In today's episode, we sit down with Joey: a Virginian who is returning to his culture & roots after betraying Appalachia in pursuit of the Rockies (but he came back, so we'll forgive him)! Joey and Chelsea jam on a vision for food systems that support our communities, reduce waste, and are rooted in shared community building and relationships: transformative, regenerative, sustainable models that contradict capitalism by nature. We surface the concept of radical self-reliance among our communities, and how fresh food offers so many options for ways to act in alignment with revolution. And, because of who we are here at Rednecks Rising, we talk about how critical trauma-informed approaches are to counter-organizing against the recruitment tactics of fascist groups.
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More information & further reading from today's conversation:

1) LEAP: Local Environmental Agriculture Project - https://www.leapforlocalfood.org/

2) Harvest Collective - https://www.thc.coop/)

3) Agrarian trust - https://www.agrariantrust.org/blog/cultivating-resiliency-in-roanoke-virginia/

4) Appalachian Sustainable Development, West Virginia HIVE - https://wvhive.com/

5) Anarcho-syndicalism: https://libcom.org/article/what-anarcho-syndicalism

6) Anarcho-syndicalism continued: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/rudolf-rocker-anarchosyndicalism
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