Cultivators Delegation

Give Our Cultivators A Voice!

In our society today, expertise, intellectualism, and compassionate care are undervalued in ways unseen for generations. Rather than experts with decades of experience leading policy on education, healthcare, and research, that leadership is instead full of politicos, nepotism hires, and corporate plants, whether nationally or even as locally as a school board.

Time and time again the advice and even consensus of researchers is routinely ignored in order to advance more exploitative, more profitable, more destructive interests, or worse distorted though headlines and propagandists to assert conclusions totally alien to the experts who conducted the study.

Healers, despite perhaps a higher wage, routinely are forced to knowingly act against best practice for treatment due to both hopital and insurance policies. With few legal protections, understaffing, excessive working hours, rampant medical misinformation, underfunded departments, and dangerous conditions for healers and patients alike, healers are often at the mercy of management decisions made by others, or forced on them by unethical capitalist policies, all of which inhibit the mission of healing, of doing no harm.

Devastating school and educational policies that neglect marginalized students, shackle teachers, and force mandated lies and outdated truths on our youths, that cause and exacerbate mental illness, and routinely undervalue the expertise of teachers is rampant and causing so many teachers to leave the profession altogether. Despite teachers unions actively fighting for better conditions, teachers- like scientists and doctors- have relatively little control over their craft, and are forced to act according to their funding rather than their expertise.

Despite all of this, society would not exist without the ability to learn, heal, and share knowledge with each other and for each other. We cannot afford to systemically devalue the critical roles of our Cultivators. And as this system is antithetical to the flourishing of those roles, we require a new system with permanent political representation for our Cultivators.

Cultivate a New Paradigm

As part of the Worker-Tenant Councils, the Cultivators Delegation can disseminate crucial health, educational, and technical information to the entire local Council, link underserved people with direct care and mentorship, combat misinformation in public media, apply their expertise outside of the demands and shackles of administration, and collaborate on direct actions to gain democracy inside the workplace.

The Cultivators Delegation of the Worker-Tenant Councils is a co-equal delegation, meaning that no matter how few its membership, it will always be entitled to a full delegatory vote on Council matters.

All local working-class teachers, healers, and researchers, including librarians, are voting members of the Cultivators delegation. Members of the delegation will elect their own non-voting leadership to guide and facilitate discussions and serve as the primary point of contact for the Cultivators Delegation, as with other delegations.

On all Council matters related to pedagogy, health and medical information, and technical information such as regarding burgeoning technologies, research strategies and media literacy, members of the Cultivators Delegation will open, lead, and close discussion, and a member of this delegation will chair any committees on these topics, excepting political education which is co-chaired by a delegate of the working class party delegation.