Alliance Convening for June
2023-06-21 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
June 21 is Localization Day.
Our Convening this month is about practicing how we speak about Wellbeing Economies to those who are……hard to convince. Your conservative aunt, perhaps.
As always, our monthly Convenings are about warm and inviting spaces to meet others doing work toward a society filled with wellbeing.
To join this months Convening, please fill out THIS FORM

Volunteer Team Meeting
2023-06-28 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-07-12 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-07-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
The WEAll California volunteer team is a powerful and mighty force; changing the course of rivers and leaping lousy economies in a single bound.
Our team is leading several projects to accelerate collective action towards a healthier society. Come check out one of our volunteer meetings to learn more.
For more details, please email us at
connect@weallcalifornia.org

Conversation with Democracy Collaborative
2023-06-29 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
Join us for a special Conversation between Sarah McKinley of Democracy Collaborative and the Core Team of our Pomona Valley Wellbeing Project as they discuss how to replicate some of the success of the “Cleveland Model” in the city of Pomona.
John Nolte and Michael Witmer are some of the founding members of the Pomona Project and deeply committed to creating a more equitable economy in Pomona. How to do it is the big question?
Democracy Collaborative has been working in Cleveland, Ohio for over a decade and this will be a discussion between John, Michael and Sarah about how Pomona might better plan for success.
This will be a bit different than our “normal” conversations as we will more be watchers than participants. Participants can submit questions to John or Michael via chat.
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You can read more about Local Economies on our website at https://weallcalifornia.org/economy/purchasing-power-for-local-wealth/

Conversation with Post Growth Institute
2023-07-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
Join us on Wed., July 19 from 2 – 3 pm as we learn about the Post Growth Institute’s Offer and Needs Market: a guided process in which community members meet to identify and exchange their passions, knowledge, skills, resources, opportunities, and needs. For over a decade, this approach has been used to catalyze and deepen relationships.
Crystal Arnold will share about how community organizers around the world are using this process to circulate value in a fun and effective way that also invites us to heal from social isolation and money trauma.
Come learn about using the Offers and Needs Market and how it can bring vitality into your community and stimulate a wellbeing economy.
Our Conversations are not webinars. We encourage attendees to turn on their cameras and be in community with others who are working towards the beautiful vision of society. There is a short presentation and then attendees can ask Crystal their questions.

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Alliance Convening for July
2023-07-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our volunteer team is pouring over data…this is humans doing it… not AI or machines. We will soon post our topic and confirm our date.
As always, our monthly Convenings are about warm and inviting spaces to meet others doing work toward a society filled with wellbeing.
To join this months Convening, please fill out THIS FORM

WEAll CA Working Group
2023-08-16 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-09-06 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-04 00:00, 2023-10-25 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-11-15 16:00 - 17:00, 2023-12-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
The WEAll California team is a powerful and mighty force; changing the course of rivers and leaping lousy economies in a single bound.
Our team is leading several projects to accelerate collective action towards a healthier society. We meet every Wed at 4pm.
For more details, please email us at
connect@weallcalifornia.org

Podcast Discussion Club
2023-08-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
You are invited to our launch of our Podcast Discussion Club. Like most of our events, we host a casual atmosphere where we encourage people to turn on their cameras and participate. We will use breakouts and other techniques to keep you engaged in fun, lively or thoughtful discussion and help you meet/connect with others who are doing good work to bring about a society where people, communities and the planet are filled with wellbeing.
Our first podcast episode features Anand Giridharadas as a guest on The Good Life Podcast. Anand was there to promote his book THE PERSUADERS. I haven’t finished listening, but one theme that Anand keeps coming back to is what sort of vision will inspire us to take healthy actions.
You can listen on the web at this link or in your podcast app. The episode was released November 6, 2022.
https://shows.acast.com/61de0665cc27c20014ea15cf/episodes/anand-giridharadas-how-to-change-minds
Check out the episode and then come spend some time with us.

To register for this event, please click the link below
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2X3cuwnK2KzvgFAlqjC66w6jNTO89fXN8z6aZQJlanROYDA/viewform

Podcast Discussion Club
2023-09-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
We will be discussing the Bioneers episode on Legalizing Rights of Nature as a way to enact climate and environmental laws. We ask that everyone attending have actually listened to the podcast before joining. We recognize that many people are knowledgeable about this topic, however, we feel it deepens the conversation when people are discussing the specific episode.
Podcast Episode
Legalizing Nature’s Rights: How Tribal Nations are Leading the Fastest Growing Environmental Movement in History

To sign up for this discussion, please use this form.

What money from the Inflation Reduction Act could be used towards my local project?
2023-09-26 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
We are delighted to have Andrew Ellis of Climate Reality Project join us on Tuesday, Sep 26th.
Andrew is a senior member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps. He co-founded Climate Reality’s Los Angeles Chapter and is a member of the Climate Business Working Group Leadership Team (CBWG).
He has been a professional Environmental Scientist and Climate Advocate for several decades. Andrew is extremely knowledgeable about so many of the issues surrounding climate work.
We will start our session with an overview from Andrew on the structure of the Inflation Reduction Act and the different types of spending it authorizes. As with all of our learning events, we then open up the discussion to questions from attendees.
We hope that you can join us for this special session to learn how we might leverage these funds to stimulate work in our local communities and across our state.
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Donut Day
2023-11-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom
A list minute addition for International Donut Day.
See more info at the Doughnut Economics website. Thanks to Jessie Green for pulling this together so quickly.
https://doughnuteconomics.org/events/391
No Registration needed.

Pomona In Person Gathering
2023-11-15 18:00 - 20:00
A celebration of our 2 year anniversary of work in Pomona and also a planning session to see how we can grow and accelerate the movement in Pomona Valley towards a Wellbeing Economy.
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Eliminating Poverty in Washington State
2023-12-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
The State of Washington has formed an innovative partnership between government, non profits, tribes, business, philanthropy (and many others) and most importantly, those who stand to benefit the most from state policy/program decisions that we feel meets many of the criteria that we seek in a Wellbeing Economy.
Lindsay Morgan Tracy is the Innovator-in-Chief of Economic Justice and is one of the leads on the Blueprint for a Just and Equitable Future: The 10 Year Plan to Dismantle Poverty.
Lindsay will step up us through the incredible work that has been done to date and explain the roadmap for what is next.
This will be an interactive learning event and you will be able to ask Lindsay questions about the progress and plan.
Please join us for our last event of 2023. We think this will be a stellar learning event.
Thursday, December 14 at 4pm Pacific
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Book Club - Jane McAlevey - No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
2024-01-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
This is our first attempt at a book club. We are excited.
Jane is a long time union organizer and negotiator. Her 2018 book focuses on how we as a society need to organize for more political power to reverse the policies that enabled a huge transfer of wealth.
We do ask for people to have actually read the chapter (or a few pages at a minimum). The purpose is to keep the discussion focused on the book.
Here is a link to the book at Half Price Books. We encourage you to use a local book store or non Amazon site like Abebooks or get from your local library.
https://www.hpb.com/no-shortcuts-organizing-for-power-in-the-new-gilded-age/M-108931-T.html
We will be reading one Chapter every two weeks. Join us for a fun, lively and thought provoking conversation.
Jan 16 – Chapter 1
Jan 30 – Chapter 2
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WEAll CA Working Group
2024-01-17 16:00 - 17:00

WEAll 101 - What is a Wellbeing Economy and how do we get there
2024-01-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Come join us for our very first WEAll 101.
Our team is working hard to prepare a learning session on Wellbeing Economics and how you can help make your local economy into a Wellbeing Community.
SIGNUP

Learn about the Democracy Reform Underway in Los Angeles
2024-01-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
A Democracy reform movement is under way in Los Angeles. A coalition of partners are coming together for Charter Reform, Democracy Vouchers, Citizen Assemblies and Districting Reform.
Mike Draskovic of Public Democracy LA will guide us through the work of the coalition and answer your questions on how you can do this in your community.
Mike will also share about the February 6th coalition event to mobilize the first Citizen Assembly in Los Angeles. The event will be online and you can sign up below.
Mike is the co-founder of Public Democracy LA and Democracy Policy Network. Mike spoke to us last year on the work of Democracy Policy Network. He is an amazing speaker and creates graphics that help us understand complex issues.

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Place-Based Systems Change Strategies for Regenerating Nature, Community, and Local Wealth
2024-02-15 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Matt Biggar, Ph.D., shares how to bring about Place-Based Systems that get to the root of our growing crises by reorienting people’s lives around the places where they live. Shifting from corporate capitalist to place-based systems is necessary if we are to meaningfully address the interrelated crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, widening inequality, systemic racism, and growing social divisions. Matt provides examples of strategies that shift power, transform land use, reset culture, and leverage other systems to change systems at regional, county, city, and community levels and make the regeneration of community, nature, and local wealth possible.
Matt is the Founder of Connected to Place, a consulting firm that supports place-based collaboratives.
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Convening - How to use 2024 Elections to further Wellbeing Economies
2024-02-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Our Convenings are interactive, community building and areas to get supported and recharged.
We ask some questions to get people in conversation. We encourage gentle and deep listening and ask people to speak from their heart while also being sensitive that other’s will hold different opinions. We also ask that people not come into this space to promote a product or service.
We encourage you to have your cameras on, be in one stationary place with no shaking of your camera.
REGISTER HERE

WEAll CA Working Group
2024-02-21 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Would you like to learn more about the work we do to seed more Wellbeing Economies?
Feel free to drop in to one of our weekly Working Group team meetings to get a sense. Perhaps we might intrigue you enough to join us for a research project.
For more details, please email us at
connect@weallcalifornia.org

What do we do about Monopolies if we really want a Wellbeing Economy
2024-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Monopolies extort consumers and workers, rob entrepreneurs and small businesses of opportunity, and subject our communities to the whims of absentee executives in faraway headquarters. What tools do we have to challenge the concentration of corporate power and bolster free, fair, and competitive markets at the state and local levels?
In 2023, Democracy Policy Network launched their Anti-Monoply Kit to help states develop their own strategy and learn what is working across the country.
Michael Swerdlow and Basel Musharbash will step up through the basic concepts of Anti-Trust legal frameworks to keep businesses and Monopolies in check. They will review potential CA state legislative options as well as how we can support Federal Anti-Trust work.
Michael is the Anti-Monopoly Director for Democracy Policy Network.
Basel is an antitrust and community-development lawyer with Antimonopoly Counsel, a Texas law firm that represents farmers, workers, small businesses and local governments in advocacy and litigation aimed at righting the wrongs of concentrated corporate power — and building a free and fair economy for all.
Join us Thursday, February 22 at 4pm Pacific. Michael and Basel will answer your questions. SIGN UP HERE

Learn how STAR Voting better represents the will of the people
2024-02-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
California Primaries are coming up on March 5th. This year there are 22 candidates vying for Dianne Feinstein’s open Senate seat. Somehow, we are expected to pick only one!
In partnership with the awesome folks at the California chapter of STAR Voting, we are running a “mock election” using the STAR voting method. This method involves awarding each candidate 0-5 stars to express your relative enthusiasm. The two candidates who receive the most stars are then placed into an automatic runoff where everybody’s preference is taken into account. The result is a system that empowers voters to vote their conscience, levels the playing field, and elects more representative candidates. Learn more about how STAR Voting works here.
Vote in WEAll California’s “mock election” for California’s next senator! The “mock election” will close with the real polls on March 5th (The link says Feb 15 – this is an error! We’re working on it.). We plan to share the results alongside actual election data thereafter.
**VOTE HERE**
STAR Voting Learning Event
On Tuesday, February 27th at 5pm we are hosting a virtual Q&A. There will be brief presentations on STAR voting and the current state of the election, but we mostly want to hear from YOU! Got questions about STAR voting? Want to discuss the candidates with like-minded Californian’s? Join us and our friends from STAR to learn and discuss:
Register For the Event Here

Additional Resources:
What is STAR voting? How does it work? Why is it better?
Who are the candidates? – Official Voter Information Guide
Voting methods comparison from Occupy Wall Street 2012
Voting methods comparison from Chicago Mayoral Election 2023
Approval Voting in the California Primary 2024

just economies summit
2024-03-08 - 2024-03-09
On March 8th and 9th, the California 2024 Just Economies Summit is taking place in Sacramento.
If you’re a nonprofit leader, activist, policymaker, or individual who cares about and wants to work collaboratively toward economic wellbeing and justice in California, this event is for you! This special event will bring together organizations, activists and visionaries who are working to transform California’s economy so that it works in service of the wellbeing of both people and the planet.
In the face of increasing social, political, and environmental crises, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we need to transform our economic systems so they are just and sustainable by design.
This event aims to lay the foundations for state-wide economic systems change movement by bringing together a wide range of actors and organizations from across California to connect, learn from one another and identify potential avenues for radical collaboration moving forward.
If you’re passionate about the need for a regenerative, democratic, and just economy, join us! Through facilitated group discussions, community building opportunities, and policy visioning exercises, you’ll get a chance to connect with like-minded individuals and inspiring initiatives that are illustrating that a different economic system is not only possible, but already underway.
Registration is free.

Listening Tour to End Poverty in California
2024-03-19 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
4.7 million people live in poverty in California.
Devon Gray is the President of End Poverty in California (EPIC). Devon and his team conducted a 2 year listening tour around California to hear first hand from people experiencing poverty. EPIC’s goals include getting a better understanding of the issues as well as helping to change the false narratives that prevent significant societal changes.
Devon will share what he has learned on the tour, what insights have emerged from this epic tour and possible solutions to address these systemic issues.
Join us on March 19th at 4pm Pacific – SIGN UP HERE
