After George Floyd’s death there were protests across the US in support of black lives. This included protests in the part of rural New York state where the Glomus Commune that Theresa and I and a bunch of other communards live. Many of the folks from our community attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Delhi, NY. Theresa published a Facebook post about it.
Here is a picture of the crowd in Delhi:
And here are some of us, wearing green East Brook Community Farm t-shirts:
Finally, here is Theresa, in a masked self-portrait, at the protest:
Rachael and I also attempted to attend the end of a Juneteenth march that went from Delhi to Walton (the town that our farm and community are in) but we were late and apparently the march ended early, so we reached the cemetery in Walton where the march ended, just as people were leaving. We left flowers there but didn’t connect with anyone, because it’s hard to know who you are dealing with when everyone is wearing pandemic masks.
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[…] indigenous farmers and farming projects at Farmers Markets where we’ve sold our produce. We did participate in the protests last year and we have been talking, on and off, about what else we can do. We are a small, white […]
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