CREATING POLICY FOR LIBERATION

At Liberation in a Generation, we believe policy should be a tool for liberation. The current economic rules were never designed to serve communities of color. That’s why we’re building and advancing policies that do more than meet immediate needs—they lay the foundation for a just future.

Our team works alongside leaders of color across the country–advising local, state, and federal decision makers, developing new policy ideas, and helping shape the conversations that move us toward a Liberation Economy. Our policy work centers people of color—especially those pushed furthest to the margins—as the designers and decision-makers of a new economy. One that repairs harm, redistributes wealth and power, and creates the conditions for people to transfer stability and abundance for future generations.

We partner with organizers, coalitions, and policymakers across the country to imagine and build bold structural change—from rewriting tax codes to dismantling corporate power to anchoring policies in the guarantees our communities deserve. Through this work, we are advancing long-term strategies that shift who holds power in our economy and reimagine what’s possible for the generations to come.

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Corporate Power

Big corporations have too much control over our economy–and our lives. Their influence means lower wages for workers of color, more pollution, fewer real choices in our communities, and increased surveillance and criminalization.

We believe it doesn’t have to be this way. To curb corporate power we will advance solutions that demand accountability, demand repair from past harms, and rewrite the rules of our economy. Corporations may continue to exist, but they don’t have to operate at the expense of our families and communities.

That is why we bring together researchers, organizers, and advocates laser focused on the development of transformative policy solutions that tackle the complex problems of our generation. Together, we ask:

• What role–if any–should corporations play in the Liberation Economy?
• What systems do we need to dismantle, and what new structures can we build that center dignity and care?
• How can we ensure corporations pay their fair share in taxes and do right by our communities?
• What do we need to do to shift anti-monopoly policymaking and debates away from neoliberal approaches focused largely on “consumer” harm and price effects, and towards more comprehensive, justice-centered frameworks?
• How can we further elevate the leadership of grassroots organizers and those most impacted to co-create, co-lead, shape, and advance anti-monopoly policy and advocacy?

Over the next several years, we’re partnering with base-building groups to spark curiosity, provide political education, and fuel imaginative possibilities to curb corporate power in favor of bold, transformative solutions that distribute power back to the people.

Guarantees

At Liberation in a Generation (LibGen), we believe Black, Latine, Asian, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander people should be guaranteed the right to live with dignity, stability, and freedom. That is the foundation of the Liberation Economy.

We’re working with leaders of color across the country to imagine policies and futures that make those guarantees real in a generation. Through conversations, listening sessions, and shared strategy, we’re building policy visions rooted in respect, collective power, and a thriving future.