Land acquisition fundraising campaign for a training school that will primarily benefit workers found across the food chain — with access to land & training for worker ownership of food production. Goal: $30,000. $4,447 already raised.
We are excited to announce our agroecological training school initiative, which seeks to primarily benefit workers found across the food chain with access to land & training for worker ownership of food production. Directed by workers themselves, this school will be the first of many we intend to develop to fortify worker-led agrarian reform.
We model this school strategy off of the political innovations emerging from peasant movements across Latin America known as the IALA (Instituto de Agroecología de Latinoamérica) network. We see the importance of developing working-class institutions as essential to develop the capacity of popular power in CA — especially amid federal cuts and USDA abandonment.
To build independent, working class institutions to fulfill the holes left by the state is our duty.
Modeled after the Instituto de Agroecología de Latinoamérica — a network of worker-led agroecological schools across Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Colombia, Brasil, Paraguay, Chile, and Argentina.
Raising funds to acquire land for the school — giving workers across the food chain a physical base for training and production, not just theory.
Establishing a trust structure that permanently removes land from the speculative market and holds it in common for current and future generations of trabajador@s.
Political education directed by workers themselves, rooted in real conditions — connecting agroecology, land tenure, political economy, and movement strategy.
We are 67% of the way to our $30,000 goal. Every donation brings us closer to securing land and launching the school.
We stay committed to land reform being led and developed by a working-class political line. History has demonstrated that popular & integral land reform was won only through this clarity.
It shall not be co-opted by large landowners. It will be led by every trabajador de campo — those in packing houses, dairies, slaughterhouses, and warehouses; tenants squashed by rent; children with asthma from pesticide exposure.
It is with this clarity and coalition of urban & rural working sectors that we will win "our right to determine our own history" — Amilcar Cabral.
We can no longer afford to play defense. We must gestate our own popular struggle!
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¡Hermanas! ¡Vamos hacia la reforma agraria integral y popular!
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