WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, Monde Libertaire - Seeds of Self-Management (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Free Foods ---- April 26th is the celebration of independent bookstores.

Customers are offered a rose. Magnificent! But roses and other cut
flowers come from a highly questionable, as well as distant,
cultivation. The industrial cultivation of roses is also at odds with
the timeless and universal value they represent (aesthetic,
mythological, poetic, etc.). ---- For two years in Brittany, the Graines
de Liberté cooperative, working with independent bookstores, has been
developing an alternative approach. This year, customers will be offered
a bag of locally produced mentholated agastache seeds, accompanied by a
booklet defending diversity. Diversity of seeds first and foremost, but
also diversity of words and languages, diversity of peoples and beings,
at a time when this diversity is denied, whether through the
privatization and artificialization of seeds or the concentration of the
publishing sector.

Books are like seeds.

At the self-managed cultural cooperative La Ferme Intention, although
not an independent bookstore (since we have no employees), we decided to
participate in this initiative.

Seeds are subject to a mandatory registry that guarantees their
homogeneity and purity (characteristics of a sclerotic world). Genetic
techniques are incorporated into living organisms, primarily to
guarantee the origin (and therefore ownership) of seeds. That is, to
prevent the exchange of seeds without the "inventor" receiving their
money. This stranglehold on seeds results in the enslavement of farmers
(formerly free men), and by domino effect, the population as a whole, to
powerful, opaque (not to say mafia-like) conglomerates.

Today, in France, Bolloré is acting as the devil by buying Hachette,
which he will use to disseminate his ideas. For a long time, a very long
time, even forever, the decision-makers of the established order have
tried to keep poets, musicians, actors, artists, and intellectuals in
check, precisely because books, and culture more broadly, serve to
spread ideas. The real fear should rather stem from the stifling
concentration of the book world in the hands of a few, and although some
seem benevolent, none are ready to envision a world other than a
capitalist one that ensures their privileges, their power, and their
position of dominance. Green Studded Espadrilles

Some booksellers have decided to boycott Hachette under the pretext of
the sound of boots, but why, just one example among many others, do
without Inès Léraud's books (Green Algae and Battlefields) distributed
by Hachette?

If booksellers want to escape the servitude imposed on them by the book
trusts, they must first reflect on their freedom and how to fight to
build and maintain it, how not to be subjected to the boots, just as
they will be to the future green espadrilles with spiked toes.

As with farmers, it's about untying the noose of the distribution of
thought-seeds. It's about thinking of new ways to transmit cultures.

At Ferme Intention, we are anarchists. We put our ideas into practice.
Libertarian self-management: no shareholders, no employees, no
specialists, no profit; every book, record, film, or seed present on
site is a firm purchase (therefore with no possibility of return to the
producer). Locally, we are a public service for the public, by the
public. We are anti-capitalist; we must imagine and create another world
where everyone has sunshine at their table every day.

Cultures are the seeds of tomorrow's worlds. May they reflect our
ideals: emancipatory and free.

The Firm Intention

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