Author Events Kali Akuno
december
Event Details
Build and Fight: Community Production, Community Control, and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Jackson, MS and across the Globe featuring Kali Akuno, Sacajawea "Saki" Hall, and Matt Meyer of Cooperation
Event Details
Build and Fight: Community Production, Community Control, and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Jackson, MS and across the Globe featuring Kali Akuno, Sacajawea “Saki” Hall, and Matt Meyer of Cooperation Jackson and coeditors of Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present. Moderated by Michelle Glowa.
Monday, December 4th in San Francisco from 5pm to 6:30pm PST at the California Institute of Integral Studies lobby located at 1453 Mission St. Free admission. Reserve a Spot. Also available to view live online on @AnthCIIS Instagram.
Co-Presented by PM Press, Anthropology and Social Change at CIIS, and The Center for Political Education.
Kali Akuno, Sacajawea Hall, and Matt Meyer discuss the strategies, successes, and lessons of Cooperation Jackson and how it became a center for national and international coalition efforts around the movement for grassroots-centered Black community control and self-determination, inspiring growing partnerships and emulation across the globe.
Learn from new and ongoing projects and methods by progressive peoples from diverse trade union, youth, church, and cultural movements found within the community and in the pages of Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present, coedited by Kali Akuno and Matt Meyer.
Books will be available for sale with a book signing to follow the talk. The new book, Jackson Rising Redux, is also available for purchase PM Press here.
Cosponsored by the Center for Political Education.
Time
(Monday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
february
Event Details
Worker Power and Economic Democracy, the ASU Center for Work and Democracy's Annual Conference on February 23 and 23, 2024. Old Main Building at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.
Event Details
Worker Power and Economic Democracy, the ASU Center for Work and Democracy’s Annual Conference on February 23 and 23, 2024.
Old Main Building at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Learn more here.
Join us via Zoom Webinar by registering through this link.
Joining our lineup of brilliant speakers across organizing and academia, Kim Kelly, Kali Akuno, and Matt Meyer will give keynote addresses during this two-day conference. Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer whose writing has been featured in numerous big-name publications. Her book Fight Like Hell: the Untold History of American Labor was published in 2022. Kali Akuno is co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson– one of the most ambitious efforts to build a solidarity economy in decades– in addition to his extensive work in human rights. Akuno is a co-editor of Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future and the Present alongside our final keynote speaker, Matt Meyer. Matt Meyer is an internationally recognized author, academic, organizer, and educator who was recently re-elected Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). Hear from these speakers and many more at the Center for Work and Democracy’s 2024 conference!
Time
february 23 (Friday) - 24 (Saturday)