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.{{Cite news|last1=Tierney|first1=Brennan|last2=Shear|first2=Boone|date=October 3, 2017|title=Transforming economies to sustainability, solidarity|work=Daily Hampshire Gazette|url=https://www.gazettenet.com/Columnists-Brennan-Tierney-and-Boone-Shear-describe-how-cooperatives-and-solidarity-economies-can-help-us-learn-to-live-together-in-new-ways-12841750}}
Social change games
Creating and publishing games that address issues of social and economic change is a growing trend.{{Cite web|title=A People's History of Board Games|url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2019/08/23/history-board-games-social-change|access-date=January 24, 2022|website=YES! Magazine|language=en-US}} TESA develops projects ranging from board games, to documentaries, to interactive webinars.{{Cite news|last=Kruse|first=Nyssa|date=June 21, 2017|title=Playing your way to power|work=Daily Hampshire Gazette|url=https://www.gazettenet.com/Movements-inspire-Rise-Up-board-game-10663460}} 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.{{Cite news|last=Lefton|first=Jacob|date=February 12, 2015|title=Art is slippery: 6 ways you can use it to build peace|work=Devex|url=https://www.devex.com/news/art-is-slippery-6-ways-you-can-use-it-to-build-peace-85398}}
In Rise Up: The Game of People and Power, players build a social movement and take on an oppressive system.{{Cite web|last=Kronstein|first=Alex|date=January 22, 2018|title=Review: Two board games Father Moses Coady would like (and John Risley would hate)|url=https://nsadvocate.org/2018/01/22/review-two-new-board-games-father-moses-coady-would-like-and-john-risley-would-hate/|access-date=January 24, 2022|website=Nova Scotia Advocate|language=en-CA}}
Space Cats Fight Fascism is the fourth in a series of social justice games from the TESA Collective.{{Cite web|date=May 10, 2018|title=Help space cats fight galactic fascism in a new game from TESA Collective|url=https://www.thenews.coop/128430/sector/worker-coops/help-space-cats-fight-galactic-fascism-new-game-tesa-collective/|access-date=January 24, 2022|website=Co-operative News|language=en-GB}}
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.{{Cite web|title=This Board Game About Labor Revolts Is Protesting Kickstarter on Kickstarter|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/this-board-game-about-labor-revolts-is-protesting-kickstarter-on-kickstarter/|access-date=January 24, 2022|website=Vice.com|date=October 22, 2019 |language=en}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.tesacollective.com/ Official website]
Category:Worker cooperatives of the United States
Category:Card game publishing companies
Category:Board game publishing companies
Category:Social justice board games
Category:Cooperatives based in Massachusetts