I want to make a short video introducing a Participatory Economy. I’ve written a draft script below and I’d love to get your feedback and ideas. 
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Part 1: Opening Scene
The video starts with montage of newspaper headlines of bad events on the climate crisis, inequality, corporate abuse, etc.
Followed by a conversation between three people.
Person A: “Capitalism sucks.”
Person B: “Yeah, but what’s the alternative?”
Person A: “An economy for people, not profits.”
Person B: “Nice words, but how does that actually work in practice?”
Person A: “errr, I don’t know.”
Person C: “Have you heard of a Participatory Economy?”
“A Participatory Economy is model that explains how we can organise a modern economy around cooperation and solidarity instead of competition and greed.”
Person A & B: “Interesting… tell us more.”
Part 2: Goals of a Participatory Economy
illustration of goals: people around a table for democracy, a pie with equal slices for equity, trees for environment
Person C:
“Well, we start with our goals - we want an economy that is 1) democratic: that gives people a say in decisions that affect them; 2) that is equitable: that fairly distributes burdens and benefits; and 3) is environmentally sustainable: so that we protect our environment.”
“To achieve this a Participatory Economy is organised around three key features:”
Part 3: Institutions of a Participatory Economy
An overview illustration of a participatory economy. Participatory Workplace left, annual participatory planning in middle and Participatory Neighbourhood on the right.
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- Democratic Workers’ Councils
- Democratic Neighbourhood Consumers’ Councils
- and, an Annual Participatory Planning procedure where these councils plan how to use society’s common resources.
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3a. Democratic Workers Councils’
“Instead of Top-Down Corporations, every workplace is organised to give every worker a say in decisions that affect them. The main decision-making body of a workplace is called The Workers Council where ever worker is a member.”
illustration of a workplace, with people meeting
“Workers design procedures for fairly distributing income between themselves based on effort or sacrifice, and distribute empowering tasks into jobs so that everyone has the confidence and knowledge to participate in decision-making.”
illustration of workers creating a constitution
3b. Democratic Neighbourhood Consumers’ Councils’
“Every family or household belongs to a neighbourhood consumers’ council”
illustration of a few homes and people meeting in the neighbourhood
“This is where a community comes together to make decisions around collective goods, like new park swings, or a library.”
3c. Federations of Democratic Councils
“These worker and consumer councils send rotated and recallable delegates to higher level federations for decisions affecting the wider industry or larger geographical regions”
illustration of nested federation structure
3d. Participatory Planning
“And finally, instead of workplaces competing against each other to maximise their profits via markets, every year, these democratic worker and consumer councils participate in a decentralised planning process. This creates a rough plan based on what people want to consume and what to use our resources to produce, taking into the account the true social costs of what it takes to make things, such as any environmental pollution.”
illustration of participatory planning procedure
Part 4 Examples
Person A and B: “Wow! sounds great. Are there any examples of this in practice?”
Person C: “Yes, the model is based on numerous real-world examples in history and today of people organising around cooperation and solidarity. The Participatory Economy model just fleshes these out into a coherent model for an entire economic system.”
“For example:”
“Worker controlled industries in Spain in the 1930s.”
show images of workers in CNT
“Tens of thousands of Worker Cooperatives around the world today”
show images of worker cooperatives, like mondragon
“Participatory Budgeting”
show images/video of participatory budgeting
Part 5 End
Person A and B: “So maybe another world really is possible!!! Hmmm… I still have lots of questions though about how this works…”
Person C: “Sure, this was just a very brief overview. Go to PartcipatoryEconomy.org to learn more.”