Building Together: Facing new problems in old ways
Webinar’s throughout October 7, 14, 22 & 28
The session is about cooperation as an emergent response to changing conditions and problems, particularly through the lens of Black cooperative history and during Co-op Month. It moves through Sankofa → right now → the future.
Sankofa / History: Dr. Jessica sets the stage by looking at the history—particularly Black history—and how cooperation emerged in response to changing social conditions and allowed Black communities to thrive and sustain themselves.
Right now: Using that history to understand the emergent problems we are facing now, naming some of those conditions, and exploring how cooperation is currently engaging with them.
The future: Looking toward what Dr. Jessica is calling the “fourth wave” and considering how cooperation can help us engage with what is emerging and build toward the new world we want to see.
What can the history of cooperation teach us about responding to the problems emerging now—and about where we go from here?