Dear All, Is it not worth imagining our movement enhancing prospects for some planks on the 2016 Presidential Platforms by working early on to
*influence the agenda in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries *inspire food activists to become active in grass roots organizing for likely candidates we would work to win over to our positions *focusing intensely on Ohio and Pennsylvania grass roots political organizing Anyone up for doing some work around this? Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee was astonished by and impressed with the intensity of citizen involvement when his Home Gr/OWN officer opened up the Mayor's Bloomberg Challenge to the Milwaukee urban agriculture movement. He has recently appointed a long time friend of our cause to focus on the vision of urban ag homesteaders earning foreclosed home ownership. http://city.milwaukee.gov/sustainability/HOMEGR/OWN.htm Bloomberg's composting experiment is well conceived as one of the first iterations of municipal composting as standard practice, regardless of Bloomberg's deviations from perfection at the outset. A worthy plans methinks, along with schools as community gardens and ecopreneurial innovation centers. Urban ag and eco activists can be imagined as worthwhile grass roots allies for a campaign for Mass. Governor Duval Patrick, for example. Any thoughts? Godsil P.S. My apologies for tortured prose of last post. Here's a second try after appropriate criticism. *Bloomberg's kitchen cabinet brain trust has profoundly accelerated the advance of city government ecological transition experiments with the roll out of a municipal composting experiment. If they can do this, perhaps they can also become partners advancing the concept of schools as community gardens and ecopreneurial innovation centers. * *Coop and family business micro producers could sell their products at schools, with student interns learning about business in the real. Some of the students might also become mentors to the elders, sharing lessons learned around digital communication. * *It's not only time.* * It's practical.* *South Side Chicago schools Summer Of Learning may well include steps in the direction of schools as community gardens, authentic convenience stories, and community scale manufacturing workshops, including 3D printing production advanced by the Boggs Center New Work initiatives.* * * *Bloomberg's brain trust methinks can grasp this pragmatic utopian vision of our youth and our elders making ourselves useful to overwhelmed young parents,at schools, teaching basic life lessons, and providing a place for local production and commerce, involving the material requisites of urban living...increasingly locally sourced.* -- James J. Godsil, ABD, co-founder Sweet Water Organics, Sweet Water Foundation, Indo American Aquaponics Institute *http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/JamesGodsil** **<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterOrganicsSweetWaterFoundation> * -- James J. Godsil, ABD, co-founder Sweet Water Organics, Sweet Water Foundation, Indo American Aquaponics Institute *http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Godsil/JamesGodsil** **<http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterOrganicsSweetWaterFoundation> * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20130623/8170d966/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
