Building a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi, anchored by a network of cooperatives and worker-owned, democratically self-managed enterprises.
News & Media
Shifting Focus Lecture at the University of Vermont
March 28, 2023
Capitalism is choking the life systems of our precious planet and threatening extinction of complex species including humanity. Kali Akuno explains how EcoSocialism offers transformation from below, employing the principles of decolonization, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism, and degrowth.
Shifting Focus Lecture at the Schumacher Center
March 26, 2023
Kali Akuno delivered the First Annual Robert Swann Lecture in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in March, 2023. in 2023, we introduced the Annual Robert Swann Lectures, featuring Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson as the inaugural speaker. The lecture took place in the Great Hall at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, MA.
Apartheid 2.0 in Mississippi
Davey speaks with Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson about new laws being passed in the state of Mississippi. On Feb. 7, the Mississippi State House approved House Bill 1020, a bill that would create a new, unelected court system in the state capital of Jackson.
CJ and the State of Jackson Short Take from Joshua Dedmond, Part 3
Check out Part 3 of Joshua Dedmond, our Program Director analyzing the impact of the reactionary legislation being proposed by the Republican majority of the Mississippi legislature that is attempting to construct apartheid 2.0 in Jackson, MS. He also highlights what Cooperation Jackson and the broader progressive social movement in Jackson are doing to combat the reactionary development.
CJ and the State of Jackson Short Take from Joshua Dedmond, Part 2
Check out Part 2 of Joshua Dedmond, our Program Director, breaking down highlights of the work of Cooperation Jackson and sharing updates on the social struggles taking place in Jackson in early 2023.
CJ and the State of Jackson Short Take from Joshua Dedmond, Part 1
Check out Joshua Dedmond, our Program Director, break down highlights from the work of Cooperation Jackson and provide updates on the social struggles taking place in Jackson in early 2023.
Jackson’s water system is broken by Design
By Hadas Their
February 23, 2023
Article published in the Nation Magazine that describes how declining federal funding has left Jackson’s water system at the mercy of the states conservative state legislature.
Making Reparations: Seeding a Just Future.
An event held in honor of the 50th anniversary of the book Small is Beautiful, 2023 as an opportunity to advance solutions to today’s social, economic, and environmental challenges that build on Schumacher’s original vision. re, organized around 12 key themes and fields of activism.
This event featured Winona LaDuke, Chief Kelly Larocca, Robin Rue Simmons, and Kali Akuno
Formerly incarcerated people seek discrimination protections as a “protected class”
By Ella Fassler
Truthout
February 16, 2023
Formerly incarcerated people in Atlanta won collective protection from discrimination, inspiring organizing nationwide.
This article provides an example of how our model is being used to inspire others in similar arenas of struggle.
Jackson, Mississippi’s water crisis persists as national attention and help fade away
Article by Char Adams
January 17, 2023
Grassroots organizers who supported the city’s residents during the water crisis last summer say they’re now out of resources to help those in need.
Fight and Build: Envisioning Solidarity Economies as Transformative Politics
Written by Pen Loh and Boone Shear
December 12, 2022
This article was adapted from a more extensive journal article called, “Fight and Build: Solidarity Economy as Ontological Politics”, published in Sustainability Science, Volume 17, pp. 1207 - 1221.
We are republishing here to demonstrate Cooperation Jackson’s influence on the current solidarity economy movement.
Utopia 2/13: Discussion with Cooperation Jackson
Kali Akuno and Bernard E. Harcourt discuss Cooperation Jackson and read: Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya.
Building EcoSocialism from Below Encounter Videos
Cooperation Jackson, the People’s Network for Land and Liberation, the Institute for Social Ecology and the Symbiosis Network hosted a work-study encounter in Marshfield, Vermont from Friday, July 29th - Friday, August 5th, 2022. The video’s assembled here capture some significant portions of the encounter that we would like to share with the world to engage, study, learn from and build upon. Enjoy!
Frontline Leaders Decry Lack of Progress for Real Climate Justice at COP27 and Call for Further Action to Protect Millions of Lives
It Takes Roots (ITR) consists of the Climate Justice Alliance, the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Right to the City Alliance. The ITR COP27 Contingent also included the Movement for Black Lives - The Black Hive, Indigenous Climate Action, Just Transition Alliance, La Via Campasina, and the World March of Women.
Our Director, Kali Akuno, was a delegate on the ITR delegation and is quoted in this statement.
COP27 Report Back 4 - Thursday, November 17, 2022
View Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, third broadcast on COP27, conducted on Thursday, November 17, 2022. This recording focuses on the corporate dominance of the COP space and what social movements need to do to impact the climate negotiations process going forward.
This report focused on the corporate capture of the negotiations, particularly by Big Oil and Nuclear, how they are underwriting and drafting the false solution proposals being advanced and incorporated by the nation-states. It also focuses on the extensive “green washing” that occurred at COP27. And focuses on the need for social movements to regroup and build their own initiatives and programs to combat climate change, ecological destruction, and species loss.
Global Afrobeat Live Talk Show | Episode 7 November 15, 2022
This talk was recorded live from COP27 Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt Featuring: Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson, USA with host Denise Abdul-Rahman, The Chisholm Legacy Project & Global Afro-Descendent Climate Justice Collaborative.
COP27 Report Back Number 3 - Tuesday, November 15, 2022
View Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, third broadcast on COP27, conducted on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. This interview features Anthony Rodgers-Wright with Black Alliance for Peace (BAP).
This report focused on some of the false solutions being promoted by the US government, the limitations of the climate measures in the Inflation Reduction Act, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.
COP27 Report Back Number 2 - Thursday, November 10, 2022
View Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, second broadcast on COP27, conducted on Thursday November 10, 2022. This interview features George Galvis, from Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, aka CURYJ (pronounced Courage).
This report focused on some of the challenges of the COP site, the limitations of the climate negotiations, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.
Jackson, a City adrift - International Coverage of Jackson’s ongoing water crisis by Arte.tv
Check out this documentary by French TV Network, Arte.TV featuring members of Cooperation Jackson.
COP27 Report Back - Day 1 Tuesday, November 8, 2022
View Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, first broadcast on COP27, conducted on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
This report focused on some of the challenges of the COP site, the limitations of the climate negotiations, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.
From Crisis to Transformation: What is Just Transition? A Primer
This Primer has been the product of a collective process of thinking between the authors and their organisations, who have been working in different ways on the concept of Just Transition with social movements, organisations and communities around the world, and trying to understand how this simple but powerful idea can help people to mobilise for genuine and transformative change. This is not a final or exhaustive vision of Just Transition, as different regions, communities, movements and organisations are developing their own visions (see the final section). However it is hoped that these key ideas and questions will give all readers tools for thinking more deeply about what Just Transition might mean for them, their movements, and their communities.
Authors
Kali Akuno, Katie Sandwell, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Jaron Browne
In collaboration with
Jackson Water Crisis and the Favre Welfare Theft Scandal - MSNBC
Kali Akuno, the Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson, speaking on the Ayman Mohyeldin show on MSNBC on Saturday, September 24, 2022 about Jackson, MS ongoing water crisis and how it is linked with state mismanagement and corruption, as demonstrated by the Bret Favre welfare fraud scandal.
Jackson water system has problems privatization won’t solve
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says privatizing the water system is “on the table.” But the city's mayor and others argue that would likely create more problems rather than fix Jackson's broken infrastructure.
Jacksonians have been concerned for decades over access to clean water
More than 80% of the population in Jackson, Mississippi, is Black, and the residents there remain under a boil water notice without an end date in sight.
The Marc Steiner Show on the Real News Network - Jackson’s Water Crisis
Organizer, writer, and educator Kali Akuno joins The Marc Steiner Show to explain how the current crisis is a reflection of capitalism's failures and decades of institutional racism.
Climate Justice Alliance Our Power Campaign Instagram Live Broadcast on Jackson Water Crisis
CJA did an interview with Kali Akuno, Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson, on the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS. This was live on Monday, September 12, 2022.
Jackson Knew this Was Coming
Mississippi’s mostly Black capital city has been at the mercy of a conservative white state government for decades. The water crisis is its latest battle for self-determination.
Mission & Purpose
The broad mission of Cooperation Jackson is to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi, by building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker owned and democratically self-managed enterprises.
Announcements
Jackson Rising Redux
Out Now! Get your copy today.
Edited by Kali Akuno and Matt Meyer
Jackson Rising Redux is an updated and expanded version of Jackson Rising. It chronicles and growth and struggles of Cooperation Jackson in the ongoing struggle to socialize production and democratize democracy on a municipal scale.
Stop HB 1020
Fight Apartheid 2.0
House Bill 1020 is nothing but the promotion of a new and improved version of Jim Crow apartheid. HB1020 is intended to be an expansion of the Capitol Corridor Improvement District (CCID), which came into effect in 2018. This Bill will expand the district to include all of the majority white districts in the city of Jackson, and enable them to exercise a degree of self rule, that would include creating as separate police force in this district, a separate court system, the elimination of voting and political rights for Black people in this district, and will divert critical tax dollars away from the Black controlled municipality and communities in need.
This Bill poses a critical threat to the Jackson-Kush Plan and Cooperation Jackson opposes it unequivocally. We encourage everyone, in Mississippi and beyond, to do the same.
#StopCopCity
Cop City is a portent of the future. It represents the fact that both mainstream political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, are running out of viable options for a better, brighter, equitable and regenerative future. The investment of the Atlanta police, the City of Atlanta, the Federal government, and both political parties in making sure this project comes to fruition demonstrates that they all clearly envision and plan on delivering a more repressive future.
We have to Stop Cop City. We have to preserve what remains of our natural environments, particularly in urban spaces, where the vast majority of humanity now resides. Stay tuned to our sister organization Community Movement Builders (CMB) for updates on the struggle to stop Cop City and how you can get involved.
#Justice4Jackson Demands and Action Items
There are two components to Phase 2 of our Water Crisis Recovery, One dimension is Building Community Resilience and the Second dimension is Political Resistance. We need your help with both.
Water Catchment Demonstration Video
A short explanation about one of the methods of water catchment and filtration that we will be employing at community centers and homes throughout Jackson as part of Phase 2 of our response to Jackson's ongoing water crisis.
Jackson, MS Water Crisis - Building Community Resiliency, Water Crisis Relief Phase 2
What's happening is that we are moving on to Phase 2. This is the first community based water catchment system we are installing. More are on the way with your help & donations to build some resiliency in our community.
Special thanks to our comrades from Just Construction for coming down and lending us some knowledge, skill, education, training, and labor.
We need your support for Phase 2 of this struggle. Please donate generously.
Justice 4 Jackson. Help us fix Jackson’s water system and build more autonomy and people power in the city.
Call to Action from Cooperation Jackson.
We are demanding the State and Federal Government completely overhaul Jackson’s water treatment and delivery systems. And asking our allies to help us build autonomous infrastructure to help us end various dependencies on the racist state apparatus.
We Need Your Support. Please Donate Today.
Water Crisis Fundraising Appeal - 8.30.22
Support Jackson in our critical time of need. Due to climate change & decades of neglect of our cities infrastructure the entire city is without drinking water and it is not clear when water access will be restored. Donate today at https://cooperationjackson.org/donate. #Solidarity #MutualAid
Show some love for Cooperation Jackson!
Support Our Capital Campaign for the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust
After two years of adjusted development due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cooperation Jackson is poised to take the next major step in our development. We aim to raise $2,500,000 that will strengthen our efforts to decommodify land and housing, collectively steward our resources, and expand the opportunity we have for democratic community control. Help us take the leap needed to consolidate the development of our Community Land Trust.
Cooperation Jackson developed the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust as a division of our non-profit operations in 2015. We established the land trust to protect and preserve Black land stewardship in West Jackson. By purchasing as many of the vacant lands and facilities as our limited resources would allow, over the past seven years, we have successfully acquired over forty properties in West Jackson, including a shopping mall, and three commercial facilities.
In our fight to defend our neighborhood in West Jackson from the rising tide of gentrification and displacement, our approach continues to be multifaceted; remove land and housing from the speculative market; build the affordable housing and commercial space needed to support families and businesses; create community space where we can be in relationship with each other; and build the democratic practices necessary to sustain and defend our alternative model. The money raised will enable us to finish developing the land and facilities we currently steward, and purchase a few remaining strategic assets in the neighborhood.
In many ways, it is now “the best of times, and the worst of times'' in Jackson. The housing market is increasingly rapacious, while speculation runs even more rampant than when we launched Cooperation Jackson. While it is true that these multinational corporations like Amazon will help address the need for jobs in Jackson, their arrival comes at a cost. In addition to the impact on land and housing, most of these jobs will deepen the exploitation of the working class in Jackson, the state of Mississippi, and the southern region in overall, as they are premised on exploiting the political conditions that exist in the state and region that intentionally impoverish labor and deprive workers of their fundamental rights, particularly the right to organize themselves into collective bargaining units.
In order to play our part in countering these developments, we are focusing and prioritizing the following:
Completing the renovation of the Ida B. Wells Plaza, to enable the opening of the People’s Grocery Cooperative, and to provide affordable commercial space for local businesses and community organizations
Fully renovating the Dambala House, one of the commercial facilities we own to turn it into a Maker Space with a training center in the arts of digital fabrication
Acquiring the commercial lot behind the Ida B. Wells Plaza to turn it into a food hub and recycling center
Acquiring a new home on one of our newest properties for Ms. Rose Brown, that will enable her to receive the critical live in home care that is required to manage her chronic medical condition
Completing renovations on the three existing cooperative housing units
Completing renovations on three additional housing units that can enable the development of more affordable housing in our community.
Clearing the dilapidated structures on Ewing Street, commencing soil remediation, continuing the community envisioning and planning workshops that will go hand in hand with the experimental housing development led by our Community Production Cooperative for the Eco-Village Pilot
The $2,500,000 we are seeking to raise will enable us to complete these fundamental projects that ultimately position our community and Cooperation Jackson to weather the storm of capital accumulation presently confronting us. So, we ask everyone who despises gentrification, displacement, the exploitation of labor, and the extraction of resources to show us some love today and the remainder of February.
We look forward to building a groundswell of support for our vision of a regenerative economy and a self-determined community. Donate and spread the word to family, friends, co-workers, comrades, and fellow cooperators.
We appreciate the love and support!
Support Ms. Rose Mae Brown, Support the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust
The Housing for Ms. Brown - Medical Relief Campaign
Please join the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust in supporting Ms. Rose Mae Brown secure permanent housing to address her medical needs.
Ms. Rose Mae Brown is a long-time West Jackson resident of 30 years and Cooperation Jackson member battling chronic epileptic seizures. Ms. Brown has recently been instructed by her doctors that she has to either secure a larger home that will allow her to have full-time resident care to treat her seizures or she has to move into a medical care home. Instead of moving into a medical care facility, Ms. Brown has chosen to stay in her community with the security that it provides.
In order to stay in her community, she has to secure a new home, one that is larger than the current duplex that she resides in. In order to secure this new home, Ms. Brown reached out to Cooperation Jackson with the aim of combining forces to meet some common objectives. The Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust, which was initiated by Cooperation Jackson and is managed by it, stewards a lot on Rose Street in West Jackson that is directly adjacent to a lot that was owned by Ms. Brown, and her longtime caregiver Mr. Calvin Eugene Robinson. Ms. Brown and Mr. Robinson purchased this lot in the effort to establish a residence that would provide Ms. Brown with the space that she needs to address her health issues. Each of these lots by themselves do not have enough acreage to build a new code compliant home that would have enough space to meet Ms. Brown’s needs.
In order to address this space limitation, Ms. Brown and Mr. Robinson formed a partnership with the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust and Cooperation Jackson. Together they donated their parcel to the Land Trust and Cooperation Jackson has agreed to help her raise funds for her new home, which will be a part of the Community Land Trust. Together we are looking to raise approximately $200,000 to purchase a modular home for Ms. Brown that will be large enough to address her medical needs. A home that will enable her to have a live-in care provider. This home will be designated for the exclusive use of Ms. Brown, and will resort to the direct management of the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust when she transitions or decides to move into a direct care facility.
Battling chronic health issues is not easy. And everyone deserves adequate housing as a means of fulfilling their human rights. We are asking you to support us in the effort to establish adequate housing for Ms. Brown to help her overcome her medical ailments. You can help by donating generously to our “Housing for Ms. Brown” fundraising campaign. We are aiming to raise the $200,000 needed to make this campaign's goals by the end of 2021. Our objective is to make sure that Ms. Brown can be adequately housed and cared for by early 2022. So, please donate what you can and spread the word to your family, friends, congregants, co-workers and fellow cooperators.
Our Story
Cooperation Jackson is the realization of a vision decades in the making. Our roots lay deep within the struggle for democratic rights, economic justice, and self-determination, particularly for Afrikan people in the Deep South, and for dignity and equality for all workers.
Events
Shifting Focus: Organizing for an Ecosocialist Future
March 28, 2023
University of Vermont
Capitalism is choking the life systems of our precious planet and threatening extinction of complex species including the human race. We need a real course correction and we need it in short order. Kali Akuno explains how EcoSocialism offers transformation from below, employing the democratic tools of the solidarity economy and the transformative principles of decolonization, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism and degrowth.
Building Worker Power through Solidarity, Cooperation, and Care
UMass Amherst
Friday, March 24 - Sunday, March 26, 2023
In this time of economic crisis and ecological collapse, workers of all kinds are organizing to reject the alienation of racial capitalism. This conference explores the deep histories, current happenings, and future possibilities of collaborations between union organizing and worker-owned cooperatives.
Keynote Speakers
Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson) & Chris Smalls (President, Amazon Labor Union)
Let’s Talk Jackson - Session 4
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
7 - 9 PM
Balagoon Center
939 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
Join us Wednesday, March 15, 2023 for a critical conversation about what we should do and how should we plan to prepare for the passage of SB1020 and all of the other reactionary bills that aim to reinstitute apartheid in Jackson and strip it of its assets and resources.
We say the Jackson-Kush Plan is still the way forward and we are going to double down on how and why to the community from here on out.
Join us.
#StopCopCity #StopPoliceTerror - Jackson Teach In
6 pm
Balagoon Center
939 W. Capital Street, Jackson, MS
Join us for a special teach-in on the campaign to stop the development of Cop City in Atlanta. The teach-in will focus on how developments like Cop City have and will be used to terrorize and repress Black, Brown and working class communities in the US and what we can and must do to abolish these repressive institutions and the exploitative systems that they protect
Let’s Talk Jackson - Session 3
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
7 - 9 PM
Balagoon Center
939 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
Join us Wednesday, March 8, 2023 for a critical conversation about the future of Jackson. The city is facing a multitude of crisis, from the apartheid style dismemberment being proposed by House Bill 1020, to threat of privatizing our water system, and subverting the federal government from providing the city with the financial aid it needs, to pushing for a congressional level recall process directly aimed at the city's Mayor.
With all of these threats and reactionary advances, we have to ask ourselves if the Jackson portion of the Jackson-Kush Plan can still be advanced? And if not, where can and should we go from here?
Let’s Talk Jackson - Session 2
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
5 - 7 Pm
Balagoon Center
939 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
Join us Wednesday, March 1, 2023 for a critical conversation about the future of Jackson. The city is facing a multitude of crisis, from the apartheid style dismemberment being proposed by House Bill 1020, to threat of privatizing our water system, and subverting the federal government from providing the city with the financial aid it needs, to pushing for a congressional level recall process directly aimed at the city's Mayor.
With all of these threats and reactionary advances, we have to ask ourselves if the Jackson portion of the Jackson-Kush Plan can still be advanced? And if not, where can and should we go from here?
Let’s Talk Jackson
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
5 - 7 Pm
Balagoon Center
939 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
Join us Wednesday, February 22, 2023 for a critical conversation about the future of Jackson. The city is facing a multitude of crisis, from the apartheid style dismemberment being proposed by House Bill 1020, to threat of privatizing our water system, and subverting the federal government from providing the city with the financial aid it needs, to pushing for a congressional level recall process directly aimed at the city's Mayor.
With all of these threats and reactionary advances, we have to ask ourselves if the Jackson portion of the Jackson-Kush Plan can still be advanced? And if not, where can and should we go from here?
Los Angeles People’s Movement Assembly
Sunday, December 11, 2022
3 - 7 pm
Kali Akuno shares reflections on the history and development of People’s Assemblies in Jackson, MS with the Los Angeles People’s Movement Assembly
Join Cooperation Jackson for our Monthly Movie Night
Saturday, November 26, 2022
6 pm
Featuring the Nextflix film, “Amandla”, about two brothers on opposing sides of the law in South Africa, desperate to stay bonded, but torn apart by tragedy.
COP27 Report Back Series
Join Cooperation Jackson and the Institute for Social Ecology for a series of updates and report backs on COP27 hosted by Kali Akuno.
Kali is going to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC, or COP 27. This is s the 27th Climate Change Conference and it’s going to be held from November 6th through 18th in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt. Kali is going as a delegate of It Takes Roots, which is an alliance of alliances, composed of the Climate Justice Alliance, the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Right to the City Alliance, and the ITR Black Caucus.
Kali will be providing us with analysis of the daily deliberations with an assessment of what they imply for the working class and oppressed peoples in the United States and throughout the world.
Join us the following dates
Tuesday, November 8th 4 pm est/3 pm cst/2 pm mst/1 pm pst
Thursday, November 10th 4 pm est/3 pm cst/2 pm mst/1 pm pst
Tuesday, November 15th 4 pm est/3 pm cst/2 pm mst/1 pm pst
Thursday, November 17th 4 pm est/3 pm cst/2 pm mst/1 pm pst
Follow on Cooperation Jackson and Jackson Rising Facebook Pages and the Kali Akuno and Institute for Social Ecology Youtube Pages.
Water Distribution
Saturday, September 24, 2022
Water Distribution
10 am - 12 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1128 W. Capitol Street
Jackson, MS 39203
Limit 2 Cases Per Car.
Organized by Cooperation Jackson.
To address future crises like this we want to encourage everyone to join the Jackson Emergency Response and Mutual Aid Network.
Water Distribution
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Water Distribution
10 am - 12 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1128 W. Capitol Street
Jackson, MS 39203
Limit 2 Cases Per Car.
Organized by Cooperation Jackson.
To address future crises like this we want to encourage everyone to join the Jackson Emergency Response and Mutual Aid Network.
Water Distribution
Saturday, September 17, 2022
Water Distribution
10 am - 12 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1128 W. Capitol Street
Jackson, MS 39203
Limit 2 Cases Per Car.
Organized by Cooperation Jackson.
To address future crises like this we want to encourage everyone to join the Jackson Emergency Response and Mutual Aid Network.
Water Distribution
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Water Distribution
10 am - 12 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1128 W. Capitol Street
Jackson, MS 39203
Limit 2 Cases Per Car.
Organized by Cooperation Jackson.
To address future crises like this we want to encourage everyone to join the Jackson Emergency Response and Mutual Aid Network.
Water Distribution
Saturday, September 10, 2022
Water Distribution
10 am - 12 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1128 W. Capitol Street
Jackson, MS 39203
Limit 2 Cases Per Car.
Organized by Cooperation Jackson.
To address future crises like this we want to encourage everyone to join the Jackson Emergency Response and Mutual Aid Network.
Water Distribution
Saturday, September 3, 2022
Water Distribution
10 am - 12 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1128 W. Capitol Street
Jackson, MS 39203
Limit 2 Cases Per Car.
Organized by Cooperation Jackson.
To address future crises like this we want to encourage everyone to join the Jackson Emergency Response and Mutual Aid Network.
State of the World Conference - Hosted by the Transnational Institute (TNI)
September 14th - 17th, 2022
Live Online, Registration Required
Our world is in a state of flux and crisis. The pandemic exposed the deep injustice of our economic and social system, but failed to trigger needed change. More than 2 years on, the health crisis continues, compounded by spiraling food and energy prices, escalating wars and geopolitical tensions, and ever more signs of environmental collapse. Worldwide, anger at political leaders’ failures to address these crises is seething and could explode in coming months.
How are we to make sense of this moment? What does it mean for activists and social movements? What are the challenges we must confront and the opportunities we must seize?
Building a Solidarity Economy in Jackson, MS
Live Online, Registration Required
Saturday, September 10, 2022
11 am - 1 pm cst
Conversations with Gamechangers: Solidarity Economy Strategies for a New and Better World' is an online series of conversations with radical grass-roots solidarity economy organisations across the world who are breaking new ground in their own contexts while building power in their communities.
Cooperation Jackson, an emerging cooperative network situated firmly within the struggle for Black liberation and self-determination.
Water Distribution - 9.1.22
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Water Distribution
10 am - 12 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1128 W. Capitol Street
Jackson, MS 39203
Limit 2 Cases Per Car.
Organized by Cooperation Jackson.
To address future crises like this we want to encourage everyone to join the Jackson Emergency Response and Mutual Aid Network.
Email: CooperationJackson@gmail.com
Phone: 601.320.2845
Website: www.cooperationjackson.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CooperationJackson
Twitter: @CooperationJXN
Instagram: @CooperationJXN
Our Principles
Cooperation Jackson has 13 Core Principles, which were crafted by adapting aspects from the basic principles of the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation in the Basque country of Spain, and the International Cooperative Alliance’s cooperative identity, values and principles.
