16th
June, 1.30 pm
GMT/UTC
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Global
Tapestry of
Alternatives
and Global
Dialogue for
Systemic
Change presents:
Dialogue
on
Alternatives
in the Time of
Global Crises
- a Webinar
series
Dialogue
5: Covid 19 -
People's
strikes, Floyd
rebellion and
Resistance
with
Kali Akuno (USA)
as Presenter
Tuesday
16th June -
13:30 GMT/UTC
In this fifth session we will discuss this
moment in the
USA, and
global
significance,
challenges and
critical
pathways that
exist that can
support the
potential for
radical
transformation
of society at
every level.
We will share
the experience
of Cooperation
Jackson, an
eco-socialist
organizing to
create a new
society and
economy from
the bottom up.
The
Global
Tapestry of
Alternatives
stands with
the Black
Lives Matter
movement in
resisting
racism and
fighting for
equality
across the US
and globally.
We have
invited Kali
Akuno,
co-founder and
co-director of
Cooperation
Jackson for
our fifth
webinar on
“People's
strikes, Floyd
rebellion and
resistance”.
Cooperation
Jackson is an
emerging
vehicle for
sustainable
community
development,
economic
democracy and
community
ownership
based in the
US. Kali will
be sharing
experiences of
the current
resistance
struggles and
solidarity
mobilisation
in the US.
The
webinar takes
place on 16
June which is
a symbolic day
in anti-racist
struggles,
commemorating
the start of
the Soweto
uprising in
South Africa
in 1976. In
echoes from
the past, the
South Africa
Students
Movement
supported by
the Black
Consciousness
Movement
marched to
protest the
apartheid
education
imposed within
the Bantu
Education
system. We
remember the
Uprising as a
turning point
in the
struggle
against the
apartheid
state and
against
racism.
Presenter
Kali
Akuno is a
co-founder and
co-director of
Cooperation Jackson co-editor
of Jackson
Rising: the
struggle for
economic
democracy and
black
self-determination
in Jackson,
Mississippi.
Kali 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.
Cooperation
Jackson
anchors the People’s
Strike -
a growing
coalition of
workers,
community, and
political
organizations
confronting
the COVID-19
pandemic and
police
violence by
struggling
against inept
and corrupt
government and
the forces of
capital
(banks,
corporations,
brokers, etc).
that put
profit before
the people and
the planet.
Our
past webinar
sessions
videos are
available in this link.
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