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One organization is building a real alternative to an economy that profits from oppression.
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- What the oppression economy is and how it stays in place
- How a liberation economy works in practice
- What it takes to build institutions that dismantle extractive systems
- Why profitability and justice do not have to be opposites
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Meet the co-founder of an organization working to dismantle the “oppression economy” and manifest the “liberation economy.”This episode is sponsored by:
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