Bethel S. Moges

This project spends one year of participatory action research with Cooperation Jackson (CJ) in Mississippi and Vermont. CJ is a Black-led eco-socialist collective. They have amassed over 30 plots of land in Mississippi, on which they have created worker-owned co-ops and affordable housing, and 175 acres in Vermont, on which they plan to establish land stewardship agreements with local Abenaki tribes. CJ’s activism is on the cutting edge of decolonial social movement labor and the research, designed in partnership with CJ, interrogates what new forms of community and governance they are able to build, how they engage traditional knowledge to design pioneering methods and how/if they employ Black feminist care-based models of transformation to center women, queer and disabled-identifying folks.