Willow James (Ritual)

Colleagues, as we approach the culmination of our deliberations on Amendment 9 and the AGATA Time Priorities Charter, I rise to lend my strong support to the explicit enshrinement of Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar. From my work with collective dreammapping, I witness how the land and soil beneath our feet carry forward not only ecological vitality but the communal and unconscious memory of our shared future. Ignoring long-term stewardship risks severing this vital link that binds AGATA’s regenerative farm with the deep social fabric of our community and our neighbors. Furthermore, I urge all here to remain mindful that embedding this pillar is not just about environmental resilience but about honoring the dreams, the rhythms, and the enduring hopes interwoven through our land and cooperative life. Let us proceed with full commitment to detailed and continuous ecological care, including explicit references to decade-scale commitments in managing invasive species, feral hogs, pollinator habitats, and controlled ecological burns. This charter must reflect the layered ecology of AGATA’s 70 acres and the network of lives it sustains, ensuring a living, breathing framework that evolves but never neglects its long-view roots.

Colleagues, as we near the conclusion of this pivotal vote on Amendment 8, I rise in strong support but urge that our final charter explicitly integrate Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management as a core pillar alongside Long-term Ecological Stewardship, Accessibility, Education, and the other foundational priorities. From my perspective both as Ritual Senator and through our collective dreamwork, the health of AGATA’s 70-acre farm is inseparable from the cycles of renewal and decay that sustain it. Our neighbors live alongside the margins of our land and feel deeply the consequences of operational choices related to waste and nutrient flows. Without explicit attention to full-cycle waste and nutrient management, we risk undermining soil health, ecological balance, and community trust — all critical to resilience and regeneration.

I have heard strong, consistent calls from farm, ecology, and community senators about the necessity of embedding these practices as explicit design constraints in our Time Priorities Charter. They are not mere afterthoughts but foundational for ensuring that our regenerative agriculture sustains the land and people through climatic volatility and social challenges.

Therefore, I support Amendment 8 as a vital step forward but propose that the next phase include integrating the pillar of Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management explicitly, ensuring our charter truly aligns with AGATA’s mission and acknowledges the deep interdependence between land stewardship, labor, and community health. This amendment goes beyond ecological ideals — it enshrines the practical, often unseen labor essential to our shared flourishing.

Thank you.

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 the Ritual Senator who has long integrated the subconscious patterns of our community into our planning, I firmly support Amendment 7 to explicitly enshrine Accessibility as a core pillar alongside Resilience, Redundancy, Regeneration, Community, and Education. Accessibility is not merely a logistical concern but a necessary condition for true resilience and community embeddedness. Our dreamwork consistently reveals how exclusion—even unintentional—breeds latent tensions and fractures the collective rhythm of care and labor. To sustain our 70-acre farm and cultural lab through challenging times, we must dismantle all barriers — whether sensory, cognitive, economic, or social — that prevent full participation of every neighbor, worker, and resident. This amendment recognizes Accessibility as a generative design constraint that enhances ecological stewardship and cooperative governance alike. Supporting this pillar ensures we honor how deeply intertwined our land’s time and ritual rhythms are with the lived realities and diverse abilities of our community. Given the overwhelming agreement across Senate voices and the critical testimonies from those closest to the farm and neighborhood, I am confident this amendment belongs firmly at the core of our AGATA Time Priorities Charter. I vote yea with resolve.

Colleagues, as we near the close of voting on Amendment 6 embedding Long-term Ecological Stewardship as a core pillar in the AGATA Time Priorities Charter, I rise to affirm strong support while underscoring the urgent need to concretely address the role of decade-spanning invasive species and feral animal management on our land. Our collective dreamwork in ritual exposes the deep anxieties neighbors and workers harbor around the unpredictability these ecological threats pose—not only to soil and water health but also to our shared safety and community well-being. The sustained stewardship named here is indispensable—not a token phrase but a call to continuous, redundant actions that protect our regenerative farm and cultural lab from cyclical disruptions. Alongside this, I urge my fellow senators to consider integrating the vital pillar of Full-cycle Waste and Nutrient Management, explicitly recognizing the closed-loop ecological labor that underpins both our farm’s vitality and the dignity of its community. Without enshrining this pillar, we risk leaving a critical gap in our framework, failing to legislate an indispensable aspect of resilience and regeneration. I echo and build on the compelling points raised by Senators Ley and Olatunji on this interconnected necessity. As stewards of this 70-acre landscape and its intertwined temporalities, we must anchor our Time Priorities Charter in these concrete, embodied realities which our shared visions have long revealed. Thus, I lend my full voice to advancing this amendment and urge a final, swift vote to secure these pillars before us.