Kali Akuno is a cofounder and codirector of Cooperation Jackson.
He
was 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.
Akuno has also served as the codirector of the U.S. Human
Rights
Network, and the executive director of the Peoples' Hurricane
Relief
Fund (PHRF) based in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina. He was
a
cofounder 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. Kali
currently
splits his time between Jackson, MS and Marshfield, VT.
Richard Wolff is professor of economics emeritus, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor at the New School
University in New York. Wolff's recent work has concentrated on
analyzing the causes and alternative solutions to the global
economic crisis. His groundbreaking book Democracy at Work: A Cure
for Capitalism inspired the creation of Democracy at Work, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to showing how and why to make
democratic workplaces real. Wolff is also the author of Occupy the
Economy: Challenging Capitalism and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The
Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do about It. He hosts the
weekly hour-long radio program "Economic Update," which is
syndicated on public radio stations nationwide, and he writes
regularly for The Guardian and Truthout.org.
Matt Meyer is a noted educator, author, and organizer currently
serving as Secretary General of the International Peace Research
Association. As former national co-chair of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation and former chair of the War Resisters League, he is
second only to A.J. Muste--"dean of the US peace movement"--being
elected to the top position of both historic organizations. Based
in New York City, Meyer has led seminars, courses, trainings, and
conferences in over sixty countries throughout five continents,
focusing on themes including the strategies and tactics of
revolutionary nonviolence; political imprisonment; decolonization
and the cases of Puerto Rico, Palestine, West Papua, Western
Sahara, and Ambazonia; and the connections between militarism,
white supremacy, patriarchy and imperialism. Meyer is Senior
Research Scholar at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst
Resistance Studies Initiative, noted by South African Nobel Peace
Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu (in the foreword to his book with
Bill Sutherland, Guns and Gandhi in Africa), as having "begun to
develop a language which looks at the roots of our humanness."
"Jackson is one of the epicenters of resistance for all of us to
emulate; this book lays the scene."
--Chris Hedges, journalist, Presbyterian minister, and Princeton
University lecturer; author of War Is a Force That Gives Us
Meaning
"Jackson Rising is the rarest of things: a real strategic plan. You
will not find a simple wish list that glosses over the hard
questions of resources, or some disembodied manifesto imploring the
workers forward, but a work in progress building the capacity of
people to exercise power."
--Richard Moser, author of The World the Sixties Made
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