Kali Akuno

Sep 4, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Kali Akuno

Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” May Day 2024 marked the 10-year anniversary of Cooperation Jackson—a network of worker cooperatives and solidarity economy institutions whose mission is to build a vibrant and ecologically regenerative solidarity economy in Jackson, MS, and throughout the southern portion of the United States, as a prelude to a democratic transition toward eco-socialism.1 Cooperation Jackson is...

May 8, 2024 | cooperationjackson.org | Kali Akuno

Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson and Bernard E. Harcourt reimagine the university as a multi-stakeholder cooperative of faculty, students, staff, and community on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The university, as a collegium of scholars and students, is under threat across the globe and in the United States. State governments are interfering with academic freedom and knowledge, dictating what can and cannot be taught. Private donors are interfering with the scholarly project and the discourse of learning.

May 1, 2024 | cooperationjackson.org | Kali Akuno

Capacity Building, Local Scaling, and Bioregional DevelopmentWednesday, May 1, 2024 marks the 10 year anniversary of Cooperation Jackson. We launched the organization on Thursday, May 1st, 2014, a day before the historic Jackson Rising Conference, which sought to roll out the solidarity economy component of the Jackson-Kush Plan on a comprehensive scale.

Mar 13, 2024 | cooperationjackson.org | Kali Akuno

Help Cooperation Vermont raise $5 million to purchase the Goddard College grounds and transform it into a Just Transition Center and future Cooperative College. Cooperation Vermont is a sister organization of Cooperation Jackson, based in Marshfield, Vermont, and is the sponsor of the Marshfield Cooperative at the Marshfield Village Store.

Jan 26, 2024 | znetwork.org | Kali Akuno |Steve Dubb

Steve Dubb: Could you begin by talking about why you moved from California to organize the solidarity economy in Mississippi? Kali Akuno: I was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, but my connection to Mississippi runs fairly deep on my maternal side. That side of the family goes back to being in the Natchez area since its founding. There are still folks from the family that are there.