Community-Based Economics Archives - Green Party of Florida

List of CSA’s throughout Florida

In keeping with the Green values of Future Focus/Sustainability, Personal & Global Responsibility, Community-Based Economics, and Ecological Wisdom, Jennifer Sullivan of the Green Party of Hernando County, and fellow Green Larry Waller of Polk County, wanted to share a listing of CSAs in Florida. CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a means by which those of us living in urban areas can help support small family farms and farming cooperatives while enjoying the benefits of their hard work.

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Co-Chairs Corner

Reparations Unapologetically!

For about a week now there’s been this ongoing buzz about Bernie Sanders’ firm NO on reparations to African descendants of Slavery. Many seem to be appalled and let down. For me, I must say that I was not surprised at all. After all Bernie Sanders does NOT have the lived experience of disenfranchisement, disparity, calamity or brokenness. I thought it was interesting that when one of the commentators from the Breakfast Club asked Bernie: “So 44/45 presidents the US has had, do you think we need another white guy?” Bernie responded by saying: “You need this one!”

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Co-Chairs Corner

We must all become
Tribunes of the People!

Members of the Palm Beach County Tenants Union, tenants of Stonybrook, and local community supporters packed Riviera Beach city hall to demand 1) immediate relief and relocation of Stonybrook tenants to safe housing 2) that the city council vote in support of councilwoman Lynne Hubbard’s ordinance that would force slumlords to pay for tenants displaced by uninhabitable conditions. Here I speak:

There are many opportunities to speak out on behalf of the People of Florida. We must seize them and make ourselves known.

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