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.
Read MoreThis 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.
This discussion will analyze 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
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreRegardless 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.
Read MoreOrganized and Hosted by the Labor Network for Sustainability
Held Wednesday, October 2, 2020
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.
Read MoreKali 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.
Read MoreSacajawea Hall, a founding member of Cooperation Jackson, share why she supports the THRIVE Agenda and urges Members of Congress to do the same
A Talk and Interview 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.
Kali discussed the pathway forward, using what the People’s Call to Action describes as "the greatest power we have at our disposal: our collective labor." Kali's presentation was followed by a Question and Answer period led by System Change Not Climate Change author/activist Carol Dansereau.
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
Laura Smith
Read MoreBook review of Cooperation Jackson’s publication, Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS by Sophie Gonick. This review was issued in Public Books in the On Our Nightstands section of site. It was published on July 31, 2020.
Read MoreFabxLive Fab. Symposium: Rebooting Economies
As we define the new normal, this session looks closely at how we can reboot our economies in a thoughtful and effective way, allowing us to be the enablers of the economy that we want and need.
Featuring Blair Evans, Juliet Schor, Kali Akuno, Vasilis Kostakis, and Cindy Kohtala.
Read MoreFootage of Artists and Cooperators of the Community Production Cooperative 3D printing masks for Cooperation Jackson’s Community Production Masks For All Initiative from WJTV 12 News on Monday, July 27, 2020. Featuring Community Production Cooperative anchor Kwame Braxton.
Read MoreBuilding the Solidarity Economy in the context of COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter
US Solidarity Economy Network Session at the World Social Forum of Transformative Economies held June 25th - July. 1st, 2020
In the US, the dual crises of COVID and racist policing are highlighting failures in our racist capitalist patriarchal economy, forcing us to create institutions that better fill our needs. Our panel will discuss grassroots solidarity economy responses - such as mutual aid networks, community gardening, bartering and time banking, and movements for community control of policing and resources - and strategize about bringing them together into a movement for systemic economic transformation. -- Moderated by Mike Strode of The Kola Nut Collaborative, this panel featured Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson, Nia K. Evans of Boston Ujima Project, and Dominique Pearson of Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance.
Read MoreCooperation Jackson members Sacajawea “Saki” Hall and Kali Akuno, feature in the People’s Strike First Strike Broadcast on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020.
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.
Read MoreLand Reform in the Pandemic
This program was organized and hosted by the US Network for Democracy in Brazil. It was conducted on July 1st, 2020 and featured Sacajawea “Saki'“ Hall and Imani Olugbala from Cooperation Jackson and Freedom Farms Cooperative.
Read MoreArticle from Frances Madeson about the the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s (ILWU) historic Juneteenth. call to action to the Labor movement to act in defense of Black Lives. The article features Cooperation Jackson’s executive director, Kali Akuno, speaking on behalf of the organization and the People’s Strike coalition.
Read MoreArticle about the campaign to change the Mississippi state flag and the campaign efforts of Cooperation Jackson. This featured the Juneteenth press conference organized by Cooperation Jackson at the Balagoon Center on Friday, June 19th, 2020.
Read MoreWLBT Coverage of Cooperation Jackson’s Friday, June 19th, 2020 - Juneteenth - Press Conference demanding the change of the Mississippi State flag and the removal of all of the confederate monuments in the state.
Read MoreBuilding a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi anchored by a network of cooperatives and other worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises.
