Socialist Planning in Jackson, Mississippi: A Bibliography.

Prepared by the students of Georgia Tech course CP 4020, Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning, in the summer of 2019. An annotated version is available here. A BibTeX version is available on GitHub.


Title Lumumba's inauguration speech. (2017) [YouTube video]. In: 16 WAPT News Jackson.

Cooperation Jackson: Building a Social and Solidarity Economy & ReelNews (Director). (2018) [YouTube video]. In American Climate Rebels.

Left Out: Kali Akuno on Worker Cooperatives, Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination. (2018). In. YouTube: Democracy at Work.

Ajl, M. (2018, June 5). A Socialist Southern Strategy in Jackson. Viewpoint Magazine.

Akuno, K. (2012). The Jackson-Kush Plan and the Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy. Retrieved from http://navigatingthestorm.blogspot.com/2012/05/the-jackson-kush-plan-and-struggle-for.html

Akuno, K. (2012). The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy: Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and New Afrikan People's Organization.

Akuno, K. (2015). Casting Shadows: Chokwe Lumumba and the Struggle for Racial Justice and Economic Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi. Retrieved from New York, NY: http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/kaliakuno_jackson_web.pdf

Akuno, K. (2017). Build and Fight: The Program and Strategy of Cooperation Jackson. Book Excerpt. TruthOut. Retrieved from https://truthout.org/articles/build-and-fight-the-program-and-strategy-of-cooperation-jackson/

Akuno, K. (2017). Casting Light: Reflections on the Struggle to Implement the Jackson-Kush Plan, Part 1: A Response to Comrade Bruce Dixon. Retrieved from https://www.blackagendareport.com/casting-light-reflections-struggle-implement-jackson-kush-plan-part-1-response-comrade-bruce-dixon

Akuno, K. (2019). It's Eco-Socialism or Death. Retrieved from https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/ecosocialismordeath

Akuno, K., Azar, R., & Colón, S. (2015). Revolutionary Black Nationalism for the Twenty-first Century. New Politics, XV(3).

Anzilotti, E. (2018, May 21). More U.S. businesses are becoming worker co-ops: here's why. Fast Company.

Bakari, A., & Didla, N. (2018). "Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Aligns with Just and Right Struggles Everywhere in the World". Prabuddha: Journal of Social Equality, 1, 3-12.

Bamburg, J. (2017, October 3). Mondragon Through a Critical Lens. Medium.

Beard, V. A. (2003). Learning Radical Planning: The Power of Collective Action. Planning Theory, 2(1), 13-35. doi:10.1177/1473095203002001004

Bojić, N. (2018). Social and Physical Planning: Two Approaches to Territorial Production in Socialist Yugoslavia between 1955 and 1963. Architectural Histories, 6(1). doi:http://doi.org/10.5334/ah.309

Bragg, K. (2019, February 20). The Mayor of Jackson Wants to Hold Its Police Accountable. Easier Said than Done. The Appeal. Retrieved from https://theappeal.org/the-mayor-of-jackson-wants-to-hold-its-police-accountable-easier-said-than-done/

Brodwin, D. (2016, July 21). A Cleveland Success Story. US News & World Report.

Chimurenga, T., & Hall, S. (2017, October 16). Jackson Rising: Saki Hall, from Cooperation Jackson, on the Intersection of Gender and Economics. Atlanta Black Star. Retrieved from https://atlantablackstar.com/2017/10/16/jackson-rising-saki-hall-cooperation-jackson-intersection-gender-economics/

Cooperation Jackson. (2015). Economic Democracy: People Power and Cooperative Alternatives for a Sustainable Black Future [Press release]. Retrieved from https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/2015/2/12/economic-democracy-people-power-and-cooperative-alternatives-for-a-sustainable-black-future

Datausa.io. Jackson, MS. Retrieved from https://datausa.io/profile/geo/jackson-ms/

Dayen, D. (2018, August 28). Alaska Gives Cash To Its Citizens Every Year. The Rest Of The U.S. Could Too. Huffington Post.

Democracy at Work Institute. What Is a Worker Cooperative? Retrieved from https://institute.coop/what-worker-cooperative

Flanders, L. (2014). After Death of Radical Mayor, Mississippi's Capital Wrestles With His Economic Vision YES! Magazine.

Gilbert, K. (2017). The Socialist Experiment. Oxford American.

Hall, S. (2018). Reflections on 2018: A Year of Struggle, Lessons and Progress. Retrieved from https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/2018/12/13/2018-reflections-a-year-of-struggle-lessons-and-progress

Jackson, C. Sustainable Communities Initiative. Retrieved from https://cooperationjackson.org/sustainable-communities-initiative

Jackson, T. (2019). Mural Magic in West Jackson. Retrieved from https://cooperationjackson.org/blog/muralmagicinwestjackson

Johnson, C. How Cooperation Jackson Is Transforming the Poorest State in the US. Retrieved from http://www.geo.coop/story/how-cooperation-jackson-transforming-poorest-state-us

king, b. (2016). Building Power in a Frontline Community: The Cooperation Jackson Model. Socialism and Democracy, 30(2), 219-224. doi:10.1080/08854300.2016.1195180

Kingfish. (2017). Meet the New Expert on Jackson: Vice. Retrieved from https://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2017/04/meet-new-expert-on-jackson-vice.html

Lartey, J. (2017, September 11). A revolutionary, not a liberal: can a radical black mayor bring change to Mississippi? . The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/11/revolutionary-not-a-liberal-radical-black-mayor-mississippi-chokwe-lumumba

Lazare, S. (2018). We Have To Make Sure the “Green New Deal” Doesn’t Become Green Capitalism. In These Times. Retrieved from http://inthesetimes.com/article/21632/green-new-deal-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-cooperation-jackson-capital

LeMaster, C. J. (2018, January 8). Jackson’s 2018 homicide rate ranks highest in city’s history, per FBI data. WLBT-3. Retrieved from https://www.wlbt.com/2019/01/09/jacksons-homicide-rate-ranks-highest-citys-history-per-fbi-data/

Lim, A. (2019, May 19). How the Green New Deal Can Deliver Land Justice. Jacobin.

Miller, E. "Other Economies Are Possible!": Building a Solidarity Economy. Retrieved from http://www.geo.coop/node/35

Mott, R. (2013, May 15). What is Lumumba's "Jackson Plan"? Jackson Free Press. Retrieved from http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2013/may/15/what-lumumbas-jackson-plan/

Nave, R. L. (2017, May 1). Can city-state relationship be saved? Jackson mayor candidates vow to try. Mississippi Today. Retrieved from https://mississippitoday.org/2017/05/01/can-city-state-relationship-be-saved-jackson-mayor-candidates-vow-to-try/

Osborn, R. J. (1966). How the Russians plan their cities. Trans-action, 3(6), 25-30. doi:10.1007/BF02804395

Rushton, S. (2018). Rebel Cities 4: In Warsaw, "Rights to the City" Means Clean Air and Affordable Homes. Retrieved from https://www.occupy.com/article/rebel-cities-4-warsaw-rights-city-means-clean-air-and-affordable-homes#sthash.8QiNt7xa.dflDNwzj.dpbs

Russell, B. Municipal What?: Reflections on #municipalsocialism in the 21st century. Retrieved from https://urbaninstitute.group.shef.ac.uk/municipal-what-reflections-on-municipalsocialism-in-the-21st-century/

Russell, B. (2018, September 13). Jackson Rising. Retrieved from https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/jackson-rising/

Russell, B. (2019). Beyond the Local Trap: New Municipalism and the Rise of the Fearless Cities. Antipode, 51(3), 989-1010. doi:10.1111/anti.12520

Sewell, R., & Woods, A. (2005, July 13). What Is Marxism? Retrieved from https://www.marxist.com/what-is-marxism-economics-materialism.htm

Sheffield, H. (2019, May 31). Cooperation Jackson on how to build an alternative economy for people of colour. The Independent. Retrieved from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/indyventure/cooperation-jackson-solidarity-economy-neoliberalism-alternatives-a8936801.html

Shelton, E. J. (2019, April 22). Afrofuturism, indigenous people and intersectional spaces: These Jackson artists hope their creations inspire a community. Mississippi Today. Retrieved from https://mississippitoday.org/2019/04/22/afrofuturism-indigenous-people-and-intersectional-spaces-these-jackson-artists-hope-their-creations-inspire-a-community/

Sisson, P. (2018). Can Minneapolis’s radical rezoning be a national model? . Curbed.

SolidarityNYC. About SolidarityNYC. Retrieved from http://solidaritynyc.org/#/about/solidaritynyc

Tan, W. (2018). China's Approach to Reduce Poverty: Taking Targeted Measures to Lift People out of Poverty. In. Addis Ababa.

Themba, M. (2019, April 29). The Most Radical City on the Planet. Boston Review.

Umoja, A. K. (2017). “Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories”: Response to Ultra-Left Attacks on the Lumumba Administration in Jackson, Mississippi. Retrieved from https://blogbamnbyanymeansnecessary.tumblr.com/post/168082522840/tell-no-lies-claim-no-easy-victories-response

Utting, P. (2013). What Is Social and Solidarity Economy and Why Does It Matter? Retrieved from https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/beyond-the-fringe-realizing-the-potential-of-social-and-solidarity-economy/

Vicory, J. (2019, June 26). Attorney suing over Jackson water cutoffs was 'direct participant' in Siemens contract. Mississippi Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved from https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/26/water-billing-lawsuit-siemens-residents-business-lawyer-peter-teeuwissen-mayor-jackson-ms/1569708001/

Vicory, J. (2019). Jackson police officers to start wearing body cameras: What you need to know. Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved from https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/06/26/body-cameras-cams-jackson-ms-police-department-officers-city-purchases-transparency-police-brutality/1549494001/

Vicory, J. (2019, June 19). No right to cut off water: Jackson residents, business cite Siemens in suit against city. Retrieved from https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/06/19/city-of-jackson-residents-business-cite-siemens-lawsuit-against-water-cutoffs/1498714001/

Vicory, J. (2019). Video key, lawyer says: Settlement reached in JPD police brutality case. Jackson Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved from https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/06/20/jpd-brutality-case-video-settlement-reached-jackson-ms-caught-on-cellphone/1509544001/

Vicory, J. (2019, June 12). Why are local businesses in the Siemens lawsuit? One business owner fires back. Mississippi Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved from https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/06/12/jackson-sues-siemens-minority-owned-businesses-included-in-lawsuit-fire-back/1430458001/