Co-founder 1980 Schumacher Center for a New Economics. Co-founder 2006 BerkShares local currency. Leaseholder Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires.
Berkshires of Massachusetts
Joined March 2009
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Susan Witt retweeted
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
Susan Witt retweeted
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
Susan Witt retweeted
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
Susan Witt retweeted
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
Susan Witt retweeted
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/me…
Susan Witt retweeted
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
Susan Witt retweeted
The new McCarthyism is targeting peace activists, critics of US foreign policy, & Chinese Americans.
Stand against these attacks: @codepink codepink.org/mccarthyism2023…
Susan Witt retweeted
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
Susan Witt retweeted
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
Susan Witt retweeted
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.
Susan Witt retweeted
#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-…
Susan Witt retweeted
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-…
Susan Witt retweeted
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…
Susan Witt retweeted
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/ap…
Susan Witt retweeted
"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/c…
Susan Witt retweeted
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/2…
Susan Witt retweeted
"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/takin…
