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last modified June 10, 2017 by facilitfsm
What is politics are about his manners .. so that is new for US on the whole, the national for the last in 60 years Mississippi has been living with those type of racists - in the south politics is based one the things gave on our organizing model a lot of strength in our population - is because white supremacy is so visceral upfront and in our face -no delusion about whether someone is friend o enemy it is pretty clear to most folks without a serious political education who is who - what they about political education that is being done but other side of the equations - on actual conditions our challenge is what we are going to do about the condition that we face - deft up conditions – which In the US take time to convince people they are actually in terrible condition
just for us this idea to fight for Municipal power comes in 70’s . Jackson state university was one the university during Vietnam war where US army killed several students -that gives you a context there was an organization provisional republic of new afrika - organization of people of African Descent , that made a declaration of independence and began fighting 68 and began fight for self-determination in 70 - move made to make Mississippi the capital a small area outside, and immediately upon moving to Jackson they were attacked by US government, there was armed confrontation august 71, 6 people were killed, and 50 ended up in prison, 11 of them for over 20 years - so that was the genesis beginning the focus - young activists from all over the country who answered this call and move into Jackson -
what you see now the work cooperation Jackson; chokwe being elected mayor is not a new thing s is the result of years and years of patient and systematic organization a critical thing a lot of people think things can be changed immediately- you- need time, and this I would challenge in you context - long term investment but over the last ten years was qualitative shift - that work would enable to have citywide presence , and now statewide and start experimenting , particularly with running for electoral politics , -its first phase was a test, we wanted to know after 30 years of organizing how many people what was our impact -how many people believing and fighting like us - that was the real beginning honestly, and form we found quickly there were many people – and the neighbouhooghd we started winning election what kind of things to put in practice to change the situation , – some of the key thing our vision is a broadening vision……the key . what response from people assemblies our proposal to start changing -
we transition city vision 4 .5 point -
1/ solidarity city cooperation Jackson comes in that is building economic democracy, we started doing that , in US socialism is a terrible word, Bernie sanders is a lunatic, untrue to a certain extent, but they are still afraid /
2 a new path of our vision from Barcelona- building fab city integrate that in the use local production , enable the community own and control - which historically the black community fundamentally out of in the US - historically the black community we are part of the machinery this is a new developing for sus -
3/ sustainable city e zero emission city by 2025 very important a lot of portion of Jackson will be underwater - a lot of the southern Mississippi disappearing fast if you look at the map - the ma 50 years is different sea rising -
4 .human rights HR framework that our organization MXGM as adapted primarily taking from vision lf Malcolm X liberal what we call to people centered human collective rights and struggle self-determination emerging component
5/ workers city -very much emerging is based upon of an attempts to build a broad coop union which takes in all of the working class people within the city and put them under a big umbrella union IPW- - the point of this is very particular challenges it is right to work state or better said a right work less state –which mean union do not have no any power – we have real challenge confronting no time to talk about - include this transition vision -critical component is missing really put this notion is - re centering human activity in the HR at the center of the - transforming process, including transform ourselves and our living conditions , these are thing develop at the core of our vision - I can talk more one day of this