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What To Do When Racism Is Profitable

January 12, 2022 · 45 min

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One organization is building a real alternative to an economy that profits from oppression.

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In this episode

  • 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

About this episode

Meet the co-founder of an organization working to dismantle the “oppression economy” and manifest the “liberation economy.”

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