Build and Fight: Community Production, Community Control and the Struggle for Self-Determination

Build and Fight: Community Production, Community Control, and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Jackson, MS and Across the Globe

Monday, December 3, 2023

California Institute for Integral Studies - Department of Anthropology and Social Change

Kali Akuno, Sacajawea Hall, and Matt Meyer discuss the strategies, successes, and lessons of Cooperation Jackson and how it became a center for national and international coalition efforts around the movement for grassroots-centered Black community control and self-determination, inspiring growing partnerships and emulation across the globe. Learn from new and ongoing projects and methods by progressive peoples from diverse trade union, youth, church, and cultural movements found within the community and in the pages of Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present, coedited by Kali Akuno and Matt Meyer.