: EC:
: You cannot grow much food in the parking lot of the factoryTry this: get a bunch of hatchets. Bring your friends out to the factory, and have them attack the concrete of the parking lot until it's all removed. Put the concrete into a pile. Double-dig the soil that was once under the concrete. Get some pea seeds, put them in the ground. Liberate a hose from the garden store, hook it up to one of the faucets in the factory, water the peas. If management doesn't like it, strike.
:or in contaminated soil.
The Amish, according to Wendell Barry in THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA, when they buy fields that were used for corporate agribusiness, let the fields lie fallow for two years until the pesticides leach out of the soil.
: Unfortunately this is the reality of too much of the planet, and it is my feeling that the union organizing must precede any agrarian society.
The people discussed in this link are not going to wait for some dream of union organizing (which may be corrupt, or which may never come) to plan out their ideas of society.
: So lets keep our vision of the future even as we concentrate on the job at hand today
The job at hand today is composting, where we take the Fall leaves and make them decompose to help our Spring crop grow tall. Our vision of the future is of the day when the workers of the world can agree upon something besides a corrupt union with ties to the Trilateral Commission or (in the US) the Council on Foreign Relations.
