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Cobb, David

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Panel 9.10. Liberated Zones: Creating and Defending Self-Governing Communities in the US
Chair: David Cobb

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Session 9. 10. B.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM South College SCOW245
Liberated Zones: Creating and Defending Self-Governing Communities in the US
in-person
David Cobb1,Michelle Eddleman McCormick1,Leon Edmonds1Emily Kawano
People's Network for Land & Liberation, United States

The People’s Network for Land & Liberation (PNLL) is a Minimal Viable Consortium consisting of 6 Community-Based Organizations across the US that share a common program to shift from power-over, extractive and unsustainable socio-political systems to cooperative, regenerative, and balanced systems.

Community Movement Builders (Atlanta, GA), Cooperation Jackson (Jackson, MS). Cooperation Vermont (Marshfield, VT), Incite Focus (Idlewild, MI), Native Roots Network (Redding, CA), Wellspring Cooperative (Springfield, MA)

Our Program

We are (6) Community Based Organizations strategically located across the United States. Each of us makes adaptations to fit the unique needs of our local circumstances, but we all implement the following Dual Power program:

1) Decommodify land for community owned and affordable housing, food production using a food sovereignty framework, and the practice of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to restore the reciprocal balance that existed bfore the enclosure of The Commons.

2) Community production employing digital fabrication technologies for decentralized manufacturing to empower local communities to create goods collaboratively and sustainably.

3) Incubating an ecosystem of worker-owned cooperatives that go beyond “coops for the sake of coops” to create profitable and vibrant local supply and value chains.

4) An internal self-education program that engages folks to foster critical thinking, dialogue, and empowerment to learn and implement our transformational and liberatory program.

5) Art and Culture is infused in everything we do. This includes making things beautiful, but goes deeper. We organize according to the adage “If it isn’t soulful, it isn’t strategic.”

We propose doing two workshops on June 18, Each workshop would be a "deep dive" of three of our "nodes" and what our program means in very concrete ways.

Session 9. 10. A.
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM South College SCOW245
Liberated Zones: Creating and Defending Self-Governing Communities in the US
in-person
David Cobb1,Kali Akuno1,Blair Evans
People's Network for Land & Liberation, United States

The People’s Network for Land & Liberation (PNLL) is a Minimal Viable Consortium consisting of 6 Community-Based Organizations across the US that share a common program to shift from power-over, extractive and unsustainable socio-political systems to cooperative, regenerative, and balanced systems.

In this session, the following local cases in the network will be discussed: Community Movement Builders (Atlanta, GA), Cooperation Jackson (Jackson, MS) and Incite Focus (Idlewild, MI).

Our Program

We are (6) Community Based Organizations strategically located across the United States. Each of us makes adaptations to fit the unique needs of our local circumstances, but we all implement the following Dual Power program:

1) Decommodify land for community owned and affordable housing, food production using a food sovereignty framework, and the practice of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to restore the reciprocal balance that existed bfore the enclosure of The Commons.

2) Community production employing digital fabrication technologies for decentralized manufacturing to empower local communities to create goods collaboratively and sustainably.

3) Incubating an ecosystem of worker-owned cooperatives that go beyond “coops for the sake of coops” to create profitable and vibrant local supply and value chains.

4) An internal self-education program that engages folks to foster critical thinking, dialogue, and empowerment to learn and implement our transformational and liberatory program.

5) Art and Culture is infused in everything we do. This includes making things beautiful, but goes deeper. We organize according to the adage “If it isn’t soulful, it isn’t strategic.”

We propose doing two workshops on June 18, Each workshop would be a "deep dive" of three of our "nodes" and what our program means in very concrete ways.

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