Take On Wall Street and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund will host a fireside chat on Thursday, March 7 at 2 PM ET with Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Alvin Velazquez, (SEIU) moderated by Ericka Taylor (Take On Wall Street and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund). Bearer-Friend authored a novel proposal for how to pay for reparations. His approach proposes capitalizing a multi-trillion dollar reparations fund with corporate equity in lieu of cash payments.

Join us as we explore the important questions Bearer-Friend’s proposal raises about how to actually design the governance of the proposed reparations fund to maximize its benefits to its intended beneficiaries and prevent the fund from being co-opted by the financial industry to further its own interests. Velazquez will discuss experiences labor unions have had with pension funds, and what lessons can be drawn from them to inform the design of a reparations fund’s governance.

Speakers

• Ericka Taylor, Director of Popular Education, Take On Wall Street & Acting Chief of Staff, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (moderator)

• Jeremy Bearer-Friend, Professor of Law 

• Alvin Velazquez, Associate General Counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)