TESA Collective explained

TESA Collective

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 fromĀ  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]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Tierney. Brennan. Shear. Boone. October 3, 2017. Transforming economies to sustainability, solidarity. Daily Hampshire Gazette.
  2. Web site: A People's History of Board Games. January 24, 2022. YES! Magazine. en-US.
  3. News: Kruse. Nyssa. June 21, 2017. Playing your way to power. Daily Hampshire Gazette.
  4. News: Lefton. Jacob. February 12, 2015. Art is slippery: 6 ways you can use it to build peace. Devex.
  5. Web site: Kronstein. Alex. January 22, 2018. Review: Two board games Father Moses Coady would like (and John Risley would hate). January 24, 2022. Nova Scotia Advocate. en-CA.
  6. Web site: May 10, 2018. Help space cats fight galactic fascism in a new game from TESA Collective. January 24, 2022. Co-operative News. en-GB.
  7. Web site: This Board Game About Labor Revolts Is Protesting Kickstarter on Kickstarter. January 24, 2022. www.vice.com. October 22, 2019 . en.