“Had to tell you how inspired I was by your workshop at Growing Power a couple of weeks ago. I’ve got several [mushroom] chandeliers in the works….my own design…you gave us the permission to experiment and get creative…for that…thank you!!!
- Lynn Ann Thomas, Seed to Seed Garden, WI
“The Ecology of transformation was a nice event. Combining micro techniques and macro solutions was brillant. […] Hopefully next year the event grows and we get to have a full week”
- John, SEEDS @ Earthdance, MA
“In his workshop on Liberation Ecology, Rafter openly engages with the overlap and interaction of social and environmental oppressions. His presentation is accessible in a way that attracts and grabs hold of your attention, and remains provocatively on your mind long after the workshop session has ended… Rafter is bringing serious analysis and action to a much-neglected connection between social-economic boundaries and environmental degradation.”
- Jen Carson, farmer
“I continue to be amazed by the outcomes of our short Liberation Ecology workshop with Rafter. We identified some underlying issues of ecological design concerning social and economic justice, came together to create succinct design criteria to address these issues, and educated each other about existing projects that are already working to resolve them.”
- Ethan Roland, Appleseed Permaculture
“Rafter’s Liberation Ecology workshop digs to the foundation of late capitalist suicide culture more efficiently, and coherently than any other presentation I’ve seen. His examination of inequity is based on analysis of class, race, gender, damaged soil ecology, distributed solar energy and much more- it’s all there, as of course, it has to be.”
- Kevin Skvorak, Regeneration Farm co-founder
“Liberation Ecology opened my eyes to profound realizations and to connections I had never made before. As a novice, I found it completely accessible and absorbing.”
- Chen Tamir, curator
“I can honestly say that Liberation Ecology is the most exciting thing I’ve [encountered] since stumbling across permaculture; [Rafter] articulate[s] a way of examining a very diffuse nest of problems and issues that I think would resonate with people in a lot of different movements and circles. It gives us a set of ideas and a vocabulary to start with; it’s a form of conceptual empowerment.”
- David Travis, Sustainable Land Stewardship Alliance
“This workshop filled me with a visceral sense of wholeness.”
- Chrisophia Somerfeldt, Ithaca Ecovillage and Ithaca Race Liberation Alliance
“The [workshop] is providing a space for critical cross-movement work; work which I believe is integral to building our capacity for a more intentional, communicative, and dynamic revolutionary struggle for social, racial, economic, and ecological justice.”
- Maggie von Vogt, social worker and anti-racism organizer
