Fundraiser Shirt: Palestinian Plant Archive (Tan L/S):
Proceeds from this shirt go to support the Palestinian Plant Archive
The Palestinian Plant Archive is a research project based in the West Bank that gathers, organizes, and transmutes knowledge around ethnobotanical relationships within the context of Palestine. The PPA is rooted in ideas around food, health, and land based sovereignty, principles that align with our identity as fellahin – the land working or “peasant” class of Palestine. Previously accounting for a vast majority of the population of Palestine pre-1948, our fellahin ancestors held knowledge about every aspect of living on and with the land and all the species it held. Ongoing conditions of zionist settler colonialism, extractive capitalism, ecocide, land-degradation, western imperialism, genocide, ethnic cleansing and all forms of dispossession have led to environmental and social dysbiosis that threatens all forms of life, as well as an ongoing existential threat to the wealth of knowledge that was previously passed down through generations of fellahin and bedouin.
Herbalism is the practice of working with plants and their substances for healing and supporting health, and is traditionally a resource made for and by the people in every culture; Levantine Herbalism, one subset of indigenous Palestinian ethnobotanical knowledge, has a long and influential history and is a main focus of the PPA due to its utility in community and individual care. It is of utmost urgency to safeguard this and other vital historical, cultural, and scientific knowledge, while also making the information usable, accessible, and interactive. The PPA hopes to serve the people of Palestine in continuing on their well-worn path of steadfastness, self-reliance, and resistance by modeling a methodology of practical resilience that can be replicated by other communities for their own reclamation and rehabilitation efforts with the ecologies they are in relationship with.
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