Legends of The Farm (4/6)

interview with Peter Schweitzer, founding member of The Farm intentional community in Tennessee, and Director of Plenty International

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRJxG3q7sHs

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKe0se4rBMU

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yf_A6RVong

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUrbU0Sdgts

Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvU6GRqPcbs

Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQDKYyPMNL0

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We started out, like you say, as a collective, shared everything in common. We had limited housing, so any given household would have at least thirty people living there. You had a constant flow of new people coming in to be integrated and so forth, which was fine when we were in our twenties. But then when we started having kids, it got a little more difficult to keep track of your kids, and so forth. We were weathering that, but in the early 1980's there was an economic downturn. Ronald Reagan came in, ripped the solar panels off the White House, and immediately went to war against poor people. And the people that really paid the price were Indians all over the world, leftist-leaning groups throughout South and Central America, Indians on reservations, and hippy communes. We all paid a steep price...

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