#backtotheland — Public Fediverse posts
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From Gold Rush to Green Rush
The environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation* "Professor Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) argues that the state's booming cannabis industry can be situated squarely within other extractive settler colonial enterprises such as gold mining and overfishing."
“The real gold is not gold, after all, but the land itself”
Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023) >>
https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/100/1/140/407075/Settler-Cannabis-From-Gold-Rush-to-Green-Rush-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext* Reed "connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people."
"Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands."
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9780295751573/html#cannabis #extractivism #agriculture #logging #overfishing #BackToTheLand #counterculture #GreenIdyll #SettlerSociety #GoldRush #GreenRush #CannabisIndustry #water #pollution #disposession #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples
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From Gold Rush to Green Rush
The environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation* "Professor Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) argues that the state's booming cannabis industry can be situated squarely within other extractive settler colonial enterprises such as gold mining and overfishing."
“The real gold is not gold, after all, but the land itself”
Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023) >>
https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/100/1/140/407075/Settler-Cannabis-From-Gold-Rush-to-Green-Rush-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext* Reed "connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people."
"Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands."
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9780295751573/html#cannabis #extractivism #agriculture #logging #overfishing #BackToTheLand #counterculture #GreenIdyll #SettlerSociety #GoldRush #GreenRush #CannabisIndustry #water #pollution #disposession #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples
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😍 So nice to see my article on the Basic Land Income republished in old good Mother Pelican website! https://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv22n03page11.html
#BasicIncome #Sustainability #Degrowth #Collapse #BackToTheLand
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😍 So nice to see my article on the Basic Land Income republished in old good Mother Pelican website! https://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv22n03page11.html
#BasicIncome #Sustainability #Degrowth #Collapse #BackToTheLand
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The white wellness ecosystem, fostering family-friendly ‘white wellbeing’
The Normalisation of the Far-Right"White nationalism, or any other supremacist or ethno-nationalist movement, usually harkens back to some romanticised idea of the past. The past when [white people] 'had power'. The past when the community 'was pure'. The past, when everything was good."
"Built into that is usually the idea of a romanticisation of more traditional ways of doing things, of escaping from modern society, which is usually described in these communities as degenerate … as unwholesome. So the purity, the return-to-nature found in the wellness movement has an inherent appeal to many groups [including] white nationalists."
"....The wellness industry and white nationalism have a common thread of 'purity' and cleanliness. 'We want to focus on having picnics and outdoor meetings and public events that you can bring your family to, where we see our healthy white children running around and being happy, and other people will look at us and see how great and friendly and family oriented and not scary [we are], and not wearing hoods and not sporting swastikas.'""
"Wellness does play into that, in part, because if you're walling yourself off from the rest of the world, you do need your organic coffee and your bar of soap and your hair tonic and whatnot. And these businesses help to create an economic base."
How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness industry >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/white-nationalists-using-wellness-industry-to-spread-racism/105314926Soap to supremacy: The rise of white wellness >>
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/2/2/how-white-nationalists-infiltrated-the-wellness-movement
#wellness #pure #purity #white #nationalism #ethnonationalism #WhiteSupremacy #FarRight #FamilyFriendly #modernity #subculture #lifestyle #ReturnToNature #BacktotheLand #GranolaNazis -
The white wellness ecosystem, fostering family-friendly ‘white wellbeing’
The Normalisation of the Far-Right"White nationalism, or any other supremacist or ethno-nationalist movement, usually harkens back to some romanticised idea of the past. The past when [white people] 'had power'. The past when the community 'was pure'. The past, when everything was good."
"Built into that is usually the idea of a romanticisation of more traditional ways of doing things, of escaping from modern society, which is usually described in these communities as degenerate … as unwholesome. So the purity, the return-to-nature found in the wellness movement has an inherent appeal to many groups [including] white nationalists."
"....The wellness industry and white nationalism have a common thread of 'purity' and cleanliness. 'We want to focus on having picnics and outdoor meetings and public events that you can bring your family to, where we see our healthy white children running around and being happy, and other people will look at us and see how great and friendly and family oriented and not scary [we are], and not wearing hoods and not sporting swastikas.'""
"Wellness does play into that, in part, because if you're walling yourself off from the rest of the world, you do need your organic coffee and your bar of soap and your hair tonic and whatnot. And these businesses help to create an economic base."
How white nationalists infiltrated the wellness industry >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-22/white-nationalists-using-wellness-industry-to-spread-racism/105314926Soap to supremacy: The rise of white wellness >>
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/2/2/how-white-nationalists-infiltrated-the-wellness-movement
#wellness #pure #purity #white #nationalism #ethnonationalism #WhiteSupremacy #FarRight #FamilyFriendly #modernity #subculture #lifestyle #ReturnToNature #BacktotheLand #GranolaNazis -
Kunst-prosesjon-invitasjon 16.12 i Oslo:
10. januar åpner #JannikAbel utstillingen #BackToTheLand på #KunstnernesHus.
"Alle materialer i denne utstillingen skal kunne bli til jord, og heller ikke transporten skal belaste naturen unødig. Vi søker derfor mange hjelpende hender til å bære kunsten, i prosesjon fra Rådhusbrygga opp gjennom slottsparken, til Kunstnernes Hus."
Tid: Mandag 16.12. kl. 14:00
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Kunst-prosesjon-invitasjon 16.12 i Oslo:
10. januar åpner #JannikAbel utstillingen #BackToTheLand på #KunstnernesHus.
"Alle materialer i denne utstillingen skal kunne bli til jord, og heller ikke transporten skal belaste naturen unødig. Vi søker derfor mange hjelpende hender til å bære kunsten, i prosesjon fra Rådhusbrygga opp gjennom slottsparken, til Kunstnernes Hus."
Tid: Mandag 16.12. kl. 14:00
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dret ɬush ukuk nanich-yaʔim kʰapa harold johnson! (This is a really good video about Harold Johnson!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwU7frCuVo0&pp=ygUMY3JlZSB0aHVuZGVy
#Indigenous #native #documentary #interview #author #cree #alcoholabuse #justicesystem #canadianjusticesystem #trauma #traumahealing #landbased #landbasedhealing #identity #reconnectingidentity #landbasedlearning #backtotheland #healingontheland #north #northernsaskatchewan #gladue #gladuereport #redemption #healing #justice #alcohol #saskatchewan
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We’ve been above freezing for 2 days, the roads are slush and ice, the snowpack has slid from the eastern roof, and yet this monument to #Winter remains at the corner of my cabin. Not sure I can drive out successfully today, will wait till tomorrow. #Okanogan #BackToTheLand
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We’ve been above freezing for 2 days, the roads are slush and ice, the snowpack has slid from the eastern roof, and yet this monument to #Winter remains at the corner of my cabin. Not sure I can drive out successfully today, will wait till tomorrow. #Okanogan #BackToTheLand
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Wow!
"The Last Glimpses Of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias", GQ (https://www.gq.com/story/californias-vanishing-hippie-utopias).
#California #USA #BackToTheLand #Hipster #Hippie #SummerOfLove #Commune #Ranch #WholeEarthCatalog #Building
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@wuhei @wolftune @aral I note also that monasteries were created with some of the same goals you posit here, as were the #BackToTheLand communes on the 1960s/70s. Democratic pirate ships too (#both HakimBey and#DavidGraeber have written about that history). There's a lot to be learned from these experiments (both their successes and failures) before running them again.