Collective Work and Responsibility (Ujima)
To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems and to solve them together. In one sense, the collective pain of Brown’s death and angry response in the aftermath has been a shared disappointment. And the healing has to be in how Blacks come together and uplift each other and rebuild the Ferguson community.
Cooperative Work and Economics (Ujamaa)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together. Some of the Ferguson business community endured significant damage, certainly impacting the economics in the town. The citizens have to come together to rebuild — because the community thrives when it spends money in the community.
