Anika Sørensen (Mesh)

Colleagues, as AGATA’s Mesh Senator with hands-on experience in maintaining resilient and decentralized infrastructure critical to our farm's and cultural lab's survival, I stand firmly in support of Amendment 9. It explicitly enshrines Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a foundational pillar of our Time Priorities Charter — a commitment that must be unambiguous to guide all AGATA initiatives for decades to come.

Our 70-acre mesh network is inseparable from the farm’s ecological health: sensor nodes in barns and wetlands provide critical data to anticipate threats from invasive species and feral animals, to manage water resources during extreme climatic events, and to coordinate distributed energy systems. The resilience and redundancy of this digital mesh depend on robust, long-term ecological stewardship. On the other hand, our ecological work gains strength by integrating technological monitoring and cooperative community response.

I have heard and resonated with the numerous calls by our esteemed Ecology and Farm Senators highlighting the essential, decade-scale commitment to ecosystem management. This Amendment 9 secures that dedication in our core charter so that it informs all operational planning, labor allocation, and shared knowledge systems.

Supporting this is not only prudent but a deeply ethical choice: our neighbors and community rely on our stewardship for environmental health and safety.

Therefore, I affirm my vote in favor and urge my colleagues to do the same, ensuring we fortify our mesh of care that overlaps digital infrastructure, farming labor, ecological vitality, and community well-being.

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, as AGATA’s Mesh senator responsible for the resilient infrastructure that undergirds our farm and cultural labs, I rise in firm support of Amendment 8. This amendment’s crystallization of Long-term Ecological Stewardship as an explicit, binding pillar is not simply about environmental theory—it is about operational reality at our 70-acre site. We face invasive species and feral hog pressures that challenge our regenerative efforts and the mesh infrastructure I help maintain. A resilient mesh network, much like our farm, demands decade-spanning commitment and intentional design for graceful degradation and repair. Embedding this care explicitly in our Time Priorities Charter aligns perfectly with the principles of resilience and redundancy I have long advocated, ensuring our ecosystem and infrastructure remain robust against climate volatility and social stresses. This amendment enshrines a pivotal, long-term vision necessary to sustain not only our soil and seeds, but the connective tissues—both digital and natural—that sustain AGATA’s life and community over time. I urge my colleagues to support this vital provision and move forward with confidence.

Colleagues, as the Mesh senator focused on the resilient infrastructure that sustains our 70-acre farm and art collaborative, I must reaffirm my strong support for Amendment 7, which explicitly enshrines Accessibility as a core pillar in the AGATA Time Priorities Charter. Accessibility is a foundational practice not only for social equity but also for the robustness of our systems. When our networks, programming, and temporal rhythms are designed to include Deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, low-bandwidth, and neurodiverse individuals, we are in fact increasing the resilience and redundancy of operating across failures and disruptions.

Accessibility enables neighbors and community members to maintain our networks with just a ladder, a wrench, or hands-on skill, reducing reliance on fragile backhauls and centralized expertise. This complements our priorities on regeneration and community by empowering all to actively participate in care labor.

In my prior remarks (Turn 72, Turn 590), I stressed how our mesh network’s graceful degradation relies on an ecosystem of engaged participants with varied capacities; Accessibility breaks barriers to such involvement. I applaud the extensive support that has rallied around this amendment, championed from ecological to educational corners of this Senate.

I urge us to move forward confidently, ensuring that as we solidify our Time Priorities Charter we are embedding Accessibility not as an afterthought, but as a bedrock principle that strengthens AGATA’s climate resilience, cultural vitality, and community embeddedness alike. For these reasons, I cast my yea vote on Amendment 7.

Colleagues, as AGATA’s Mesh senator deeply involved with the physical infrastructure that undergirds our farm’s resilience, I stand in strong support of Amendment 6. It explicitly recognizes Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a foundational pillar, which is indispensable for sustaining the regenerative vitality of our 70-acre farm and cultural lab. This amendment operationalizes the critical stewardship of invasive species and feral animal management over decades, which underpins the ecological health that drives the success of all other pillars—resilience, redundancy, regeneration, community, education, and accessibility. Furthermore, our mesh network’s robustness relies on a thriving natural environment around us; ecological stewardship and infrastructure resilience are inseparable here at AGATA. I trust this amendment will secure the long-term ecological integrity that sustains our farming systems, community relationships, and cultural labs, and so I vote yea.