Inequality is the crisis of our time. The growing gap between a few at the top and the rest of society damages us all. No longer able to deny the crisis, governments across the globe have pledged to address it – and yet inequality keeps on getting worse.
In this event, international anti-inequality campaigner Ben Phillips discussed why winning the debate is not enough: we have to win the fight. Drawing on his insider experience and his personal exchanges with activists and movement-builders, he showed how the battle against inequality has been won before, and shared a practical plan for defeating inequality again.
For the book launch, Ben was joined by AFSEE Fellows Masana Mulaudzi and Pedro Telles who shared their reflections on the book and discussed their own work and experiences in fighting inequality.
Speaker
Ben Phillips
Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) is the author of How to Fight Inequality. He has combined the roles of NGO director, political advisor, civil society activist, and writer. He has led programmes and campaigns teams in Oxfam, ActionAid, Save the Children, the Children’s Society, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty and the Global Campaign for Education. He co-founded the Fight Inequality Alliance to campaign together for action on economic and social inequality.
Discussant
Pedro Telles
Pedro Telles is an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and an advocacy, civic engagement and public policy expert from Brazil, who has extensive experience building and leading civil society organisations and movements, as well as working in government and philanthropic institutions. He is the Director and founding board member at D-Hub, an international initiative focused on network-building, capacity-building, and providing strategic support to democracy defenders in countries facing growing authoritarian threats.
Discussant
Masana Mulaudzi
Masana Mulaudzi is an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and a South African activist who currently focuses on gender, racial, structural and global inequalities working in spaces of mobilization and collective action, and on policy reform and practice to enhance gender equitable and just outcomes. She is a Senior Campaigns Manager for Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation that provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge.
Chair
Professor Armine Ishkanian
Armine Ishkanian is the Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme and Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research examines the relationship between civil society, democracy, development, and social transformation.
Banner Image: Photo by Wim Klerkx
