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mornin y’all. I know a lot of you are Bay Area based and a friend of a friend just put together this really cool project. Pacifism and wishing we lived in a world without violence will not be delivering our vulnerable beloved to safety. Please consider donating or sharing this campaign so people who might benefit from it can apply 🦋🤍

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A brave group of Greek factory workers provide an example for Britain, and all of Europe, in taking back workplace control

At the height of the Greek crash in 2011, staff at Viome clocked in to confront an existential quandary. The owners of their parent company had gone bust and abandoned the site, in the second city of Thessaloniki. From here, the script practically wrote itself: their plant, which manufactured chemicals for the construction industry, would be shut. There would be immediate layoffs, and dozens of families would be plunged into poverty. And seeing as Greece was in the midst of the greatest economic depression ever seen in the EU, the workers’ chances of getting another job were close to nil. So they decided to occupy their own plant. Not only that, they turned it upside down. For a start, no one is boss. There is no hierarchy, and everyone is on the same wage. Factories traditionally work according to a production-line model, where each person does one- or two-minute tasks all day, every day: you fit the screen, I fix the protector, she boxes up the iPhone. Here, everyone gathers at 7am for a mud-black Greek coffee and a chat about what needs to be done. Only then are the day’s tasks divvied up. And, yes, they each take turns to clean the toilets. When the workers consulted the local community about what they should start to produce, one request was to stop making building chemicals. They now largely manufacture soap and eco-friendly household detergents: cleaner, greener and easier on their neighbours’ noses. Staff use the building as an assembly point for local refugees, and I saw the offices being turned over to medics for a weekly free neighbourhood clinic for workers and locals. The Greek healthcare system has been shredded by spending cuts, its handling of refugees sometimes atrocious; yet in both cases, the workers at Viome are doing their best to offer substitutes. Where the state has collapsed, the market has come up short and the boss class has literally fled, these 26 workers are attempting to fill the gaps. These are people who have been failed by capitalism; now they reject capitalism itself as a failure.

The Viome plant is still going strong, and distributing their products across Europe to this day

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An important addition to this post, the Vio.Me factory has been cut off from the power grid by the government in April, and are running on generators at the moment, while producing soap and cleaning supplies that they donate to prisons and refugee camps that have been left to rot duting the pandemic by the same government.

They have set up a crowd funding campaign here: https://power.viomecoop.com/

We are asking for the help of the global movement in restoring the power or acquiring a generator, so that we can continue the production without obstacles and also help us become more independent. We therefore call all unions, collectives, Greek, European and global comrades to help in obtaining a generator with biodiesel capability. Solidarity is our weapon! — In solidarity, Workers at Viome Coop

And here’s their post about the power shutdown: http://www.viome.org/2020/04/immediate-restoration-of-power-to-viome.html

VIOME won’t shut down for some power cables. The solidarity of the people already gave us an electric generator and we are running again, we are starting producing and we are preparing the restoration of power with every means available.

IMMEDIATE RESTORATION OF POWER WITH A BILL IN OUR NAME FULL LEGALIZATION OF THE FACTORY FOR PRODUCTION WITHOUT HINDRANCES WE URGE YOU ALL TO SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY You can support our struggle by purchasing VIOME products in the link: https://www.viomecoop.com VIOME WILL REMAIN IN THE WORKERS’ HANDS

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A similar story played out in Argentina, and this 2004 doc details it:

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There are a lot of examples of this - so many that there’s an entire website dedicated to documenting and organizing them, workerscontrol.net

If this interests you, you should really look through their archives. There are a lot of stories, including one occupation in Chicago in 2012 (for the person in the comments saying this could never happen in America), plus lots of discussion of the strategy and theory behind it

EDIT: Their website, though still a great archive, weirdly hasn’t updated since early 2017. Neither has their twitter, but weirdly their fedbook is still active

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Scientists are skeptical of the plan

“You don’t need to plant a tree to regenerate a forest,” Fleischman tells The Verge. Forests can heal on their own if they’re allowed to, he says, and these forests end up being more resilient and more helpful in the climate fight than newly planted plots of trees. He argues that the best way to ensure there are enough trees standing to trap the carbon dioxide heating up the planet is to secure the political rights of people who depend on forests — primarily indigenous peoples whose lands are frequently encroached upon by industry and governments.

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(Also trees aren’t the answer to everything - for example, much of North America is predisposed to being ancient grassland and prairie: restoration of native ecosystems can begin with humans, incorporate humans and grow with humans, following indigenous leadership and the native tendencies of the natural biome - and not necessarily terraforming the world into a mossy Tolkienesque English woodland. The healed prairie will not become an “unspoiled” European forest, but a living prairie in a thoughtful relationship with people. Healing is not synonymous with forests, it is not synonymous with emptiness. The mental picture of the green future should be the restoration of ecosystems, and ecosystems are diverse, and they include people.

This is a passionate, somewhat niche sentiment of mine, and you’ll be familiar with it if you have heard my rants about the Grass Fandom.

This is actually touched on in the OP article, when it is mentioned that some of the proposed trees would have to be placed on Savannah and grasslands.

Savannahs and grasslands are actually decent carbon sinks, since they grow quickly and have deep roots that store carbon in the dirt. And they are also vital and important in their own right, as living ecosystems. So landscaping them into artificial forests to absorb our emissions will not be a Healed Landscape. It will be a terraformed landscape.

Then you need to think about what an ecosystem is: plants, animals, geology, human culture. You need to think about who OWNS that land, if land can be owned. And the people and animals who depend on savannahs to live have every right to say, “destroying MY home ecosystem (with trees) to offset YOUR corporate pollution is not fair. It isn’t for the good of the planet; it’s for the convenience of YOU, because you equate planting trees with easy absolution, instead of the more difficult work of reparation and restoration” and that is a LOT for an antelope to say! It’s putting a lot of unreasonable pressure on antelopes!

To put it another way, the best way to restore ecosystems is to learn from people who know their local ecosystems very well, and to enable the use of this knowledge to heal the ecosystem. Trees are great, but they aren’t the default landscape. And we should move our mental images of “the future healed world” AWAY from the mossy European elvish forest, and TOWARDS restored biomes with their diversity of plants and geology.)

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Yes!!! In the last couple of years I have been educating myself on the ways that white conservation efforts have harmed and oppressed indigenous people who are the true experts on how to protect and preserve their land and ecosystems.

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This is all absolutely true, but I can foresee people going “Hurr durr planting trees is bad” now because people are binarist with no concept of nuance, so I’m just going to weigh in.

We cannot wait for forests to recover naturally, because we are in a state of climate emergency. We need the trees now. And us planting them is not mutually exclusive with also letting forests regenerate naturally, or avoiding planting on grasslands or wetlands that need to stay, and especially with giving indigenous people autonomy to manage the lands the right ways. We can, in fact, do both. And we need to.

Plus, this is not touching on land that is industrially degraded and needs trees. This is the field I’m published in - mine spoil is dead soil that’s denser than concrete in places, polluted with heavy metals and highly, highly resistant to plant growth, especially grasses. Decades upon decades after being installed, the damn things will look like lunar landscapes, and they carry a collapse risk that can kill villages below them, like at Aberfan.

The only thing that reclaims them is trees, but we need to plant them in. Anthropogenic problem, anthropogenic solution.

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This is where capitalism ruins everything as usual though. Because when most tree planting is primarily done to make businesses look good (from ‘compensate your flight’ bullshit to ‘plant a tree’ search engines) who want every tree to be as cheap as possible, and NGOs are forced to have roughly the same cost efficiency per tree to keep up their image, tree planting becomes a harmful business on its own. So even when indigenous rights are respected - which they so often aren’t - you get shit like

Grow a monoculture of quick-growing trees on cheap soil using harmful fertilizers, exploiting laborers, harming local drinking water sources, etc

Ship trees on diesel-driven trucks or ships across multiple countries to a planting location

Monoculture of mediocre trees lacks the resilience to become a healthy forest and reaches nowhere near the CO2 capture promised

Who cares? We planted a million trees!

We may need CO2 capture now, but we also need resilient ecosystems that can withstand the climate chaos that will most certainly happen and help us through to the other side. & as usual, capitalist systems are not giving us what we need.