Popular Economics Education For All

The Center for Popular Economics needs your help to make the Summer Institute accessible to all!

 Since our founding in 1979, the Center for Popular Economics has demystified the economy for thousands of activists engaged in the fight for economic justice. Our Summer Institute – a weeklong residential and intensive program that draws activists, media makers, teachers and community groups from around the world – has always been the centerpiece of our popular education programs.

Our 2017 Summer Institute -“Building Global Solidarity in an Age of Division: The Political Economy of Trade, Migration and Climate Crisis” - will explore the economic structures which have shaped this moment, and how we can build alternative forms of global economic integration and solid arity. The institute will offer economic tools and analysis to understand neoliberalism; ‘free’ trade agreements; movements of money, people, and goods; economic and military imperialism; and global environmental injustice. We will also explore existing and proposed alternatives for fairer trade and migration systems and equitable solutions to climate change. Our analysis takes us beyond harmful myths and tropes, from ‘they take our jobs,’ to the notion that jobs come at the expense of the environment, allowing us to build the broad-based solidarity this moment calls for.

Lack of money should not be a barrier to participation in the Summer Institute, but we need your help to make that happen!

CPE is working towards being able to offer scholarships to every applicant that might need one - and we have generously received several grants and many member donations -  however these $5,000 would go a long way towards making the institute more accessible!

For more information on the Summer Institute and the Center, please visit our website at
http://www.populareconomics.org/

We are proud to have so many wonderful co-sponsers for this years Institute; Massachusetts Jobs With Justice , Arise for Social Justice, UFCW Local 1459, Political Economy Research Institute, Grassroots International, US Solidarity Economy Network, New Economy Coalition, Center for Economic Democracy/ Ujima, Pioneer Valley Workers Center, Hampshire/ Franklin Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

We are deeply grateful for your contributions that make our popular education institutes, workshops, and publications possible.

In solidarity,
The CPE Summer Institute Committee, and Staff


Some quotes from past participants:

“I am completely satisfied and still ecstatic about my summer trip to the Center for Popular Economics. The level of education I received is beyond anything I had expected…The environmental justice issues, which were shared, gave me a sense that we in the San Joaquin valley are not alone in our struggles.”

Sandra Guzman
California Wild Heritage Campaign and Alaska Wilderness Coalition, Fresno, CA

“The Summer Institute has provided us with skills, tools and resources that will allow us…to become better strategic planners and thinkers, thereby increasing our organizational capacity and long-term sustainability.”

David and Shirley Baker
Community Against Pollution, Anniston, AL



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