Sacajawea Hall from Cooperation Jackson and Edget Betru from Community Movement Builders provide an introduction to the Greek Anti-Racist Festival 2025.
Read MorePNLL Interview Series
Discussion live streamed on Tuesday, July 15, 2025
As part of the #BuildAndFight Formula presented by Cooperation Jackson, we take a look at the People’s’ Network for Land and Liberation and the various ways communities and organizations are rising to meet the need for a fundamental transformation in society.
Guests: Edget Betru and David Cobb
Read MoreSpeech given by Cooperation Jackson Executive Director, Kali Akuno, on Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at the UESCOOP 2025. UESCOOP 2025 positions cooperativism and the social and solidarity economy as strategies of global resistance to the far right, precariousness and fascism.
The social and solidarity economy is not only a productive alternative. It is, above all, a strategy of resistance . This was evident in the round table ' Cooperativism and anti-fascism ' held within the framework of the Summer University of Cooperativism ( UESCOOP ), moderated by Jordi Garcia , from the Roca i Galès Foundation . During the session, two experiences were presented that combat authoritarianism through self-organization and cooperation.
Read MoreCheck out the 6th Episode of the Build and Fight Formula Education series. This session features guest Raphael Arar from the One Project and focuses on the need for our social movements to create our own social digital commons and utilize them in a transformative way to "socialize production and democratize society".
Read MoreBlack Men Build Mass Call with Kali Akuno
Discussion held on Thursday, June 26, 2025
A dialogue between Kali Akuno and Black Men Build about the advance of the neo-confederate and neo-fascist movement under the banner of the Make America Great Again movement and how this movement is employing state violence and repression to dominate, contain, and subjugate Black and Latino communities. The dialogue explores how or communities have confronted state repression and white terror in the past and what we need to do to confront them now.
Read MoreThe National Black Radical Organizing Conference
The second National Black Radical Organizing Conference convened in Indianapolis, Indiana from May 30 through June 1. The conference theme was “Base-Building for Collective Power.” It was attended by over 400 Black activists, organizers, artists and intellectuals from throughout the United States and the African Diaspora.
Read MoreThe Build and Fight Formula Education Series #5: Community Production
Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
The 5th Session in our series featured Blair Evans from Incite Focus. Check out this pivotal discussion about Community Production and utilizing digital fabrication to create a new mode of production.
Read MoreKali Akuno on Democracy at Work
Monday, April 28, 2025
Discussion with Professor Rick Wolff and Kali Akuno, Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson, about Trump’s controversial "restoration" agenda and the growing resistance against it.
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“The Build and Fight Formula is both an argument and a proposed methodology on how to build eco-socialism from below, meaning through the self-organized activities and institutions of the working class and oppressed people.”
Kali Akuno talked about Worker Self Organization and Self Management as a key part of the Build and Fight Formula. Tune in June 10th for part 5 Community Production
The Build and Fight Formula Educational Series
Part 3: Food Sovereignty
“The Build and Fight Formula is both an argument and a proposed methodology on how to build eco-socialism from below, meaning through the self-organized activities and institutions of the working class and oppressed people.”
Read MoreCreating Community Asset Vouchers and Rotational Labor Associations in Jackson, MS
Cooperation Jackson hosted Grassroots Economics in Jackson, MS from Monday, March 10th through Thursday, March 14th. The purpose of this encounter was to set up our own Mutual Exchange and Rotational Labor Association (ROLA) system in Jackson.
Read MoreThe Build and Fight Formula Education Series
Part Two: Mutual Aid
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
“The Build and Fight Formula is both an argument and a proposed methodology on how to build eco-socialism from below, meaning through the self-organized activities and institutions of the working class and oppressed people.”
Read MoreRedneck Gone Green
The Build and Fight Formula with Kali Akuno
Monday, March 3, 2025
This edition of Redneck Gone Green with David Cobb and Shane Knight, they discuss the flaccid state of the Democratic Party and what it's going to take for us to save ourselves with Cooperation Jackson's co-founder Kali Akuno about their educational series "The Build & Fight Formula."
Read MoreThe Build and Fight Formula Education Series
Part One: Introduction, the Argument
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
“The Build and Fight Formula is both an argument and a proposed methodology on how to build eco-socialism from below, meaning through the self-organized activities and institutions of the working class and oppressed people.”
Read MoreTuesday, February 4, 2025
Just two weeks in power, the new Trump administration has already led a horrifying whirlwind of attacks on immigrants, transgender people, tribal nations, people of color, and women. Government institutions are being dismantled. Make no mistake, these shock-and-awe actions are designed to keep people in fear and paralyzed as a fascistic presidency stages what is being called an administrative coup.
Our guests today, David Cobb and Kali Akuno, are among the few who saw this moment coming years ago, and have never stopped organizing against the fascist threat. In their work, including the creation of the People’s Network for Land and Liberation, they take a programmatic approach to overcoming fear through clear analysis and direct action. They aim not only to resist, but to build real infrastructure to keep people safe, meet basic needs, and cultivate the idea and practice of political and economic democracy on a mass scale.
As the Italian antifascist and theorist Antonio Gramsci said, “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” For David and Kali, as well as for our guest host Meleiza Figueroa, the way through is not only fighting the monsters, but bringing that new world into being. We’ll spend the hour with our guests discussing the nature of this current historical conjuncture, and what they have been doing to prepare the people for this very moment.
Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.
Read MoreOver the weekend of February 1st and 2nd, Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. Mexico’s tariffs are set to go into effect on March 1; China’s and Canada’s are set for tonight. All countries have threatened retaliatory actions in response. What does all this mean?
Hear a take on this question from Kali Akuno in dialogue with Thandisizwe Chimurenga on Rootwork.
Monday, February 3, 2025
Read MoreInterview by Firoze Manji of Daraja Press
Conducted Sunday, January 26, 2025
Kali describes a more effective and organized Trump regime implementing policies that are creating significant contradictions and challenges, particularly around immigration and labor. He highlights how deportations and anti-immigrant policies are already impacting food production and elderly care. Kali argues that Trump is attempting to reset the terms of the global empire and reshape American society, potentially moving towards more authoritarian governance. He warns of increased militarization of police and the empowerment of right-wing militias. However, Kali also sees opportunities emerging from these crises. He emphasizes the growth of mutual aid networks and community-based solutions, particularly around food production and distribution. He advocates for expanding these efforts, suggesting slogans like "every yard a farm, every garage a factory" to encourage local production. The conversation touches on the potential for civil conflict given widespread gun ownership, with Kali cautioning that right-wing groups have already been well-trained with arms and firepower. Progressive forces will never match their military might, nor should they do so. Overall, while acknowledging the serious challenges ahead, Kali emphasizes the importance of building alternative systems and solidarity networks to meet community needs in the face of systemic crises.
Read MoreAn in-depth discussion on how the Bolivarian Revolution inspired the Mississippi-based project Cooperation Jackson.
November 22, 2024
Read MoreDisrupt the Chaos: Build and Fight Formula Kick Off
Kali Akuno and Rosa Clemente kicked off the first Build and Fight Formula kick off on Tuesday, October 29th, 2024.
Kali and Rosa will be doing a dialogue series about the Build and Fight Formula, which is a transformative dual power strategy being developed by Cooperation Jackson. Kali is in the process of writing a book on this strategy and aims to publish it in 2026 via Pluto Press. The dialogue series will be the 1st Tuesday of every month on Disrupt the Chaos and all of its platforms.
Read MoreBuilding a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi anchored by a network of cooperatives and other worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises.
