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Derek Caelin

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Worker Cooperatives in America (Hardcover, 1984, University of California Press) No rating

But worker cooperatives, no matter how successful they might be, cannot be seen as an end in themselves when they are located with a capitalist economy. In the best circumstances, the forestry worker cooperatives of the Northwest may provide examples of something more vital -- of how people who organize in cooperative and egalitarian ways can reach out to more oppressed and exploited people around then and demonstrate a viable alternative to traditional work organizations.

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Healing Grounds (Hardcover, Island Press) 5 stars

A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight …

Hope in Soil

5 stars

This book gave me hope. The path towards regenerative agriculture is not hidden from us, it's just not broadly known how various communities (Black, indigenous, latin) are practicing them every day. The knowledge we need is held by these people. To appropriate Gibson's message, "the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."

Yet.

There's also plenty to learn, and unlearn, about the history of the U.S. treatment of nonwhite people who worked the soil.

Multispecies Cities (Paperback, 2021, World Weaver Press) 3 stars

Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What …

Healing Grounds (Hardcover, Island Press) 5 stars

A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight …

In the dominant US context, making a home typically means eradicating other species. This is why conservation groups are so concerned about development. More houses mean less wildlife. And yet this isn't a necessary correlation. The tropical forest of the Maya lowlands is a richly biodiverse ecosystem, teeming with rare and endemic species. But it's also very much a human creation-managed for generations with fire and other tools to create an ecosystem in which more than 95 percent of the dominant tree species have utility for humans. For Mayan people, making a home for themselves has also meant making a home for their fellow species, including those that pollinate their crops. eat their pests, and enrich their soil.

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Healing Grounds (Hardcover, Island Press) 5 stars

A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight …

When Guzman first visited her family farm in Mexico as a nine-year-old girl, she arrived during the harvest. Over the course of her childhood in the Central Valley, Guzman had learned what to expect from harvest time. Long hours apart from her parents. The exhaustion on their faces when they came home, struggling to marshal the energy to play with her. That godawful smell of rotting vegetables on their clothes. But the harvest in El Pedregal was completely different. Whole families participated together, helping one another and their neighbors in a somewhat raucous ritual that made the long hours feel more like a party than a slog of a workday. Physical labor was interspersed with food, laughter, conversation, and music, as well as profound expressions of gratitude for the bounty of the earth-in which all those involved would share.

This, Guzman realized, is what farming looked like when it wasn't wage work for an oppressed few but an entire community's way of life.

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This! This!