Zacchaeus Tax and Jubilee Now! - GEM School 2020 Public Webinar
In a Time of Pandemic, Inequality and Climate Change
The webinar will be an opportunity to explore how taxation, reparations and debt cancellation could contribute to shaping an Economy of Life in the current landscape marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, widening socio-economic inequalities and a burgeoning climate emergency. The event will offer faith-rooted and gender-just perspectives as well as share concrete proposals as part of the ecumenical #ZacTax and Jubilee campaigns.
14 September 2020 - 15:00 - 16:30 CEST
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Speakers:
Dr Manuel ‘Butch’ Montes is from the Philippines and lives in the USA. He works with the Society for International Development and is a member of the Ecumenical Panel on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture. Previously, he was senior advisor at South Centre, chief of policy analysis and development at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, coordinator for economics studies at the East-West Centre, and associate professor of economics at the University of the Philippines. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Rev Suzanne Membe Matale is from Zambia. She is a tax justice activist, a pastor, and a commissioner of the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (a group of global leaders calling for deep-seated changes in the international system of taxation). Previously, she was the General Secretary of the Council of Churches in Zambia and served as Chairperson of the Economic Justice Network of the Fellowship of Christian Councils in Southern Africa.
Rev Dr Iva Carruthers is from the USA. She is the General Secretary of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, a national interdenominational organisation within the African American faith tradition focused on social justice issues. Former director of the Black Theology Project, she has a long history of engagement in community development initiatives and social justice ministry. She is Professor Emeritus and former Chairperson of the Sociology Department at Northeastern Illinois University.
Rev James Bhagwan is from Fiji. He presently serves as the General Secretary of the Pacific Conference of Churches. He is a long-time activist for climate justice and the denuclearisation of the Pacific, minister of the Methodist Church in Fiji, crew member of the iconic traditional sailing canoe Uto Ni Yalo, and PhD student at the University of South Pacific’s Department of History and Politics.