tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64376264103974933742024-03-05T20:37:01.991-08:00Navigating the StormKali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.comBlogger470125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-86404830975794604112022-01-18T10:48:00.008-08:002022-01-18T19:58:29.697-08:00Some Thoughts on What Can Be Done to withstand the Neo-Confederate/Neo-Fascist Conquest of Power Some Thoughts on What Can Be Done to withstand the Neo-Confederate/Neo-Fascist Conquest of Power Kali AkunoMonday, January 17, 2022It is my honest assessment that as of this writing we have a little less than two years before the neo-confederates and neo-fascists install a reactionary dictatorship by the end of January 2025. In light of my comments regarding this development, many people Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-64264754608740526882021-11-01T23:08:00.003-07:002021-11-01T23:10:33.026-07:00Shifting Focus: Organizing for Revolution, Not Crisis Avoidance, Part 1 Written by Kali Akuno, Brian Drolet and Doug Norberg Since the meteoric rise of Donald J. Trump in 2015, significant numbers of liberals, progressives, social democrats and leftists have been fixated on his politics, policies, and personality and what they portend for the future of liberal democracy. This built on a fixation with the elections of right wing strongmen like Jair Bolsonaro, Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-30042381744600254602019-11-16T16:14:00.003-08:002019-11-16T16:14:27.698-08:00Understanding Capital: Tech vs. Finance Discussion Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-27555600462353978432019-04-23T05:44:00.001-07:002019-04-23T05:44:25.757-07:00Cooperation Jackson Hosts Community Arts Festival Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-85100973762202690182019-03-26T18:54:00.000-07:002019-03-26T18:54:40.974-07:00It's EcoSocialism or Death
The Green New Deal (GND) is now part of the national conversation. But for decades, social movements have been doing the on-the-ground work to resist fossil capitalism and envision a different future. Such grassroots social mobilization — but at a massive scale — is vital to ensuring the GND catalyzes transformative social change.
Cooperation Jackson is at the forefront of eco-socialistKali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-37849460294353155532019-03-26T13:15:00.001-07:002019-03-26T13:20:25.630-07:00Looking Back, Looking Forward: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the New Afrikan Declaration of Independence
This article was originally published in Re-Build! A New Afrikan Independence Movement Journal, Vol.1, No.2 Spring 2019 https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/633c20_9b21f98e4a5545c49ad9bd4be76cf13e.pdf
2018 is a watershed moment in our struggle for national liberation and sovereignty. We are now 50 years past the formal declaration of our independence from the empire that is the United Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-7031314820606750572019-03-26T07:35:00.003-07:002019-03-26T07:36:14.316-07:00We have to make sure that the "Green New Deal" becomes Green Capitalism
By Sarah Lazare for In These Times
A Conversation with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson
Incoming Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made waves in late November when she called for a Green New Deal (GND)—a plan to “transition” the U.S. economy to “become carbon neutral” over the course of 10 years. In a draft resolution, she proposes the formation of a Select Committee to develop a Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-61541586434668124962018-12-20T15:24:00.002-08:002018-12-20T15:24:36.127-08:00Transformative Cities 2019 Edition: Open Call (Video)
Transformative Cities is an opportunity for progressive local governments, municipalist coalitions, social movements and civil society organizations to popularize and share their experiences of building solutions to our planet’s systemic economic, social, political and ecological crisis.
Kali Akuno spoke on behalf of Cooperation Jackson at the 2018 Transformative Cities event which was Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-15431417440777383562018-12-18T13:44:00.000-08:002018-12-19T06:28:30.185-08:00Economic Update: Dialogue with Richard Wolff and Kali Akuno
"Look, nobody's coming to save us. What can we do ourselves with the resources and the skills that we have to transform our own situation? ... We do see ourselves as on a project of trying to build socialism from the bottom up, and worker coops being a vehicle to do that based upon their democratic nature..."
Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-74199343872428424772018-11-22T09:49:00.001-08:002018-11-22T09:50:50.734-08:00Transformative Cities: Crisis and Opportunity Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-20766088527272740932018-11-22T09:34:00.001-08:002018-11-22T09:34:27.595-08:00Jackson Rising: A Real News Network interview with Kali AkunoKali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-60735288530673303152018-11-22T07:59:00.004-08:002018-11-22T07:59:36.641-08:00Cooperation Jackson: Building a Social and Solidarity EconomyKali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-27969324895017045822018-11-22T06:38:00.002-08:002018-11-22T06:41:10.997-08:00Resist and Build, a Dialogue with the US Solidarity Economy Network
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Resist and Build, Fight and Build, Oppose and Propose, Resist and Insist – whatever the wording, there is great convergence about the need to connect these dimensions. Even if the lines are a bit blurry, we can broadly distinguish betweenKali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-15612673903327989752018-11-22T06:32:00.002-08:002018-11-22T06:34:14.774-08:00Reawakening the Black Radical Imagination
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Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-53309188039232953242018-07-13T21:40:00.000-07:002018-07-13T21:40:53.048-07:00Lessons from Jackson, MS - Budapest Discussion with Sacajawea "Saki" HallKali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-55687766676775878272018-07-13T20:49:00.003-07:002018-07-13T20:49:44.539-07:00Lessons from Jackson - Discussion in Worcester, NY
A discussion in Worcester, MA and that focused on the Jackson Rising book, the Jackson-Kush Plan, and the formation of Cooperation Jackson is an emerging network of cooperatives and grassroots institutions that aim to build a "solidarity economy."
Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-4156684868390826972018-07-13T20:45:00.003-07:002018-07-13T20:45:44.117-07:00People's Cities: A Summit
This event was Co-sponsored by Urban Democracy Lab, NYU Collaborative on Global Urbanism, Department of Metropolitan Studies, and Deutsches Haus at NYU.
Will cities save us? In the last decades we have witnessed a resurgent interest in cities, accompanied by a great deal of urban optimism, even in the face of the exclusion and inequalities of our cities. Cities have become a privileged Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-46709387740033245422018-06-12T15:53:00.000-07:002018-06-12T15:53:01.938-07:00Behind the News with Doug Henwood: Gun Control and Black Self-Defense Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-18485672374874927562018-06-12T12:41:00.002-07:002018-06-12T12:41:48.872-07:00Upstream: Worker Cooperatives - Islands in a Sea of CapitalismKali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-63496085305013347822018-05-17T08:37:00.001-07:002018-05-17T08:37:23.780-07:00Venezuela: We are a threat because we Resist
Venezuela is under attack again. Livio Rangel (part of the 1st Ecosocialist International in Venezuela) in conversation with Kali Akuno (Cooperation Jackson), explains the nature of the attacks from the United States government, the relation to the revolutionary process of the people, the reasons for founding the 1st Ecosocialist International and why international solidarity is needed now Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-55769199619254586172018-05-15T22:10:00.000-07:002018-05-15T22:10:10.773-07:00Learning from Jackson - Boston Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-90525273991632726712018-05-12T16:02:00.006-07:002018-05-12T16:02:55.735-07:00Reconstructing Economic Development for People and Planet: Stories of Just Economic Democracy
Co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute, CUNY, and Democracy @ Work New York
For the first time in decades, cities round the country are advancing progressive innovations and solutions to too-long-sustained poverty and inequality. In New York City worker cooperatives, participatory budgeting, and community land trusts are on the policy platform of the City Council’s progressive caucus and Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-21600929137137027772018-05-06T12:12:00.001-07:002018-05-06T12:12:05.953-07:00Marx and Political Identity
Featuring Kali Akuno, Ravi Ahmed, and Suzanne Schneider
Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-23314961082025264462018-05-06T12:08:00.001-07:002018-05-06T12:08:47.115-07:00Why Marx Now?
Karl Marx is 200 years old. And yet, whenever Marx seems dead and buried, a new moment of economic or political crisis brings Marx’s critical understanding of capitalism back to the fore. In Marx Now, a two-day symposium co-presented by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, leading scholars, activists, and artists will discuss, in a series of panels and Kali Akunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03956221719030184878noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437626410397493374.post-34507704846104438352018-04-18T09:50:00.000-07:002018-04-18T09:50:15.046-07:00NW Community Power Conference: Opening Session
Hosted by Seattle Communists on Sunday, April 1st, 2018 in Seattle, Washington.
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