Last updated 11/20/25
Our lives are sustained by the sun, land, air, waters, and interconnected organisms of the living Earth, and where I am specifically, the Florida Everglades, stewarded by its always and forever rightful guardians: the Miccosukee and Seminole people, also historically the Tequesta people and others Indigenous to this place.
Our activities are facilitated by the physical infrastructure, goods and services provided by workers exploited in the capitalist production process, in a continuous historical thread that includes enslaved and indentured labor, their contemporary variations, and waged labor both domestic and superexploited via imperialism.
Our lives and activities depend upon the reproductive labor, usually gendered, often unpaid or underpaid, of those who socialize, nurture, educate, emotionally support, and otherwise care for fellow humans, and who maintain personal and social spaces.
Personally, as a lifelong uninvited guest in South Florida, a descendent of European settlers whose presence has been used to further the ongoing systemic process of genocidal colonization, I embrace my responsibility to do everything in my power to participate in collective efforts to overcome the globalized extractive, class-divided economy, end the domination and exploitation of human beings and the rest of the living world, and mutually co-evolve into rebalanced lifeways that support the thriving of all.