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This is my second of two articles looking at first blockades and now sabotage to keep oil in the ground, expand Indigenous anarchist control of autonomous territories, and nurture new natures

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To face the production of plastic mats in factories (unending, massive, disposable, ecologically damaging) with a grassy per- sistence (tenacious, expansive, rooted, ecological).

Thukul’s poem made perfect sense for elaborating Sumatran peasant movements’ relation to ideas of degrowth, this choice of grounding oneself in a material fabric of plastic (state, corporation, industry, fossil fuel) or grass (community, union, artisanal, ecological).

"Plastic mat, grass mat, plastic mat, grass mat, a symbol of two forces. Plastic mat, grass mat, we sit facing each other. Plastic mats are made in factories, grass mats are woven by hand. Plastic mats are pressed nonstop, grass mats still persist. Where are you sitting? "

I nodded my head and remembered how Widji’s name translates to “the sprouting seed” in Javanese. “Ah, well listen to this.” Afzal played a song, Sanggar Satu Bumi’s adaptation of Thukul’s 1994 poem, Grassroots:

From warehousing commodities to detaining human beings the slippery slope is a fascist one