From 17th-21st of May, the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), in association with the University of Cambridge, is delivering its Multigenerational Leadership Programme. This programme, which is on its third year, hopes to “[Equip] the world’s most influential families to shape the 21st Century” — essentially providing ultra-wealthy dynasties with with the means to greenwash their inherited wealth, and tidy their public image in an environment increasingly critical of wealth hoarding and the shady dealings of the one-percent. And all this for the tidy sum of just £13,695 per person!

The course itself is advised by Iraj Ispahani of the Ispahani dynasty, and Philip Marcovici — a wealth management lawyer with a specialism in inherited wealth and whose previous clients include the Rothschilds — the sole bank of the British Royal Family.

ORCA denounces the bald-faced lie that “influential families” are necessary for shaping the future, that so much hoarded wealth in the hands of so few will ever be anything more than bloody money. The Multigenerational Leadership Programme serves only to allow billionaires to network, pat themselves on the back, and negotiate around a climate collapse that they — in their infinite excesses, decadence, and extractive business practices — are helping to orchestrate, and which they will never truly feel the brunt of. A city as divided as Cambridge, where those with the most money enjoy a 12 year life-expectancy increase over the very poorest, deserves better than a red carpet being laid out for those who are killing us.

Join us on May 17th at 2pm outside Great St Mary’s to protest CISL and the Multigenerational Leadership Programme, and KICK THE BILLIONAIRES OUT.

Let’s show them that the future is not shaped by them, it is shaped by us.