Following the release of Power Play, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance organized a lively virtual event with leading experts and advocates to discuss how monopoly power and structural racism are interwoven, and why targeting structural racism is essential to dismantling monopoly power.
The panel unearthed the ways dominant corporations leverage structural racism to eliminate competition and control markets and how policies that help to repair that harm realize the vision of America’s antimonopoly tradition — to democratize economic power and build open and fair markets. The recording is available on YouTube or you can watch below.
Panelists and speakers included:
- Sabeel Rahman, Professor of Law | Cornell Law School and formerly Associate Administrator at the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [Opening Remarks and Moderator]
- Jeremie Greer, Co-Executive Director | Liberation in a Generation
- Susan Holmberg, Associate Director for Research | Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Lauren Jacobs, Executive Director | PowerSwitch Action
- Gabrielle Rejouis, Senior Fellow | Workers’ Rights Institute and Georgetown University Law Center
Below is a list of reading from the speakers on this important topic.
- Anti-Monopoly Activism: Reclaiming Power through Racial Justice (Jeremie Greer and Solana Rice, Liberational in a Generation)
- Black Feminist Antitrust for a Safer Internet (Gabrielle M. Rejouis, Workers’ Rights Institute and Georgetown University Law Center)
- The Black Tech Agenda (Color of Change)
- Giving Communities the Power, (Lauren Jacobs, PowerSwitch Action)
- Who Benefits and Who Pays: How Corporate Tax Breaks Drive Inequality, (Jeremie Greer et al., Liberation in a Generation)
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