Healthcare Reparations Cooperative

The Work

The Healthcare Reparations Cooperative works to collectively transform the landscape of health and healing in Minnesota by dismantling oppressive healthcare structures while expanding the liberatory possibilities for what health, healing, medicine, and public health can be. We rely on three primary strategies: healthcare abolition, resource redistribution, including healthcare reparations, and cooperatively owned community-driven research.

The Dream

We dream of a future where health and healing are systematically equitable and accessible to all.

The Strategies
We rely on three primary strategies: healthcare abolition, resource redistribution, including healthcare reparations, and cooperatively owned community-driven research.

Healthcare Abolition is a strategy working to establish an independent system for health and healing uncoupled from racial capitalism. 

Resource Redistribution is a strategy working to address the fundamental causes of health inequities and acts as a bridge between the present systems of healthcare and the future health and healing landscape we are collectively building. 

Community Meaning-Making is a strategy working to catalyze authentic and cooperatively owned community-driven research to recenter health and healing narratives and solutions. 

The Cooperative

We are a growing multisakeholder cooperative, lovingly known as a solidarity cooperative, with six member classes.

Workers, Learners, Resourcing,  Healer, Meaning-Making, and Solidarity. 

We look forward to collectively learning, dreaming, creating, and building for the time when this project is no longer needed.