The first and only comprehensive resource designed to empower everyday people with insider knowledge on moving money for a more equitable economy. If you've been taught that the world of finance is too complex for your feeble mind to grasp, you're not alone. And honestly, it's been constructed to be intentionally exclusionary and mysterious. The Financial Activist Playbook is a one-of-a-kind book written to demystify the financial system and pull back the curtain on the wizards behind the scenes. Financial activism is described as shifting the flow of money and power to solve social and environmental problems. Jasmine says it's "the antidote to a financial system that's inaccessible, convoluted, and inequality-producing by design. For many of us, discussion of the financial system evokes confusion, frustration, anxiety, and, in the best-case scenario, straight-up boredom." This book is an easy-to-understand, digestible, and often funny resource for the average person to learn money-moving strategies such as:
How to leverage endowments, retirement, and pension funds to sustainably invest in Black and Brown communities How to build economic people power through structures like worker-owned cooperatives How to vote with your dollars and create "people budgets" And more
If I lost you at the start of that list, don't worry. The Financial Activist Playbook breaks down all of these strategies so that even the most financially inept person can use them with confidence.
The first and only comprehensive resource designed to empower everyday people with insider knowledge on moving money for a more equitable economy. The money myths end here. We don't need to choose between creating meaningful wealth for ourselves and our families today, or supporting social movements creating a better tomorrow. We don't all need to become certified financial "experts" to be economically empowered and make a real difference in our communities. And we're far from powerless when it comes to changing the financial system, just because we don't happen to belong to the 1%. Quite the opposite. Financial activism is how everyday people radically reimagine money as a tool for widespread well-being, instead of a weapon of absurdly increasing inequality. It's the antidote to traditional finance that evokes confusion, trauma, and (in the best-case scenario) straight-up boredom. It's how we--the underestimated--collectively resist systems that cause harm to people and the planet for t