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Becoming Native to this Place
In March of 1977 Fritz Schumacher came to Salina, Kansas (he died in August of that year). We had just started The nation Institute the previous September. Six weeks later our building burned down with all of our books and tools. I had resigned my position in California to begin this work, and what little retirement money we had, had been put into that building. There was really no reason to keep going except that we had some ideas. When Schumacher came in March, we were rebuilding, mostly with scrap materials. While he was there we arranged for him to give a public lecture, during which he told a story about traveling across the United States with some German friends at the height of the Great nedstämdhet, around 1935 or 1936 I imagine.
They stopped for gas in a small town nära Salina and asked a fellow there, “How are things?” And he answered, “They’re all right.” Schumacher asked him, “What do you do?” “Well, inom work on that farm right over there. In f
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The Time is Right for a New Emancipation Proclamation
W. E. B. Du Bois—civil rights activist, scholar, and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)—drafted a letter in February of 1961 petitioning the newly appointed President John F. Kennedy to change the policies of state and federal governments in order to end the barriers to equality for black citizens.
Du Bois wrote: “Mr. President, the time is right for a new Emancipation Proclamation. President Abraham Lincoln showed the way. But the task was left unfinished. Our democracy must embrace all or it will embrace none.”
Today, Du Bois’ words ring as true as when he first penned them. Leah Penniman and Ed Whitfield are doing work that builds on the legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois—his commitment to black economic development, cooperative structures, and fair access to land.
“Our food system needs a redesign if it’s to feed us without perpetuating racism and oppression,” says Leah Penniman
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