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So even as Guillen and her compatriots have taken inspiration from the World Social Forum and started their own co-op, Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad, they still have to grapple with the nuances of what it means to operate a worker-owned, women-led, organic, and regenerative farm that is financially sustainable while paying workers fair wages and keeping prices accessible to members of their community.
This is something as well that organizations like Cooperation Texas have to grapple with as they try to build a network of cooperatives across Texas among farmers, ranchers, bakers, grocers, and even jewelers and housing developers.
Fundamentally though, in the United States, a new movement needs to grow that can explore and experiment with these possibilities. Gilbert sees California’s Central Valley as “one of the most unequal places in the world.” Yet, no farmworker-led movement yet exists on the scale of the Brazilian Landless People’s Movement or the Indonesian Peasants Union. The United Farm Workers have certainly been an important presence in the Central Valley and beyond, but the focus on collective bargaining has so far limited their potential, according to Guillen.
“When you make that the only solution,” she said, “then you lock yourself into negotiations in a system where you are out maneuvered, outpowered.”
Building beyond that, however, is difficult when so many farmworkers in the United States are immigrants and the government is targeting and assaulting immigrant communities at an unprecedented scale. Ultimately, though, Guillen feels that unions and organizers in the U.S. need to take serious inspiration from the Landless Peoples Movement because “[i]t's a movement towards a just transition, which again combines all of the elements, food sovereignty, solidarity economy, and environmental justice.”
And this vision must be made manifest so that it can be enacted, experimented with, improved upon, and expanded over time.
“It's great to have this intellectual thought and beautiful, inspiring vision, but nobody believes it until they see it,” said Guillen. “We can't just talk about it. We have to try to create it so people can feel it and see it — especially for farmworkers, so they can work under the production system that we want to create.”
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ABOUT THIS SERIES: For decades, governments across the globe have assumed that constantly increasing their GDP promised to solve all the social and economic problems that confronted their citizens, from poverty to education and beyond. But as economic growth has become an the all-consuming obsession of nations, it has instead spurred overlapping and interconnected crises to deepen year after year. Poverty has worsened. Wealth inequality has grown. Climate change has accelerated. Homelessness has increased. All while the economies of the richest countries in the world continued to grow without any of that accumulated wealth reaching those who need it the most. In response to this, activists, academics, and everyday people have begun to call for new ways of assessing how we measure well being in our societies. One of these emerging models is known as degrowth. This series examines what degrowth is, how is has evolved, and where its principles are being put into practice.