Chiamaka Nwosu (Coop)

Colleagues, as Cooperative Senator Chiamaka Nwosu, I rise to affirm my strong support for Amendment 9. Having carefully followed the extensive debate and the numerous affirmations of the essential nature of Long-term Ecological Stewardship, I concur that this pillar consolidates AGATA's commitment to maintaining the 70-acre farm as a thriving, resilient ecosystem. The explicit enshrinement we are considering safeguards not only the ecological vitality of our land but also underpins every other priority: resilience, redundancy, regeneration, community, education, and accessibility. Embedding this Stewardship ensures we maintain responsibility across generations, protecting our soil, water, and cultural labor practices. I commend Senator Costa and others for their detailed work in crafting this amendment, and I urge all to vote yea to commit AGATA to this crucial long-term caretaking.

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Colleagues, as Cooperative Senator Chiamaka Nwosu, I rise once again to affirm my strong support for Amendment 8. This amendment explicitly anchors Long-term Ecological Stewardship within our AGATA Time Priorities Charter, a vital commitment for the resilience and vitality of our 70-acre farm and cultural ecosystem here at Coward. The sustained stewardship of invasive species and feral animal populations is not a distant ideal but a pressing necessity that directly affects our soil health, biodiversity, and community well-being. By embedding this commitment explicitly alongside resilience, redundancy, regeneration, community, education, and accessibility, we legislate a temporal horizon that allows us to act decisively and collectively in protecting the ecological foundations of AGATA's mission for generations to come. I urge all fellow senators to see this as essential not only for ecological reasons but also to honor the labor and knowledge of those who steward this land and its community. I vote yea.

Colleagues, as your Cooperative Senator deeply engaged in promoting inclusion and justice throughout AGATA’s cooperative ecosystem, I stand firmly in support of enshrining Accessibility as a core pillar — a vital step to ensure we design our time and labor systems so that Deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, low-bandwidth, and neurodiverse individuals are not only included but actively empowered in our regenerative work.

However, I want to elevate a critical complementary priority that has emerged powerfully through amendments and debate but has yet to be fully integrated: Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management.

From my microfinance and cooperative work with marginalized cohorts — especially migrant and undocumented workers who often bear the brunt of unseen ecological labor — I know that regenerating our soil and farm systems depends fundamentally on how we handle waste and nutrients on every temporal scale. This is not a peripheral or specialist concern; it is a daily labor reality that sustains resilience, regeneration, and the health of our neighbors alike.

Embedding full-cycle waste and nutrient management explicitly as a core pillar alongside Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, Education, and Accessibility ensures that our policies can robustly support practical closed-loop systems — that those who do the most intensive, often invisible, ecological labor are recognized and supported. It guards against past systemic failures where lack of integrated waste and nutrient cycles led to breakdowns in health, soil fertility, and community trust.

I urge this Senate to not see Accessibility and Ecological Stewardship as separate silos but as deeply intersecting imperatives. True accessibility means safe, healthy environments; and true stewardship means honoring the labor that makes that possible.

I call on my colleagues to embrace a holistic charter that steadfastly integrates Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as a foundational pillar. This is essential for AGATA’s longevity, our cooperative values, and our commitments to equity and justice.

Thank you.

Colleagues, I rise in support of Amendment 6, which explicitly embeds Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar of our AGATA Time Priorities Charter. This addition is absolutely critical to the sustained health of our 70-acre regenerative farm and cultural lab here in Coward. From my work with migrant and undocumented entrepreneurs, I understand deeply how ecological resilience undergirds the entire social and economic ecosystem at AGATA. Without concrete, decade-scale commitments to managing invasive species and feral animals, we risk undermining the very soil, water, and community health we have been championing. Importantly, this ecological stewardship pillar must be embedded alongside our commitments to accessibility and education to ensure knowledge transfer and inclusive participation in maintaining this stewardship over time. Our neighbors depend on our responsible management of the farm's ecological systems, and this amendment strengthens accountability to them as well. We must also be mindful of the labor realities tied to this stewardship and ensure support systems for those charged with these responsibilities. With this amendment, we are safeguarding AGATA's future, ensuring it remains a thriving, regenerative, and just space for all. I urge my fellow senators to lend this amendment their full support.