An economy for the 99%: Ideas, stories and tactics from around the world

What would an economy that really worked in the interests of people look like? This event, organised jointly by WDM and Jubilee Debt Campaign and held on 17 March at Manchester Metropolitan University, addressed that question.

Below are some sound recordings and video from the day. You can find photos of the event on WDM's flickr photostream.

Opening plenary: An economy for the 99%

Hilary Wainwright (Transnational Institute), Almudena Serpis (Spain’s ‘indignados’ movement) and Nessa Ní Chasaide (Debt Justice Action, Ireland), speak about the economy of the 1% and the movements emerging to challenge it.

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Building a solidarity economy: Co-operatives and economic justice

Do co-operatives and other organisations based on mutual help have the potential to create an economy for the 99%? This session examined the idea of a solidarity economy, and considered the relationships between co-operatives and social movements in the fight for economic justice.

With Hilary Wainwright, Transnational Institute, and Jenny Carlyle, Suma Wholefoods workers' co-operative

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Whose debt is it anyway?

Across the world movements are challenging the legitimacy of ‘debts’ which are driving their societies into poverty and increasing inequality. ‘Debt audits’, public investigations of debts, are one step towards people retaking control of their economies from financiers. Find out about the growing popular movements for debt audits and debt justice here in Europe and globally.

With Dina Makram Ebeid, Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt's Debt and Nessa Ní Chasaide, Debt Justice Action (Ireland).

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Europe’s new movements against the economy of the 1%

Hear a first hand account of the extraordinary ‘indignados’ movement in Spain over the last year and discuss whether we can really defeat the neoliberal cuts agenda being imposed on Europe.

With Almudena Serpis and Joe Tenner, Occupy Sheffield

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A tour through the financial crisis

Workshop which explains the financial crisis from the credit crunch to the eurozone crisis and looks at what might happen next.

With Adam Leaver, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change and Tim Jones, Jubilee Debt Campaign

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Final plenary

With Egyptian activist Dina Makram Ebeid and Nick Dearden of Jubilee Debt Campaign (see below for video of this session).

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Interview: Almudena Sepis

Almudena Serpis is a grassroots activist and freelance journalist involved in different collectives and projects in Madrid. She is also an active collaborator of the 15M assemblies. She was interviewed by Pontus Westerberg, WDM's web officer

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Interview: Nessa Ní Chasaide

Nessa Ní Chasaide is the coordinator of Debt and Development Coalition Ireland, and is part of the Anglo: Not our Debt Campaign. She was interviewed by Pontus Westerberg, WDM's web officer.

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Final plenary

With Egyptian activist Dina Makram Ebeid

And finished off with Nick Dearden, director of Jubilee Debt Campaign