@sethharpesq Oddly, a Fort Benning connection. Many of those Eugene arson-era activists were known to Food Not Lawns, disparaging our “soft” alternative to confrontational direct action. They went to jail; we went on to define a visionary edgeline of the global, regenerative design movement.
5/ Regularly derided as escapist, irrelevant and insignificant by 'political activists' bound and blinded, as we saw it, to the very paradigm we were actively transcending, we nonetheless powerfully sensed we were crossing a fundamentally liberatory threshold of sorts.
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Image of the ‘Pilgrimage to Fort Benning’ identifier which included a Food Not Lawns dimension, with Nick arranging seed-swaps as we crossed the country, and speaking to paradise gardening as peacemaking. And a photograph at a peace gathering in a stadium close to Fort Benning, GA, of Nick hosting a seedswap.