[WSMDiscuss] [REDlistserve] Fwd: Indigenous in Canada turn to the land to survive coronavirus

[Dilip Jain]

Me, Bharat Mansata & few others (including some local Adivasi) are trying
to develop a similar land based model at Vanvadi near Neral... Eco village
& Eco varsity

You can see this article...
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2019-06-16-world-day-to-combat-desertification-drought-vanvadi-forest-regeneration

On Mon, 6 Apr, 2020, 4:48 pm Ashish Kothari, <ashishkothari at riseup.net>
wrote:

> Friends, there is a huge lesson in this for us ... not that we can all 'go
> back to the land' but that the re-localisation of providing for basic
> needs, of sustaining liveilhoods, etc with people in communities taking
> their present and future in their own hands, can be a very meaningful
> movement arising from the current crisis. Just one of many new directions
> for us to imagine and practice, and where we can't ourselves practice it,
> at least support and advocate, for instance through building respnosible
> consumer links with primary producers, recognising the enormous
> contribution of workers on the land and in  forests and other ecosystems,
> crafts, industries and elsewhere to our lives, challenging political and
> economic structures that continue to exploit them
>
> there was also this news from India with interesting implications, though
> not necessarily challenging capitalist markets per se, and with some state
> facilitation: https://www.foundingfuel.com/article/the-satara-uprising/
>
> are there similar initiatives and movements elsewhere we can be inspired
> by and/or learn from? Can people send examples?
> We hope to start a webinar/online dialogue series soon, one global thrugh
> the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, another for India through Vikalp
> Sangam ... watch this space for announcements soon!
>
> ashish
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Indigenous in Canada turn to the land to survive coronavirus
> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 13:11:16 +0530
> From: Miloon Kothari <miloon.kothari at gmail.com> <miloon.kothari at gmail.com>
> To:
>
>
> Indigenous people describe leaving towns to live off the land, learning
> lessons about survival from elders.
> https://aje.io/b3h9m
>
>
>
>
> --
> To reply to the author of this message, select "reply"; to reply to the
> whole list, select "reply to all".
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Radical Ecological Democracy" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to radical_ecological_democracy+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web, visit
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/radical_ecological_democracy/fbc0f34c-1650-c060-6d0d-fb7ff16052c9%40riseup.net
> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/radical_ecological_democracy/fbc0f34c-1650-c060-6d0d-fb7ff16052c9%40riseup.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>
> .
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.openspaceforum.net/pipermail/wsm-discuss/attachments/20200406/57d0566e/attachment.htm>