Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present Akuno Kali
Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present Akuno Kali Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial…
Specifikacia Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present Akuno Kali
Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present Akuno Kali
Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial terror. Cooperation Jackson, founded in 2014 in Mississippi's capital to develop an economically uplifting democratic "solidarity economy," is anchored by a network of worker-owned, self-managed cooperative enterprises. Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisis is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in this new and revised collection of essays.
Subsequent to Lumumba's passing less than one year after assuming office, the network developed projects both inside and outside of the formal political arena. The organization developed in the context of the historic election of radical Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, lifetime human rights attorney. In 2020, Cooperation Jackson became the center for national and international coalition