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On June 26, AGRA Watch co-hosted a fascinating and powerful webinar, which included a program we’ve dreamed of for years, bringing together movement leaders across education, public health, climate justice, and food sovereignty to critically examine Gates’ legacy—and strategize how to confront the power of billionaire philanthropy. The time for accountability is long overdue!
Tech billionaires are reshaping our world. While Elon Musk grabs headlines, Bill Gates laid the blueprint—normalizing billionaire control over public policy through his foundation. Since 2000, the Gates Foundation has used private wealth to influence global agendas in education, health, agriculture, and climate toward corporate-friendly, market-driven solutions. Yet while Gates has successfully paved the way for corporate capture of public goods, many of his ventures have ended in failure, leaving communities worse off. Now Gates is doubling down—pledging $200 billion to “develop” Africa—raising urgent questions about consent, power, and whose future is being designed.
Webinar on YouTube: Watch the webinar, with Tim Schwab expertly moderating; Tim is an investigative journalist and author of The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire. Speakers: Anuradha Mittal on false solutions to the climate crisis, Nicoletta Dentico on public health and Gates’ failed Covid response; Jesse Hagopian on how Gates undermines public education and Gabriel Manyangadze on the call for reparations from African organizations holding Gates responsible for their devastating impact on African agriculture. Co-hosted by A Growing Culture, CAGJ/AGRA Watch and US Right to Know.
Webinar Resources: check out the resources compiled during the webinar by participants, with additions from our speakers! Includes resources on Gates Foundation’s interventions in U.S. education, Covid response, interventions in African agriculture, climate crisis and techno fixes for a broken system, reparations and his influence over knowledge/media.