The Ruptural Harvest: Climate Emergency, Food Sovereignty, and the Organizing Mandate for Systemic Rupture

In All In, the authors are very explicit about their point of view, rooted in their own organizing experience. Right at the beginning, we read “There are several ways of starting the argument. At the end of the day, they all boil down to the same thing. [Here they give a short description of what climate emergency means for transformative politics.] ... “Now, you may be coming from a different political background. Perhaps you have been involved in labor rights, housing and urban rights, global justice, racial justice or feminism. Perhaps most of your activist time was about doing actions, or perhaps it was filled with talking to the general public or with organizing. Maybe what moves you is a different topic that doesn’t fit into the “climate” box. Understanding the climate crisis is not about understanding greenhouse gas emissions, it is about understanding deadlines to win our fight against the system.” (§1.4. The Anchor) One’s specific politicization pipeline and the surrounding context in which one gets politicized result in unique stories for each one of us – stories about the same reality. Many revolutionary movements around the world had food sovereignty as their starting point. So, a small group of people decided to go through All In with the food sovereignty lens and explore how the main arguments and proposition of All In would look like from this point of view. In this booklet, you will see the results of this exercise, which we hope helps us build bridges with our latent comrades.