answer by Raj Patel
1:20:57 Answer by Kate Raworth

1:24:44 PART 4: Q&A: How can local global South movements in usually difficult political climates build on the legacy grass-roots movements of the past have left and create transcendental, social, post-capitalist rewording spaces at scale this decade like perhaps we've started seeing in the Euro-American world?
1:25:43 Answer by Ashish Kothari
1:35:33 Answer by Raj Patel
1:38:26 Answer by Kate Raworth
1:41:18 Answer by Lauren Paremoer

1:44:51 PART 5: Closing comments
1:46:17 Kate Raworth
1:47:31 Ashish Kothari
1:50:36 Raj Patel
1:51:50 Kate Raworth
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