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Fungidzira taundi rine vanhu vakawanda kudaro
Vavhoti veGreen Party semaRepublicans. Pane madhaka akatevedzana
inobata mvura yetsvina biologically. Kupi kambani inonzi Sunfrost
inovaka mafiriji anoshanda zvakanyanya pasi rose. Iwe uri
kutaura Arcata, California. Iyi yemahombekombe koreji taundi ichangogadzirwa
misoro yenyika sezvo yakave yekutanga munyika kuita sarudzo
ruzhinji rweGreen Party kukanzuru yeguta rayo. Yakagara kuseri kwe
"Redwood Curtain" 280 mamaira kuchamhembe kweSan Francisco,
Arcata inonyanya kuzivikanwa nehuwandu hwayo hwehuwandu husina-hudyu
"hippies" uye padyo padyo neThe Emerald
Triangle - inzvimbo ine mukurumbira wekurima mbanje munyika
chamhembe.
Asi Arcata iguta remisiyano.
Kutema matanda uye kubata hove kwakambotonga
Arcata, asi kushandiswa kusingagoneki kwezvinhu zvakasikwa, zvakasanganiswa ne
kusimuka kweHumboldt State University, kwakatungamira dhorobha mu
nzira yakasiyana. Vazhinji vevagari vemazuva ano vakakwezvwa
Arcata nekoreji koreji kana kushivirira mamiriro ayo
created. Asi mazhinji akatenderedza Humboldt County anoshaya
Kushivirira kwaArcata. Kunyangwe Sheriff Dennis Lewis anodana dhorobha
"People's Republic of Arcata." Uye kubva zvakawanda
Humboldt County yakatenderedza dhorobha yagadzira
anti-environmentalism mararamiro, mafungiro echitsuwa anopararira
Arcata zvematongerwo enyika senge musanganiswa wemhute uye pulp-mill emissions
mumhepo. Mafambiro mberi apa pachivanhu vainzi vakadaro
nokuda kwokukwanisa kwavo kurega kutaura chinhu chipi nechipi chakanyatsojeka
bapiro uye teerera kune pfungwa dzevanhu pasina kuvengana. Kana
iwe unodzokorora uye kutora mvura pfupi iwe uri shangu-in kune veruzhinji
hofisi, chero iwe uchitsigirawo "ecological"
hutsotsi hwekuvaka dzimba, mota dzemapurisa dzakawanda, uye kutema matanda
sango rine guta.
Kune vanoshinga, bumpersticker
humwari hunotsiva kuratidzira, nepo vatsigiri vanopfuura makumi matatu vachizviparadzanisa nevamwe
ivo pachavo mukunyaradzwa kweiyo yavo franchise-senge
nyaya.
Vashoma asi vane mazwi mashoma e
Conservatives inowana hwaro hwayo hwerutsigiro mubhizinesi reArcata
munharaunda, uye vanofambira mberi vanogara vachibuda munzira yavo kuenda
regai kuvagumbusa. MuArcata zvematongerwo enyika, hapana chakashata kupfuura
vachipoporwa nekamuri rakanga rakazara nemabhegi. Nekuti bhizinesi
vanhu nevakabatana navo-kusanganisira vazhinji vane rusununguko-vakawana kuona
yevasina pokugara vakaungana munzvimbo dzavose zvinosemesa, vanobuda
kanzuru yeguta gore rapfuura yakamhan'arira Food Not Bombs, boka rinoshandira
chikafu chemahara zuva nezuva panzvimbo yedhorobha.
Meya panguva iyoyo, a
anozvitsanangura "anofambira mberi" anonzi Victor Schaub,
akatsigira mhosva uye akatotsigira mutambi wekurudyi, Carl
"Ndichauya-Mushure-Iwe" Pellatz, musarudzo dzichangobva kuitika.
Pellatz akatsigira uye akatyisidzira avo vaipikisa "guru
box" retail store uye 800-unit yekuvandudza dzimba inofamba
kudhorobha.
Nepo kutyisidzira kweTaco Bell
kuvhurwa padhuze neHumboldt State University kunoguma zuva nezuva
zvematongerwo enyika zvakakonzerwa kuparadza pamusoro pefranchise, akati wandei
cheni dzechikafu-chikafu kudivi rekuchamhembe kweguta rinorara zvisingaonekwe, pfungwa
uye kukuvadza pedyo neLouisiana-Pacific's particle-board mill, uko kwakawanda
vanofambira mberi havawanzofamba.
The mainstream press touting
Arcata seEcotopia yemazuva ano haizotauri kuti vashanyi vanowana
"Rush" Limbaugh bumper stickers pane dzinenge dzakawanda
mota sedziya dzemitambo "Save Your Mother" uye
Like.
Boka diki revagari kunyange
anoona rudzi rwekupedzisira rwemutyairi hunyengeri, achida kuwana
uchitenderera nebhasikoro kana netsoka. Saka hazvishamisi kuti Arcata
inogara Auto-Free Times, magazini yekota kune avo
vachikurudzira dzimwe nzira kune mimwe migwagwa nemotokari.
Pamwe kekutanga
munyika yose muZera reMotokari, Arcata's shanu-nhengo
kanzuru yeguta inozvikudza ine auto-yemahara ruzhinji, zvakare. Mumwe Democrat ndiye muridzi
haina otomatiki, nepo imwe yeGreen inti yebhasikoro inobvuma
nguva nenguva vachishandisa motokari yemhuri.
Chokwadi, Arcata inoita kunge iri pa
turning point. Iyo itsva Green city council inogona kupota ichizununguka
kubva mukunyanya kungwarira, kudzivirira zvematongerwo enyika zvekare. Zvose
nhengo nhatu dzeGreen council dzinopokana nedare rekare
kupesana neChikafu Kwete Mabhomba uye chinangwa chekuwedzera uye kusimudzira zvakapotsa
200 mahekita eminda yekurima. Zvinoshamisa, kanzuru yapfuura
Zvinofungidzirwa kuti zvakare yaive nehuwandu hunofambira mberi-yazvino uye
nhaurirano dziri pedyo dziri kupatsanura mafambiro echokwadi kubva kune
phonies. Saka zvinoita sekunge zvematongerwo enyika zvinofambira mberi zvinogona kufamba kupfuura
innovative recycling, composting uye tsvina yemvura
zvirongwa.
"Ndinoona kuedza kweGreen uku
semukana wekuchinja kwakawanda," akadaro Green akagara
kanzura Jason Kirkpatrick. "Ndinoda kuchengetedza
Arcata diki-dhorobha mamiriro nekutarisa mukurambidza hombe
makambani ezvitoro zvekutengesa." Kirkpatrick zvakare
anoda kugadzirisa hukama hwepamba uye kuvaka nzvimbo yevechidiki.
Asi usatarisire shanduko huru
chero nguva munguva pfupi.
"Pane miyedzo yakawanda
kuita zvinhu, asi isu hatisi kuda kuvhara mana kana mashanu
migwagwa uye uchiti 'Kufamba chete,'" akadaro Bob Ornelas, mutsva
akasarudzwa nhengo yeGreen council.
"Ndinofunga kuti Green Party irimo
Arcata yanyatsoita mukurumbira," akawedzera Kirkpatrick.
"Arcata yakasiyana nedzimwe nyika. Munhu wese
pano ziva kuti organic food yakakunakira uye iyo manyowa ndiyo
zvakanaka."
Kana kanzuru itsva inosarudza itsva
meya kutsiva Pellatz ari kubuda, Kirkpatrick anofunga
kanzuru ichasarudza Democrat Jim Test pane imwe yevatatu
Greens.
"Zvinoratidzika sefascistic kana
isu tichangotora, "akadaro Kirkpatrick.
Randy Ghent inharaunda
muratidziri akagara muArcata kubvira 1991