Join us for a pivotal panel discussion that dives deep into the pressing themes of Adbusters’ latest book—’Manifesto for World Revolution’ — a guide dedicated to unveiling the true cost of production and the necessity of dismantling corporate power for the creation of a just, sustainable future. This conversation is a call to action, aiming to move beyond understanding these costs towards engaging in the active dismantling of existing oppressive economic and environmental paradigms.

Speakers

Gord Hill is an Indigenous writer, artist and activist of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation. He is the author and illustrator of The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book, The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book, and The Antifa Comic Book (all three published by Arsenal Pulp Press in Vancouver, Canada), as well as the author of the book 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, published by AK Press in Oakland, California. His art and writings have also been published in numerous periodicals, including Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension, Redwire, Red Rising Magazine, The Dominion, Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec, Intotemak, Seattle Weekly, and Broken Pencil.

William I Robinson is distinguished professor of sociology, global studies, and Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.  As a scholar-activist, popular educator and anti-capitalist he is active in a number of social justice movements and working class struggles in Latin America and the United States.  He has spoken and written widely on the many dimensions of global capitalism and popular resistance to it.  Among his most recent books are Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic, published in 2022 by PM Press, and The Global Police State, published in 2020 by Pluto Press.  He also writes articles and commentaries for a wide range of alternative, left and progressive periodicals around the world, among them, Truthout, Rebelión, The Los Angeles Review of Books (The Philosophical Salon), La Jornada, America Latina en Movimiento, and Third World Resurgent.

Former Culver City Mayor Daniel Lee became the first African-American member of the Culver City Council in its over 100-year history. In 2018 he passed rent control, voted to close down the Inglewood oil field, began a reparations process, created a mobile response team and worked to create permanent supportive housing. A veteran of the US Air Force and California National Guard, he currently works as project director at the James Lawson Institute. Daniel has a Masters degree in Social Welfare from UCLA and doctorate in social work from USC. He currently serves on the board of directors for Democracy Unlimited, Move to Amend, The Backbone Campaign, Mockingbird Incubator, Elected Officials Protecting America, and the Advisory Board for the Prorep Coalition working for proportional representation in California.

Jennie Spanos (she/her) is a Co-Director of Move to Amend. As a journalist, she observed the immense stranglehold corporate power exerts over our government and communities. This experience shaped her perspective and fostered a deep passion and focus in her organizing work on environmental, social and economic justice issues leading her to collaborate with various intersectional grassroots movements building for a just and sustainable future. “The power reaped from the insane notion of corporate constitutional rights exists in tandem with structural oppression, and environmental degradation and is found as a cause of so many injustices.”

Kat Dodds is CEO and founding partner of Cool.World platform, developed to help organize around climate, democracy, and economic and racial justice. Former editor, spoof-ad director, and marketing manager at Adbusters turned Impact Producer in 1999 when she oversaw all marketing for The Corporation (2003) winner of 26 international awards and Canada’s top grossing documentary. She currently manages worldwide distribution rights for The Corporation and Manufacturing Consent, and the non-theatrical rights for The New Corporation (2020).