Internet friends from Twitter (before it was X), Nicholas Richard-Thompason and I meet quarterly to discuss solidarity economics, liberation, relationships, poetry, music, and anywhere else our theory meets praxis. I appreciate the container of accountability. Nick and I are committed to Pan-African principles and studying historic revolutionary movements to inform our living today.

Pan-Africanism is not just a movement for Black people world-wide. It’s a call for the “total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism,” which ultimately seeks to bring an end to colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism globally. As people living under these systems, how might we resist and build during a time of extreme inflation and economic precariousness for the working class?

On May 25th, we celebrate Africa Day which remembers the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Africa Day is an important marker in Pan-African history. This commemoration is an opportunity for political education and deeper inquiry into how we can honor the struggles that came before ours and advance the potential of reshaping world power within our individual and collective spheres of influence.

This episode focuses on Africa Day and the OAU in it’s inception. We explore how the organization, which is now the African Union, has changed since 1963 and how cultural workers and organizers can participate in advancing Pan-Africanism. Expect additional segments of our conversation to appear in future episodes of Good Morning World-Builders.

Thank you for listening! You can watch a visual accompaniment on Substack by clicking the link below. Please share this episode and spread the word about Africa Day.

Resource Links:

https://blackallianceforpeace.com/

https://aaprp-intl.org/

https://hoodcommunist.org/2019/11/21/clearly-defining-pan-africanism/

https://au.int/en/overview

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I’d like to explore what the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model looks like when applied to group travel. In a CSA, a community pays up front for a share of a local farmer’s harvest that is distributed to them over the course of a season. Community support of the farm helps manage the variables and share the risks of farming so the farmer doesn’t bear it all.

The cost of producing group trips is high and that leads to high prices for travelers. The risks associated with curating and hosting group trips include the 10-50% deposit I put down to secure vendors and suppliers for the dates of a trip much farther in advance than my ideal travelers are usually ready to book. International transactions often incur fees and suppliers steal. It takes many months to coordinate logistics and operations of the trip on the ground is 16+ hour days for 7-10 days straight.

I’m clear I’d like to spend my days researching, curating group trips, and storytelling. The purpose remains cultivating an international network of cultural workers in reciprocal relationship with one another. From cultural workers meeting and committing to the embodied practice of cooperative futures, I trust only greatness can follow.

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Good Morning World-Builders! This is a new column-podcast thing I’m exploring. Join me as I travel internationally and through time on a mission to find my world-building kin. Thanks for being here <3

Embodied World-Building is the grounding methodology at Common Healing. The intention behind our group trips isn’t to simply travel for leisure. Our travel is for the cultivation of an interconnected web of cultural works who desire aligned kinfolk to raise the future with. These trips allow us to practice intentional living — before we get the land and start the cooperative town together :P

Today’s episode, goes back to the 90s to revisit my original world-building tendencies.

You can read more about the Common Healing Origin Story here.

Good Morning World-Builders! This is a new column I’m exploring. I don’t know what shape it will take but I want to share conversations with the people I meet on this future making path as the Founder/ Operator of Common Healing. Right now it seems like an inquisitive audio-visual-written experience that feels like the possibility of dawn and the comfort of a morning ritual. That may change. I may send this out in the morning or I may not. What is time anyway? Morning for you is evening for some. Thank you for being here <3

Two of my nails are broken. My hair is undone. The audio on my side of this recording is too low but it’s Larry who is bringing the energy so no stress. You’ll even get graced by a bit of Naya Samuels’ radiance <3 And with that, we’re here!

Please enjoy this conversation between myself and Larry Jamel, an Emmy-award nominated host and digital influencer for a generation of sports fans. We’re heading to Rwanda for the Basketball Africa League Finals in a month and Larry is hosting the group trip. In this chat, we chop it up about going global and giving your all to where you are now.

You can read, watch and/or listen.

Have a blessed one.