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From YouTube: Shifting Focus: Organizing for an EcoSocialist Future - Will Miller Social Justice Lectures
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Capitalism is choking the life systems of our precious planet and threatening extinction of complex species including humanity. Kali Akuno explains how EcoSocialism offers transformation from below, employing the principles of decolonization, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism, and degrowth. www.CooperationJackson.org.
Kali Akuno is a seasoned activist, organizer, educator, and writer. He is co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson, an emerging network of worker cooperatives in Jackson MS. He is co-editor of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS (2017) and author of numerous articles and pamphlets.
3/28/2023
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A
A
Anyway,
I
am
not
doing
the
introduction,
although
it
may
appear
like
I-
am
I
am
just
here,
because
I
wanted
to
look
at
all
of
you
and
see
an
audience
and
see
so
many
wonderful
people
out
there
that
I
haven't
seen
in
more
than
three
years,
because
we
haven't
met
in
this
format
for
three
years.
We
sort
of
did
the
last
time,
but
we
now
actually
have
the
speaker
with
us.
A
A
We're
selling
it
I
think
for
ten
dollars.
Okay,
yes
at
a
very
reduced
price
and
all
of
the
proceeds
from
the
book
are
going
to
the
organization
that
Kali
works
for
and
with
cooperation
Jackson,
as
well
as
the
the
lecture
series
is
giving
a
donation
as
well,
so
who
could
turn
their
phones
off
or
quiet
them
without
further
ado
Joy
we'll
do
the
introduction.
A
Oh
wait
a
minute,
one
more
thing:
sorry
t-shirts.
We
have
an
abundance
of
these.
They
are
actually
18
years
old,
they're,
almost
Antiques,
and
we
still
have
so
many
of
them.
We
would
just
like
to
give
them
to
you,
so
there's
a
bunch
on
the
table
back
there
and
if
you
don't
find
one
now
we'll
have
some
more
for
you
at
the
next
lecture,
and
this
one
is
for
Kali.
A
B
Hello,
my
name
is
joy,
mazahere
and
I
am
a
second
year
English
student
at
UVM,
Master's
student
and
I'm,
a
football
scholar
from
Amman
Jordan
welcome
to
the
spring
when
Miller
social
justice
lecture
series.
We
are
very
happy
that
you
are
joining
us
today.
The
series
is
dedicated
to
will
Miller
Vermont's
lifelong
social
justice
activist
and
University
of
Vermont
philosophy
Professor
for
35
years
after
a
brave
battle
with
cancer
will
Miller
has
passed
in
2005.
B
and
lipset
Will's
partner
founded
the
series,
as
a
continuation
of
his
legacy
of
speaking
truth
to
power
and
his
commitment
to
the
struggle
against
Injustice.
Thank
you,
Anne
for
keeping
Will's
voice
alive.
You
can
learn
more
about
the
will
Miller
Association
and
the
remembrance
of
his
impactful
change
on
willmiller.org.
Like
the
logo
says
he
will
always
be
remembered
as
a
voice
in
a
world
of
false
words
and
disinformation.
B
It
is
my
honor
and
pleasure
tonight
to
welcome
Kali
akuno
to
Burlington
Vermont,
to
speak
on
shifting
Focus
organizing
for
an
eco-socialist
future
day
by
day
capitalism,
chokes
life
systems
on
our
planet
and
threatens
the
existence
of
complex
species,
including
the
human
race.
Ecosocialism
offers
transformation
from
below
employees,
an
economy
of
solidarity
and
prioritizes
voices
and
principles
of
decolonization,
anti-imperialism,
anti-capitalism,
anteriorism,
anti-heterosexism
and
degrowth
in
the
face
of
global
Health
economic
and
climate
crises.
B
The
development
of
an
economic
democracy
and
the
building
of
a
solidarity
economy
are
the
core
of
kaliakuna's
Life
work
and
activism.
Cali
is
an
activist
organizer,
educator
and
writer.
He
is
also
the
co-editor
of
Jackson
Rising,
the
struggle
for
economic
democracy
and
black
self-determination
in
Jackson
Mississippi
and,
more
recently,
Jackson
Rising
Redux
lesson
lessons
on
building
the
future
in
the
present,
although
rooted
in
ideological
conversations
and
Frameworks
Cali
insists
on
the
dynamic
nature
of
social
justice
and
its
efforts
in
addressing
oppressive
systems
by
aligning
Theory
with
practice.
B
So
Kali
is
also
the
co-founder
and
director
of
Cooperative
Corporation
Jackson,
an
emerging
vehicle
that
aims
to
develop
a
Cooperative
Network
to
achieve
sustainable,
Community,
Development
and
ownership
based
in
Jackson
Mississippi,
when
I
first
learned
about
cooperation,
Jackson
I
stared
at
their
logo
for
a
very
long
time,
and
my
personal
research
and
stance
against
Injustice
I
derived
lessons
from
my
grandmother's
stories
as
I
looked
back
into
the
past.
In
order
to
act
in
the
present
and
see
hope
in
the
future,
I
found
the
same
thing
in
cooperation
Jackson's
logo.
B
It
features
three
wisdom:
symbols
used
by
the
Asante
people
in
Ghana
to
recall
virtues
and
values
of
traditional
life.
If
you
look
at
the
logo,
it
incorporates
three
adinkra
or
wisdom,
symbols
at
the
center
or
help
me,
and
let
me
help
you
as
a
symbol
of
cooperation
and
interdependence
on
the
left
in
concert
in
unity,
loise
strength
and
on
the
right
meaning.
If
your
hands
are
in
the
dish,
people
do
not
eat
everything
and
leave
you.
Nothing
which
explains
the
importance
of
participation
in
self-government.
B
I
encourage
you
to
visit
cooperationjackson.org
to
learn
more
about
kali's
work
in
his
community
special
thanks
to
our
sponsors
and
the
will
Miller
social
justice,
lecture
series
board
members,
Lionel,
Beasley,
Ron,
Jacobs,
Isaac,
Chrisman,
Fred,
magdoff
and
Peterman
Helen,
Scott
and
Anne
lipset.
Please
help
come
help
me
welcome
on
stage.
Thank
you.
D
D
Coke
inspired
to
take
two
of
my
drawers
of
t-shirts.
Without
my
permission,
cut
them
up
and
they've
been
trying
to
make
a
quilt
right
they're,
like
of
all
these
different
things,
so
I'm
waiting
to
see
what
the
quilt
looks
like
I.
Imagine
I'm
like
a
little
bit
more
shirtless,
but
I
have
like
hundreds
of
them.
So.
D
Hopefully
everybody
you
know
is
in
some
active
and
constructive
solidarity
with
him
in
their
efforts.
Since
it's
not
that
far
from
you
all,
we
need
more
workers
power
into
that
vein.
As
someone
who
is
pushing
for
workers
ownership
in
any
and
all
forms,
you
know
maybe
be
some
dialogue
about
shifting
the
college
and
took
a
more
of
a
collective
worker
on
Space
right.
So
just.
D
Yes,
just
a
little
something
to
to
drop
on
you
and
and
to
interject,
that's
something
for
the
workers
to
decide
themselves,
but
you
know
just
trying
to
plant
a
few
seeds
here
there
now
for
this.
For
for
tonight,
I'm
I'm
going
to
do
something:
I,
don't
normally
do
like
I'm,
a
kind
of
speaker,
I,
hate,
PowerPoints
and
I
kind
of
hate,
prescripted,
stuff
and
I'm.
Usually
the
kind
of
person
who
you
know
with
my
social
analytical
skills,
however
right
or
wrong,
they
may
be
I
tried
to
read.
D
D
So
we
feel
much
more
comfortable
this
week
being
cooperation
Jackson
and
call
it
a
little
bit
of
a
formula
than
a
program
so
that
there's
something
we
want
to
articulate
and
I
want
to
lay
out
those
two
things
like
in
short
order:
I'm
not
going
to
try
to
take
too
long.
So
we
can
actually
have
conversation
and
if
I
tried,
it
would
actually
probably
take
a
couple
of
days
to
really
lay
out
no
joke,
but
the
first
part
of
this
all
right.
D
D
and
we've
been
struggling
with
part
two
since
that
time,
it's
it's
coming
for
those
of
you
who
might
be
interested
and
the
the
article
itself
I
think
if
you
read
it
carefully.
You'll
see
that
we
don't
we're
not
all
in
agreement
on
every
particular
point,
like
the
three
of
us
who
wrote
that
we
have
a
lot
of
internal
debates,
particularly
on
how
we
are
interpreting
history
and
some
of
that's
because
we
come
from
similar
influences,
but
also
profoundly
different
influences.
D
So
these
two
comrades
in
particular,
were
most
heavily
influenced.
You
know
come
out
of
the
the
maoist
movements
you
know
of
the
late
60s
and
70s
and
80s
I
come
from
a
much
more
revolutionary
nationalist
but
socialist
in
form
and
content,
kind
of
orientation
from
the
the
Cadre
organization
and
things
that
I
was
a
part
of,
and
you
see
some
of
those
differences,
reflective
but
I
think
they're
generative
enough.
D
D
And
this
is
the
broad
left
and
by
the
left.
Let
me
be
very
clear
for
the
record
what
I
mean
you
may
mean
something
different,
but
you
know
to
set
out
terms.
The
left
to
me
means
Anarchist,
socialists,
Communists,
revolutionary
nationalists
and
certain
forms
of
indigenous
articulations
around
self-determination
or
sovereignty,
and
that's
a
broad
scope.
It
doesn't
include
everybody
or
everyone,
but
it
also
doesn't
exclude
and
So
within
that
I'm,
very
specifically,
not
talking
about
liberals
per
se
or
certain
types
of
progressives
just
to
be
very
clear,
and
why?
D
Right
because
there's
certain
fundamental
challenges
that
I
think
the
left
has
to
uphold
number
one.
It
has
to
be
very
clear
on
this
stance
relative
to
capitalism
and
imperialism
without
fundamental
Challenge
and,
if
you're,
not
about
the
abolishment
of
those
two
things
I'm,
not
quite
sure
what
you
are
really
about.
Talking
about
you
on
the
left
now,
there's
other
things
that
you
know
we
and
we
are
split
amongst
those
things
amongst
ourselves,
let's
be
clear
what
they
mean,
what
they
articulated,
but
for
us
coming
from
our
position.
D
Why
is
probably
perhaps
most
important
a
lot
of
our
arguments,
particularly
of
late
since
the
left
has
been
so
out
of
position
and
so
unorganized
for
for
a
good
minute.
Now
we
get
trapped
in
these
Notions
around
and
arguments
around.
We
need
to
preserve
democracy
and
we
need
to
fight
for
democracy
right
I,
wish
people
mean
Bourgeois
democracy
without
necessarily
recognizing
or
taking
into
account.
I
would
argue
the
history
of
of
oppressed
peoples,
the
history
of
Suboxone
subjects,
the
history
of
folks,
who've
been
colonized
and
exploited
the
world
over
that.
D
D
So,
if
you
look
at
all
the
the
Ghana
to
you
know,
Algeria
to
Vietnam,
you
know:
I
can
go
on
and
on
right
trying
to
construct
national
entities.
These
nation
states
is
part
of
a
decolonial,
a
version
of
a
decolonial
program,
but
the
piece
was
to
be
incorporated
into
the
world
system
that
the
Bourgeois
order
had
created,
but
the
reality
of
the
situation
was,
if
we
look
back.
D
D
But
does
it
leave
room
in
our
imaginations
to
think
of
ourselves
as,
like?
The
Democratic
subjects
I
think
you
know
the
I'll
just
use
like
marks
in
particular,
was
thinking
like
the
pursuit
of
democracy
in
the
left.
Being
the
champions
of
democracy,
as
we
argue
in
the
paper,
does
not
mean
we
need
to
accept
democracy
or
Bourgeois
order
or
any
of
its
institutions
right.
We
have
the
ability
to
create
our
own,
and
we
have
the
ability
to
engage
and
subvert
those
that
exist,
and
we
need
to
do
both
at
the
same
time
like.
D
D
D
Potentially
left-leaning
projects
and
things
that
we
are
involved
in
just
within
this
country,
it
is
profound
we
are
doing
a
lot
of
work,
but
it's
not
connected
right.
It's
not
United
right.
We
don't
talk
to
each
other
enough.
We
don't
plan
with
each
other
enough.
We
don't
coordinate
with
each
other
enough
and
we're
definitely
not
organized,
but
I
bet
you
like
and
I.
D
Don't
I,
don't
know
Burlington
in
this
particular
way,
but
I
bet
you
there's
like
probably
more
than
15
Community
organizing
projects
around
agriculture
right
here
in
this
city
am
I
wrong,
like
different
kind
of
Community,
Gardens
and
things
of
that
nature.
It's
probably
more
than
15
of
them
right.
Yeah
do
y'all,
really
plan
and
coordinate
with
each
other.
D
D
I'm
sure
there's
some
problems
there,
but
I
see
a
bunch
of
which
means
no
right.
Like
there's
some
dialogue,
there's
maybe
some
you
know,
interchange
of
knowledge
but
you're,
not
planting
in
accordance
with
each
other
you're.
Not
thinking
about
how
do
we
meet
the
actual
caloric
needs
of
the
people
in
Burlington
right
and
it's
more
kind
of
a
side
activity
than
it
is.
D
Can
this
be
a
central
activity
that
actually
meet
some
social
needs
and
if
it
was
more
of
a
central
activity
that
met
the
social
needs,
but
you
can
probably
create
new
relations
of
production
based
upon
that
which
then
remove
people
from
having
to
do
so
much
extraneous
wage
labor
not
completely
eliminated,
not
by
itself,
but
it
changes.
The
dynamic
I
would
argue
if
that
was
coordinated.
Now
just
multiply
that,
amongst
all
the
other
different
things
that
we're
doing
and
how
many
people
are
actually
involved
in
all
these
projects.
D
It's
a
lot
it's
a
lot,
but
we're
not
organized
that's.
Why
we're
out
of
position
we're
not
organized,
but
the
practices
that
that
we
are
engaged
in
in
a
broad
particular
way
if
they
could
be
organized
could
be
potentially
transformative,
not
necessarily
in
himself.
You
don't
have
to
have
other
kind
of
inputs,
but
our
argument
is-
and
this
is
something
that
we
drew
in
particular
from
like
our
analysis
of
what
happened
in
Kobe
and
let
me
just
back
up
a
little
bit
to
say
what
I
mean.
D
The
U.S
I
mean
the
global
economy,
is
too
large,
too
profound,
too
complex
for
there
to
be
immediate
shifts
right
to
eliminate
carbon
or
to
reduce
carbon
emissions
and
all
these
other
kind
of
dangerous
emissions
right.
So
it's
not
even
worth
asking
for
like
a
hard
radical,
stop,
you're
not
going
to
get
it.
That's
what
they
told
us
and
been
telling
them
since
1992..
D
What
did
we
all
live
through
in
February
March,
April
May
of
2020.?
They
stopped
it
right.
They
grounded
to
a
halt,
we're
not
doing
a
whole
bunch
of
training.
You
know
ships
was
out
in
the
ocean.
You
know
for
months
on
end
right,
wouldn't
allow
them
into
ports.
There
was
a
period,
you
know
was
it
and
that
wasn't
you
know
totally
associated
with
Kobe,
but
at
the
same.
D
Remember
oil
was
so
cheap
if
they
were
giving
it
away.
The
oil
companies
were
paying
people
to
take
oil
from
them
off
their
hands
because
there
was
so
much
of
a
glutton.
The
price
had
dropped,
and
so
that
was
just
one
of
these
living
room.
Where
you
stop
and
step
back
like
wait,
a
minute
y'all
been
completely
lying.
The
whole
time.
E
D
Mean
we
already
know,
but
but
to
see
it
in
real
time
than
something
else.
When
you
stop
and
think
about
it,
it's
like
wait
a
minute.
If
there's
political
will,
we
can
actually
move
on
some
of
this
pretty
quickly
and
pretty
profoundly.
We
just
witnessed
right
and
other
things
that
they
said
like.
Oh,
you
know
you'll.
Never,
it's
too
complex.
It's
too
big.
It's
too,
you
know
unwieldy
to
try
to
do.
D
We
all
witness
a
a
type
of
of
not
everywhere
not
uniform,
but
we
lived
through
a
kind
of
a
mini
Universal
basic
income
experiment
for
a
year
and
a
half
right
and
the
U.S
economy
didn't
collapse
right.
It
probably
actually
saved
it
for
at
least
for
a
while
right
and
it
was
so
threatening
to
a
certain
degree
that
you
know
what
the
Republicans
and
some
of
the
Democrats
started
losing
their
minds
after
about
six
months.
It's
like
look.
No.
D
The
pandemic
got
in
six
months,
where
we
couldn't
do
it.
Ten
years,
like
quickly
I,
remember
going
to
the
to
one
of
the
local
stores
and
seeing
in
the
window
will
pay
20
an
hour
and
with
benefits.
This
is
in
Mississippi,
where
they're
they're
basically
is
no,
no
real.
You
know
wage
control
or,
or
you
know
what
I'm
looking
for
minimum
wage.
There
really
is
no
minimum
wage
and
they
don't
offer
no
benefits
to
nobody
right.
D
We
need
right
here.
Why
bring
in
somebody
else,
and
we
can
do
to
them
basically
the
same
thing
we
do
to
people
who
don't
have
papers
if
they
get
online,
I
can
put
the
action
deal
and
not
paying,
since
they
depend
upon
me.
I
can
get
them
off
their
Farms.
That's
still
the
case
in
Mississippi
and
if
you've
been
following
some
of
the
news
you'll
see
some
of
that
steal
that
play
like
how
they're,
basically
as
I,
was
saying
to
somebody
else.
I
want
y'all
to
understand
before
I
leave
here.
D
E
D
E
D
Will
have
all
the
resources
that
they
can
directly
control
and
then
Institute
an
occupying.
You
know
police
force
that
it
controls
the
whole
city
right.
That
is
basically
what
we,
what
we
are
going
to
have
so
folks
be
clear
about
that,
that's
what's
being
instituted
and
that's
a
precursor,
basically,
what's
called
so
so
drawing
from
those
lessons.
This
was
the
point
drawing
from
those
kind
of
lessons
of
seeing
like
these
profound
shifts,
one
of
the
things
that
made
us
really.
D
We
were
you
know
and
for
us
you
know
we
tried
to
do
it
during
the
pandemic
to
make
it
clear
during
the
pandemic.
We
tried
to
do
luckily
we're
internationally
connected
to
you
know
some
good
folks,
and
so
you
know
if
y'all
remember:
first,
it
was
China.
Then
it
was
Italy
and
Iran.
Those
were
the
first
two
that
really
got
hit
outside
of
China
companion,
at
least
that
they
were
talking
about,
and
comrades
in
Italy,
initially
were
saying,
always
just
a
bad
fruit,
then
a
week
later,
they'll
say
no,
it's
worse
shot.
D
Because
we
were
trying
to
learn
from
him
like
well,
how
are
you
guys
dealing
with
providing
Mutual
AIDS
because
we
were
trying
to
get
ourselves
here
and
they
call
it
a
stop?
You
know,
if
you
don't
have
the
personal,
you
know
protective
equipment.
If
you
don't
have
the
PPE
stop
what
you're
doing
people
that
get
me
sick
people
are
dying,
our
people
are
dying.
Stop
what
you're
doing
we
took
that
lesson
when
we
stopped
so
we
were
trying
to
figure
out.
What
can
we
do
right?
What
can
we
do?
D
It's
most
successful
piece
has
been:
is
cultural
penetration
as
cultural
acceptance,
not
just
all
the
things
just
privatized
and
dismantled,
but
as
a
cultural
project
it
has
been
highly
successful
right
and
that
was
the
piece
that's
most
concerned
that
I
think
will
live.
You
know
well
beyond
whatever
little
welfare
oriented
tweets
they
might
want
to
try
to
do,
which
is
what
Biden
was
elected
to
do
and
what
he
said.
E
D
What
it,
what
it
revealed
was
a
number
of
different
like
challenges:
I
think
that
we've
been
been
trying
to
search
with
like
or
old
problems
of
the
old
kind
of
20th
century
variance
of
State
socialism
that
you
know
had
tremendous
problems
right,
particularly
trying
to
assess
demand,
and
actually
you
know,
do
any
kind
of
planning
and
development
From
Below,
which
they
didn't
do,
and
they
didn't
do
well
right.
Let's
just
be
real
about
that,
and.
D
Was
a
instance
of
people
responding
to
real
need
in
real
time
in
their
communities
right
and
and
meeting
a
certain
level
of
need
and
fulfilling
right
through
just
totally
decentralized
planning,
right,
totally
decentralized,
Planet,
but
planning
to
a
certain
city,
at
least
on
a
community
level?
You
know
well,
and
we
saw
it
at
a
certain
point.
I
think
was
like
in
particularly
in
the
midwest.
D
D
You
know
trying
to
deal
with
the
pandemic
and
this
lesson
just
seemed
to
be
kind
of
being
missed
by
a
lot
of
people
that
we
were
in
relationships
with
and
partly
we're
trying
to
talk
to
a
lot
of
labor
unions,
because
y'all
remember
there
was
a
little
strikeway
that
was
happening
at
that
particular
point
in
time,
right,
some
of
it
before
the
pandemic
kind
of
really
kicked
off.
But
then
a
lot
of
the
like
some
of
the
chicken
workers
in
Alabama
and
Georgia.
D
They
started
picking
up
very
early
on
and
then
kind
of
picked
up.
So
you
know
it's
like
look.
We
have
two
sets
of
responses
going
on
that
if
they
were
coordinated
to
be
very
powerful
and
we
were
saying
it
could
move
us
in
the
direction
not
necessarily
immediately
but
move
us
in
the
direction
of
a
general
strife.
D
That's
not
how
we
look
at
ourselves
like
we
look
at
all
these
things
as
like
little
fragmented
eruptions
that
we're
not
connected
to
and
don't
connect
the
dots
so
we're
standing
with
this
formula.
Let's
connect
the
dots
and
the
first
piece
that
we
said
we
want
to.
You
know,
really
articulate
and
lift
up,
and
it
there's
a
piece
if
you
see
it
is
on
our
website.
There's
a
little
this
formulas
kind
of
reason
and
I'm
only
going
to
talk
about
four
or
five
of
them,
but
very
quickly.
D
The
first
one
is
mutually
right
and
we
we
start
with
that
one
primarily
because
that
is
what
a
great
many
of
us
are
actually
going
and
doing
on
a
sustaining
basis
throughout,
and
this
is
from,
like
you
look,
this
is
from
a
materialist
orientation
and
what
we're
first
trying
to
look
at
is
where
and
how
are
people
already
organized
right,
it's
different
and
like.
Let
me
convince
you
to
do
something:
I'm
like
no,
where
people
are
already
organized.
D
What
do
people
already
doing
like
and
the
question
is,
how
do
we
then
build
the
democratic
practices
to
connect
and
we
have
to
deal
with
like?
Let's
be
real,
we
got
to
deal
with
a
crisis
of
trust
us
trusting
each
other
on
the
left,
which
we
don't
do
that.
Well,
we
got
to
deal
with
a
crisis
of
imagination.
We
got
to
deal
with
a
crisis
in
confidence
that
we
got
to
do
with
a
crisis
of
vision.
D
D
D
That's
directly
connected
to
the
demand
and
and
oriented
responses
coming
out
of
all
the
information
that's
being
gathered
by
the
folks
who
are
doing
the
mutual
Aid
work
like
how
do
we
determine
what
people
actually
mean?
The
mutual
Aid
is
a
partner
that
can,
if
articulated
in
a
particular
way,
begin
to
answer
some
of
those
questions
right
and
it's
a
way
also
in
front
of
from
largely
you
know,
be
real,
a
defensive
piece
down
the
road.
D
D
E
D
It's
it's
it's.
You
know
the
the
landmass
of
what
the
Republicans
can.
Control
is
pretty
overwhelming
and
as
an
organized
strategy,
I
think
one
of
the
only
ways
the
left
is
one
to
overcome.
That
is
by
building
our
own.
You
know
Urban
to
rural
strategist,
linked
in
these
particular
ways
right.
So
that's
the
component
to
look
in
there.
Now:
food
sovereignty,
Mutual
Aid,
not
enough,
not
nearly
enough,
so
the
other
piece
that
that's
Central
to
this.
If
you
look
in
the
the
the
version
that
we
got
to
redo
it,
we
originally
said
Cooperative
economics.
D
This
number.
We
got
that
wrong.
We
got
that,
though
it's
a
short
change
to
what
we
actually
want
to
say,
which
is
work
yourself.
Organization,
work
yourself
organization
is
a
major
third
component,
and
this
is
where,
in
particular,
yes,
we
have
to
be
doing
a
broader
work
to
correct,
create
more
cooperatives,
particularly
working
cooperies
anywhere
and
everywhere,
right
to
cover
all
different
kind
of
areas,
but
here's
another
piece
of
what
I
would
say
in
work
or
self-organization.
D
This
goes
back
to
the
first
part
of
what
we
have
learned
to
kind
of
accept
within
the
framework
of
the
National
Liberation
act,
the
National
Labor
Relations
Act
right
accepting
those
terms
about
what
we
can
fight
for
as
workers
right
and
what
we
can
like
how
we
can't
be
in
solidarity
with
other
workers.
We
can't
be
involved
in
political
strikes
and
political
action
like
we
need.
That's
one
of
those
things
that
shifting
crap
all
that
believing
in
it
is
a
limitation.
D
D
You
know
what
most
people
say
because
of
the
resources
and
instructions
I'll
tell
you
I,
don't
want
to
get
rid
of
that,
but
I
know
it's
not
sufficient
for
either
to
do
what
we
need
to
do
so.
The
one
of
the
pieces
that
we've
been
pushing
for
is.
We
need
to
be
encouraging
all
the
different
forms
of
work
yourself
organization,
that
being
particularly
camped
with
a
very
class
inter
project
orientation,
including
what
we
are
going
to
developed
and
trying
to
articulate
like
we
need
to
be
building
that
quality,
but
class
struggle
or
class.
D
Conscious
oriented
you
know
co-ops,
which
is
different
than
how
most
co-ops
are
articulated.
Most
people
are
articulated
within
a
very
entrepreneurial
kind
of
framework,
which
leaves
them
kind
of
isolated
to
only
dealing
with
their
members
and
the
benefits
of
their
members
and
not
being
in
solidarity
with
other
workers,
so
much
so
that
a
lot
of
the
literature
ones
they
say
well,
co-ops
Will,
Survive
economic
crisis
because
it
can
shift
their
own
wages.
Okay,
the
fact
that
we
can
exploit
ourselves
greater
than
what
the
market
will
bear
should
not
be
something
that
should
be
praised.
E
D
E
D
D
It's
going
to
be
hard
as
hell
to
do.
Don't
get
me
wrong,
but
if
we
don't
think
about
it,
it
definitely
won't
ever
come
to
pass.
It's
not
going
to
disorganize
itself
in
that
particular
way
right
so
to
interject
in
that
particular
way.
So
that's
why
this
component
is
about.
We
have
to
do
a
certain
level
of
just
promote
working-class
self-organization
for
all
these
things
to
be
tied
together
with
the
Pursuits
right
of
democratizing
socializing
and
democratizing
the
means
of
production.
D
That
has
to
be
the
goal,
not
just
like
better
working
conditions
and
wages,
but
without
their
goal
it
doesn't
mean
anything
like
the
voters.
How
do
we
do
that
right
and
we're
in
a
weird
period,
where
there
there's
kind
of
two
Dimensions
that
were
really
three
dimensions
that
have
to
happen
at
once?
One
in
a
community
like
mine,
well
I
can
I
can
scream
about
seizing
the
the
old
Mantra
of
season.
The
music
productions
I
mean
that
plan
on
that
in,
in
every
form
of
fashion.
D
Like
the
productive
capacity
is
just
not
there,
so
part
of
what
we're
doing
is
we're
actually
building
up
the
productive
forces
right,
and
so
that's
that's
the
other
part.
But
the
piece
is
like:
how
do
we
do
that
within
the
ecological
limits
that
exist?
That's
the
the
real
trick,
so
it's
not
production
for
production,
so
it
has
to
be
articulated
from
the
top
around.
How
do
we
create
things
based
upon
the
actual
needs
within
our
community
right?
D
March
y'all
know
what
I'm
talking
about
right,
but
how
we,
how
there
are
certain
things
that
enable
us
to
kind
of
move
to
that
on
a
particular
level,
and
that's
this
to
the
fourth
department
on
that
team,
which
is
community
production
right,
and
this
is
something
that
we
picked
up
primarily
from
an
organization
called
inside
Focus
folks
want
to
look
at
it
based
out
of
right
now
primary
Ottawa,
but
you
know
also
based
on
Detroit,
and
this
is
taken.
Some
of
y'all
might
be
familiar
with
the
old
CNC
computer
in
America.
D
What
was
called
computer
numeric
program
whatever
it
was,
you
know,
but
now
they
call
it
like
digital
fabrication
and
the
digital
fabrication.
That
kind
of
revolution
you
know,
Blair
I,
would
argue
and
I
believe
you
know
it's
kind
of
like
at
this
1.5
version,
but
it's
growing
explanation
and
we
have
an
article
in
the
book.
You
know
which
is
called
like
you
know,
eliminating
the
fabrication
divide
being
very
conscious
about
black
folks
kind
of
got
excluded
from
the
the
first
kind
of
digital
divide
and
being
clear.
D
We
want
to
enter
to
this
now
so
that
we
can
develop
appropriate
technology
because
we're
not
technology,
folks,
I'm,
not
for
sure
right
and
I
was
very
reluctant
that
first
of
all
even
kind
of
thinking
this
particular
way
because
I,
you
know
one
of
the
questions
I
was
sitting
down
with
Blair
is
like
look.
What
I
see
with
all
this
kind
of
formal
automation
is
more
and
more
more
need
to
eliminate
black
labor.
D
So
that's
a
direct
threat
to
me,
like
you
know,
I'm
with
that
short
of
Revolution
I
need
my
folks
to
have
jobs,
and
this
is
particularly
eliminate
jobs.
It's
like
I,
understand
why
you
think
about
family
we're
thinking
about
it.
This
way.
Instead,
right
now,
we
Community
owned
this
in
places
where
we
are
keenly.
You
know,
underdeveloping,
their
jobs
are
not
returning
to
Detroit
in
the
same
way
that
they
were
foreign.
D
D
So
all
this
has
to
come
together,
democratically
and
be
involved
and
the
way
in
which
there's
two
things
that
didn't
have
to
be
described,
and
so
we
call
these
these
practices
I've
outlined
within
the
building
by
former
like
they're.
This
is
borrowed
from
ground
Street,
there's
the
practices
of
position
and
then
there's
the
practices.
D
What
I'm
describing
are
like
the
practices
and
methodologies
of
positions
like
putting
ourselves
in
a
position
to
be
able
to
fight
back
then,
but
there's
another
component
of
this,
which
we
know
is
real
just
if
the
right
was
not
of
the
far
right
it
was
not
on
the
advance.
You
would
still
need
this
because
if
you
get
to
a
point
well,
workers
are
you
know,
taking
over
factories
one
way
or
another
buying
them,
taking
them
occupying
whatever
the
situation.
D
So
at
some
point
you
have
to
be
prepared
to
do
a
level
of
democratic.
You
know
work
with
a
clear
sense
of
community
self-defense
baked
into
it,
and
those
are
the
last
two
practices
within
this
formula
that
we
really
want
to
articulate
and
what
this
is
asking
for
again,
if
you
looked
at
most
of
this
there's
millions
of
people
already
doing
this,
that's
the
key
point.
D
It's
not
like
we're
asking
people
to
like
in
many
respects,
to
adopt
something
particularly
new,
like
mostly
everybody
here
works
for
a
wage
right,
if
you're,
not
retired,
and
you
did
work
four
ways
right,
so
you
already
involved
in
it
there's
already
a
sign
of
struggle
that
you
are
involved
in.
We
just
need
to
be
shipping
and
organized
in
a
profoundly
different
way
right.
So
that's
convincing
of
your
co-workers
to
move
in
this
particular
way.
But
it's
not
like
you
asking
them
to
like
move
to
Mars
like
no.
D
E
D
We
have
Collective
power
in
aggregated
right
and
for
that
we
need
like
people's
assemblies
on
the
broad
level
that
are
not
just
like
Novelties,
let's
get
together
and
you
know
just
talk
politics,
whatever
situation,
it's
like.
No,
how
do
we
start
actually
making
decisions
if
we're
engaged
in
all
of
these
practices?
How
do
we
start
making
decisions
around.
C
C
D
Know
who
needs
who
needs
it
the
most?
How
do
we
deal
with
the
real
housing
questions?
You
know
if
there's
a
like
a
shortage,
but
there's
some
extra
good
passing
someplace
else.
Do
we
feel
like
we
can
organize
ourselves
to
basically
maybe
occupy
that
and
convert
it
in
a
particular
way.
So
you
start
really
dealing
with
concrete
material,
political
questions
and
the
other
things
in
which
I'll
end
on
I'm
trying
to
incorporate
this
in
such
a
manner
that
ideological
diversity
that
we
have
doesn't
have
to
be
surrender.