#CooperativeEconomics

[befiy]

“Let the candles of Kwanzaa light the past, the present and the future ahead.” #kwanzaa #umoja #unity #kujichagulia #selfdetermination #ujima #collectivework #Ujamaa #cooperativeeconomics #nia #purpose #kuumba #creativity #imani #faith Stay connected. 👍Download our app TODAY! https://4181901.igen.app/ 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 #healthcoach #befiy #nerdoutwell #wellnessblogger #wellness #followus #goodvibes #schedule #WellBeing #style #class #appointment #Sessions https://www.instagram.com/p/CmpepI0SYdL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ericcanada]

❤️🖤💚 #HappyKwanzaa #DayFour #Ujamaa #CooperativeEconomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CmwQ0N1AAqZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ankh4life18]

We gon be in da house tonight. #ankh4life #axalaserworx #bigsexyart #kwanzaa #shrineoftheblackmadonna #shrinecenterhouston #kujichagulia #cooperativeeconomics #weallwegot #supportblackbusiness https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmrs-YTOl1k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[heterowomanist]

Habari Gani? Ujamaa!

#Ujamaa

#CooperativeEconomics

#Kwanzaa

[natureofumi]

Ujamaa is a Swahili word meaning "brotherhood, sisterhood, or cooperative economics". . . . . #ujamaa #kawanzaa #swahili #cooperativeeconomics #sisterhood #brotherhood #azizbeayhealthandbeauty #natureofumi

Ujamaa is a Swahili word meaning "brotherhood, sisterhood, or cooperative economics". . . . . #ujamaa #kawanzaa #swahili #cooperativeeconomics #sisterhood #brotherhood #azizbeayhealthandbeauty #natureofumi

[poetiiicnjustus]

Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966 after having been created by professor of Africana studies, activist, and author Maulana Karenga to help give identity, purpose, and direction to African Americans. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa (between December 26 and January 1) correspond to the Nguzo Saba (the Seven Principles): Umoja - Unity - To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. Kujichagulia - Self-Determination - To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves. Ujima - Collective Work and Responsibility - To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together. Ujamaa - Cooperative economics - To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. Nia - Purpose - To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Kuumba - Creativity - To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. Imani - Faith - To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. #HappyKwanzaa #Kwanzaa #Umoja #unity #kujichagulia #selfdetermination #ujima #collectiveworkandresponsibility #ujamaa #cooperativeeconomics #nia #purpose #kuumba #creativity #imani #faith #happyholidays #DCAboveall #staywhole #justice #poeticjustice #healing #poetsofig https://www.instagram.com/p/CX94Im8LZuJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[growsinspirals]

excited to be connecting with @vorspiel.berlin / transmediale & @ctmfestival representing @resonate_coop , the world’s first co-operative music streaming service, in a session tomorrow called "Thrive, not Survive - From Individualism to Cooperatism" discussing creating a paradigm shift within the music industry by restructuring working models of labels and collectives. should be a really lively discussion.. def try to make time to tap in if you can! 1st 📸 "Thrive, not Survive - From Individualism to Cooperatism" session graphic 2nd 📸 pic of me squinting in the photo b/c the sun ☀️💗🤷🏽‍♂️ link in bio == via @fieldconspiracy // Music streaming, distribution, publishing and production does not have to be at a detriment to creators and communities. Collective envisioning and action have the potential to create a paradigm shift within the music industry, so let's take matters in our own hands. Join us in for an interactive afternoon of discussion with @catalyst_music_berlin @resonate_coop; @brndnkng @kult_epigenetic; and @careofeditions as part of @vorspiel.berlin 2022. We will be discovering alternative business models for music industry that serve the interest of creative communities. This is a FREE event! RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/603574717377569 Join us here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BnMPeEB_wM www.resonate.is www.fieldconspiracy.com www.catalyst-berlin.com/stories/ctm-vorspiel-2022 #musician #musicproducer #musicproduction #recordlabel #streaming #musicindustry #cooperative #cooperativeeconomics #cooperation #musicpublishing #alternative #artist #community #communityfirst https://www.instagram.com/p/CZSLvgclDb2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fugandhi]

Kwanzaa: The More We Know

This an excellent video which briefly goes over why Kwanzaa exists, how it was started, and some of the key & fundamental principles of celebrating the holiday. Absolutely essential viewing for a better understanding of the holidays we have in America.

Wishing everyone who celebrates a very Happy Kwanzaa in 2020! May each home be blessed with Good Health, Good Happiness, & Good Fortune (and Good Food).😇

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[infinitenature]

Habari Gani?!? Ujamaa! The fourth principle of Kwanzaa is Ujamaa which means Cooperative Economics. The focus is sharing of wealth and work which starts with the family. Ujamaa is about sharing social wealth from amongst those who created it however it should not impose unequal, exploitative or oppressive relations on others. It is important to note that especially when you look at the nature that America was created on. Us focusing on cooperative economics does not mean we are exploiting or oppressing others. This principle is human centered above anything else. Self-reliance is also key. This is how we build, strengthen, and control the economics in our own community. Ujamaa also reminds us to be service to others, especially those who are in need. How do you practice Ujamaa? Are you conscious of how to spend your money within the community? Are you practicing economic self-reliance? How are you of service to others within the community? Some questions that I am pondering on today. Happy Kwanzaa! #kwanzaa #kwanzaa2020 #ujamaa #cooperativeeconomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CJY0uj8JsgN/?igshid=1ckca3zu905i

[yagodesign]

Mini Cooper R56 #yaged Owner: @lukaz_jcw Wrapped by: @mattwerk_fahrzeugfolierung Design: @yagodesign_eu #cooperyoung #cooperthepooper #coopers #minilove #minif56 #minilovers #bmw #f56 #love #minicooper #miniuk #jcw #r56 #cooperstown #carporn #cooperativeeconomics #bmwmini #minicoopers #minilife #johncooperworks #photography #bettycooper #carsofinstagram #coopercobra #cooperjcw (w: Berlin – the place to be) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMfBqktHzYE/?igshid=8lpe1qp5hv7t

[theplantbasedintrovert]

Day 4 UJAMAA: To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together #goodmorning #habarigani #day4 #ujamaa #kwanzaa #cooperativeeconomics #thevegswitchup #theplantbasedintrovert https://www.instagram.com/p/CJYeMyMlh41/?igshid=krwkzehnaxaf

[the38thchamber]

Day 4: Ujamaa- Cooperative economics. To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

❤️🖤💚#𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕❤️🖤💚

[black-agrarian]

‘Freedom Farmers’ Tells the History of Black Farmers Uniting Against Racism

In her new book, Monica M. White details the cooperative practices of Black farmers in the Deep South and Detroit who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement.

“ Freedom Farmers tells the story of how Black farmers in the Deep South and Detroit—independent farmers who owned their property, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and urban gardeners alike—banded together to counter white racism, fight economic deprivation in an age of increasing mechanization and commercial agriculture, and articulate a different vision of the future.

Many of these groups were founded in remote places that were hotbeds for grassroots labor agitation. Take Mississippi’s North Bolivar County Farm Collective (NBCFC). It was formed in 1965 when a group of Black farmers, many of whom were tractor drivers on a white-owned plantation, turned off their engines to demand a better hourly wage. After they were fired and evicted from their homes, they built a temporary tent settlement, Strike City, close to the plantation.

Two years later, the NBCFC was up and running, with its members loaning land, tools, and divvying up the resources and work. The collective fed farmers and their families, provided children with clothing so they could attend school, and launched conversations about the need to disrupt the entire food system—from decisions about what to plant to how to keep the power to process food out of factories.

Freedom Farmers is not your conventional Civil Rights narrative, couched in terms of campaigns for voting rights, school desegregation, and lunch counter seats, though there are familiar historical figures: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Fannie Lou Hamer, whose Freedom Farm Cooperative gave the book its title. It’s a timely, connective, and expansive book; one that reframes the whiteness of agricultural history and calls us to remember the fact that the Black freedom struggle is an ongoing labor movement in places far and wide.

It also locates Black farmers in a Civil Rights narrative that goes beyond their historic and continuing legal struggles against USDA discrimination. Freedom Farmers moves beyond stories of subsistence and survival; it centers Black farmers as unsung food justice advocates and organic intellectuals who imagined better communities, food systems, and politics. And then, depending on one another, they started building.” - Read more from the article

[elywananda]

Quick reflection on #BlackPoundDay. These types of #BuyBlack Campaigns keep popping up in part because they are relatively easy. Easy in the sense that you don't need to build relationships with people in order to buy from them, though a relationship can be a welcome by-product. You don't build community through a series of transactions between people - even if you're all of the same ethnic group. ✊🏿 The main problem with things like Black Pound Day is that they pose absolutely no threat to the dominant Capitalist system. Consumption is an intrinsic part of the Capitalist system. We are programmed to be consumers - from cradle to grave. Buying Black is still consuming. It fits nicely within the system and in fact helps strengthen it by giving the appearance that we Africans can thrive within it. "See, look at all these black businesses, what is this White Supremacy you speak of?" It was for this very reason that the concept of Black Buying Power was created in the first place. As Dr Jared Ball breaks down so frequently and eloquently, the concept of #BlackBuyingPower was popularised by White Corporate think tanks as a way persuading Black Americans that they could indeed succeed within the system and to discourage them from bothering with confronting the system. In this sense, these Buy Black campaigns are waving the white flag of surrender (pun intended). ✊🏿 I believe that we need to engage in genuine cooperative economics. This must be grounded in relationship with one another. For example, we need to create cooperatives owned by the members/workers, in which decisions are made democratically, whose surpluses are distributed among the members and which are focused on directly benefiting our communities. We need to rediscover our rich history of mutual aid, whereby we pool our resources to help one another in time of need. Relationship not retail. Cooperation not competition. #cooperativeeconomics #groupeconomics #solidarityeconomy #mutualaid #blackouttuesday #blackliberation #panafricanism https://www.instagram.com/p/CCErn1og9JO/?igshid=mn8hlhkziyyi

[kimilat]

Reposted from @kwanzaacrawl - Not only are these Black businesses patronized and supported on the day of Kwanzaa Crawl, they also get repeat business once affiliated with the event. It’s a great example of Ujamaa, as well as today’s Kwanzaa principle Nia, which celebrates purpose. ⁣⁣✨✊🏾✨✊🏾✨✊🏾 ⁣⁣ ⁣Shout out to @the.root for featuring us! ⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁠⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁠⁣⁣ #harlem #kwanzaacrawl #holidayseason #barcrawl #shopblack #shopblackowned #supportblackbusinesses #kwanzaacrawl2019 #cooperativeeconomics #nia - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B6uP9fRA2M3/?igshid=1piechbfdwgnk