In this Book

Casa Pueblo: A Puerto Rican Model of Self-Governance

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Alexis Massol GonzÃĄlez, Translated by Ashwin Ravikumar and Paul Schroeder Rodríguez
2022
Published by: Lever Press
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As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol-GonzÃĄlez, Casa Pueblo’s founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-GonzÃĄlez received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization’s initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This collective translation was undertaken in the spirit of the organization and offers a chronological account of Casa Pueblo’s evolution from a small group of concerned citizens to an internationally recognized model for activism.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page

pp. i

Copyright

pp. ii

Contents

pp. iii-iv

Member Institution Acknowledgments

pp. v-vi

Glossary

pp. vii-x

Introduction

pp. xi-xviii

Part I: Chronicles of an Anti-mining Campaign

1 How an Anti-Mining Struggle Gave Shape to Our Community

pp. 3-12

2 First Anti-Mining Journey

pp. 13-30

3 Puerto Rican Culture: A Tool for Resistance

pp. 31-40

4 The Birth of Casa Pueblo

pp. 41-46

5 The First Steps toward Sustainability

pp. 47-54

6 Its Decided: We Say No to Mining!

pp. 55-78

Part II: A Territorial Approach to Water and Forests

7 Moving from Protest to Propositions

pp. 81-96

8 The Self-Governing Community Builds Alternatives

pp. 97-118

9 From Local to National Territorial Management

pp. 119-140

10 From Local Action to Global Connections: Casa Pueblo in the Global Network of Model Forests

pp. 141-148

Part III: Self-Sustainability with a Planetary Agenda

11 A Historic Juncture: The Reality of Puerto Rico in 2018

pp. 151-162

12 An Alternative Model: Local Action in a Globalized World

pp. 163-174

13 Energy Sovereignty: A Common Solar Energy Project for Adjuntas and Adjacent Lands

pp. 175-184

14 Casa Pueblo in Times of COVID-19

pp. 185-198

Notes

pp. 199-202

Bibliography

pp. 203-206
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