A presentation by Abundia Alvarado of the Tierra Comida Libertad collective (TCL) on the Autonomous Kitchen Council (AKC) organizing model; where the AKC was born, what is an AKC and how people go about starting their own AKC. A 40 minutes presentation followed by a 20 minutes Q&A/conversation.
Abundia Alvarado (she/her) is a Nahuatl-Apache [naa·Waa·tul Ah-pah-che] Trans femme migrant worker from Tenochtitlan [Teh-no-cheet-lan]. Abundia co- founded the Atlanta agriculturalist collective Mariposas Rebeldes in so called Atlanta in 2020. Also, she is a member of the Tierra Comida Libertad (TCL), a trans migrant indigenous led collective. Currently TLC is working on rolling out the Autonomous Kitchen Council model (AKC) and doing presentations anywhere she is invited. Abundia is also part of the movement to Stop Cop City and save the Weelaunee forest (Wee-law-nee] from destruction in so called Atlanta. The Stop Cop City movement and struggle is in its 4 year now.