Cooperative Journal
Hosted by Ebony Joy
Spotlighting stories of how people are collectivizing to meet their needs locally and globally beyond the extractive economic system.
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[30] Mumbet's Freedom Farm: Black/Brown Led Cooperative Farm
Cooperative Journal
04/07/22 • 81 min
Mumbet’s Freedom Farm is a Black and Brown-led cooperative farm located at the base of a mountain in Sheffield, Massachusetts. It is a community sanctuary for connection, creativity, education, and wellness. The name is in reverence to Elizabeth ‘Mumbet’ Freeman, who was an enslaved African nurse, midwife, and herbalist who sued for her freedom in Sheffield and won. The land is abundant with a flowing brook, natural spring, waterfalls, forest trails, and a diversity of natural life.
In this episode I speak with worker-owner DeeArah Wright about their journey from the city towards collective rural land stewardship. We talk about the power of the land to heal trauma associated with Black land history, barriers they experienced when trying to purchase land, how they got into a mutual benefit, non-extractive land agreement, food and land as a source of liberation, benefits and challenges of cooperative farming, establishing local relationships to build financial security and community, holding space on the land for art, education, and play, their plans to create an ecosystem of homesteads and sanctuaries cooperatively owned, managed by Black, Indigenous, and People Of Color.
Connect with Mumbet's Freedom Farm
04/07/22 • 81 min
[29] Okionu Birth Foundation: Free Postpartum Care
Cooperative Journal
03/25/22 • 61 min
Okionu Birth Foundation offers free personalized meals and group mental health support for low-income BIPOC families during the first six weeks after their baby is born. They collaborate with chefs and the Therapist of Color Collective to provide care in Colorado, Maryland, and Texas. While their free services are currently limited, they are developing an app for a nationwide support network.
In this episode I speak with founder Jacquelyn Clemmons about how they are prioritizing the mental health and overall wellbeing of BIPOC newborns and their parents. She shares their offerings for holistic and culturally relevant care, food as the foundation for wellbeing, Black maternal health disparities and how they are combating that through their partnership with Irth app (honors the voices of Black and brown woman giving them a platform to review prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric care received from doctors and hospitals), negative effects lack of care has on child development, and stay tuned until the end to go on a multisensory journey into the future of Okionu birth centers.
Okionu Birth Foundation Website
Support Okionu on Open Collective Foundation
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03/25/22 • 61 min
[28] A.I.R: Artist-Run Cooperative Gallery
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03/11/22 • 63 min
Established in 1972, A.I.R is the first artist cooperative gallery for women in the United States. They maintain an exhibition space in Brooklyn, NY and showcase the work of hundreds of women artists each year. They also offer ways for members to build a support network and engage with the community through public open calls, fellowships, workshops, lectures on feminism, and discussion groups. Their multi-media exhibitions have explored themes of identity politics, historical archives, fractals, the symbiotic relationship between our body and environment, and so much more.
In this episode I speak with member Susan Stainman about how A.I.R has cultivated a space for women artists to be fully autonomous and given a platform in a male dominated industry. We speak about the history of female oppression in the United States, the lack of representation of women in the art world, benefits of membership like retaining majority of sales and camaraderie, how artist cooperatives can shift the centralization of wealth in the art industry that’s worth more than transportation and agriculture, and more wisdom.
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03/11/22 • 63 min
[27] Manyverse: Decentralized Social Network
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02/24/22 • 52 min
Manyverse is an open-source, decentralized social network. Rather than a company controlling data and communication, the user has complete ownership and responsibility. Their goal is to make social networking independent of internet connectivity, allowing for “off the grid” communication when disconnected from the internet.
In this episode I speak with founder Andre Staltz about transforming social networks into a method of communication and community, not a business. He shares why the interweb is dying, what it means to decolonize and demonetize social networking, dissolving hierarchy in social media platforms, how they receive financial support, and a new vision for the world wide web.
Open Collective Foundation page
Learn About Local-first Software
Next Generation Internet - European Union Grant
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02/24/22 • 52 min
[26] Tariq El Nahl: Herbal Collective
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02/10/22 • 82 min
Tariq El Nahl translates from Arabic to Way of the Bees. They are an herbal collective based in Lebanon that formed after the explosion in the capital of Beirut in 2020. Lebanon has been compounded with crises in the past 50 years - from a civil war, to a financial crisis, and most recently the explosion left 300,000 people homeless and a government collapsed. When faced with trauma, broken infrastructure, and governmental systems that fail to meet our needs, how do we heal and progress? Tariq El Nahl is answering this question through fully embodying and bringing people back to their essence - Mother Earth.
In this episode, I speak with Paul Saad, one of the members of the collective.. He poetically shares how they are utilizing land–based practices for reclaiming, highlighting, and accessing ancestral knowledge including creating native botanical gardens, delivering handmade baskets filled with herbal medicine from the land, herbal medicine toolkits as well as how they are raising money to fulfill these needs, and suggestions for finding light and grounding amidst darkness.
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02/10/22 • 82 min
1 Year Anniversary: Who's Behind CJ?
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01/29/22 • 48 min
In this special 1 year anniversary episode, Cooperative Journal's host - Ebony Joy finally opens up to share their personal story.
I explain what inspired me to start this form of storytelling, why I've shifted from the language of "alternative economics", expanding into a multimedia/multi-sensory platform, and why this is an opportune times for collectivized economic solutions.
My friend/collaborator Robin also joins me in the later half of the episode to share a bit about themself. They've been central in the recent reinvisioining process and is the visual strategist/artist at Cooperative Journal Media.
Cooperative Journal Media: Media platform that the podcast is now under the umbrella of
Anticapitalism for Artists: A platform for artists interested in anti-capitalism
Creative Wildfire: Group of artists Robin and I joined to make art about "not going back to normal"
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01/29/22 • 48 min
[24] Understory: Worker-led Restaurant
Cooperative Journal
12/02/21 • 80 min
Understory is a worker-led restaurant, bar, and incubation kitchen in Oakland, CA. In collaboration with Oakland Bloom, they center immigrant, working class, and people of color chefs through pathways to worker-leadership, project support and training, and economic opportunities. It is more than just a restaurant, they offer a platter of ways to physically and socially nourish the community in a co-creative way. You can experience the roots of the workers through their rotating menu of Filipino, Moroccan, and Mexican cuisine, check out local art, attend a dance party, or support an immigrant or refugee chef at their weekly pop-up.
In this episode I speak with one of the chefs Florencio Esquivel about how Understory is shifting the narrative of who receives support and amplification in the restaurant industry. They share how the pandemic influenced the restaurant’s formation, process of assuming responsibilities and navigating decision making, impact and intention of their worker emergency fund, importance of preserving indegenous recipes, and their vision for a changed restaurant world that is horizontally structured while honoring the diversity of workers and their lineage.
Resources
Wahpepah’s Kitchen (Kickapoo Tribe Restaurant in Oakland)
12/02/21 • 80 min
[23] Play Cousins Collective: Black Family Care Network
Cooperative Journal
11/17/21 • 55 min
Play Cousins Collective is a Black centered family care network based in Louisville, Kentucky. They are building multi-generational and inter-sectional Black spaces and community resources rooted in ancestral methods of healing and resistance. Through offering programs at every stage of development, from in utero to adult they are able to foster a supported and resilient community.
In this episode I speak with executive director Kristen Williams about the significance of building a village amongst the African-American community. She shares how they started with mapping out all of the Black businesses and practitioners in their community, voids children of color experience in educational institutions and communities, tools they are utilizing to affirm Black power and beauty from a young age, decolonization of mentality and practices, the multitude of programs they offer to all ages, membership structure, how they navigate generational trauma and healing, and more!
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy
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11/17/21 • 55 min
[22] East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative: Community Owned Real Estate
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10/21/21 • 65 min
East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative is based in the East Bay of California. They facilitate BIPOC and allied communities to cooperatively organize, finance, purchase, occupy, and steward properties, taking them permanently off the market. Residents, investors, community members, and EB PREC staff then co-own and co-steward the property. It creates a shift toward community controlled assets, and empowering their communities to be ecologically, emotionally, spiritually, culturally, and economically restorative and regenerative.
In this episode, I speak with executive director Noni Session about how EB PREC is garnering support to shift real estate ownership from extractive developers into the hands of the BIPOC community in Oakland and the East Bay. She shares the difference between a permanent real estate co-op and land trust, ancestral remembrance of cooperative ownership, how they got the first group of people to invest, their governance structure and multi-stakeholder model, prioritizing inclusivity and accessibility to individual investors, transparency of investment risks and how they mitigate it, and their exciting new venture - a historic Black arts svenue they’ve acquired for Black artists and small businesses at 50% of market rate.
Document detailing their direct public offering: https://ebprec.org/offering
Esthers Orbit Room - mixed-use Black cultural venue: https://ebprec.org/esthers
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperatives
10/21/21 • 65 min
[31] Post Growth Institute: Offers & Needs Market
Cooperative Journal
04/21/22 • 55 min
Post Growth Institute experiments with tangible practices, tools, and spaces to create a regenerative, full-circle economy beyond capitalism. Through their research, structure, and offerings they embody the ‘Post-growth’ worldview, which sees society operating better without the demand of constant economic growth. It resists an economy that is predicated on growth and depends on the over extraction of finite natural resources and human labor...instead we can create systems that put people and the planet over profit.
I speak with Director of Education Crystal Arnold about mutual aid through the Offers and Needs Market, a space for community members to exchange their passions, knowledge, skills, resources, opportunities, and needs. She shares practices and ideology we need to evolve into a post-growth society, sliding scale vs. open ended pricing, dissolving class differences in the Offers and Needs Market, advice for being in reciprocity daily, the importance of facilitation skills to create spaces of belonging, asset based mapping as a tool for community resilience, and more!
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04/21/22 • 55 min
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How many episodes does Cooperative Journal have?
Cooperative Journal currently has 35 episodes available.
What topics does Cooperative Journal cover?
The podcast is about Design, Podcasts, Social Sciences, Science and Arts.
What is the most popular episode on Cooperative Journal?
The episode title '[30] Mumbet's Freedom Farm: Black/Brown Led Cooperative Farm' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Cooperative Journal?
The average episode length on Cooperative Journal is 64 minutes.
How often are episodes of Cooperative Journal released?
Episodes of Cooperative Journal are typically released every 13 days, 22 hours.
When was the first episode of Cooperative Journal?
The first episode of Cooperative Journal was released on Jan 29, 2021.
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