Community-supported agriculture (CSA), is an alternative approach based on the core idea that food is social: food expresses how much we rely on each other and on our environment, and it is up to us to make that relationship as resilient and sustainable as possible. CSAs can be social enterprises, member co-operatives, or non-profit organisations, and they often rely on volunteers for growing and distributing their produce. The different approach taken by CSAs is clear from the language that they use: CSAs don't cater to consumers, they have members, and growers and members take part together in the good times and the bad. As the lockdown came into force in the UK, CSAs found themselves having to adapt to new rules and find different ways of working together. In a happy exception to the rule, they have been swift to adapt.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/no-alternative-sustainable-agriculture-how-community-supported-farms-show-way-food-security-uncertain-world/
www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/no-alternative-sustainable-agriculture-how-community-supported-farms-show-way-food-security-uncertain-world/
openDemocracy
No alternative to sustainable agriculture: how community-supported farms show the way to food security in an uncertain world
“It's easy for many people to run with the idea that we don't need neighbours. The cynicism in some people is the feeling that there's a default position that we will go back to. I'm not so sure about that.”
Forwarded from 📰 Indygram 🔥
CNBC
US GDP shrank 4.8% in the first quarter amid biggest contraction since the financial crisis
This marked the first negative GDP reading since the 1.1% decline in the first quarter of 2014 and the worst level since the 8.4% plunge in Q4 of 2008 during the worst of the financial crisis
Forwarded from IWW
The May 1 strike is the latest in a wave of actions led by union and nonunion front-line workers. (...)
“These workers have been exploited so shamelessly for so long by these companies while performing incredibly important but largely invisible labor,” said Stephen Brier, a labor historian and professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. “All of a sudden, they’re deemed essential workers in a pandemic, giving them tremendous leverage and power if they organize collectively.”
The workers coalition will unveil a set of demands. Among them are:
- compensation for all unpaid time off used since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in March
- hazard pay or paid sick leave to be provided for the duration of the pandemic
- protective equipment and all cleaning supplies to be provided at all times by the company
- full corporate transparency on the number of cases in facilities.
The workers chose May 1, International Workers Day, as a signal to workers everywhere that collectively, they can take on corporate behemoth
theintercept.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-may-1-strike-sickout-amazon-target-whole-foods/
“These workers have been exploited so shamelessly for so long by these companies while performing incredibly important but largely invisible labor,” said Stephen Brier, a labor historian and professor at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. “All of a sudden, they’re deemed essential workers in a pandemic, giving them tremendous leverage and power if they organize collectively.”
The workers coalition will unveil a set of demands. Among them are:
- compensation for all unpaid time off used since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in March
- hazard pay or paid sick leave to be provided for the duration of the pandemic
- protective equipment and all cleaning supplies to be provided at all times by the company
- full corporate transparency on the number of cases in facilities.
The workers chose May 1, International Workers Day, as a signal to workers everywhere that collectively, they can take on corporate behemoth
theintercept.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-may-1-strike-sickout-amazon-target-whole-foods/
The Intercept
As Amazon, Walmart, and Others Profit Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Their Essential Workers Plan Unprecedented Strike
“If someone dies, they have blood on their hands.”
#podcast
theintercept.com/2020/04/29/viral-injustice-how-the-pandemic-is-unmasking-the-u-s-economic-racial-and-immigration-systems/
theintercept.com/2020/04/29/viral-injustice-how-the-pandemic-is-unmasking-the-u-s-economic-racial-and-immigration-systems/
The Intercept
Viral Injustice: How the Pandemic is Unmasking the U.S. Economic, Racial, and Immigration Systems
Writer Zak Cheney-Rice and journalist John Washington are this week’s guests.
Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩 pinned «The new IWW Website is lit https://iww.org/»
Forwarded from 🏴 AnarchoMemes 🔥
Happy May 1st comrades!
Joyeux 1er mai camarades!
Feliĉaj 1-a majo kamaradoj!
Счастливого 1-го мая, товарищи!
¡Feliz 1 de Mayo, camaradas!
رفاق سعيد 1 مايو!
五一快乐同志们！
Bealtaine 1ú Comrádaithe Bealtaine!
مبارک 1 مه رفقا!
Ευτυχισμένοι σύντροφοι του 1 Μαΐου!
Buon primo Maggio compagni!
1 मई को खुश हूँ!
Hevalên 1emîn Gulanê pîroz dikin!
Ka hari te hoa o Mei 1!
שמח 1 במאי חברים!
Fröhlichen 1 Mai Genossen !
Vrolijke 1 mei, kamaraden!
💥🏴👷♂️👩💻👨🏭👨🌾👨⚕️👨🎓👩🔧👩🔬👨🎨🚩🎉
Joyeux 1er mai camarades!
Feliĉaj 1-a majo kamaradoj!
Счастливого 1-го мая, товарищи!
¡Feliz 1 de Mayo, camaradas!
رفاق سعيد 1 مايو!
五一快乐同志们！
Bealtaine 1ú Comrádaithe Bealtaine!
مبارک 1 مه رفقا!
Ευτυχισμένοι σύντροφοι του 1 Μαΐου!
Buon primo Maggio compagni!
1 मई को खुश हूँ!
Hevalên 1emîn Gulanê pîroz dikin!
Ka hari te hoa o Mei 1!
שמח 1 במאי חברים!
Fröhlichen 1 Mai Genossen !
Vrolijke 1 mei, kamaraden!
💥🏴👷♂️👩💻👨🏭👨🌾👨⚕️👨🎓👩🔧👩🔬👨🎨🚩🎉
Another complete guide for Mutual Aid. There are also resources to download and stream movies at the end.
The guide itself was made for new-yorkers (espcially for the ones living in the Queens), but it can still be useful to anyone.
https://www.woodbine.nyc/mutualaid
The guide itself was made for new-yorkers (espcially for the ones living in the Queens), but it can still be useful to anyone.
https://www.woodbine.nyc/mutualaid
Woodbine
Mutual Aid — Woodbine
Mutual Aid information and resources in Ridgewood, Queens.