Jeanette Herrle

Israeli Forces Demolish Seed Multiplication Unit of UAWC’s Seed Bank in Hebron | Via Campesina Agroecology, Biodiversity and Peasants' Seeds In a grave escalation of its assault on Palestinian agricultural sovereignty, food sovereignty and Indigenous Seed Heritage, Israeli military forces carri...

The Israeli army has just destroyed the seed bank of the Palestinian farmers' organisation, UAWC, in the West Bank. We condemn this latest crime against the Palestinian people and their efforts to defend their food sovereignty, and stand in solidarity with UAWC.
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The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.

The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture?

That environmental destruction is actually conservation.

This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.

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In this house

Species are not types; they are historical accumulations of survivorship under constraint.

There is no original order, only recursive adaptation and structural coherence over time.

Ecological forms are not recoverable ideals, but emergent residues of entangled causes.

The quixotic effort to bring back manufacturing jobs is based on a romanticized, outdated idea of the working class as white male breadwinners. The US working class today is largely women of color in the service sector. Why not make service jobs pay what factory jobs used to?

It seems such a basic thing to say but fascism picks off groups one by one and one of the most basic defences we have is to stand in solidarity with each other. Anyone who turns a blind eye is an ally to fascists.

This is what I want on the sign I ask you not to make me tap 😊

How Fungi Move Among Us Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.

🍄 Fungi are astute mathematicians. Those that form partnerships with plant roots can evaluate supply and demand; some researchers call them “living algorithms.”

Watch the spread of these fungal networks in a lovely photo essay by @alanburdick.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com👇

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵

"The notion of a united patriotic effort that is waged in everyone’s best interest is a lie or distortion when advanced by the ruling class, but politicians and the media are pushing it with great enthusiasm"

One of the greatest pieces of propaganda in modern media history is the pervasive theme that more investment in police, prosecutors, jails, prisons, and probation officers will make us safe. The scientific, empirical evidence is overwhelmingly to the contrary.

What a great, totally engrossing listen that softens the blow of having to clear 20cm of snow at the very end of March. Helps to imagine these three sitting around a crackling fire, I find

As soon as you've done any butchering yourself you realize how incredibly labour intensive & skilled the work is. I can easily imagine an appropriate circle of hell for Mr White Bone program

I only listened to the free section of this, but wow is @vijayprashad.bsky.social just on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 here

Sadly, McGoohan missed the opportunity to feature penny farthing racing in The Prisoner, which really would have fit the surreal atmosphere of the Village perfectly

Homes for Living! How do you make housing that's *permanently* affordable?

"Yoking workers to a mortgage and getting them bought into housing appreciation as a means toward building wealth was a deliberate strategy to dull the collective power of the working class... It’s no coincidence that some labor unions were such big backers of cooperative housing models..."

The pressure is real, and the path through it is also real. The call for attention does not mean collapse. It means the strongest path is becoming visible.

Turns out having actual policies is appealing to voters too:"By focusing on very concrete and realistic demands such as the rent cap, the abolition of sales tax on basic foodstuffs, and a wealth tax, we succeeded in rebuilding our profile as a social opposition"

This is a dynamic we see so often in the U.S. where business owners push the false idea that reducing car dependence will hurt business. The article has some great ideas for counteracting this narrative.

The courage of our Colombian sisters & brothers who defend the land is truly astounding. No me mames gallo, Canadian mining companies, we know what you are doing

112: Is This The End of Canada? Do we even see the battlefield for what it is?

Marshall McLuhan recognized the inclusive and immersive impact of media, and what we keep forgetting is that our media, and in particular our media narratives, are incredibly and infectiously American.

112: Is This The End of Canada? open.substack.com/pub/metaview...

Agroecology as a Movement Ep.3: Women and Diverse Genders This video has been produced as part of the LWA's 'Agroecology as a Movement' Political Education Curriculum. Filmed and produced by Black Bark Films. With…

"The land doesn't discriminate. It doesn't care where you came from, it doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care what pronouns you use. You just exist with it."

Agroecology nurtures and celebrates diversity in our land-use systems & also in the communities who practice them.

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Agroecology as a Movement Ep. 2: Anti-Capitalist This video has been produced as part of the LWA's 'Agroecology as a Movement' Political Education Curriculum. Filmed and produced by Black Bark Films. With…

"We think that land is much too important to be left in the hands of a few people. The whole community of people own the land..."

As part of our campaign to Re-Root Agroecology, visit some of our members- including Tyddyn Teg- to hear why agroecology is anti-capitalist.

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The queer lens, much like the disability lens, often feels like our best bet for finding justice for all

The many headed hydra of thinly disguised slavery persists wherever humans wrestle against nature's might to wring out of the land what they've commodified (see also: mining, prison labour)

Agroecology is not just a way of farming - it's also a social movement and site of political struggle, working to dismantle systems of oppression and exploitation, promoting the autonomy of producers. Spot on from Landworkers' Alliance 👇

landworkersalliance.org.uk/rerootingagr...

So we are right now being faced with a lot of challenges that we are unprepared for. We will not be given the skills to handle it, but we will be given the opportunities to build those skills together

What is inherent to our species is a drive for cooperation and altruism. But its been hacked by the hero narrative. Kind of like how high salt/fat/MSG foods hack our hunger so we keep eating the Doritos. The hero narrative uses the best of us against ourselves and leads to the notion of supremacy.