jackson rising conference program at a glance
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Jackson Rising: New Economies Conference Program Overview
Friday, May 2nd
10 am Registration begins 1 – 4 pm Volunteer Orientation 5:30 Dinner Begins 6 - 9 pm Opening Plenary
Welcome From MC’s - Iya’Falola Omobola and Tongo Eisen-Martin
Greetings from Mayor Gayle McGlaughlin
Establishing the Context: Producing Sustainable Wealth and Jobs with Justice
in Jackson - Kali Akuno and Ed Whitfield
Telling Our Story: The History of Black Cooperative Development - Jessica
Gordon Nembhard, Wendell Paris, and Cornelius Blanding
Conference Overview and Closing – MC’s
Saturday, May 3rd
Breakfast (8 am – 9 pm)
Session 1 – Saturday Morning (9 – 11 am)
Trainings and Workshops Title Organizations /Rooms Coop 101: Introduction to Cooperatives (Jackson Focused)
1. Federation of Southern Cooperatives COB-120 2. Federation of Southern Cooperatives COB-121 3. Federation of Southern Cooperatives COB-122
Coop 101: Introduction to Cooperatives (Southern Regional Focus)
1. Southern Grassroots Economies Project LIB-143 2. Southern Grassroots Economies Project LIB-144
Coop 101: Introduction to Cooperatives (National Focus)
1. US Federation of Worker Cooperatives LIB-262 2. US Federation of Worker Cooperatives LIB-263 3. US Federation of Worker Cooperatives LIB-264
Mondragon Union Co-ops: Overcoming the Economics of Inequality
Mondragon USA, Cincinnati Union-Coop Initiative and UFCW International COB-148
Green Worker Cooperatives Green Worker Cooperatives COB-145 Rural/Urban Coop Connections
Federation of Southern Cooperatives COB-146
Building a Cooperative Cooperative Community of New West Jackson LIB-255
Community Advancing a Common Strategy for Workers Rights in the South
AFL-CIO and Black Workers for Justice COB-119
Advancing Public Policy to Support Cooperatives and Workers Rights
Coalition for a Prosperous Mississippi, Mississippi One Voice and Southern Grassroots Economies Project LIB-153
Abolish Corporate Constitutional Rights
Move to Amend LIB-257
Financing Cooperatives and the Cooperative Movement
Fund for Democratic Communities and the Working World LIB-204
Bottom Up Co-Op’s: The Crisis, the Take, and the Worker Ownership Solution
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Cincinnati Union-Coop Initiative, Far Rockaway/Occupy Sandy, Green Worker Cooperatives LIB-123
Mapping the Solidarity Economy
US Solidarity Economy Network and the Highlander Research and Education Center COB-204
Communal Territories in Venezuela: Redesigning Communities Through Participatory Planning
Omar Sierra, Deputy Consul General of Venezuela in Boston, Venezuela LIB-145
Lunch Break (11 am – 1 pm, with Plenary)
Plenary #2 (11:15 am – 12:45 pm)
Building Cooperatives, Worker Democracy, and Community Wealth: National Lessons
1. Omar Freilla, Green Worker Cooperatives 2. Steve Dubb, Democracy Collaborative 3. Michael Peck, Mondragon USA 4. Melvin “Ricky” Maclin, New Era Windows and Doors 5. Saladin Muhammad, Black Workers for Justice 6. MaryBe McMillian, Secretary/Treasurer, North Carolina, AFL-CIO
Session 2 - Saturday Afternoon (1 – 3 pm)
Trainings and Workshops
Title Organizations /Rooms Starting a Cooperative in Jackson 1. Federation of Southern Cooperatives COB-120
2. Federation of Southern Cooperatives COB-121 3. Federation of Southern Cooperatives COB-122
Starting a Cooperative in the South 1. Southern Grassroots Economies Project LIB-143 2. Southern Grassroots Economies Project LIB-144
Starting a Cooperative Nationally 1. US Federation of Worker Cooperatives LIB-262 2. US Federation of Worker Cooperatives LIB-263
3. US Federation of Worker Cooperatives LIB-264 Developing Participatory Democracy to advance Economic Democracy
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Jackson People’s Assembly - COB-148
Land Trusts/Coop Housing Dudley St. Initiative, Take Back the Land and Right to the City Alliance - LIB-263
Worker Organization, Worker Ownership, and Worker Self-Management
Black Left Unity Network - COB-205
From Defensive to Offensive Strategies for Economic Justice
US Social Forum – COB-237
Legislative promotion and support of Cooperatives and Cooperative Development
Mississippi Representative James Evans and State Senator John Horhn – COB-239
Building Community Wealth by Organizing Anchor Institutions
Democracy Collaborative – LIB-154
Connecting the Dots, Growing Co-Op’s: Regional Cooperative Initiatives Around the World
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Quebec Chantier, Italian Solidarity Purchase Groups, Mondragon USA and International Labor Organization – COB-119
Cooperative Development and Community Economic Development
Fund for Democratic Communities - LIB-204
Ujamaa: 21st Century Cooperative Economics
Us Lifting Us Economic Development Cooperative, LLC. – LIB-265
Building Ties for Land Autonomy Afro-Descendant Community Council of La Toma, Cauca, Colombia – LIB-254
Building a Southern Worker Coop Movement
Southern Grassroots Economies Project - LIB-264
Political Education for Popular Economics
US Solidarity Economy Network, Highlander Research and Education Center and Cooperation Texas – COB-145
Session 3 – Saturday Afternoon (3:15 – 5:15)
Cooperative Enterprise Case Studies and Networking Conversations Industry Facilitator Waste Management (Recycling and Composting)
Kali Akuno – LIB-204
Skilled and Unskilled Labor Lalit Clarkson – LIB-264 Urban Farming, Food Service, Processing and Manufacturing
Nia Umoja – LIB-263
Health Care Adofo Minka – LIB-143 Child Care Sacajawea Hall – LIB-155 Auto Care Tongo Eisen-Martin – LIB-262 Land Trust, Land Bank, Housing brandon king – LIB-155 Bank, Credit Union, Financial Institution Dr. Demetri Marshal –LIB-154 Arts and Cultural Production Iya’Falola Omobola – LIB-153 Laundry Nina Carmichael – LIB-257
Dinner Break (5:30 – 6:30 pm)
Plenary #3 (6:30 – 9 pm) Building the Solidarity Economy, Economic Democracy, and Participatory
Democracy: International Lessons and Examples
Special Tribute to Mayor Chokwe Lumumba - Chokwe Antar Lumumba
1. Francois Vermette, Chantier, Quebec 2. Pierre LaLiberte, International Labor Organization, Switzerland 3. Mazibuko Jara, Amandla! Magazine and Alternative and Information and
Development Centre, South Africa 4. Elbart Vingwe, Organization of Collective Cooperatives in Zimbabwe 5. Omar Sierra, Deputy Consul General of Venezuela in Boston, Venezuela 6. Janvieve Williams-Comrie, Green Worker Cooperatives, United States
Sunday, May 4th
Breakfast (8 am – 9 am)
Session #4 (9 – 11 am)
Applying Our Lessons: Networking Sessions
Cooperation Jackson and Cooperative Community of New West Jackson -
Next Steps for building a Federation of Cooperatives in Jackson, MS – LIB-145
Southern Grassroots Economies Project: Building a Southern Worker
Cooperative Movement – LIB-154
US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, US Solidarity Economy Network and
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Building National and International Support
for the Cooperative Movement in Jackson and the Southern Region of the
United States – COB-119
Fund for Democratic Communities and the Working World: Resourcing
Cooperatives in Jackson and the Southern Region – COB-148
Session #5 (11:15 am – 12:30 pm) Going Forward. Collective Sharing and Networking Session
Lunch 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Closing Plenary 12:45 – 3 pm
Moving Forward: Transforming Jackson, Transforming Mississippi, Transforming the South
Ralph Paige, Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Ed Whitfield, Fund for Democratic Communities
Elandria Williams, Highlander Education and Research Center
Melbah Smith, Coalition for a Prosperous Mississippi
Jim Evans, State Representative and AFL-CIO Representative
Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson
Human Rights Testimony: Dollye M. Robinson College of Liberal Arts (LIB 157)
Human Rights Testimony: Dollye M. Robins College of Liberal Arts (LIB 157)
Saturday, May 3rd 9 am – 6 pm
Sunday, May 4th 9 am – 1:30 pm
Share your Testimony regarding how your economic, social and cultural rights have
been denied or unfulfilled where you work, receive health services, education, and
live by the government or private sources of authority (employers, doctors,
educators, etc.)
Your Testimonies will be compiled and shared at the United Nations (UN) as part of
a report the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) will be sharing with the Committee
to Eliminate All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which will be reviewing the
United States government’s record of compliance with International Law in August
2014. For more information on the US Human Rights Network see
http://www.ushrnetwork.org/.