Dreaming and Building Freedom

press release:

“Making Sure We Make a Difference”

Tuesday, March 26, 5pm, Social Justice Center, 1202 Williamson St.

“Three Paths for the Academy in the Freedom Struggle”

Wednesday, March 27, 12 noon, 6191 Helen C. White

ED WHITFIELD is Co-Founder and Co-Managing Director of the Fund for Democratic Communities (F4DC) and serves on the board of the The Working World (TWW) and the New Economy Coalition (NEC) while chairing the board of Southern Reparations Loan Fund (SRLF), a network of Southern, place based loan funds that are part of Seed Commons: A Community Wealth Cooperative. Ed spent 9 years as Board Chairman of the Greensboro NC Redevelopment Commission while at the same time working full time in industry as a machinist, electronics technician and then an electronics specialist before becoming involved with the cooperative movement and the world of democratic non-extractive finance.



Ed is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas and was a long time social justice activist from the Black Student Movement and the Black Power Movement before becoming involved in cooperative development and philanthropy. He now spends most of his time trying to help communities build self-reliant economies to meet their needs and elevate the quality of life. Ed has begun writing recently about comprehensive approaches to community economic development and the need to build “liberated zones.”

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Co-sponsored by the Madison Cooperative Development Coalition (MCDC) and MadWorC.