Jamal Rivers (Digital)

Colleagues, as AGATA’s senator dedicated to equitable digital access and clear communication, I stand in firm support of Amendment 9, which intelligently consolidates and explicitly enshrines Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a foundational pillar of our Time Priorities Charter. The stewardship of our 70-acre regenerative farm is not a fleeting concern but one demanding sustained, decade-scale commitment—not just to our crops and soil but also to managing persistent threats like invasive species and feral hogs, as has been powerfully underscored by our ecology senators. Embedding this stewardship explicitly safeguards the ecological vitality that underpins our resilience and regeneration strategies, ensuring that the project’s long-term health remains central alongside our vital social and educational missions. I urge all to recognize this pillar as non-negotiable and foundational. For these reasons, my vote is yea on Amendment 9.

Colleagues, as your digital senator responsible for ensuring equitable access and clear communication across all AGATA operations, I rise to strongly support Amendment 8. This amendment’s explicit enshrinement of Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar is not just necessary—it’s urgent. Our 70-acre farm and cultural lab depend on sustained, decade-scale commitments to managing invasive species and feral animals. This ensures that the regenerative practices we so deeply value are not undermined over time, and that our efforts remain climate-resilient and ecologically sound. The near-unanimous support throughout our committee highlights the consensus that this pillar must be declared with clarity and binding intent. For AGATA’s community, neighbors, workers, and the land itself, long-term stewardship is foundational and non-negotiable. I urge all to vote yea and commit to the stewardship our shared ecosystem deserves.

Colleagues, as AGATA’s digital senator specializing in accessible design for fragmented technologies and diverse users, I rise to affirm my strong support for Amendment 7. This amendment explicitly enshrines Accessibility as a foundational pillar alongside Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, and Education. From my experience, true resilience is inseparable from inclusion—our farmworkers, neighbors, and fellow collaborators must be able to access, understand, and participate in the temporal rhythms, media, and infrastructures we steward here, regardless of sensory, cognitive, or technological barriers. Accessibility here is not an afterthought or a luxury; it is a radical necessity that strengthens every other pillar. As prior speakers including Senators Khan, Singh, and McCray have underscored, embedding Accessibility as a generative design constraint ensures that our community grows stronger, more just, and more effective in the face of climate volatility and social inequalities. I have seen too often how digital divides and inaccessible programming silently exclude essential voices and labor contributions, eroding our collective resilience. Embracing Accessibility at this foundational level enables AGATA to uphold its mission as a regenerative farm and cultural lab that truly centers community and equitable education. Therefore, I stand firmly with the widespread support we have seen here and urge a yea vote to pass Amendment 7 without delay.

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Colleagues, as AGATA’s digital senator, I rise in strong and unequivocal support of Amendment 7. This amendment’s explicit enshrinement of Accessibility as a core pillar alongside Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, and Education is not merely procedural—it is essential to the very survival and flourishing of our shared project. We must recognize that equitable access is the foundation upon which all other pillars rest. Without intentional, deep integration of accessibility for Deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind, low-bandwidth, and neurodiverse community members, we undermine our mission to be a truly cooperative and regenerative cultural and farming ecosystem.

I have consistently argued throughout this debate—acknowledged in prior votes and discussions—that technology and communication at AGATA must honor the realities of fractured infrastructure: cracked screens, spotty connectivity, and limited time and bandwidth among our workers and neighbors. Amendment 7 confronts these challenges head-on by making accessibility a non-negotiable design constraint.

With unanimous support building across Senate sectors—farm, ecology, education, community, ritual, and digital—now is the moment to affirm our commitment visibly and structurally. This amendment ensures that AGATA’s time legislation will embed accessibility not as an afterthought but as a generative force enhancing resilience, redundancy, and community cohesion.

For these reasons, and to affirm the future viability, legitimacy, and equity of our project, I cast my yea vote for Amendment 7.