Thursday, Aug 27th, 5:30pm – 7:00pm ET at Firestorm Books
As financial elites descend on Asheville for the G20 Summit, join us to learn what locals are doing to respond!
From August 29 to September 1, 2026, hundreds of government officials from across the world will converge on Asheville for the G20 international finance summit. They’ll be discussing things like: how to further deregulate transnational corporations that already have more power and money than god; how to lock in our dependence on the dirty energy driving climate chaos; and how to shove AI data centers and cryptocurrency scams down our throats before the biggest financial bubble in history bursts.
Since 1999, the G20 has been a space in which elites plan and coordinate the direction of a global economic order that harms workers everywhere and creates crushing poverty in the Global South. In other words, this summit exists to keep the world financial system ticking along, bringing the rest of us a little closer to crisis every day.
Adding insult to injury, they’re trying to sell the ridiculous story that hosting the summit in Asheville will help with Helene recovery. Exactly how stupid do they think we are?? Privatization, deregulation and austerity are the agenda of the G20. This summit will not help WNC recover or thrive. In fact, the policies advanced at the summit directly threaten the people and resources we depended on most during and after the storm.
If you don’t buy the story you’re being sold about the G20 in Asheville, join us for a deep dive putting the harms of this event into a wider historical context. We’ll delve into the political and economic history neoliberalism, the failures of multi-lateralism, and how the global working class is opposing the world the G20 wants to build!