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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Foreward: Richard Wolff
Prologue: Kali Akuno
Part I. GROUNDINGS
- Build and Fight: The Program andStrategyof Cooperation Jackson, Kali Akuno
- Toward Economicq Democracy,LaborSelf-management and Self-determination, Kali Akuno & Ajamu Nangwaya
Part II. EMERGENCE
- The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle forBlack Self-determination and Economic Democracy, KaliAkuno
- People'sAssemblyOverview:TheJacksonPeople's AssemblyModel, Kali Akuno for the New Afrikan People’s Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- TheJacksonRisingStatement:BuildingtheCityofthe FutureToday, Kali Akuno for the Mayoral Administration of Chokwe Lumumba
- Seek Ye First the Worker Self-management Kingdom: Toward the Solidarity Economy in Jackson, MS, AjamuNangwaya
Part III. BUILDING SUBSTANCE
- Jackson Rising: An Electoral Battle Unleashes a Merger of Black Power, the Solidarity Economy and Wider Democracy, Carl Davidson
- Jackson Rising: Black Millionaires Won’t Lift UsUp, But Cooperation and the Solidarity Economy Will, Bruce ADixon
- Coming Full Circle: The Intersection of Gender Justice and the Solidarity Economy, Sacajawea ('Saki') Hall interviewed by Thandisizwe Chimurenga
- Casting Shadows: Chokwe Lumumba and the Struggle for Racial Justice and Economic Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi, Kali Akuno
- The Socialist Experiment: A New-Society Vision in Jackson, Mississippi, Katie Gilbert
- Casting Light: Reflecting on the Struggle to Implement the Jackson-Kush Plan, Kali Akuno
- Reflections on 2018: A Year of Struggle, Lessons and Progress, Cooperation Jackson
Part IV. CRITICAL EXAMINATIONS
- The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Land and Housing, Max Rameau
- A Long and Strong History with SouthernRoots, Jessica Gordon Nembhard
- Freeing the Land, Rebuilding Our Movements: Reflections on the Legacies of Chokwe Lumumba and Luis Nieves Falcon, Matt Meyer
- Atlanta 2021: Radical Futures, YolandeTomlimson
Part V. MOVEMENT EXPANSIONS
- Community Movement Builders, Kamau Franklin
- Cooperation Humboldt, Cooperation Board and Staff Collective: Argy Munoz, David Cobb, Marina Lopez, Oscar Mogollon, Ruthi Engelke, Ron White, Sabrina Miller, Tamara MacFarland, Tobin McKee
- Afrikan Cooperative Union, Adotey Bing-Pappoe
Part VI. RADICAL MUNICIPALISM
- Cooperation and Self Determination—Not Middle Management, Kana Azhari and Asere Bellow
- First, We Take Jackson: the New American Municipalism, Kate Shea Baird
- Looking Beyond Electoralism: the New Radical Municipalism in the UK?, Daniel Brown
- Libertarian Municipalism and Murray Bookchin’s Legacy: A Conversation between Debbie Bookchin and the editors of Green European Journal
Part VII. TOWARDS THE GENERAL STRIKE AND DUAL POWER
- Building the Commune, George Ciccariello-Maher
- Towards Dual Power and Beyond, Symbiosis
- “A Deeper Understanding of What We're Trying to Accomplish”—A People’s Strike Dialogue with Kali Akuno, Sakajawea “Saki” Hall, Rose Brewer, Wende Marshall, and Matt Meyer
Part VIII. GOING FORWARD: ECOSOCIALISM AND REGENERATION
- Countering the Fabrication Divide, Kali Akuno and Gyasi Williams
- Eco-socialism or Death, Kali Akuno
- Eco-socialist Transition: Socialize Production, Democratize Society, Kali Akuno
Part IX. AFTERWORD
- Isn’t Always Where the Hatred Is: There is Hope in Mississippi, Ajamu Baraka
- Fight!, Hakima Abbas
About the Contributors
Additional Readings and Documentation