Susan Witt

Three steps members of any community can take to further a just, regenerative economic transition: ✅ Start a #CLT to facilitate land gifting ✅ Organize #CSAs + other Community-Supported Industry to meet needs locally ✅ Issue a #LocalCurrency to foster recirculation + exchange

Alexei Navalny was asked what his message would be to people if he was killed. His response from the Academy Award winning documentary about him directed by @DanielRoher

A full recording of December's Schumacher Conversation, "Regenerating Local Food Economies: Feeding Eight Billion" is now online: @DrVandanaShiva Wes Jackson, @NatureAsMeasure Liz Henderson Severine Von Tscharner @greenhorns youtu.be/i1Nc7c9YGJo

The People’s Forum is honored to welcome President @DiazCanelB on a visit where we shared & exchanged about our political education, cultural work, & internationalist process. We stand together with the Cuban people and their fight for dignity against US aggression! #LetCubaLive

BREAKING: In a huge win for the planet, a judge just dismissed charges against Indigenous leader Winona LaDuke and others for holding a ceremony on ancestral lands while protesting the Line 3 pipeline. "To criminalize this ... would be the crime."⤵️ climatedefenseproject.org/media-alert-ju…

Met a hero today! Jodie Evans. @MsJodieEvans @codepink

This is for Maui, from a far away friend. I am so terribly sorry.

You can attack us. But we will not be cowered. We are billions.

BREAKING: Sen. Marco Rubio calls DOJ to investigate The People’s Forum & other movements. This is part of a right-wing crusade against leading anti-racist, peace & environmental orgs. Sign our collective letter against these McCarthyite smears & attacks! peoplesforum.org/sign-on

The new McCarthyism is targeting peace activists, critics of US foreign policy, & Chinese Americans. Stand against these attacks: @codepink codepink.org/mccarthyism202…

Together with @codepink & @tri_continental, we've launched a public letter standing against the new McCarthyism that is targeting peace activists, critics of US foreign policy & Chinese Americans. Together we can stop the return of the Red Scare! READ HERE peoplesforum.org/sign-on

There are three broad structural conditions that bind architects―no matter their philosophical, discursive, or formal affinities―to an increasingly untenable status quo. First is the discipline’s centuries-long cultivation of spati…lnkd.in/e-sjdhec lnkd.in/ek5zjub3

Fantastic to be a part of the launch of @clt_europe at the @ishf2023 with three of our @CommLandTrusts members @londonclt @hopper_claude @Aya_Rehman and friends from across Europe, with a packed room for the main event and lots of sharing food and ideas.

#CultureHackLabs Issue 02 | Democratizing Monetary Issue by @susanwitt 🌳 Local currencies be a viable alternative to centralized monetary systems? These are examples of successful local interventions to find out what they can teach us. Read now 👉 culturehack.io/issues/issue-0…

With a rising average age of farmers, how can we create a #sustainablefoodsystem for the future? Young people face the difficulty of accessing #farmland. The Harry Conklin Fund aims to solve this issue through a community land trust for farmsteads. tastingtable.com/990285/new-dat…

Indian Line Farm is supporting the Harry Conklin Fund through a raffle for tickets to attend their Outstanding in the Field dinner! Indian Line is a farmstead which was able to access permanent, affordable farmland with the help of the BCLT. theberkshireedge.com/farmers-raisin…

Take a peek at the #communitylandtrust directory created by @Center4NewEcon! This is an important resource which will foster connections between CLTs and provide information to potential homeowners and land donors. centerforneweconomics.org/apply/communit…

"In our region, there is a wonderful model for maintaining farming on land in perpetuity, and that is the @CLTBerkshires' Indian Line Farm..." — Glenn Brockman of @BerksAgVentures in an op-ed for @BerkshireEagle berkshireeagle.com/opinion/column…

How can we combat inflation in the housing industry? Community land trusts keep housing costs in control of the community, rather than an individual landlord. jsonline.com/story/opinion/…

"Local currency can help harness collective power at a more human scale—empowering everyday people to shape and direct the economic futures of their own communities." @ThusSpokeJared wrote in @npquarterly about @BerkShares going digital. Give it a read! nonprofitquarterly.org/taking-local-c…