who we are
We are citizens of the human populace, of no particular consequence. We are complicit, in more ways than we can count, in the destruction of the world around us, in the exploitation of finite resources, in the transmutation of organic matter into manufactured compounds of various levels of toxicity and permanence, in the production of untold tons of waste, and in the consumption of water, electricity, soil and food. We contribute to and rely upon the systems our societies have established for obtaining nutrition, housing, transportation and comfort, to the extent we can, because we have had little opportunity to achieve these things by any other means. But we are also people who have chosen, after consideration, to imagine a different way.
We are teachers, and mechanics, and writers, and lawyers, and accountants, and drivers, and assembly line workers. We are designers, and farmers, and parents. We are doctors, and unemployed, and retired, and students. We are builders. There are many things we don’t know, but there is very little that at least some of us don’t know something of, and with every new member that joins, the more we are capable of. We know how to generate action, and shape a narrative, and achieve consensus, and use our hands, and solve problems, because we have been doing these things all our lives – only now, instead of in the service of an employer, we do them in the service of our own future, and we do them together. Individually, we are nothing; collectively, we are something the world has never seen.