TESA Collective
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TESA Collective (Toolbox for Education and Social Action) is a worker-owned co-op that designs games and tools for social justice organizations. TESA consciously engages in ethical, social change practices that intend to create healthier communities.[1]
Social change games
Creating and publishing games that address issues of social and economic change is a growing trend.[2] TESA develops projects ranging from board games, to documentaries, to interactive webinars.[3] In cooperative games, everyone wins or everyone loses.
Games
Co-opoly is a board game that teaches players the ins and outs of negotiating a Cooperative business.[4]
In Rise Up: The Game of People and Power, players build a social movement and take on an oppressive system.[5]
Space Cats Fight Fascism is the fourth in a series of social justice games from the TESA Collective.[6]
TESA Collective and Jobs with Justice funded a labor organizing game on Kickstarter. In STRIKE!: The Game of Worker Rebellion, players grow their ranks, mobilize workers, and organize strikes around their city. The campaign for the game ran during a union drive at Kickstarter.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Tierney, Brennan; Shear, Boone (October 3, 2017). "Transforming economies to sustainability, solidarity". Daily Hampshire Gazette.
- ^ "A People's History of Board Games". YES! Magazine. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
- ^ Kruse, Nyssa (June 21, 2017). "Playing your way to power". Daily Hampshire Gazette.
- ^ Lefton, Jacob (February 12, 2015). "Art is slippery: 6 ways you can use it to build peace". Devex.
- ^ Kronstein, Alex (January 22, 2018). "Review: Two board games Father Moses Coady would like (and John Risley would hate)". Nova Scotia Advocate. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
- ^ "Help space cats fight galactic fascism in a new game from TESA Collective". Co-operative News. May 10, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
- ^ "This Board Game About Labor Revolts Is Protesting Kickstarter on Kickstarter". www.vice.com. Retrieved January 24, 2022.