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Occupy by Vegetables
  • ira March 2012 +1 -1 (+2 / -0 )
    Now that spring time is looming, and considering the need to carefully watch out how we will feed us during "difficult" times (eventually transitioning from capitalism to a new common ownership oriented society) I propose that we call for a Global Occupy by Vegetables Day - say, on April 25 (to leave room for preparation).

    On this day I propose that everyone of us will go to a nice public green area (this can be your neighbourhood parc, a piece of green besides a street, a posh lawn in front of a bank - you get the picture?) and plant one or more of our favorite veggies or herb plants. All you need is a small shovel, a bottle of water and the small plant(s), ideally pre-grown by seeds out of a Navdanya community seed bank (or your own last year's garden harvest), just dig a whole where it suits you or the plant, set in the plant and water it thoroughly.
    If you happen to be in front of that obscenely shiny bank building, and a banker happens to pass you, talk to him, explain your motive, donate your water bottle to him and ask him to care for this little plant in order that it grows and bears fruits (thus this banker would at least do SOME valuable act in our society right now).

    Maybe you want to take a picture and share it with fellow activists all over.

    Imagine your city crossed by hundreds of hundreds little plant beds, a giant sign of demonstrating that the occupy movement condemns profit-making through depriving people of food.

    Let's make our cities "edible" again!

    Agrees: TheRielDeal, MundusVultDecipi

  • TheRielDealTheRielDeal March 2012 +1 -1
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/seattle-food-forest_n_1327458.html

    I second the motion. I encourage everyone to step back and think about their daily efforts. If most of our days are spent in securing access to life (ie. working to afford food) then why do we do so in such a convuluted way? Why do we work so hard in so many pointless professions to indirectly make our living by way of first making property owners much much richer than ourselves. This is not the only way. If more of our efforts were focused on direct ways of securing a food supply (individually and collectively) we become much less reliant on the failing capitalist system.

    It is simply not logical to have our living space so distant from our food supply. This current set up is inefficient, polluting, expensive, wasteful, and disunifying. There is no need for our cities and towns to be so far from where our food comes from. Just as there is no need for so much empty useless space in our cities to remain as such. If more green space was used to produce food close to where we live, in abundance and free for anyone to access, then no one would go hungry or be reliant on agri-business or on working for such indirect procurement of the basics of life.

    Imagine a man-made garden of eden where you live (I'm not religious, but it's a familiar image for most people). Life could be so much better for all of us if we just used the land more wisely, spent some time in nature and shared more of our time and effort with our community members. I guarantee we would all be so much healthier and happier if this occurs.

  • MundusVultDecipiMundusVultDecipi March 2012 +1 -1
    Been prepping my garden for this spring. Sprouting seedlings now.
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