Greater Ithaca Chapter Meeting Sign-UP–June 12, 11:00 AM
To sign up for our first Greater Ithaca meeting on June 12, submit a comment at the bottom of the page, or click on the link in the full article.
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To sign up for our first Greater Ithaca meeting on June 12, submit a comment at the bottom of the page, or click on the link in the full article.
Read MoreHow to Organize Folks to Eat More Plants for Greater Health Equity and Climate Change Mitigation Covid-19 inequalities based on race and class, and the urgency of combating climate change, necessitate a mass movement to increase plant consumption and fight against the power of the corporate food industry. Organizing to Eat More Plants Would Combat […]
Read MoreBy Craig Livermore Photo by Josh Sorenson from Pexels The agricultural provisions of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan are an important start in providing Black farmers justice for massive land disenfranchisement in United States History, and for throwing a life jacket to drowning communities of small farmers. However, in order to ensure national unity, a thriving working class, […]
Read MoreBy Bombadil Loving Image by Martin Damboldt The farmer bounced up and down on the metal seat of the tiller, as the powerful plow horses grunted ahead of him while their muscles undulated and bulged. He loved tilling in the early spring in preparation for mid-spring planting, as the crispness and sting of the air […]
Read MoreBut this is a time ripe for truly revolutionary change–A change that will eliminate climate change, and make people healthy. It would be entirely unjust were the burdens of the radical changes we now require to fall upon the working classes in a manner increasing inequality. The soil has given us the answer to our problems in non-engineered Whole Food Plants. It is not sexy, fun, exciting, SM-worthy. . .there will be no IPO’s, and it will not make investors wealthy. . .but it will save us all with equity.
Read MoreAnd so, the power of combining those looking to culture as the basis of inequality with those seeing discrimination whenever there is inequality, is that we may be able to address matters at the most powerful, foundational level–community. However, this may take much more of a commitment than most folks are willing to make. Thus, as in the NYC specialized school case, it is not just about removing a test with radically inequitable outcomes, but (through CBO’s, innovative schools, religious institutions, revived civic institutions) in being willing to live in proximity to those who are struggling, love them, train them and hold them accountable out of love (as loving accountability is based on an absolute belief in the potential and ability of he/she/they being held accountable), so that they have the human capital to fully flourish.
Read MoreIn what she does not say, I hear what is the familiar for her. For people who look like her and Dad. For people who look like us. Black people. Brown People. And folks with calloused hands. . .deserts are forgotten places in need of love.
Read MoreLove sees complexity. Love knows the person is more than an identity, that the person is more than his/her/their mistakes. Love knows there is more than “for,” or “against.” Love does not see people as political abstractions, but as beings struggling to find meaning in a hard world.
Read MoreAnd it occurs to you.
That vitality grows when tested
In the murkiness of the unstable, the uncertain
The unknown.
Mrs. Loving made delicious Whole Foods Plant-Based stuffed shells that we have been warming to eat for lunch all week. It has no oil and is low-fat, as we made our own tofu-based cheese.
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