#40 Jodie Evans: Moving to a Peace Economy

Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA. She has been a visionary advocate for peace for several decades. Whether in board rooms or war zones, legislative offices, or neighborhood streets, Jodie’s enthusiasm for a world at peace infuses conciliation, optimism, and activism wherever she goes.

Jodie addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:

• That the war economy is in the structures around us that are violent, oppressive, extractive, and destructive. “We won't end war until we end the war economy”. 
• That we need to lean into the peace economy, which is life, community, planet Earth, parenting, the commons, healing.
• The war economy thrives on alienation and self direction. The peace economy is about connection and community engagement.
• That we should not get caught in the “folly of fretting”. “Everything is about action because if we don't act, we let the banality and the brutality of it undermine our capacity to act.”
• The peace economy examples of sharing and abundance found in supporting homeless youth in Venice Beach and creating land trusts for commons to reemerge. 
• That we should ask, “How do we use our wild imaginations together to create something absolutely fresh and new? What am I doing today to create the conditions conducive for life?”

Resources

• 21 ways to divest from a war economy
• Safe Place for Youth (SPY)
• Lead with Land
• Two Rivers Farms
• Greenhorns (see also episode 18 https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-10-13/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-18-severine-von-tscharner-fleming/ )
• Soul Fire Farm

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