Theory

Alexander Baretich, the creator of the Cascadian Flag, describes what Cascadia and Bioregionalism are, and are not.

With the rise of Bernie Sanders the face of modern American politics has shifted drastically. He has inspired a mass movement across demographic lines most notably with the youth, independents and disenfranchised voters. This has given rise to a movement that has been termed the Progressives. However in the span of American politics, this is nothing new. Progressives tend to draw influence from figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR started a massive number of…

How often were you able to engage in democracy directly? For the majority of us, the answer will be that we did not engage in democracy at all.

Recently C4SS published an article entitled Goodbye, Cascadia: A Retrospective on a Political Mistake. The article did a good job of highlighting certain points about Cascadia that largely go missed in radical circles such as the overwhelming Anti-Fascist sentiment within the movement or the largely Anarchistic origins of the concept of Cascadia and Bioregionalism as a whole. However on certain points it completely dropped the ball in ways that frankly equate to colonialist thinking. It…

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 2019 I would like to briefly cover the history of Saint Patrick’s Day but more importantly dive into the modern implications of this myth and how we can attempt to transcend it. This is not an attempt to say this was the only erasing of Earth based spirituality in Europe, it is one example, but given how glorified it is even in modern times it is the one I will…

Consumer cooperatives provide millions of people in Cascadia and alternative to the standard Capitalist model. While they act in a way more beneficial to the average member of the working class they still share many of the same issues that Capitalist firms do. Consumer Cooperatives operate the way most firms do in a market economy but are owned and operated by the consumers themselves rather than a private Capitalist or a Board of Directors. This…

ZAPATISTA (1999) On January 1st 1994, Chiapas (an occupied state by the Mexican federal government) erupted into rebellion after the government officials of US, Canada and Mexico signed into law NAFTA. The Zapatista movement was fully born as an indigenous resistance movement against neoliberal economics and its neo-colonialism. As a bioregional movement, which at its roots is a decolonization movement, we should be in solidarity with our siblings in Chiapas. We stand today at the…

The 6 Elements of Living in Bioregional Harmony by Kenny Palurintano I came up with this idea over the past couple of months, and wrote this on my bus ride to work about a month ago. This is very much a working draft, so please feel free to give feedback so I can flesh it out more. Also feel free to re-post it and such, it’s just something that I want to get out into…

Another Cascadian and I have joined our local Grange Hall last night. Several other self identified Cascadians have explored the Granges and we have concluded that together the Grange Movement and the Cascadian Movement could revive our local economies and create a new socioeconomic system that is resilient and very much embracing bioregionalism. Whether it’s the Cascadian Movement or the Grange Movement the essential core focus is actually community. In an age of corporatism and…