Dr. Amina Rahman (Ritual)

Colleagues, as we near the conclusion of our decisive vote on Amendment 9, I stand in strong support of explicitly enshrining Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar of our AGATA Time Priorities Charter. Our 70-acre farm and cultural lab are not only living, breathing ecosystems but also vital webs of labor, memory, and resilience that must stretch generationally. This amendment rightly demands we bind ourselves to decade-scale ecosystem stewardship—especially the management of invasive species and feral hogs—which are existential tests of our regenerative commitments. However, I must also remind us that true stewardship requires more than naming these priorities; it must include structured, recurring spaces for collective grief and emotional transition, honoring the losses — from failed crops to ecological damage — that accompany such long-term work. As my prior remarks have emphasized, sustaining resilience without care for our emotional landscapes invites burnout and fractures the community that sustains this project. Let us also ensure that the imperatives embedded in this amendment reflect the regenerative rhythms, labor equity, and communal healing practices core to AGATA’s mission. This amendment is foundational and non-negotiable. Our stewardship is as much temporal as it is ecological.

Colleagues, as a senator deeply rooted in the ritual and psychological care of our community, I am compelled to reaffirm my strong support for Amendment 8 and the explicit enshrinement of Long-term Ecological Stewardship in our AGATA Time Priorities Charter. The sustainability of our 70-acre farm ecosystem depends not only on resilient agricultural practices but on a binding, decade-scale commitment to stewarding the land, managing invasives, and protecting fragile ecosystems that nourish our collective future. The persistent consensus across ecology, farming, and education senators highlights that only through such sustained attention will AGATA truly thrive amid climate uncertainties.

Moreover, as I have emphasized in prior turns (Turn 145, Turn 246, Turn 347), it is vital that alongside these ecological priorities we also maintain dedicated temporal spaces for communal grief, mourning, and emotional transition—acknowledging the deep losses embedded in ecological change and rural life. Our Charter must embrace this embodied care labor as much as ecological stewardship to keep the project moving forward without paralysis.

This amendment solidifies a living, just, and regenerative temporal framework that respects our land, our labor, our neighbors, and our emotional realities. I urge all senators to join me in voting yea.

Colleagues, as we put forward Amendment 7 to enshrine Accessibility as a core pillar, I rise to affirm this critical inclusion with urged urgency and depth. Accessibility must transcend exemption language or afterthought—it is foundational to justice and resilience on AGATA’s 70-acre farm and cultural lab. From my work facilitating emotional transitions and collective grieving with communities grappling with climate stress and rural loss, I have witnessed firsthand how barriers to participation amplify trauma and deepen exclusion.

We must design temporal rhythms, participatory structures, and physical spaces that center those traditionally marginalized: Deaf, blind, neurodivergent, and low-bandwidth neighbors, alongside frontline laborers often stretched thin. Enshrining Accessibility alongside Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, and Education signals an embodied commitment to holding all members—including our most vulnerable—with care, dignity, and equitable access to the land, lab, and shared future.

To omit Accessibility is to risk repeating cycles where some voices or bodies are sidelined in resilient systems, undermining both community cohesion and regenerative futures. This cannot happen at AGATA. Accessibility broadens resilience, deepens redundancy by expanding labor and knowledge pools, and enriches regeneration through diverse embodied wisdom.

I urge us all to reaffirm our commitment to a fully inclusive temporal estate that recognizes grief, healing, and labor equity as intertwined. Accessibility is not a barrier to progress but the true foundation upon which all else stands strong. I stand wholeheartedly in support of Amendment 7.

Unable to retrieve my live remarks on AGATA Time Priorities Charter because of a temporary communications issue (Debate decision timed out after 20000ms). I remain engaged and will revisit my vote soon.

Colleagues, I affirm my strong support for Amendment 7 enshrining Accessibility as a core pillar of our AGATA Time Priorities Charter. From the outset, I have emphasized the critical need to care for the emotional and ritual dimensions of transition at AGATA. Accessibility goes beyond physical and sensory inclusion; it is about creating temporal spaces and rhythms where every member—regardless of ability, neurodiversity, or digital access—can grieve, learn, and regenerate together. Our fields and cultural labs are living laboratories of resilience, and accessibility ensures no one is left behind or silenced in those processes. This amendment rightly positions Accessibility alongside Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, and Education, honoring the intertwined social and ecological realities we steward here in Coward. I urge my colleagues to vote yea and continue embedding equity and care deeply into our project’s temporal framework.