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Chi Chi Izundu, Mohamed Madi, Chelsea Bailey , Cooperation Jackson
Jackson Water Crisis: A legacy of environmental racism? and Justice for Jackson: Help Us Fix Jackson's Water System
07 Sep 2022
The city of Jackson is suffering from years of neglect by the state of Mississippi. Residents of the majority Black city need a new water system, but a legacy of racism and antipathy towards their…
Cheree Franco
Building a Solidarity Economy in Jackson, Mississippi
09 Oct 2019
A project for cooperative economic democracy in the Deep South seeks to break free from big capital’s “value chains.”
Richard Moser
Jackson Rising: At Last, a Real Strategic Plan
30 Jan 2018
“When the bubble bursts we will need a network of worker cooperatives and people’s assemblies to sustain us.”
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cooperation Jackson's Kali Akuno: Elections Don’t Necessarily Change a Damn Thing
06 Dec 2017
A key strategist among the Black radicals that were behind the election of two Black mayors in Jackson, Mississippi, says his fellow activists have a decision to make: “Are we trying to be a good s
This Is Hell
Cooperation Jackson: Reclaiming Democracy and Building a Solidarity Economy in Mississippi and Beyond
01 Nov 2017
Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya discuss building a solidarity economy at Cooperation Jackson - from the project's roots in the New Afrikan independenc
Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
After Winning the Election Do We Govern the Place or Transform It? Kali Akuno on the Lessons of Jackson MS So Far
26 Oct 2017
This is a hasty and cleaned up version of Kali Akuno's remarks at the Movement School for Revolutionaries, which was hosted by Cooperation Jackson in Jackson Mississippi on October 21, 2017.
Bill Quigley
The Blueprint for the Most Radical City on the Planet
25 Oct 2017
“The long range plan is to participate in a radical transformation of the entire state of Mississippi and ultimately the radical democratic and economic transformation of the United Sta
Filmon Zerai
An Eritrean in Mississippi: The Importance of Black Diaspora-Eritrea Solidarity
08 Jul 2015
The work of a Black lawyer named Lumumba from Detroit drew a young man from Eritrea to Jackson, Mississippi, last year.