Cooperation Hull & the New Culture of Self-Organising with Gully Bujak

Thursday June 5th
Doors & drinks 6.30pm; Talk starts 7pm

For the past two years, Cooperation Hull has been taking inspiration from democratic and economic experiments around the world like Cooperation Jackson, Mondragon, the Zapatistas and Rojava, and applying them here at home. Their model brings these learnings together with their own experiences of civil disobedience to plot a course towards real system change, founded on a new culture of self-organising.

Gully Bujak was arrested ten times with Extinction Rebellion, coordinated the shut down of Murdoch's printworks in 2020 and was acquitted by a jury for criminal damage before co-founding Cooperation Hull. She will present Cooperation Hull's work so far, which includes holding over a dozen people's assemblies in the city with the lowest voter turnout in the country, starting radical 'solidarity economy' projects in deprived neighbourhoods, confronting Reform and supporting other northern initiatives like Cooperation Sheffield to get off the ground.

Fresh from attending the historic People's Platform in Vienna as a Cooperation Hull delegate - a gathering of 800 revolutionaries from around Europe - Gully will give a frank analysis of what has and hasn't been working in Hull and discuss what it means to translate international examples to an English context.

Her talk will be followed by a break for a one-pot vegan supper and discussion.

Kairos, 84 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4TG

Doors open at 6.30pm for drinks. Talk and discussion starts at 7pm.

£8 Kairos Club Member, £15 Non-member, £10 Struggling financially, £20 Supporter, £8 Under 25s. Food complimentary.

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