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Podcast: community wealth building – present and future

The second of two podcasts from CLES – following on from community wealth building: a history, released last month – this special episode explores the moment we are in and the prospects of community wealth building in the UK.

With commentary from CLES’s incoming and outgoing CEOs, Sarah Longlands and Neil McInroy, the podcast takes a deeper look at the incremental changes that local governments can employ, to turn the dial to create economic, social and environmental justice for their place.

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Podcast: community wealth building – a history

This new podcast from CLES tells the story of the conceptual and practical origins of community wealth building, through the voices of thinkers and practitioners, from Clackmannanshire to Cleveland.

The first of two episodes to be released in the coming months, part two will explore the moment we are now in for local economic development, how that relates to community wealth building and the on-the-ground processes that are incrementally turning the dial towards system change.

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Podcast: J. Phillip Thompson

In this special episode, we are sharing J. Phillip Thompson’s keynote address from our Community Wealth Building Summit in November 2020.

Phillip is the Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives in New York City and the author of Double Trouble: Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy. In the podcast he explains his thoughts on the US election, the huge racial divides that are running rampant in the country, his plans for New York City and campaigns for community wealth building, rebuilding the post-COVID economy in a more equitable fashion, the problems in the current economic system in NYC, building an economy that suits the workers and communities across the US, and more.

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