“Some of the most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time. And I think that’s where we are.”
— The Honorable Chokwe Lumumba, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, speaking with Laura Flanders of GritTV, two weeks before his passing.
Rise in Power! Free the People, Free the Land!
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance sends our deep love and condolences to the family and community of The Honorable Chokwe Lumumba, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, whose sudden and tragic passing at the young age of 66 on February 25, 2014, has left many of us shocked and devastated at the loss of this historic leader.
Compañero Chokwe Lumumba was elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi in June 2013 after a vibrant campaign rooted in The Jackson Plan laid out by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Jackson People’s Assembly.
We pledge to keep alive the hopes and dreams that Compañero Chokwe Lumumba inspired in so many movement leaders, organizers, freedom fighters.
Compañero Chokwe Lumumba was one of the founders of Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM). Join us in sending solidarity to our compañer@s, fellow GGJ members MXGM, and his family and community in Jackson. We offer this page as a place where GGJ members and allies can share with MXGM the hopes and dreams that Compañero Chokwe Lumumba inspired in you. Please post a comment on this page with your solidarity messages and thoughts, visions and hopes that Compañero Chokwe Lumumba has inspired in you, and what you pledge to do in his memory. In two weeks on March 13 we will compile and send the comments to his family and MXGM.
Learn more about Chokwe Lumumba:
Support Lumumba’s legacy in Jackson, Mississippi:
Jackson Rising New Economies Conference: Keep the legacy of Compañero Chokwe Lumumba alive by supporting the New Economies Conference in Jackson, MS on May 2-4, 2014. “The primary objective of the Jackson Rising: New Economies Conference is to educate and mobilize the people of Jackson to build cooperatives and worker owned enterprises to meet the economic and sustainability needs of the community. In the process, we aim to expand the discussion about alternative economic models and systems and to confront the harsh economic realities confronting low-income and impoverished communities.”
Support the Jackson Rising New Economies Conference and the Grassroots Economic Series with a donation. Help make Jackson, Mississippi a center of economic democracy where jobs have dignity, stability, living wages, and quality benefits. Click here to help Jackson Rise or mail your financial contribution payable to Community Aid and Development Inc. Please specify “Jackson Rising” in the notes section of your check and mail donations to Community and Development, Incorporated P.O. Box 361270, Decatur, GA 30036-1270.
The Lumumba family is requesting financial assistance for the Celebration of Life fund. This fund will cover family fees related to the home going services for Mayor Chokwe Lumumba. Donations can be made on line at www.cadnational.org Just look for the link on the page for donation to the services. Donations by mail can be made payable to Community Aid and Development and mailed to the address on the website.
NCBL (National Conference of Black Lawyers) has made a separate request, also on behalf of the Lumumba family, to cover the cost of an independent autopsy. Donations can be made to that effort via Paypal by going to paypal.com sending your donation to the email addressncbl1968@gmail.com.
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance 
From thousands of miles away in Springfield, Mass, Brother Chokwe Lumumba, the revolutionaries in Jackson, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Jackson’s People’s Assembly have inspired and reminded us organizing on the ground that their is eternal hope for revolutionary change led by and for the people. That black and brown people’s can lead to effort for building a new economy grounded in principles of equality, solidarity, cooperation, love, unity and revolution. Brother Lumumba will be missed, but never forgotten. Here at Springfield No One Leaves/Nadie Se Mude, I pledge to work to continue across the country to stand in solidarity with all those moving forward the revolutionary vision that guided Chokwe Lumumba long history of struggle and recent mayorship of Jackson.
much love and respect
Malcolm, Springfield, Massachusetts
I am honored to even be able to express my sadness for Jackson, and for the world. But I am also inspired and motivated to carry on, toward a transformed America and beyond.