@MadsMcKeever end/ Ultimately, of course, it's "assisted migration" reconciled deftly in "recombinant ecologies" - the eco-cultural integration of Earth and Humanity as One - which characterizes the unicity of co-evolutionary integrity coming fully to ground. World salvation, locally made.
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FB post here: Agrarian Sharing Network August 7, 3.09 p.m. Some of you may recall our provision of 3,500 OP tomato transplants to 30 (Rohingya, DRC Congolese, Rwandan and Ukrainian) refugee farming families at Outgrowing Hunger's 18-acre accelerator farm site in Boring, OR, this spring, along with basic instructions on how best to isolate varieties within their dizzyingly complex farm system. (Hey, we're winging it as we go along.) It's time to get someone on the ground in Boring, to help our key farm liaison folk there develop a basic protocol for saving seed on the 40 or so locally-adapted, tomato varieties we provided… …Why does this matter? Vandana Shiva: "The web of life is a food web. Food is life. Increasing diversity is the ecological principle for increasing health, resilience and abundance. Biodiversity and cultural diversity need each other for the regeneration of nature and culture."
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: “Mystical awareness refers to a universal and unifying view of the world. It extends to the suffering of the planet, wounding of the soul, violence caused by religious superiority, national self-interest, poverty, homelessness, starvation and war.” end/ Image of my torso in t-shirt with suspenders, with t-shirt logo emulating US Army’s but reading ‘Farmy’ instead of ‘Army’. Srivatsa necklace. Quote tweet: “The American experiment is in fact the political and social experiment of modernity. That makes this political experiment a messianic experiment.” The birth, in other words, of #PlanetarySpring and the #ThirdReconstruction movement in America, are one. 5/
end/ "When thought of geopolitically, the ramifications of the coming of the Messiah would have to extend to all nations, a point that is regularly supported by reference to the verse "Strangers shall stand and pasture your flocks, aliens shall be your plowmen and vine-trimmers."
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Copy of tweet and subtweet here: The great majority of the tens of thousands of transplants I raise, support Oregon's refugee farmers. Today, then, a second trailer of winter transplants heads toward Rohingya, Ukrainian, Rwandan and DRC Congolese family farmers in Boring, OR. So love the team @OutgrowingHungr Image of Adam ED with Outgrowing Hunger picking up thousands of vegetable transplants from the nursery Subtweet Delighted to be once again placing thousands of world-class transplants with refugee allies farming close to Portland, OR. This morning, we packed their van and trailer with starts. 3 hours later, up the freeway, refugee farmers were getting them into the ground. Love our team! Four photographs of nursery tables, transplants in transport, African refugee welcoming committee at the Boring site, transplanting in the field.
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Copy of tweet thread here: Including image originally without alt-text, now included here: For the record, Michael Kirwan SJ. Image of Kirwan quoting Agamben: given the by now unstoppable decline of the nation-state and the general corrosion of traditional political-juridical categories, the refugee is perhaps the only thinkable figure for the people of our time and the only category in which one may see today – at least until the process of dissolution of the nation-state and of its sovereignty has achieved full completion – the forms and limits of a coming political community. It is even possible that, if we want to be equal to the absolutely new tasks ahead, we will have to abandon decidedly, without reservation, the fundamental concepts through which we have so far represented the subjects of the political…and build our political philosophy anew starting from the one and only figure of the refugee.