Jackson Rising Redux
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial terror. 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. 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. The organization developed in the context of the historic election of radical Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, lifetime human rights attorney. 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. In 2020, Cooperation Jackson became the center for national and international coalition efforts, bringing together progressive peoples from diverse trade union, youth, church, and cultural movements. This long-anticipated anthology details the foundations behind those successful campaigns. It unveils new and ongoing strategies and methods being pursued by the movement for grassroots-centered Black community control and self-determination, inspiring partnership and emulation across the globe.
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Foreword—Richard D. Wolff
Building Economic Democracy toConstruct Eco-Socialism from Below—Kali Akuno and Sacajawea Hall
I. GROUNDINGS
1. Build and Fight: The Program andStrategy of Cooperation Jackson—Kali Akuno
2. Toward Economic Democracy, LaborSelf-management and Self-determination—Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya
3. Organizing for Self Determination andLiberation: Beyond the Basics in the Black Liberation Movement, Sacajawea‘Saki’ Hall
4. A Beautiful Struggle (“Saki’sContinuously Learning in Past, Present and Future”), Sacajawea ‘Saki’ Hall
II. EMERGENCE
5. TheJackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Black Self-determination and Economic Democracy—KaliAkuno
6. People'sAssembly Overview: The Jackson People's Assembly Model—Kali Akuno for the New AfrikanPeople’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
7. TheJackson Rising Statement: Building the City of the Future Today—Kali Akuno for theMayoral Administration of Chokwe Lumumba
8. SeekYe First the Worker Self-management Kingdom: Toward the Solidarity Economy in Jackson,MS—Ajamu Nangwaya
III. BUILDING SUBSTANCE
9. JacksonRising: An Electoral Battle Unleashes a Merger of Black Power, the Solidarity Economyand Wider Democracy—Carl Davidson
10. JacksonRising: Black Millionaires Won’t Lift Us Up, But Cooperation and the SolidarityEconomy Will—Bruce A Dixon
11. ComingFull Circle: The Intersection of Gender Justice and the Solidarity Economy—Sacajawea'Saki' Hall interviewed by Thandisizwe Chimurenga
12. CastingShadows: Chokwe Lumumba and the Struggle for Racial Justice and Economic Democracyin Jackson, MS—Kali Akuno
13. TheSocialist Experiment: A New-Society Vision in Jackson, MS—Katie Gilbert
14. CastingLight: Reflecting on the Struggle to Implement the Jackson-Kush Plan—Kali Akuno
15. Reflectionson 2018: A Year of Struggle, Lessons and Progress—Cooperation Jackson ExecutiveCommittee
IV. CRITICAL EXAMINATIONS
16. TheJackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Land and Housing—Max Rameau
17. ALong and Strong History with Southern Roots—Jessica Gordon Nembhard
18. Freeingthe Land, Rebuilding Our Movements: Reflections on the Legacies of Chokwe Lumumbaand Luis Nieves Falcon—Matt Meyer
19. Atlanta2021: Radical Futures—Yolande Tomlimson
V. MOVEMENT EXPANSIONS
20. Community Movement Builders—Kamau Franklin
21. Cooperation Humboldt, Cooperation Boardand Staff Collective—Argy Munoz, David Cobb, Marina Lopez, Oscar Mogollon, RuthiEngelke, Ron White, Sabrina Miller, Tamara MacFarland, Tobin McKee
22. Afrikan Cooperative Union—Adotey Bing-Pappoe
VI. RADICAL MUNICIPALISM
23. Cooperation and Self Determination—NotMiddle Management—Kana Azhari and Asere Bellow
24. First, We Take Jackson: The New AmericanMunicipalism—Kate Shea Baird
25. Looking Beyond Electoralism: the New RadicalMunicipalism in the UK?—Daniel Brown
26. Libertarian Municipalism and MurrayBookchin’s Legacy—A Conversation between Debbie Bookchinand the editors of Green European Journal
27. The Concept of Democratic Confederalismand How it is Implemented in Rojava/Kurdistan—Ercan Ayboga
VII. TOWARDS THE GENERAL STRIKE AND DUAL POWER
28. Building the Commune—George Ciccariello-Maher
29. Dual Power and Revolution—Symbiosis
30. “A Deeper Understanding of What We'reTrying to Accomplish”—A People’s Strike Dialogue with Kali Akuno, Sacajawea ‘Saki’Hall, Rose Brewer, Wende Marshall, and Matt Meyer
VIII. GOING FORWARD: ECOSOCIALISM AND REGENERATION
31. Red Black andGreen Destiny Weapon: Cooperation Jackson and the Ecosocialist International—QuincySaul
32. Countering the Fabrication Divide—KaliAkuno and Gyasi Williams
33. Fearless Citiesand Radical Municipalism—Sophie L. Gonick
34. Eco-socialism or Death—Kali Akuno
35. ConjuncturalPolitics, Cultural Struggle, and Solidarity Economy—An Interview with Kali Akunoby Boone W. Shear
IX. AFTERWORD
36. HomeIsn’t Always Where the Hatred Is: There is Hope in Mississippi—Ajamu Baraka
37. Resistand Fight!—Hakima Abbas
About the Contributors
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