Documentary highlighting the impact of a potassium mine both locally in Catalunya and globally in Palestine. The mine is exploited by Israeli multinational company ICL.
See the link below for the actual documentary.
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Korean Natural Farming
An eco-pragmatic cost-effective farming method that goes back hundreds of years ago and was fine-tuned by Cho-Han Kyu in South-Korea. A no-till farming method that aims to farm ‘with the land’ instead of ‘on the land’. Developed in times of severe economic precarity. It uses locally sourced input and indigenous microorganisms. This video below will give you an accessible intoduction into KNF. I expect to be putting these techniques into practice on my land this year or next year.
I was once asked ; What’s the number one thing a farmer has to ‘farm’? Their soil obviously…
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Joyful Militancy
Building thriving resistance in toxic times.
I’ve added screenshots of the table of contents below. The whole book can be found on the link below. They shared it themselves on their website. Essential reading material.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joyful-militancy-bergman-montgomery.pdf
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No Thanks app: Boycott Isreal & affiliates
No Thanks is a Palestinian boycott-awareness mobile application developed by Palestinian software engineer Ahmed Bashbash, created to assist consumers in identifying and boycotting products associated with companies linked to Israel and their imperial genocide and settlement mission. Launched in 13 November 2023, the app gained significant attention amid the Gaza–Israel conflict
yes, the fact that we have to download and use the app through those companies is contradictory and very sad. But start somewhere.
And nutrition is an important place to start. Who wants to put trash in their body that is made by idiots who support a genocide. Who wants to give money to such products?
Although they are often sweet, delicious, comfortable, irresistible, – which is of course meant to make you addicted, so gigantic companies as those can finance their ideologies on our desires. Desires that are in turn psychological and biological manipulated by the companies who create those products through marketing, flavour tweaking and accessibility.
Exercise to explain accessibility:
Look at the products in the app and the next time when you are in a gas station (the only place to get food next to a highway) look at which percentage of the available products are noted in the app.
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The 10sqm Co-Op
The 10 sqm Co-op is a project developed by César Reyes Nájera and Céline Zimmer with the support of the Master in Architecture that will be exhibit at the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2022.
The 10 sqm Co-op is an audacious pedagogical experiment; We will found a cooperative during the Triennale, which will reclaim – as a first action – by leasing a parking lot in Oslo. The project aims to raise discussions about the transformative potential of cooperatives to challenge the dynamics of real estate market, to decommodify housing and to empower citizen bottom-up initiatives to manage public space in their cities. It is a citizen tool to experience together the complexity of financing and deciding in a community.
The 10 sqm Co-op attempts to raise enough money to lease a parking space in Oslo, which will be the first 10 square meters land managed by the cooperative. This parking space should be a place for everything except cars: Discussions and meetings of the cooperatives, realising first ideas of the cooperative in a small scale, unsealing the parking space and use it as a small garden, dinner parties. Our call to action intends to reinforce the idea that private cars should not idly occupy public space. It also tests the possibility of empowering neighbours in reclaiming the right to manage the public space of the city and a testbed to start a housing cooperative.
The project outlines the possibility of redistributive and granular urbanism made by neighbours. A cooperative is a small neighbourhood, that can have a great impact on the surrounding neighbourhood in a larger scale. The cooperative parking space should work as a microneighbourhood, where to test new forms of organisation and digital governance. Ten square meters to reclaim public space, to test citizen governance models to liberate housing from its commodified character and recover the right to the neighbourhood, from a cooperative founded at the Oslo Architecture Triennale.
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The soul at work
Dr. Masood Raja teaches ” The sould at work” from post-workerist Italian marxist Franco “Bifo” Berardi.
Our souls don’t get any rest.
Berardi defines the soul from a materialist perspective, something I’m not particularly interested in, but I believe it serves a purpose here. Where the Italian autonomists from the 70’s differentiate themselves from more classical marxists is the way that workers see themselves as agents of change instead of purely passive subjects. Nowadays not only our bodies but also our souls are captured by capitalism ; our thoughts, our desires, our creativity, our leisure time… In our free time we are not free, we are worried about tomorrow… Dr. Masood Raja also elaborates on Bifo’s notion that anxiety and depressions are a product of contemporary capitalism. At least 24 million people worldwide are on anti-depressants, and even in the art world this money seeps through (look at the well-known example fo the Sackler-family, they are more known nowadays for causing the opiod crisis but decades ago they were pushing drugs like Valium ; the Sackler family is tied to The Louvre, The MET, Serpentine Gallery, Tate…) . What kind of resistance is possible nowadays? Berardi goes on to say that workers should organise themselves to get a fair wage (since productivity of the worker has been steadily going up, but their wages aren’t) but also and this one I find interesting is to redefine wealth as having access to leisure time. So that our souls can take a break from all the digital imperatives.
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Women of the Earth: Buffalo Returning to Texas After 136 Years
The near extinction of buffalo across North America had devastating consequences—especially for Indigenous communities, for whom buffalo were a source of food, shelter, spiritual connection, and governance. Today, Lucille Contreras, founder of the Texas Tribal Buffalo Project, is leading a powerful effort to restore buffalo to their ancestral lands in Texas. Through this work, she is also reviving cultural traditions and creating a space for her Indigenous community to reconnect with the buffalo and the way of life they represent.
The Texas Tribal Buffalo Project is one of dozens of ongoing efforts to return buffalo to their ecological and cultural place on the North American prairie. Across the continent, tribes and tribal members are raising herds that strengthen Native cultures, repair prairie ecosystems, and provide healthy local food.
Women of the Earth, produced by Summer Moon Productions, featuring stories of women across America who are leading a new movement to restore and protect the land. By focusing on women in land stewardship roles, the series will explore women’s unique relationship to the earth and their innovative undertakings to heal the earth from climate change. -
Lençóis Maranhenses: Looks Like a Desert. But It Has Thousands of Lakes
Lençóis Maranhenses sits at the intersection of three biomes—a rare overlap that supercharges biodiversity. Across 350 square miles of dunes, the rainy season brings thousands of crystal blue lagoons into view, many big enough to swim in. What makes this surreal environment possible? And why, even after 2 million years in existence, does it still feel so mysterious? Untold Earth explores the seeming impossibilities behind our planet’s strangest, most unique natural wonders. From fragile, untouched ecosystems to familiar but unexplained occurrences in our own backyard, this series chases insight into natural phenomena through the voices that know them best. Untold Earth is produced in partnership with Atlas Obscura and Nature.
