My Grandparents had a Grade 4 Education
I belong to the peasant class.
Today in Labor History February 10, 1892: Four farmworkers were executed during the repression following the January 8 uprising in Jerez, Andalusia, setting off new waves of violence. In January, hundreds of farm workers calling for "social revolution," took over Jerez. On September 24, 1893, anarchist Paulí Pallàs tried to assassinate Catalonia Captain General Arsenio Martínez Campos during a military parade in Barcelona in retaliation for the state repression of the Jerez uprising.
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→ The planet, and human social life, depend on #peasant #farmers
https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-and-human-social-life-depend-on-peasant-farmers
“Peasants, who directly manage about 10% of the land on Earth […] supply a countervailing principle to corporate extractionism and short-termism. They also preserve critical local #knowledge of land and #weather systems, and the interactions of #plants and #animals. The #peasantry is one of #humanity’s most crucial #economic, #social and #ecological resources […]”