The Ujamaa Hour S3E13 (Sowing The Seed Of Intentional Community) w/Aleta Touré
Channel: Mike Tekh Strode
Date: 2021-05-12

MOVEMENT MONDAY: Tune in on Monday (12/14) at 7:30 pm CST as we interview Aleta Touré of Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative. Aleta is a queer homeschooling mother, liberation strategist, and documentarian of Black liberation movements and cooperative history. Her social change toolkit includes community organizing, political education, and liberatory arts which have activated movement building in such spaces as the Free Marisa Now campaign and the New Jim Crow Movement. 

Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative is a worker-owner cooperative which sells community organizing products and services in order to sustain a housing program and complete their documentary film work the Black cooperative movement.

On this episode, we explore what activated Aleta’s work to align community organizing with cooperative development; examine the importance of the assembly and facilitation models in building an intentional community; inquire into what political education we might be pursuing in this present moment to build stronger cooperative movements; and check in how 2020 has altered the course of her organizing across movement spaces.

On the recap, we pull some gems from the digital collage for “Freedom Farmers” developing within Coop 4 Lib; catch up on what Coop 4 Lib has been reading prior to our December break; revisit a conversation hosted by Grassroots Economic Organizing on BIPOC led intentional communities; and invite our viewers to help us plan for the next twelve months of conversation. Tune in.

*Initially broadcast December 14, 2020 via Facebook Live to Kola Nut Collaborative at 7:30 pm