Kali Akuno delivered the First Annual Robert Swann Lecture in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in March, 2023. in 2023, we introduced the Annual Robert Swann Lectures, featuring Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson as the inaugural speaker. The lecture took place in the Great Hall at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, MA and was followed by a Q&A.
Read MoreDavey speaks with Kali Akuno from Cooperation Jackson about new laws being passed in the state of Mississippi. On Feb. 7, the Mississippi State House approved House Bill 1020, a bill that would create a new, unelected court system in the state capital of Jackson.
Read MoreCheck out Part 3 of Joshua Dedmond, our Program Director analyzing the impact of the reactionary legislation being proposed by the Republican majority of the Mississippi legislature that is attempting to construct apartheid 2.0 in Jackson, MS. He also highlights what Cooperation Jackson and the broader progressive social movement in Jackson are doing to combat the reactionary development.
Read MoreCheck out Part 2 of Joshua Dedmond, our Program Director, breaking down highlights of the work of Cooperation Jackson and sharing updates on the social struggles taking place in Jackson in early 2023.
Read MoreCheck out Joshua Dedmond, our Program Director, break down highlights from the work of Cooperation Jackson and provide updates on the social struggles taking place in Jackson in early 2023.
Read MoreAs the 50th anniversary of the book Small is Beautiful, 2023 is our opportunity to advance solutions to today’s social, economic, and environmental challenges that build on Schumacher’s original vision. To meet this calling, the Schumacher Center is convening a monthly series featuring New Economic thinkers, builders and activists from a range of fields. “Schumacher Conversations: Envisioning the Next 50 Years” brings together change-makers whose work today is actively shaping a ‘small is beautiful’ future, organized around 12 key themes and fields of activism.
February’s theme is: Making Reparations: Seeding a Just Future. This online event took place Thursday, February 16th at 2PM (EST).
Read MoreFormerly incarcerated people in Atlanta won collective protection from discrimination, inspiring organizing nationwide.
This article provides an example of how our model is being used to inspire others in similar arenas of struggle.
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Read MoreArticle by Char Adams
January 17, 2023
Grassroots organizers who supported the city’s residents during the water crisis last summer say they’re now out of resources to help those in need.
Read MoreDecember 14, 2022
This article was adapted from a more extensive journal article called, “Fight and Build: Solidarity Economy as Ontological Politics”, published in Sustainability Science, Volume 17, pp. 1207 - 1221.
We are republishing here to demonstrate Cooperation Jackson’s influence on the current solidarity economy movement.
Read MoreKali Akuno and Bernard E. Harcourt discuss Cooperation Jackson and read: Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya.
Read MoreIt Takes Roots (ITR) consists of the Climate Justice Alliance, the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Right to the City Alliance. The ITR COP27 Contingent also included the Movement for Black Lives - The Black Hive, Indigenous Climate Action, Just Transition Alliance, La Via Campasina, and the World March of Women.
Read MoreView Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, third broadcast on COP27, conducted on Thursday, November 17, 2022. This recording focuses on the corporate dominance of the COP space and what social movements need to do to impact the climate negotiations process going forward.
This report focused on the corporate capture of the negotiations, particularly by Big Oil and Nuclear, how they are underwriting and drafting the false solution proposals being advanced and incorporated by the nation-states. It also focuses on the extensive “green washing” that occurred at COP27. And focuses on the need for social movements to regroup and build their own initiatives and programs to combat climate change, ecological destruction, and species loss.
Read MoreGlobal Afrobeat Live Talk Show | Episode 7 November 15, 2022 live from COP27 Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt Featuring: Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson, USA with your host Denise Abdul-Rahman, The Chisholm Legacy Project & Global Afro-Descendent Climate Justice Collaborative
Read MoreView Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, third broadcast on COP27, conducted on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. This interview features Anthony Rodgers-Wright with Black Alliance for Peace (BAP).
This report focused on some of the false solutions being promoted by the US government, the limitations of the climate measures in the Inflation Reduction Act, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.
Read MoreView Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, first broadcast on COP27, conducted on Thursday November 10, 2022. This interview features George Galvis, from Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice, aka CURYJ (pronounced Courage).
This report focused on some of the challenges of the COP site, the limitations of the climate negotiations, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.
Read MoreA few days before the mid-term elections, on November 8, a team from Arte Reportage went to Jackson, a city of 150,000 inhabitants, capital of the State of Mississippi.
At the end of August, floods disrupted the operation of a water treatment plant essential for the city, but badly maintained for lack of money.
Faced with an emergency situation, this city in the South of the United States with an African-American majority, where the poverty rate is very high, spent several weeks without drinking water. This water crisis reveals the state of a country with aging infrastructure, a particularly staggering finding in the richest country in the world.
The Town Hall, run by a Democrat, denounces a flagrant lack of investment allocated to water management. The State of Mississippi, held by the conservatives of the Republican Party, denounces the negligence of the City and proposes to privatize the water to restore the network to working order.
In the meantime, daily life is turned upside down. Jackson is losing more and more people, its businesses are declining, young graduates are moving elsewhere. An explosive environment, which could lead to riots: left-wing movements are trying to mobilize the population around the defense of a quality public service for water. And the theses put forward at the national level by Bernie Sanders are making their way to the South of the United States.
Report by Vladimir Vasak (France, 2022)
available until 20/10/2052
Read MoreView the Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, first broadcast on COP27, conducted on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
This report back focused on some of the challenges of the COP site, the limitations of the climate negotiations, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.
Read MoreThis Primer has been the product of a collective process of thinking between the authors and their organisations, who have been working in different ways on the concept of Just Transition with social movements, organisations and communities around the world, and trying to understand how this simple but powerful idea can help people to mobilise for genuine and transformative change. This is not a final or exhaustive vision of Just Transition, as different regions, communities, movements and organisations are developing their own visions (see the final section). However it is hoped that these key ideas and questions will give all readers tools for thinking more deeply about what Just Transition might mean for them, their movements, and their communities.
Authors
Kali Akuno, Katie Sandwell, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Jaron Browne
In collaboration with
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ)
Read MoreBuilding a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi anchored by a network of cooperatives and other worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises.
