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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] from The Revolution Has Already Occurred
  • Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:14:25 -0700


from The Revolution Has Already Occurred
Published on Friday, March 6, 2009 by The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090323/solnit?rel=hp_currently

In the United States the most obvious realm in which this has transpired is
food and farming. Organic, urban, community-assisted and guerrilla
agriculture are still small parts of the picture, but effective ones--a
revolt against what transnational corporate food and capitalism generally
produce. This revolt is taking place in the vast open space of Detroit, in
the inner-city farms of West Oakland, in the victory gardens and
public-housing of Alemany Farm in San Francisco, in Growing Power in
Milwaukee and many other places around the country. These are blows against
alienation, poor health, hunger and other woes fought with shovels and
seeds, not guns. At its best, tending one's garden leads to tending one's
community and policy, and ultimately becomes a way of entering the public
sphere rather than withdrawing from it.






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