Local news station WLBT Channel 3 featured a story about our Seven Days Community Arts Festival on Sunday, April 21st, 2019. This segment featured local artist and Community Production Cooperative worker owner, Kwame Braxton talking about AfroFuturism, the Community Arts Festival, the Community Production Center, and Cooperation Jackson.
Read MoreCan the Working Class Change the World? Interview with Michael D. Yates on WRFG Labor Forum
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Michael D. Yates, economist, labor educator, and associate editor of the socialist magazine Monthly Review, discusses his new book, Can the Working Class Change the World?, on WRFG Labor Forum on March 11, 2019. In this interview Yates discusses aspects of our vision and our efforts to build worker cooperatives as instruments of working class power and self-organization.
Read MoreThe Dream of Revolution by Robin D. G. Kelley→
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In this speech, Professor Robin D. G. Kelley, explains Dr. Martin Luther King’s radical vision, the program of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the Spirit of 1968, the aims and objectives of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika, and the continuation of these visions and objectives in the Jackson-Kush Plan and its aims and objectives.
This lecture was given in Williamstown, MS on November 15, 2018. It was released on Alternative Radio by David Barsamian on March 25, 2019.
Read MoreIt's Eco-Socialism or Death
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Jacobin Magazine interviews Cooperation Jackson leader Kali Akuno on the Green New Deal, the need for mass civil disobedience, and the necessity of building an internationalist movement for eco-socialism.
Jackson Rising book review from Real Change
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Review by Mike World.
The capital of a state dominated by a history of White supremacy is in the midst of a radical transformation
Read MoreCooperation Jackson with Stir to Action: Building Economic Democracy→
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Jackson, Mississippi has become a noted hotbed of radical, municipal politics over the last decade. One of the leading organisations in this radical municipal experiment is Cooperation Jackson. Cooperation Jackson is an emerging vehicle for sustainable community development, collective ownership, and economic democracy in Jackson.
Stir to Action interview with Kali Akuno→
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Cooperation Jackson Executive Director, Kali Akuno, speaks with Jonathan Gordon-Farleigh, with the UK based organization, Stir to Action, about Cooperation Jackson, the Jackson-Kush Plan, and the struggle to build solidarity economy and economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi.
Read MoreEconomic Update: Dialogue with Richard Wolff and Kali Akuno
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Check out this dialogue with economist Richard Wolff and our own Kali Akuno, recorded on Monday, December 3rd, 2018.
"Look, nobody's coming to save us. What can we do ourselves with the resources and the skills that we have to transform our own situation? ... We do see ourselves as on a project of trying to build socialism from the bottom up, and worker coops being a vehicle to do that based upon their democratic nature..."
This interview was released on Economic Update, which is a project of Democracy @ Work, on Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Read MoreReflections on 2018: A Year of Struggle, Lessons and Progress
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This article is a summation of the advances and challenges we have encountered in our work over the last year and half, with a particular emphasis on developments in 2018. It focuses on what we learned from these developments and how we are applying these learnings to strengthen our practice and advance our work in 2019 and beyond.
Read MoreWe have to make sure the "Green New Deal" doesn't become Green Capitalism
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In These Times spoke with Kali Akuno, director of the CJA-affiliated Cooperation Jackson, a Mississippi-based group that aims to build a “solidarity economy” that is “anchored by a network of cooperatives and worker-owned, democratically self-managed enterprises.” According to Akuno, movements must defend the best components of the GND, while challenging–and offering alternatives to–the capitalist logic embedded in some of its proposals. “While this is still in the drafting phase,” he argues, “let’s get it as near perfect as we possibly can.”
Building post-capitalist futures: Report from the Transnational Institutes Fellowship Meeting→
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Over several sunny days in June 2018, a diverse group of 60 activists and researchers from 30 countries convened for a multi-day meeting to discuss the collective building of post-capitalist futures. The meeting provided the opportunity for a rich exchange of perspectives and experiences, as well as deep discussion and debate. The goal of the meeting was not to achieve consensus both an impossible and unnecessary endeavor but rather to stimulate mutual learning, challenge one another and advance analyses. Cooperation Jackson was honored to participate and contribute to this dialogue and report.
Read MoreCan the Working Class Change the World? Book Review
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"Can the Working Class Change the World?", is the latest work by leftist author, Michael D. Yates. Yates is known by many for his bestselling work "Why Unions Matter". "Can the Working Class Change the World?" is published by Monthly Review Press and was released in the fall of 2018.
Mr. Yates gracoiusly discusses our work and vision as models of what members of the working class can do to to transform their lives and the world around him. We are humbled by the inclusion and doing everything within our power to be worthy of the includion. Check out this review of the book by Ian Angus, published in the Climate & Capitalism on November 13, 2018.
Read MoreTransition Network interview with Sacajawea Hall and Kali Akuno
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This article is an interview with Sacajawea Hall and Kali Akuno by Kevin Buckland, a noted climate justice activist based Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). The interview was conducted in Barcelona in June 2018.
Read MoreTransformative Cities: Crisis and Opportunity
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"Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility?" These are the questions from Laura Flanders' opening statements at the Transnational Institute's convening on Transformative Cities in Amsterdam during July 2018.
Read MoreBoth the Commune and Revolution→
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A critical review of “Jackson Rising: the Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS” by Richard Moser. Published in Counterpunch Magazine on September 18, 2018.
Read MoreHundreds Demand Climate Justice
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Civic and business leaders convened at California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, but protestors decried their “false solutions” to the climate crisis.
Video footage from the Real News Network featuring activists from It Takes Roots Alliance Solidarity to Solutions action on Thursday, September 13th.
Read MoreCooperation Jackson at the Solidarity To Solutions Actions on Thursday, September 13, 2018
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Video footage of Cooperation Jackson's activities at the Solidarity To Solutions rally on September 13, 2018. Footage taken by Sacajawea “Saki” Hall.
Read Morebrandon king and Monica Atkins at Sol 2 Sol Rally September 13, 2018
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Video of Cooperation Jackson's own brandon king and Monica Atkins at the Solidarity to Solutions or Sol 2 Sol action of the It Takes Roots Alliance in San Fransico, CA on Thursday, September 13, 2018.
The purpose of this rally was to combat the false solutions of the Global Climate Action Summit organized by California Governor Jerry Brown to promote Carbon Trading, and to present the world with real solutions being practiced and developed by frontline communities and people's throughout the world.
Read MoreProtesters have their day at California Climate Talks
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New York Times article about the It Takes Roots Sol 2 Sol Demonstration at the Global Climate Action Summit in California, on Thursday, September 13, 2018. Article written by Somini Sengupta.
Read MoreCooperation Jackson: Building a Solidarity Economy REELNEWS Video
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REELNEWS Video Text: In Jackson, Mississippi, Cooperation Jackson are building a solidarity economy, anchored by a network of cooperatives and worker-owned, democratically self-managed enterprises. This visionary project not only continues the historic Afro-American struggle for land, but shows how we can all make a just transition to a zero carbon, zero waste economy ourselves.
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