Earlier this year, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis, MD hosted a community forum on inequality in the United States, and its impact on the economy and on democracy. Gar Alperovitz keynoted the event, and hosted a diverse question-and-answer portion (which begins at the 50:20 mark).

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On May 7, the Baltimore Higher Education Alliance for Real Democracy and Red Emma’s  brought Gar Alperovitz to Baltimore’s 2640 Space  to discuss “the emerging new economy.”  Joining Gar were Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, who discussed the path-breaking legislation he co-sponsored making Maryland the first state in the country to legally recognize benefit corporations or “B-corps”, and the Institute for Policy Studies’ Daphne Wysham, who highlighted another Maryland initiative, the Genuine Progress Indicator, a new metric that presents a comprehensive alternative to one-dimensional economic indicators like Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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In this segment, filmmaker Stephen Kerr catches up with Gar Alperovitz after his keynote address at the inaugural national conference of the Public Banking Institute. The interview connects the dots between the new state-by-state initiatives for public banking and the growth and energy in other sectors of the expanding new economy like cooperatives and credit unions.

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This panel examined different modalities of political and economic change called for by the Occupy movements — from incremental reform to radical transformation. Panelists attempted to answer the question: What type of change is needed to address the full gamut of failed policies and structures in our broken system — from corporate control of the political process, to environmental degradation, a crumbling infrastructure, economic disparity, a failed health care system, etc.. Can these problems be tackled incrementally or only through radical structural change and central planning.

Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest hosts a groundbreaking conversation on how the 99 percent can create a sustainable (and livable) future – even as the nation’s disemboweled “democracy” becomes less accessible to the “living majority.” Tonight’s guests, author and educator Gar Alperovitz and entrepreneur, organic farmer Bryan Welch have very different — but sometimes converging — ideas about how to create such a future. Bryan Welch is the publisher of the highly successful Mother Earth News, Utne Reader and other publications, and one of the nation’s leading thinkers on what some have dubbed the “new capitalism.” His vision of a more just and sustainable world proposes a capitalism that distributes value according to the durability, provenance and sustainability of products — by paying attention to every consequence of a company’s operation. Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Among his most recent books are America Beyond Capitalism and (with Lew Daly) Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back. He believes — as conveyed by the title of one of his books — that we need to move beyond capitalism, in order to pave the way to a vibrant democracy with a sustainable economy that can satisfy human needs — not least of which is the need to control one’s work and life.