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Churches & Spiritual Faiths:

If you are or have been a church, or spiritual individual, and you’re poisoning your lawn or water, you are not doing your best for your own cause. Call the companies and stop. Demonstrate the garden of Eden around your church as much as you may, planting God’s creation with many food-producing perennial plants that take less maintenance than a lawn. Your spiritual beliefs can be made more practical and God’s word can become more manifest. Provide a real sense of hope for humanity. The many religions of the world can all agree on this, they need to come together against the destruction of nature and become a catalyst for the idea whose time has come, organizing for peace instead of war.


Prisons & Jailing Systems:

In prisons, the recidivism rate in one study where the inmates were working in the gardens for a few years, went from over 60% to under 10%. A quote from the study: “I grew up in the Lower East Side... Then I lived in the Bronx. Basically, everywhere I went, where were the middle to lower class neighborhoods, there’s not much garden designs like the one I had seen at Rikers. And the ducks. And the rabbits. It was like I saw life in a whole different way. I started waking up- seeing things… learning about plants and learning more about life- it made my spirit lifted. It lifted up my spirit just being with plants. My whole life changed. I was around plants and beautiful things. I started being more aware of what life is about. You know, I started noticing the trees and the birds. It just... it was a whole new world for me” (Laichter, 2008, p. 41)
Landscaping in Lockup: The Effects of Gardening Programs on Prison Inmates, Arcadia University. Also details “eco-therapy” https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005
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Political Institutions & Politicians:

If you are or have been involved in any way with politics, this is the biggest opportunity ever to share the real solutions. Imagine claiming that we can cut crime (recidivism) by over 50% in the next 4 years, that we can end hunger, that we can truly free the people, or that we can remove poisons from our schools. Criminals can cultivate their own food, and there won’t be need for taxpayer money. The practical skills, their service to others and positive self-esteem will make them valuable to employers upon their rehabilitation. Similarly, students in schools can learn how to grow their own food, and see the value in taking care of the world they live in. Subjects such as biology, environmental science, nutrition, mathematics, economics and art could be integrated within. Children can experience planting a seed, watching it turn into life and grow, getting hands on and connecting with nature. Public areas of society could have shared gardening spaces, which promotes social interaction, knowledge sharing and contributing to local food banks and community feeding programs. People’s lawns could be encouraged to be turned into food forests. Instead of knocking on doors for political campaigns, consider a campaign of handing out cuttings of plants or providing self-empowering educational material. If you are in politics and allowing poisons in communities which you claim to serve and protect, you are not doing your best for your own cause. The unifying concept of voluntaryism and the principle of self-ownership could be shared, to help people see why politics has resulted in the bloodiest of wars and has not made us more free, but only made people more servile, dependent on others to change the world for them. Provide a real sense of hope for humanity. Let’s empower people by educating and inspiring them, showing them a very different way by encouraging non-violent solutions not ever by the use of “authority” or “law” but by “the people” themselves and the many great resources they need only know and will come to use for themselves as they see fit within their own lives. You are much more than the title, class or identity you presume, know this, know thyself.
CAMPAIGN ONE-PAGERS

Local campaigns for politicians spend a few thousand dollars on just signs, whereas state or national campaigns can spend tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars for just signs. Overall, in 2020 for the federal elections, $14.4 billion dollars were spent, whereas in the midterm in 2022, $8.9 billion dollars were spent. How many people could we feed and heal instead? Many strategies and overview for any government employees: https://artofliberty.substack.com/p/what-can-government-employees-local 


Military & Defense Industries:

If you are or have been in anyway associated with the military, to defend your country or those abroad, this is the best thing you can do. The war is here with ourselves and our minds, it commonly takes place with the lawns right in front of our houses. Let’s supplant guns and bullets for shovels and seeds, for real safety. To claim that you are, or have been “fighting for freedoms,” ask yourself why you would fight people you don’t know in another country. Are they not brothers and sisters? If it’s to defend our freedoms, but we aren’t free, then what are you really fighting for? If you are fighting for freedom or defending freedom in another place, but we aren’t even free ourselves and the battlefield is ignored though being right in front of us, you are not doing your best for your own cause. What about the nonviolent resistance or civil disobedience strategies that may not even require any military? What about the traumatic, depressed and suicidal veterans who struggle? What about the millions of order-followers who carried out the tyrannical orders of a few leaders in World War 2, despite going in with good intentions for their family and believing that their cause was righteous? Voluntaryism demonstrates to us that violence and “authority” is not going to solve the problem of violence and “authority.” Order-following is the pathway to every greatest evil. Governments replace governments, and the world becomes ever more bloody. Provide a real sense of hope for humanity. We will win this war, and with more soldiers than any war ever seen in history, if we inspire our friends, family and neighbors to simply use their resources wisely. Without statism, without scarcity, without fear and without division, there cannot be war.


Medical Institutions & Practitioners:

If you are or have been in anyway involved with medicine and health, you signed up to heal and there is no better way to heal the world than through the mass adoption of food forests. The nurses can use the nursery of plants around them, the hospital can be hospitable. Rather than the expensive technology which does not appeal to the patient and their senses, we can have plants which continually filter the air, make our moods better, while providing endless local, clean, natural, direct, affordable or free, medicine and food. Our sterilized environments could feel invigorating and enlightening instead of draining, for a full mind-body healing experience in both the provider and patient. We won’t need to supplement from foods exported across the world, or do endless lab tests on chemical compounds which have been extracted and altered from such foods. If you stand for health, and you are allowing yourself and your patients to be poisoned in the environments local to you such as with the mere lawn, you are not doing your best for your own cause. Drugs creating more need for drugs, diet continually causing disease, expensive surgeries and treatments, lack of personal care, doctors who look unhealthy themselves, medical industries claiming they are helping more people than ever signifying the fact more people are sick, medicines people have not even heard of that could be grown locally or medicines not allowed by the government, this is not happiness, this is not healthiness. Provide a real sense of hope for humanity. Food independence is health independence, and this is real independence, as a life which is burdened by disease or need for medicine is a life not free.