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How the Emerald Triangle Turned Green

Cal Poly Humboldt

The community is invited to a talk at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 24th at Founders Hall, room 118 on the Cal Poly Humboldt Campus in Arcata by sociologist Paolo Stuppia. Stuppia is an affiliate researcher with the Department of Sociology and the Cannabis Studies Program at Cal Poly Humboldt.

Stuppia’s local research is connected to and informed by his prior research on back-to-the-land movements in France, where he met the French-language filmmakers who made the only documentary (so far) about the San Francisco Diggers, released in 1998. He followed their lead to Southern Humboldt, where he found and interviewed Digger veterans who ended up here in Humboldt.

In the last several years, Stuppia has collaborated with other organizations and people in the area to stand up the Countercultural History Coalition, a group of organizations and individuals working on collecting and preserving the memory and legacy of the 1960s primarily associated with the back-to-the-land movement.

His presentation revisits late 20th century counterculture and the back-to-the-land (BTL) movements as they appear in the U.S. West Coast. It argues that they didn’t die with 1980s yuppies and that understanding of their past is a prerequisite to understand the present and future struggles (e.g. LGBTQIA+, racial, and environmental justice movements), social behaviors (family, sexuality, Marijuana medical and recreational use…), and economic (revitalization of local communities, development of solar systems), as these have developed in the last four decades in Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity counties in particular. The speaker will also present two current related efforts, the BTL Project, investigating the persistence and generational transformations of this movement in the area, and the Counterculture History Coalition, reuniting five archive and research projects to preserve the memory of the original counterculturists from the 1960s to present in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

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• Cal Poly Humboldt

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• Free