View the Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson’s Executive Director, first broadcast on COP27, conducted on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.

This report back focused on some of the challenges of the COP site, the limitations of the climate negotiations, and the need for a global mass movement for a just transition to save complex life on our planet.

This Primer has been the product of a collective process of thinking between the authors and their organisations, who have been working in different ways on the concept of Just Transition with social movements, organisations and communities around the world, and trying to understand how this simple but powerful idea can help people to mobilise for genuine and transformative change. This is not a final or exhaustive vision of Just Transition, as different regions, communities, movements and organisations are developing their own visions (see the final section). However it is hoped that these key ideas and questions will give all readers tools for thinking more deeply about what Just Transition might mean for them, their movements, and their communities.

Authors

Kali Akuno, Katie Sandwell, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Jaron Browne

In collaboration with

Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ)

Kali Akuno, the Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson, speaking on the Ayman Mohyeldin show on MSNBC on Saturday, September 24, 2022 about Jackson, MS ongoing water crisis and how it is linked with state mismanagement and corruption, as demonstrated by the Bret Favre welfare fraud scandal.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says privatizing the water system is “on the table.” But the city's mayor and others argue that would likely create more problems rather than fix Jackson's broken infrastructure.

Sept. 19, 2022 •

Jared Brey

More than 80% of the population in Jackson, Mississippi, is Black, and the residents there remain under a boil water notice without an end date in sight

by Imani StephensSeptember 13th, 2022

Organizer, writer, and educator Kali Akuno joins The Marc Steiner Show to explain how the current crisis is a reflection of capitalism's failures and decades of institutional racism.

Originally published on the Real News Network

Climate Justice Alliance Our Power Campaign Instagram Live Broadcast with Kali Akuno, Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson on the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS. This was live on Monday, September 12, 2022.

Mississippi’s mostly Black capital city has been at the mercy of a conservative white state government for decades. The water crisis is its latest battle for self-determination.

BY ABE ASHER

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

11:40 AM

Maddie Coates, a Community Organizer with Cooperation Jackson, speaks with the Status Coup News about the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS on Saturday, September 10, 2022.

09.12.2022

WORDS BY YESSENIA FUNES

PHOTOGRAPH BY JEREMY LANGE

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, reminds us how much worse things will get in a heating world if we don’t take action now. The Frontline shows us a path forward.

Jacque Reid interviews Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson Executive Director, about the ongoing Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi on the Jacque Reid Experience on Instagram Live on Friday, September 9, 2022.

This episode goes deep into the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, where water is no longer running from taps as a result of racist infrastructural failure. Our guest is Joshua Dedmond of Cooperation Jackson who is involved in coordinating emergency water response for residents.

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Al Jazeera English News focuses on the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS.

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

This interview features Kwame Braxton, a Cooperation Jackson member and co-anchor of the Community Production Cooperative. He shares his experience growing up in Jackson and Cooperation Jackson’s effort to raise awareness about the situation and what it is going to take to resolve it.

NY Times Film

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Over 150,000 people are without safe and reliable drinking water in Jackson, Miss. A pregnant mother, her husband and a community activist describe the dire conditions and explain how the water crisis has affected them.

By Emmanuel Felton

September 3, 2022 at 9:11 a.m. EDT

Washington Post article on the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. Features several Cooperation Jackson members and our water distribution efforts on Thursday, September 1st, 2022.

BBC article about the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS. Features Cooperation Jackson water delivery on Saturday, September 3rd, and Cooperation Jackson members, Imani Olugbala-Aziz and Sarina Larson

By Chi Chi Izundu, Mohamed Madi & Chelsea Bailey
in Jackson, Mississippi

BBC Interview on the Water Crisis in Jackson

Friday, September 2, 2022

Cooperation Jackson Executive Director, Kali Akuno, speaking on the British Broadcast Company (BBC) Newscast about the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.

From Hard Knock Radio

We talk with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson about the current water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. He gives the ins and outs and historical backdrop to this catastrophe

Kali penned this breakdown ...

Due to climate change and decades of neglect of our cities infrastructure, critical portions of Jackson have flooded and incapacited our cities water treatment facilities. As a result, the entire city is without drinking water and it is not clear when the system is going to be repaired and water access restored.

The Governor has declared a state of emergency and is deploying the national guard to supply water to the residents of Jackson. However, to ensure that aid is delivered directly to the people of our community in West Jackson, we are engaging in an autonomous relief effort to ensure that the homeless, the elderly, and those with limited transportation in our community get the resources they need.

We are asking all of our friends, comrades, and fellow cooperators to join us in the effort. Please donate generously at cooperationjackson.org/donate. Please spread the word to your family and friends and encourage them to donate.

If you or your organization can deliver pallets of water, we welcome that as well. Please contact us at CooperationJackson@gmail.com to coordinate or call 601.355.7224

- Kali Akuno-

Cooperation Jackson Executive Director, Kali Akuno, speaking on Democracy Now! on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 about the water crisis in Jackson, MS.

Critical article from the Monthly Review, published in July 2020, featuring the work of Cooperation Jackson, in particular our Just Transition Plan and ground level efforts to build ecosocialism from below.

“Capitalism has brought the world to the edge of the abyss. We are rapidly approaching a planetary tipping point in the form of a climate Armageddon, threatening to make the earth unlivable for the human species, as well as innumerable other species. Such an absolute catastrophe for civilization and the human species as a whole is still avoidable with a revolutionary-scale reconstitution of the current system of production, consumption, and energy usage, though the time in which to act is rapidly running out.”