Black Liberation Co-op Academy

BLCA is our program for New Orleans’ Black workers, organizers, community leaders, entrepreneurs and families to explore cooperative economics as a path toward black liberation in New Orleans and beyond.

Applications will reopen in 2024

How can we as Black people create our own economic systems to meet the needs of our families and communities?

What can we learn from our ancestors about creating a sustainable livelihood outside of a capitalist economic system that was never designed for Black people to survive let alone thrive?

program details

During the Black Liberation Co-op Academy, we will:

~Learn cooperative business development and business management skills~

~Connect with our cultural histories of cooperative economics and its connection to Black liberation~

~Understand and share our needs with one another~

~Share knowledge of tools for trade and alternative economies such as cooperativism, mutual aid, social aid and pleasure clubs, susus and bartering~

~Build a shared analysis of the capitalist system and local economic and political system, visioning what is needed to transform the post-Katrina New Orleans economy~

Questions? Email BLCA@coopnola.org

The Facilitation Team

facilitators

Juicebox Burton

Rachel Simone

Jasmine Doughty

Tamah Yisrael

Toya Lewis

Meet Our Graduates

graduates

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