Communities around the country are meeting and preparing for the continued onslaught of neo-liberalism that has exploded the wealth divide and has undermined education, health care, wages and more and the additional threats of an administration and Congress that are openly hostile towards immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, women and blacks. We speak with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Organizing Movement about the new project Ungovernable 2017 and the ongoing work to build economic alternatives to capitalism.
Listen live at 11 am Eastern here:
Relevant articles and websites:
Can We be a Counter Force? Reflections from Kali Akuno on the Current Moment
Here’s How We Prepare to be Ungovernable in 2017, an interview with Kali Akuno by Sarah Lazare
The Consent of the Governed by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Cooperation Jackson on Facebook
Cooperation Jackson on Twitter
Malcolm X Grassroots Organizing Movement
Guest:
Kali Akuno is the Director of Human Rights Education at the U.S. Human Rights Network.
Akuno served as the co-ordinator of special projects and external funding for Jackson Mississippi’s late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba. He is co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson as well as an organizer with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
He is is associated with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
He is a co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson.
Kali Akuno served as the Director of Special Projects and External Funding in the Mayoral Administration of the late Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, MS. His focus in this role was supporting cooperative development, the introduction of eco-friendly and carbon reduction methods of operation, and the promotion of human rights and international relations for the city.
Kali also served as the Co-Director of the US Human Rights Network, the Executive Director of the Peoples’ Hurricane Relief Fund (PHRF) based in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. And was a co-founder of the School of Social Justice and Community Development (SSJCD), a public school serving the academic needs of low-income African American and Latino communities in Oakland, California.