AUTONOMOUS KITCHEN COUNCIL (AKC) PRINCIPLES:
I .- Participatory Structure:
The AKC creates participation opportunities by deploying on-ramping structures. Members move with * “Planned Spontaneity” when Counciling.
*Planned Spontaneity: Organizing from a set of uncompromising principles departing from usual bureaucratic and rigid protocols.
II.- Rotation:
The AKC pays attention to who is in the space, who signs up for which tasks in order to exit social and structural oppressive patterns and behaviors.Tasks and responsibilities are routinely rotated to prevent burn out, “expertise” behaviors and power unbalances. On-ramping structures are in place to disseminate work and integrate new members.
III.- Local Solidarity:
The AKC does not work in isolation from its context. Council members have roots and relationships in local organizing. The AKC embeds itself within the community (for example by following local customs and traditions).
IV.- Sovereign Food Cultures
Autonomous Kitchen Councils cultivate sovereign food cultures by creating systems and practices that engage its members & wider community.
Councils create traditions that elevate and politicize the status of nourishment and collective care and decolonize our relationships with food, cooking and resources.
The AKC supports members’ shift from individualism to collectivism. It incorporates ceremonies and traditions of gratitude for workers and land; seasonal rituals that acknowledge transitions and change; and wellness rituals and practices that support restoring what we have taken from each other and the land.
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Autonomous Kitchen Councils operate with the following expectations for its members:
- Enter with humility.
- Engage in the organizing space processes
- Ask before taking.
- Treat all beings and spaces with care.
- Share responsibility for the work that needs to be done to keep everyone safe and cared for.
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