Creativity: To always do as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our communities more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.
Click this link for one of the most creative joints i done seen all year: Straight Kuumba!
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Purpose: To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our communities in in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
In the name of community, i got this idea from my man Blacktivegan:
(oh, and ya’ll should hear me hit this high note at the end. i’m nice with it, sun!)
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Co-operative Economics: To come together to build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses that benefit all of us.
A good, brief article by Dr. Jessica Gordon-Nembhard:
Of Caulkers and Quilt-Makers: Jessica Gordon-Nembhard Tells the Little Known Story of the Part Played by Co-ops in Forwarding the Rights of African-Americans
THROUGHOUT his life, African American scholar WEB Du Bois proposed that African Americans should use ‘intelligent co-operation’ for ‘the common good’ and advocated for a Black co-operative ‘group economy’. Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association at the turn of the 20th century espoused co-operative ideals for their businesses and supported a Pan-African co-operative trading network. The Young Negroes’ Co-operative League in the 1930s, and the Federation of Southern Co-operatives since 1967, have brought African Americans together to support co-operative economic development.
African Americans, other people of colour and low-income people have seen many gains from co-operatives in the US:
* The Chesapeake Marine Railway and Dry Dock Company in Baltimore allowed African American caulkers and stevedores to protect their jobs, own their own company and escape discrimination from 1865 to 1883. They paid off their mortgage in five years and started to receive a stock dividend by the sixth year.
* The Consumers’ Co-operative Trading Company in Gary operated in the 1930s. It began as a food-buying club in response to the lack of quality, affordable food during the Depression. The club became a main grocery store. Later the co-op added a branch store, a filling station and a credit union. It paid dividends and offered co-op education. (more…)
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Collective Work and Responsibility: to come together to build and maintain our communities. To carry our brothers’ & sisters’ problems and together, solve them.
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My personal favorite principle.
Self-determination: to define and name ourselves. To create and speak for ourselves, instead of having others defining, or determining our paths or SELVES.
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