Building a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi, anchored by a network of cooperatives and worker-owned, democratically self-managed enterprises.
News & Media
COP26 Report Back: Where Do We Go From Here?
A panel of international climate justice activists shares perspectives on COP26 and the next stage of our struggle. This event was cosponsored by Green Eco-Socialist Network (GEN) and System Change Not Climate Change (SCNCC), two organizations committed to ecosocialist transformation.
Hurricane Ida showed us the future of climate catastrophe. Mutual Aid showed us a way out.
On the 16th anniversary of Katrina, Hurricane Ida hit with destructive force, killing many and leaving underserved communities in ruin. We spoke with representatives from mutual aid organizations that have been helping people rebuild in the wake of catastrophe.
Coop Leaders seek to reconnect with Movement’s Social Justice Roots
October is co-op month in the US, a time for co-op leaders to gather, even if gathering these days is hybrid or virtual. This year’s Co-op Impact conference, organized by the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), the US co-op trade association, centered on questions of co-op identity and meaning. Or, as Karen Zimbelman, a longtime food co-op trainer who was inducted this year into the national cooperative hall of fame, put it, “What are the times asking and demanding of us as co-ops today?”
Degrowth Strategies: Thinking with and beyond Erik Olin Wright
Degrowthers have recently seemed to find a lot of inspiration in Erik Olin Wright’s framework of political strategies for transformations beyond capitalism. In this blog post, we wish to highlight some crucial insufficiencies of Wright’s framework in relation to degrowth transformations, and propose some adaptations which can enhance its utility for further strategy discussions. To do so, we begin by offering a brief overview of some ways in which degrowthers have discussed Wright’s strategic framework so far. We then propose three ways in which we believe Wright’s framework can be enhanced in order to speak more fruitfully to degrowth. These consist of (i) a reconsideration of ruptural strategies, (ii) a greater attentiveness to the dynamics of contemporary ecological crisis, and (iii) a deeper recognition of possibilities for the inter-mingling of different political traditions in order to develop novel strategic frameworks for twenty-first century degrowth transformations.
Ask Prof. Wolff: Cooperation Jackson and Cooperation Humboldt
A Patron of Economic Update asks: "What are your thoughts on the emerging cooperative ‘Cooperation Jackson’ and what’re some models or practices that socialist can advocate for on the municipal level. Thank you, again!" This is Professor Richard Wolff's video response.
Jackson organization hosts rental housing fair for Hinds County Residents
News coverage from ABC WAPT Channel 16 on the Hinds County Housing Assistance Fair hosted by Cooperation Jackson on October 16, 2021 at the Ida B. Wells Plaza.
Building bridges from intersectional Ecosocialism to Radical Climate Justice and Systemic Transformation
This article addresses the intersections and overlaps of intersectional theory, ecosocialism, and radical climate justice activism. It argues for a new synthesis between these different viewpoints and paradigms and features the work of Cooperation Jackson as model of practice.
How Universal Basic Income can help build a Solidarity Economy
This articles addresses the question of how universal basic income could be used to build and bolster the solidarity economy, particularly on the financial end.
Organizing the Solidarity Economy: A story of Network building during COVID-19
Early in 2020, the board of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (USSEN) called on like-minded organizations that were engaged in economic justice and systems change work to gather at a Resist and Build summit at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. The center, founded in 1932, has played an outsized role as a movement-organizing space, known for helping to train labor organizers in the 1930s and civil rights organizers in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Big scary “S” word and economic democracy
Dissent partnered with the Democratic Socialists of America Fund, NYC-DSA’s Housing Working Group, In These Times, Housing Justice for All, Dollars & Sense, and the Sustainable Economies Law Center for the third installment in a series of virtual events inspired by the film The Big Scary “S” Word. This discussion focused on worker cooperatives and the fight for economic justice.
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Water for you #2 - Friday, March 26, 2021
How Black Mississippians found their Power during Jackson’s Water Emergency
Article from Capital and Main focusing on the grassroots efforts in Jackson, MS to address Jackson’s water emergency and infrastructure crisis.
Written by Frances Madeson
“After the water stopped flowing, a grassroots effort in Jackson is organizing the Black community for future climate and political crises.”
Local Food and Farms Coop Assembly 2021 Keynote Plenary Panel
Our opening Keynote panel at our Assembly features a conversation of food sovereignty and a Just Transition in our pandemic times with speakers from across the continent. We are honoured to open our 12th Annual Assembly with Dawn Morrison of the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty from Coast Salish territory on the west coast of so-called Canada as well as Kali Akuno and Sacajawea Saki Hall of Cooperation Jackson from Jackson, Mississippi. Our speakers discuss what food sovereignty looks like in their communities, coalition building across nations and movements, and mobilizing to activate the changes we need to see for a Just Transition away from an extractive economy to sustainable, long-term, community-driven solutions.
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: A Discussion on the International Tenants Movement
A discussion about the challenges of organizing tenants throughout the world. The discussion was organized by the Community Action Tenants Union - Ireland (CATU - Ireland). Featuring Sacajawea “Saki” Hall discussing the struggle to organize renters and tenants in Jackson, MS.
Defining Labor Justice and Climate Justice
This webinar is an introduction on labor organizing and how it interacts with many aspects of the environmental justice movement, such as how right-to-work legislation and other union busting efforts or hampering work affect the climate justice movement. Panelists also discussed the connections between the current labor organizers and mutual aid organizers in the youth environmental movement.
Featuring Joshua Dedmond of Cooperation Jackson and the Labor Network for Sustainability.
Empire in Crisis: An Analysis of the January 6, 2021 Insurrection
This discussion analyzed the consequences of the failed occupation of the US Congress by neo-confederate forces led by Donald Trump on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
Featuring Kali Akuno, Rosa Clemente, Chanelle Helm, and Ananda Lee Tan
The 2020 US Elections: Bourgeois Democracy in Crisis
With Kali Akuno, Meagan Day, and Peter Drucker
The 2020 US election may be the biggest crisis of bourgeois democracy since the defeat of Black Reconstruction. The past several years and weeks have been rich in lessons about the nature of the US state and its electoral system. Issues that the panelists will discuss include: the ongoing far right threat and the changing character of the Republican Party; the nature of the Democratic Party and what the left can and cannot use it for; the roots of the current political crisis in the economic crisis going back to 2008, and the impact of the pandemic; and the intersections of class, race, gender and sexuality in this current crisis.
This Ain’t Democracy! A Post-Election Teach In
Regardless of the election outcome, the struggle for radical positive change is set to continue. We face ongoing battles for Black liberation, economic equity, reproductive freedoms, healthcare, immigrant justice, indigenous rights, ecological regeneration, and more.
The next four years – and far beyond – offer opportunities to build on the incredible groundwork established by movements from Black Lives Matter to #AbolishICE, #MeToo to the fight to protect indigenous land and water.
In this post-election teach-in, we invite you to imagine and plot a revolutionary response to the U.S. Elections. Join Kali Akuno, Klee Benally, Shanelle Matthews, Adrienne Pine, and Marzena Zukowska as we demand much better than a return to the status quo!
Organized by PM Press, Radical Communicators Network, American University Department of Anthropology, and California Institute of Integral Studies Department of Anthropology and Social Change.
Just Transition - Transformative Strategies on the Frontlines of Struggle
As we stand at the intersection of multiple, intertwined global crises—an environmental justice pandemic, the threat of fascism and white supremacy, and the crash of the fossil fuel economy, it’s hard not to feel despondent about the future of humanity.
However, communities that have historically been most impacted by these crises—Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples on the frontlines of poverty, pollution and police violence, are also cultivating visionary strategies for building a better world—pathways to restore the balance of natural ecosystems and human relations, and sharing these across frontline struggles worldwide.
Organizing in Extreme Times
Kali Akuno interviewed by Mitch Jeserich on KPFA’s Letters and Politics on Wednesday, September 23, 2020. The interview focused on the organizations Build and Fight Program, the People’s Strike Coalition, and the challenges organizing in the face the resurgence of white supremacy and economic depression.
#MyThriveStory - Sacajawea “Saki” Hall
Sacajawea Hall, a founding member of Cooperation Jackson, share why she supports the THRIVE Agenda and urges Members of Congress to do the same
The Path to EcoSocialism and Survival
A Talk with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson with Systems Change Not Climate Change on Sunday, September 20
To survive, we must swiftly transition to EcoSocialism. But how do we do that? Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson described the organization's model of local cooperative living, and its visionary Call to Action: Towards a General Strike to End the COVID-19 Crisis and Create a New World.
Building a Transatlantic Strategy - What have we learned the last 5 years?
What have we learned on both sides of the Atlantic over the last 5 years about pursuing a socialist agenda using the vehicle of traditional political parties?
Taking a historical perspective, this session will examine the challenges and limitations of this approach and what we could have done differently. Asking the question of what would have happened had we achieved power, participants will map out a long view on socialist strategy and explore different avenues for delivering success.
SPEAKERS:
Joe Guinan, Mary Robertson, Kali Akuno, Richard Seymour and Laura Smith
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
Support Ms. Rose Mae Brown, Support the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust
Please enjoy this video appeal for the campaign to support Ms. Rose Mae Brown and the Fannie Lou Hammer Community Land Trust, stewarded by Cooperation Jackson, secure adequate housing for her medical condition. We are seeking to raise $200,000 to purchase a home for her on Rose Street in West Jackson, a home big enough to ensure that she has permanent in-home care to treat her chronic epileptic seizures.
Please make a generous donation to this vital campaign.
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.
Symbiosis Summer 2021
Support the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust in West Jackson!
Sunday, August 8th - Sunday, August 15, 2021
(Please indicate Symbiosis Summer in your donation)
This summer from August 8 through 15, members of the Symbiosis network are converging in Jackson, Mississippi to renovate and rehab properties and sites on the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust stewarded by Cooperation Jackson, in order to provide affordable housing, lots for urban agriculture, and a basis for an Eco-Village concept ensuring a more sustainable future. We need your help to make this a reality!
Symbiosis Summer
Inspired by the Detroit Summer program based out of the Boggs Center, itself inspired by the Mississippi Summer at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Symbiosis Summer brings together volunteers from far afield to come together and work on a project giving back to that community and building deeper connections and networks of solidarity between them.
This inaugural summer will take place in the western neighborhoods of Jackson, where we will be working with Cooperation Jackson to complete the rehabilitation of several properties held by their community land trust, as well as help with the summer harvest of Freedom Farms cooperative.
The Costs
Our committee has budgeted for costs to provide room and board on their properties for up to thirty volunteers to be about $5000. We are reaching out to local groceries for possible donations to reduce costs. We are also looking to rent a passenger van for transporting people to and from the work sites, to reduce the need for cars. Most coming in are paying entirely for their travel expenses to reach here.
Cooperation Jackson has committed to paying 40% of the costs, with the remainder to be paid by the crowdfunding and the Symbiosis Network. Anything raised in the excess of this goal will go towards paying back Cooperation Jackson for their portion and investing back in the community of West Jackson.
Symbiosis
Symbiosis is a confederation of grassroots, municipal organizations across North America, building a democratic and ecological movement for a better world, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city. Starting at the Congress of Municipal Movements in 2019, Symbiosis provides a global platform for local organizing with over twenty affiliate organizations and more partners in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Through this platform we seek to escalate our work to new territories of radical possibility, rooted deeply in principles of autonomy, solidarity, social ecology, and radical democracy.
Get involved!
Bringing together resources from the crowd is a key strategy. We do not rely on grants or foundations, instead run on the donations of our members and friends of the movement. In addition to giving, please feel free to reach out and share widely on social media over Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, and if you are interested in traveling to Jackson with us this summer, you can find a form to sign up to join us at this link!
Decolonization, Reparations, and Climate Emergency Preparedness: Clarifying the CJ and CGO Collaboration
By Cooperation Jackson and the Center for Grassroots Organizing
As veteran activists, we should have known better than to trust a liberal media outlet to tell our story and portray our interests, intents, and strategies correctly. When we agreed to do a story with VICE magazine about our shared work and growing collaboration, based on several lead-in conversations we thought the article would focus on the efforts of grassroots forces like ours trying to:
Develop concrete strategies to rapidly address the advancing climate catastrophe
Initiate just transition plans from the bottom up that lead to a regenerative, eco-socialist future based on non-extractive and non-exploitative systems of production and reproduction where the means of production are democratically owned and controlled by communities of associated producers
Coherently plan for the coming waves of climate migration within the context of fighting for decolonization, in the form of land back transfers to Indigenous nations and land steward agreements for Blacks and Latinos based on these land grant transfers
To read more
Mississippi Tenant Emergency Support Hotline
If you or a tenant you know in Mississippi needs some assistance fighting an eviction, call the hotline today to gather more information and mobilize critical aid.
Support Cooperation Jackson’s Relief and Emergency Preparedness efforts in West Jackson
Donate Here
The Polar Vortex that engulfed the Gulf Coast in February devastated Jackson. Thousands of the city’s residents experienced power outages, freezing temperatures, and water deprivation during the freeze. Now in the middle of March, weeks after the freeze, thousands continue living without running water or adequate water pressure for weeks on end due to the inadequacy of the cities antiquated infrastructure.
This is the second major Polar Vortex induced infrastructure calamity that the city of Jackson has faced since the winter of 2018. Sadly, these cold spells and the damage they inflict are becoming part of our “new normal” due to the rapidly escalating climate calamity that is confronting us all.
What we have clearly learned the hard way since the calamity of Hurricane Katrina, is that during times of acute crisis the government, particularly on the Federal and State levels, will not adequately intervene on behalf of predominantly Black, Latino, Indigenous, or working class communities. The racist and reactionary forces that control these apparatus do not see it in their short or long-term interests to assist these communities and build their infrastructures, which could aid in the development of their overall social capacities and deter their exploitation by the forces of capital. Local municipalities, particularly mid-sized cities like Jackson, more often than not do not possess the independent financial resources, technical capacities, and sufficient tax bases to draw upon to deal with these issues on their own.
Since the Federal and State governments won’t help, and Municipal governments are often unable to adequately help, we, the people have a dual task: 1) to build self-governing institutions with the skills and capacities to help ourselves address and overcome the mounting crisis afflicting us and 2) build movements with enough power to restructure the state and transform society. To these ends, we are asking you to act in solidarity with us to enhance and fortify the autonomous institutions we are building in West Jackson to meet these ends.
In the short term, we are asking you to support our autonomous relief efforts, providing water, safety masks, and sanitizing supplies to the people in our community, particularly the houseless residents in our community, to deal with the immediate water and sanitation crisis the community is confronting. We will be hosting our first major relief distribution on Friday, March 19th at 12 noon at the Ida B. Wells Plaza located at 1202 W. Capital Street, Jackson, MS 39203.
In the mid-term, we are seeking your support to do a) ongoing emergency preparedness training for freezes, tornados, hurricanes, and floods and b) the provision of emergency ready resource kits. As it relates to resource provisioning, we are seeking to develop and distribute thousands of emergency ready kits that will include the following:
Solar powered lighting and recharging lamps
5 gallon portable water containers
Water purification filters and/or tablets
Sleeping bags
Tarps
Survival Tip Guides
In the long-term, we are seeking your support to aid us in the development of the following institutions to fortify the Fannie Lou Hamer Community Land Trust:
Solar Power Community Energy Stations
Water-catchment and distribution systems for agricultural and emergency use
Once we ease our own internal COVID-19 safety protocols, hopefully by August or September pending on the state of the pandemic, we will be seeking help with construction brigades and skill share exchanges in the construction trades to help us build the solar power and water-catchment systems, as well as other infrastructure on the community land trust.
Donate today to support the relief and emergency preparedness initiatives of Cooperation Jackson. We are looking to raise $10,000 for our short-term (1 to 2 month) relief efforts. We are looking to raise a minimum of $200,000 for or mid and long-term efforts. To donate please visit our “donate” page.
Thank you!
Support the Spanish Translation of Jackson Rising
Please support our comrades at La Ciutat Invisible cooperative in Barcelona, Catalonia translate our work, Jackson Rising: the Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS, into Spanish. This translation will help us reach entirely new audiences, particularly in Spanish speaking communities in Mississippi, the US South, and Latin America, to share our views, experiences, and reflections and through these help build international solidarity across the language and cultural divides.
Please make a donate via this link: https://www.goteo.org/project/fem-arribar-cooperation-jackson-arreu
The Build and Fight Formula
Cooperation Jackson will be developing and releasing an educational program on this transformative vision throughout July and August. We hope this will be a substantive contribution to the broad transformative movement in the United States and throughout the world.
RBG-90X Mask Tutorial
Video of Community Production Cooperative anchor, Kwame Braxton, on the RBG - 90X protective mask designed under his lead by the cooperative. The video focuses on how to properly use and clean the mask.
.The Community Production Cooperative and Cooperation Jackson are donating the first 100 RBG-90X masks to front-line workers in the medical field. if you are interested in purchasing one Feel Free to contact Kwame Braxton at @obsidiancomics2016@gmail.com. also if you are interested in donating to sustain the community production mask distribution feel free to check out cooperationjackson.org.
People’s Strike: Fighting for Our Lives, Forging Our Future
Take Action, Support the New Coalition
People’s Strike is a growing coalition of workers, community, and political organizations confronting the COVID-19 pandemic by struggling against inept government and the forces of Wall Street to put people before profit.
3d printed mask produced by the community production cooperative - april 9, 2020
Community Production Mask Challenge Updates
This page is dedicated to our Community Production Mask Challenge. It currently features videos from Monday, April 6th and Thursday, April 9th, 2020.
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
FOOD SOVEREIGNTY & Peoples' Struggle for LIBERATION
PALESTINE - JACKSON - BRAZIL
A conversation on Food Sovereignty & our local, national, global , political Struggles for Liberation.
In Solidarity with the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Workers Committees (UAWC) & Bisan Center for Research & Development. #StandWithThe6
w/ Cooperation Jackson & Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST)
December 10th 1pm EST
To Register: https://bit.ly/FoodSovPali
Speakers:
Cassia Bechara - MST
Fuad Abu Saif- UAWC
Kali Akuno - Cooperation Jackson
Ubai Al-Aboudi - Bisan Center
BLACK LIBERATION & WORKER COOPERATIVES:
Innovative Organizing in COVID's Aftermath
Thursday, December 9, 2021 11am - 12pm CST
The COVID crisis further exposed the social, political and environmental inequities embedded in our society. However, the pandemic created opportunities for communities to organize and practice cooperative solutions to enhance capacity for fundamental system change. Join us to learn about the innovative work of Cooperation Jackson.
Featuring:
Kali Akuno
Co-Founder & Co-Director - Cooperation Jackson
Rebecca Lurie
Director, Community Worker Ownership Project
Faculty - CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies
A Sustainable Economy is a Cooperative Economy
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CST
Organized by the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre, University of Greenwich
Speakers
Kali Akuno, Director of Cooperation Jackson
Dr Adotey Bing-Pappoe, Senior lecturer in economics at The University of Greenwich
Rental Assistance Fair
NEED HELP PAYING RENT? WE CAN HELP!
Volunteers will be on site to help Hinds County Renters apply for assistance.
SATURDAY 16TH
SATURDAY 23RD
1PM TO 5PM
1128 W CAPITOL ST.
Black August Art Exhibit
Friday, August 27, 2021
4 - 8 pm
Imari Obadele Community Production Center
922 W. Capitol Street
Cooperation Jackson is observing our 5th collective Black August this year. We encourage everyone to join us for these critical events throughout the month of August to commemorate and advance the tradition.
This is our 3rd Black August Art Exhibit. It features Bro Shambe, Sabrina Howard, Sky Miles, Kwame Braxton, Saki, Elijah Williams, Sam McCain and Ryan Mack.
For more information
Black August Film Night
Saturday, August 21, 2021
6 - 10 pm
Imari Obadele Community Production Center
922 W. Capitol Street
Cooperation Jackson is observing our 5th collective Black August this year. We encourage everyone to join us for these critical events throughout the month of August to commemorate and advance the tradition.
This is our 3rd Black August Film Night. A Birth of a Nation and the Black August Hip Hop documentary.
For more information
Dual Power and the General Strike: Lessons from Jackson, MS and Colombia
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
2 - 4 pm cst
Featuring Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson and Diana Marcela Agudelo-Ortiz from Colombia.
This discussion focuses on the current peoples’ struggle in Colombia that is employing the tactic of the general strike to defeat the reactionary Colombian regime. It also focuses on Cooperation Jackson’s efforts to build a people’s movement to attain dual power as a transformative force in Jackson, MS.
For more information
Water for You, Part 6
Friday, June 25, 2021
12 noon - 4 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1202 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
(At Rose/Monument Street Intersection)
Join Cooperation Jackson and BDay 99.1. FM for a Community Relief effort to deliver Free Water, Canned Goods, and Personal Protection Equipment to the Community while supplies last.
This is effort is part of Cooperation Jackson’s capacity building initiative to establish autonomous energy and water delivery systems in West Jackson to help address the long term infrastructure needs of our community.
Water for You, Part 5
Friday, June 4, 2021
12 noon - 4 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1202 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
(At Rose/Monument Street Intersection)
Join Cooperation Jackson and BDay 99.1. FM for a Community Relief effort to deliver Free Water, Canned Goods, and Personal Protection Equipment to the Community while supplies last.
This is effort is part of Cooperation Jackson’s capacity building initiative to establish autonomous energy and water delivery systems in West Jackson to help address the long term infrastructure needs of our community.
Water for You, Part 4
Friday, May 21, 2021
12 noon - 4 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1202 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
(At Rose/Monument Street Intersection)
Join Cooperation Jackson and BDay 99.1. FM for a Community Relief effort to deliver Free Water, Canned Goods, and Personal Protection Equipment to the Community while supplies last.
This is effort is part of Cooperation Jackson’s capacity building initiative to establish autonomous energy and water delivery systems in West Jackson to help address the long term infrastructure needs of our community.
Why do we need EcoSocialist Movements?
Saturday, April 10, 2021
3 - 5 pm cst
Ecosocialists start with the premise that environmental degradation and social injustice stem from the same source: an oppressive system that puts profit over people, plane and peace.
Speakers include:
- Ajamu Baraka - Black Alliance For Peace, National Organizer and Spokesperson
- Michelle Vassel - Wiyot Tribal Administrator
- Kali Akuno - Cooperation Jackson Co-founder and Co-director
Worker Cooperatives, the COVID-19 Pandemic and Black Liberation
Thursday, April 8, 2021
11 am - 12 pm
This dialogue is being hosted by the School of Labor and Urban Studies, CUNY SLU. This dialogue is part of the COVID Capitalism series which is examining the social, political and economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis, and what it reveals about contemporary capitalism and the prospects for structural change.
Featuring Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson and Rebecca Lurie, from the School of Labor and Urban Studies.
Water for You, Part 3
Friday, April 2, 2021
12 noon - 4 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1202 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
(At Rose/Monument Street Intersection)
Join Cooperation Jackson and BDay 99.1. FM for a Community Relief effort to deliver Free Water, Canned Goods, and Personal Protection Equipment to the Community while supplies last.
This is effort is part of Cooperation Jackson’s capacity building initiative to establish autonomous energy and water delivery systems in West Jackson to help address the long term infrastructure needs of our community.
Lessons from Mississippi: What we can learn from Cooperation Jackson
Featuring Kali Akuno
Organized by the Metro Detroit Democratic Socialists of America
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
5:30 pm cst/6:30 pm est
Check out our next Socialist Night School session Tuesday, March 30th! Featuring Kali Akuno, co-author of Jackson Rising, explores the lessons that can be drawn from the experience of organizing grassroots efforts for over a decade in Jackson, Mississippi. Learn about the organizing projects they envisioned, electoral and beyond, to grow a stronger city and a New South.
Water for You, Part 2
Friday, March 26, 2021
12 noon - 4 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1202 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
(At Rose/Monument Street Intersection)
Join Cooperation Jackson and BDay 99.1. FM for a Community Relief effort to deliver Free Water, Canned Goods, and Personal Protection Equipment to the Community while supplies last.
This is effort is part of Cooperation Jackson’s capacity building initiative to establish autonomous energy and water delivery systems in West Jackson to help address the long term infrastructure needs of our community.
Water for You
Friday, March 19, 2021
12 noon - 4 pm
Ida B. Wells Plaza
1202 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, MS
(At Rose/Monument Street Intersection)
Join Cooperation Jackson, Color of Change, BDay 99.1. FM and the Village Kitchen for a Community Relief effort to deliver Free Water, Hot Meals, and Masks to the Community while supplies last.
This is effort is part of Cooperation Jackson’s capacity building initiative to establish autonomous energy and water delivery systems in West Jackson to help address the long term infrastructure needs of our community. For more information visit [https://cooperationjackson.org/announcementsblog/reliefandemergencypreparedness2021][1].
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.
