Jackson rising redux : lessons on building the future in the present / edited by Kali Akuno, Matt Meyer ; foreword by Richard Wolff.
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TextPublisher: Oakland : PM Press, 2023Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781629639529 (ePub ebook) :Subject(s): Cooperation Jackson (Project) | African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 21st century. -- Mississippi -- Jackson | African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century. -- Mississippi -- Jackson | History of the Americas | Political activism | History | Jackson (Miss.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 976.251 Online access: Open e-book Summary: 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 centre for national and international coalition efforts, bringing together progressive peoples from diverse trade union, youth, church, and cultural movemen
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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 centre for national and international coalition efforts, bringing together progressive peoples from diverse trade union, youth, church, and cultural movemen
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