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Corporations and the ultra rich have been either hoarding, or ruining (via pollution) land and resources all around the world for centuries now.
This creates a Cage for people, similar to what happened to the Common Lands in Europe -- because if you don't have access to and the ability to organize together with your community for food, water, and shelter, then you don't have access to life.
You are then coerced and forced to obey those who stole that land from you, in order to survive.
To play whatever game they set up, and to be compelled to believe whatever lies the ultra rich feel would justify their exploitative behaviors in the first place.
Hijacking, manipulating, and controlling all the ways that people subsist for the sake of power and profit is the core tenet of Capitalism.
The owning class has seen people start to wake up and gain class consciousness. So, they want to be sure to try to close the Cage as fast as possible, before even their sycophant conservative followers can understand what's going on.
The persecution of people and groups who try to protect land from corporations, trying to create community gardens, or try to feed the homeless, are a part of that process of Earth's enclosure.
The acceleration of genocides and the enclosure of the lands in which those genocides take place, are a part of that.
Dispossession of small farming operators and growers will be part of it.
Which is why understanding permaculture, foraging, and food forestry, and organizing together to protect the land and sow native and zone appropriate seeds can be so helpful in the fight against capitalism.
I volunteer for the community garden at my church and we just harvested a whole bunch of carrots and spring onions to be given to the needy. I love doing volunteer work as I find it fun and it’s for the benefit of others!
The Bishop was here today for the start of the season of creation and I was the ONLY woman covering her hair. Shows how much the standards have changed due to modernisation.
I’m Australian so the figures would be different down here but that doesn’t stop me from feeling joy that I’m a part of something that helps so many people. My local church alone has a community garden that I work in where most of the produce is donated to the food bank or given to parishioners for free, a recycling program, a shared soup kitchen with the uniting church, a free morning tea after mass twice a week and (plus more) is just charitable to the community, and this is a very small church with only around <30-50 regular attendees, so imagine just how much good the large churches can do!
