May 24th, 8PM CET / 2PM ET

The War on Iran, the AI bubble, and the overvaluation of companies in the global economy are just a few possibilities for how we end up in a global financial meltdown. But regardless of the causes, we need to be prepared. On the 24th of May, at 8 pm CET / 2 pm ET we’re getting to it.

This webinar shares some lessons learned about the last global financial crisis and features comrades involved in pushing back from the North of Africa, the United States and Southern Europe in the financial crisis of 2008 onwards, that led to the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street and the anti-austerity movement in Europe.

Join us for a panel discussion of folks who lived and organized through the previous financial crisis. We will cover not just what happened, but the ways in which we organized, (or didn’t) to help create a fight for working people versus the billionaire banks. We hope to create some reflections for all of us on how to spot the next impending crisis, and how to make plans in advance, so that we avoid a similar fate of the banks, the financial system, Big Tech and Big Oil getting bailed out while families suffer.

With Hamza Hamouchene, from Algeria, João Camargo from Portugal, Cat Salonek and Saqib Bhatti from the US.

Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist, commentator and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), and Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA). Currently working with the Transnational Institute as program coordinator for Northern Africa, he previously worked for War on Want and Global Justice Now. He’s the author of “The Arab Uprisings: A decade of struggles”

João Camargo is a climate researcher and one of the founders of grassroots anticapitalist collective Climáximo. He has recently worked with Corporate Europe Observatory and as a comms officer in the European Parliament. He’s currently working on comms with RipplEffect and coordinating the campaign Algorithms of Revolution, focusing on AI and Big Tech. From 2011 onwards he was organising precarious workers in Precários Inflexíveis and the anti-austerity movement Que Se Lixe a Troika in Portugal.

Cat Salonek Schladt is a South Minneapolis organizer for people power. At work, Cat serves as Executive Director of Tending the Soil, an alignment of five power-building non-profits and labor organizations led by working class, BIPOC community leaders with a long history of effective and equitable organizing. Prior to her current role, Cat made good trouble with Line 3 resistance, Occupy Homes, OutFront Minnesota, and CWA. She co-created the Minneapolis Fire Squad, a community rapid-response network that operated during the George Floyd uprising in 2020.

Saqib Bhatti is the Executive Director of the Action Center on Race and the Economy, which fights for worker power and against racial capitalism. During the 2008 financial crisis, Saqib was a researcher on the banks team at the Service Employees International Union and played a key role in helping the union and allies organize workers and homeowners to fight against the Wall Street Bailouts.

The panel will be held in English and have around 90 minutes duration.

Sign up here: https://cryptpad.disroot.org/form/#/2/form/view/-y59E5AqceB97ANqKB8ToqDP7WJM3MO9MITWO+Rr0uY/